Damn Interesting

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Alan Bellows is the founder/designer/head writer/managing editor of Damn Interesting.
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A Day on Venus

Compared to Earth, our astronomical next-door neighbor Venus is 95 percent as large, 28 percent closer to the sun, an...
Written by Alan Bellows • 16 Dec 2020 • Read/Listen →
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It Belongs in a Museum

In January 2010, two journalists knocked on the door of 84-year-old Frenchman Jacques Bellanger to ask him about the...
Written by Alan Bellows • 23 Nov 2020 • Read/Listen →
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A Wealth of Insight

At the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, social psychologist Paul Piff paired off approximately 200 u...
Written by Alan Bellows • 16 Nov 2020 • Read/Listen →
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The Unknown Father

Alois Schicklgruber was never quite certain who his father was. Born in 1837, Schicklgruber was the child of Maria An...
Written by Alan Bellows • 09 Nov 2020 • Read/Listen →
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The Overlooked Amendment

"Article the Second" was a single-sentence amendment written by James Madison in 1789, intended to be added to the Un...
Written by Alan Bellows • 02 Nov 2020 • Read/Listen →
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One Small Step for a Man

During the development of the Apollo moon missions in the early 1960s, the newfangled government agency called “NASA”...
Written by Alan Bellows • 26 Oct 2020 • Read/Listen →
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Half a Thought

The smallest denomination coin ever circulated in the United States was valued at five milles, equivalent to one 200t...
Written by Alan Bellows • 19 Oct 2020 • Read/Listen →
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Let Us Be Joyful

Laßt Froh Uns Sein ("Let Us Be Joyful") is a short musical canon in B-flat major for six voices, written by the celeb...
Written by Alan Bellows • 12 Oct 2020 • Read/Listen →
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Misguided Missiles

In April 1929 in the town of Naco, Arizona, the Cristero War was raging just over the border in Mexico. Rebels in tha...
Written by Alan Bellows • 28 Sep 2020 • Read/Listen →
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During the Dark Times

In the European theater of World War 2, as early as 1943, the German Army deployed a small number of special Panther...
Written by Alan Bellows • 14 Sep 2020 • Read/Listen →
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