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#1 · news-in-context Jan 3, 2025

See Berkshire Hathaway's current market cap and cash on hand

Warren Buffett's holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, has one of the highest-valued stocks in history due to its collection of successful companies. As of 2024, Berkshire owned companies including Dairy Queen and GEICO.

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#2 · explainers Jan 5, 2026

Warren Buffett retired at the age of 95

Buffett said that he would pull back from his day-to-day role leading Berkshire Hathaway at the end of 2025. This long-form retrospective on his career paints him as an increasingly unique American role model.

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#3 · experiences Dec 23, 2024

Inside Warren Buffett's real estate portfolio, which includes more than just his primary Omaha residence

The Oracle of Omaha is known for living in the same house since 1958—but what exactly does that house look like? This article takes a look inside that house, plus a few other properties in Buffett's real estate portfolio. Explore Warren Buffett's homes here.

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#4 · explainers Jan 20, 2026

Donald Trump redefined presidential communication in the social media age

Trump used platforms like Twitter (now X) to bypass traditional media, announce policy, and confront opponents directly. His online presence reshaped political messaging, blurred the line between official and personal communication, and transformed how presidents engage the public.

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#5 · curiosity Feb 16, 2023

Spy balloons. UFOs. What else is up there?

The appearance and downing of a Chinese surveillance balloon brought the concept of high-altitude floating aircraft into the public consciousness. While sparking a diplomatic row, it also revealed how many objects—nefarious or benign—are...

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#6 · curiosity May 11, 2026

After it was banned from Eurovision, Russia resurrected its Cold War-era version

Russia was barred from the Eurovision Song Contest following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. In 2025, President Vladimir Putin announced the revival of Intervision, a similarly structured song contest that the Soviet Union had organized throughout the Cold War.

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#7 · experiences Sep 7, 2022

America's most underrated places to visit

The United States is vast, with beautiful and fascinating cultural hubs, landmarks, and natural wonders to fill a lifetime of travel. These landmarks can be well-known and top everyone's bucket list, or they can fly under-the-radar. Here's a list of...

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#8 · curiosity Feb 16, 2026

Red is deeply symbolic in Chinese culture

Since the bold hue warded off the mythical Nian, the color red has come to represent luck, prosperity, and celebration. If you come across a home or neighborhood preparing for new year celebrations, you'll see red lanterns, wall hangings, clothing, and more.

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#9 · curiosity Aug 24, 2023

Unraveling the charred remains of the only known library from antiquity

This article details the quest to decipher the charred remains of a library buried during Mt. Vesuvius' volcanic blast. In 1752, nearly 2,000 papyrus scrolls were found in Herculaneum. According to this article, this collection is the only complete library that has survived from antiquity. In the last decade, scientists have made strides in decoding the crumbling texts.

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#10 · news-in-context Dec 20, 2024

In 2023 and the first half of 2024, Berkshire Hathaway bought back more than $12B of its own stock

In the second half of 2024, the company—and Buffett—decided to buy up shares of Domino’s Pizza, Pool, Sirius XM Holdings, and Liberty Media. They also decided to sell Capital One, Ulta Beauty, and Nu Holdings, among others. Learn why Buffett is buying and selling these stocks and what it could mean for the financial conglomerate.

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#11 · explainers Dec 20, 2024

Warren Buffett is considered one of the most successful investors in history

Buffett is the former CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, a local resident of Omaha, Nebraska, and a billionaire. People often refer to him as the "Oracle of Omaha."

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#12 · curiosity Dec 20, 2024

In 1965, Warren Buffett took over Berkshire Hathaway, a failing textile company

After buying bulks of its stock, Buffett then flipped Berkshire Hathaway into the most successful and largest holding company in the world, which owns companies like Geico, Duracell, and Fruit of the Loom.

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#13 · explainers Apr 6, 2026

Helping support others in older age linked to longer life

Analysis of findings from a long-term study of older couples first interviewed in 1987 and then followed for the next five years found that individuals who lend support to friends, neighbors, and relatives live longer. Non-helpers were more than twice as likely to die as helpers during the five-year period. That's even after controlling for factors including age, gender, and physical and mental health.

