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June 1, 2026

The Smithsonian Just Uploaded 1,000 Archival Images To Unsplash for Public Use

In a bid to make its vast collection of around 154 million objects more accessible, the Smithsonian recently partnered with Unsplash, releasing a curated selection of 1,000 images from its archives onto the free photography platform.  The huge image collection is organized into 12 themed sets, each drawn from across the legendary institution’s 21 museums and venues.

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January 23, 2026

This Clever Trick Can Help You Read up to 900 Words per Minute

According to The British Psychological Society, the average reading rate is 238 words per minute, with some people reading up to 400 words per minute. This number has to do with the way your eyes have to move across the page or screen, making you lose time and sometimes even focus. But how fast would you be able to read if your eyes didn’t have to move?

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August 24, 2025

Explore Hundreds of Pre-1800s Occult Texts With This Sprawling Online Database

After the tremendous success of his 2003 thriller The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown turned his attention to his next set of novels in the series. While writing The Lost Symbol and Inferno, the novelist regularly visited the Ritman Research Institute in Amsterdam, where he had access to some of the world’s strangest and most fascinating occult texts. By 2016, Brown had pledged €300,000 (about $368,000)

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