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- Don't panic, but your avocado is radioactive: Study eyes background radiation of everyday objects (North Carolina State University)
- Middle initials make you seem smarter (Popular Science)
- How the Nobel Prize was born: A surprising story of bad journalism, existential guilt, and dynamite (Brain Pickings)
- 'Suffrajitsu': How the suffragettes fought back using martial arts (BBC)
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