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A broken man's homemade, seaworthy ship rests in the Canadian prairie (2015)

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A man who walked around the world

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Passing for Human: Philip K. Dick in Vancouver (2018)

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Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills

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Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records

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Oru Kayak’s reckless and irresponsible advertising

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Gopher Protocol (2020)

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What Canada’s largest art heist reveals about the art world’s shady side

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Ranking the 25 Most Painful Lego to Step On

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A self-trained Italian blacksmith built himself an amusement park

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At 88, Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Is Still Bluffing. Or Is He?

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The Maintenance Race

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Specialist makers working hard to keep unique skills alive

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The Life of a Backpacker in Asia in the 1970s (2018)

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A man who built his own cathedral

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Exposed by a Strava KOM: The Many Lives of a Fake Pro Cyclist

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Is this the end of the Cannonball Run?

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Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years

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The strangely successful history of people mailing themselves in boxes (2015)

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The Charles Mingus CAT-alog (1972)

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London Beer Flood of 1814

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The Swiss wanderer who found the soul of 1950s Japan

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Dick Smith (Entrepreneur)

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Divorce does funny things

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The Bicycle Thief (2019)

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The House That Vanished

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A Victoria man has gone two decades without money

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Carlos Ghosn: How I escaped Japan

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Johnny Knoxville’s Last Rodeo

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Photographer Charles Ebbets takes iconic photo “Lunch atop a skyscraper” (1932)

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The pandemic revives interest in a morbid French financial scheme

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Tony Hawk on his skateboarding legacy

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The Strange Story of Dagobert, the “DuckTales” Bandit

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New book contends that Catch Me If You Can is mostly made up

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A man who stole a hotel

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A man is looking for the friends who shipped him overseas in a crate in 1965

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What I learned living in a trailer in the Utah desert for two decades

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A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco

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5k Year Old Bog Oak Table: Digging up 4k-year-old trees for furniture

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Hockey goalies are too big now

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How Not to Deal with Murder in Space (2020)

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The Cruise Ship Suicides

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A man who posted himself to Australia (2015)

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The Donut King who went from rags to riches, twice

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My Priceless Summer on a Maine Lobster Boat

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Life Lessons from a 97-Year-Old Lobsterman (2019)

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The Mystery of Tom Pritchard’s Bike

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Companies that help people vanish

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Pelorus Jack

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How Carlos Ghosn Was Smuggled Out of Japan

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The 'folly' of buying a fixer-upper yacht

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An art dealer disappeared with $50M. 17 years later a documentary crew found him

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For Sale: The Only Bar in a 14-Person Montana Town

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The Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest: 2019 Winners

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Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (2009)

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Ship of horrors: life and death on the lawless high seas

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The wisdom of never leaving your hotel room

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The Survival of Iggy Pop

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Home is a small, engineless sailboat (2018)

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“I thought I'd share this Boris Johnson story with you”

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Wisconsin bar owner uncovers 134-year-old circus poster

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The hunt for the fish pirates who exploit the sea

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I wrote a story that became a legend, then discovered it wasn’t true

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Anthrax Guitarist Turned Master Watchmaker (2012)

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A Japanese Love Hotel

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The Lonely Life of a Yacht Influencer

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What it’s like to pursue a dream for 30 years and fail

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The Perils and Pleasures of Bartending in Antarctica (2017)

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Kelly Slater’s Shock Wave

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The Life of a Backpacker in Asia in the 1970s

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Show HN: Interactive guitar scales diagrams

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How Michael Jackson's tilt defied gravity

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Life and death on a superyacht

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Letting go of the GPS to learn the art of natural navigation

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Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop

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The Artificial Intelligentsia

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Finding Dmitry: The Magical Story of a Russian Boy's Photos

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NHL stunner: A 36-year-old accountant who has never played pro stars in win

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Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US

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The world's most romantic postbox

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Driving the “Worst Car Ever Built” (2015)

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A Rare-Book Thief Who Looted College Libraries in the ’80s

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Everyday Life and Fatal Hazard in Sixteenth-Century England

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Vanlife, the Bohemian Social Media Movement

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Things that happen at a lock-picking convention (2013)

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A Ferrari 250 GT PF Coupe Was Hidden in a Hollywood Apartment for Decades

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'All I wanted to do is build a house' (2010)

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A man who put up $1.5M to help 200 Syrian refugees

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The Skype sex scam – a fortune built on shame

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The Final Journey of Anders J. Smedsvik

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“They Went to Sea in a Sieve, They Did”

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‘Freddie Mercury was a prodigy’: Rockstar's Panchgani bandmates remember ‘Bucky’

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Pete Davies: The ‘Invadar’ Arcade Collection

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The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol

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How an Ad Campaign Made Lesbians Fall in Love with Subaru

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A 54-year-old custodian just graduated from the college he cleaned at night

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The Burglar with His Very Own Mac Attack

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The Voyeur's Motel

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Is it still possible to get away with a heist?

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I mine for 100-year-old jeans

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A Western Kid Living in Communist Poland (2014)

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The Zero-Armed Bandit

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The Engineer’s Lament

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We Buy Broken Gold

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The adventures of Norway's most radical billionaire

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The man who posted himself to Australia

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The Man in the Van

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Photographing people on the edge of a skyscraper in San Francisco

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An Imaginary Town Becomes Real, Then Not

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Aboard Amtrak

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The anatomy of a door-to-door Taobao delivery

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The Uncatchable

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Oak Island Money Pit: Unsolved Mystery

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A Western Kid Living in Communist Poland

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Rat Park drug experiment cartoon

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I Spent A Month Living In A Romanian Sexcam Studio

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The craziest date ever

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Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems'

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From Mr Average to Superman: Craig Davidson's account of using steroids (2008)

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The exploding toilet

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Meet a Shenzhen Maker: Mr. Chen

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A Pickpocket's Tale

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How I Became One of the Most Successful Art Smugglers in the World

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Man, stranded in the desert, makes a motorcycle from his broken car

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My 7 Year Old Son Found His People at the Maker Faire

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Man throws 4,800 bottled notes into the ocean, gets 3,100 replies

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What I learned on a round-the-world yacht race

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Have you ever printed a boarding pass?

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How to Be Jason Bourne: Multiple Passports, Swiss Banking, and Crossing Borders

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JParallax - Javascript parallax effect

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What I Learned Buying a Rug in Turkey

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Marc Thorpe, Robot Wars founder, has died

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The teenager who lives like it's the 1940s

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A Lighthouse Keeper Hangs Up Her Bonnet

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The Burial of William the Conqueror: A Comedy of Errors

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"Rabbit Test" Unwins the Hugo

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Two scammers, a web of betrayal, and Europe's fraud of the century

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The roller ship was not an effective way to cross the high seas

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A. K. Dewdney has died

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The California man who hid for 6 months in a secret room inside Circuit City

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"My Bike Is Everything to Me"

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The Dream of an Alpine Waterway

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Italy's Sun Motorway (2021)

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IT tycoon Mike Lynch, daughter Hannah found dead

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Bum Farto

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