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#14 · curiosity Dec 6, 2024

Gaming out how our solar system might catch a new planet

If Pluto's downgraded status to a dwarf planet has got you down, consider this: Scientists think there's a chance our solar system could catch a new planet. The first ever observed so-called Interstellar Object was reported in 2017, a reddish, cigar-shaped rock astronomers named Oumuamua. Although it left in 2022, scientists believe an object with the right mass and trajectory might take a seat at the planetary table. Learn how it would work here.

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#15 · curiosity May 16, 2025

Ice found in another star system for the first time

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has discovered frozen water in a young star system. The ice is similar to that found in Kuiper Belt objects in our solar system, and provides insights into planetary formation processes.

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#16 · experiences Jul 13, 2026

Explore an archive of scholarly writing about Homer and 'The Odyssey,' with archaeologists, historians, and literary critics unpacking the author and his masterwork.

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#17 · curiosity Jan 16, 2026

The Irish 'sláinte!' spread outside the country thanks to immigration

The toast has spread globally because of the waves of Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries. It's not uncommon to find an Irish pub outside of Ireland, and if you step inside, you're lucky to hear someone offer a hearty "sláinte!"

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#18 · curiosity Feb 2, 2026

Craft beer is partially responsible for disrupting Budweiser's US market share

Over the past few decades, as craft beer from smaller breweries has become more popular (as well as seltzers, light beers, and other alternatives), Budweiser's market share has declined.

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#19 · explainers Apr 7, 2025

Warren Buffett turned a struggling textile mill into Berkshire Hathaway

With Class A shares trading at over $700K per share, Berkshire Hathaway's high stock price reflects Buffett's decades of long-term investing, major acquisitions, and a philosophy that has reshaped modern finance.

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#20 · explainers Dec 20, 2024

Warren Buffett began investing at 11 years old

He then bought his first property at 14 years old. From studying under the “father of value investing” to revitalizing a textile company into the largest holding company in the world, Buffett’s career is one of great financial success.

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#21 · explainers Jun 16, 2026

Charlie Munger was Warren Buffett's right-hand man, serving as vice-chair at Berkshire Hathaway until his death in 2023.

He was a close business partner and friend of Buffett who helped lead, influence, and execute many of the guiding investing principles Buffett lived by.

Munger is widely credited with helping turn Berkshire Hathaway into the success it is today.
Berkshire Hathaway has one of the highest-valued stocks in history due in part to its collection of successful companies, including Geico, Duracell, and Dairy Queen.

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#22 · explainers Apr 6, 2023

Two 100-year-old sisters share their tips for staying mentally sharp

Shirley Hodes, 106, and her sister Ruth Sweedler, 103, don’t routinely do crossword puzzles, but both have stayed sharp as they aged. Though they live states apart, they share similar advice for maintaining mental acuity. They sum up their strategies for cognitive health with four verbs: work, connect, learn, and appreciate. Read this article to learn more about their approach to staying 100-plus years young.

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#23 · curiosity Jan 31, 2023

Meet a 90-year-old who built his own hobbit-inspired house

A retired carpenter built himself a kind-of Hobbit house, and is living comfortably off the grid at 90 years old, tourists notwithstanding. Learn how he did it with this video.

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#24 · curiosity Feb 27, 2026

Toddler delivers tear-jerking speech at her mom and dad's wedding

Three-year-old Evie brought her father to tears while sharing loving words before her mother walked down the aisle.

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#25 · experiences Sep 13, 2024

The Oktoberfest taste test

Wondering how the different Oktoberfest beers stack up? This article dives into the six official beers you’ll find at the festival. Each one has a write-up that includes a bit of history, tasting notes, and thoughts on where and when you might enjoy drinking it.

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#26 · curiosity Sep 13, 2024

Oktoberfest has been canceled 26 times

The first time, in 1813, Bavaria was fighting off Napoleon’s army, which left little time for celebration. Years were also lost to the Austro-Prussian War, a worldwide cholera outbreak, and both World Wars. Most recently, the 2020 and 2021 Oktoberfests were canceled due to COVID-19.

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#27 · curiosity Jan 26, 2026

Cold-blooded reptiles seek heat, and that behavior may help combat fungal infections

This Radiolab podcast episode takes on the idea that though our human bodies are too warm for the majority of fungal species to effectively replicate inside our bodies, that's not the case for reptiles. Yet when those species warm their bodies by basking in the sun on rocks, they can soak up heat and may also help keep fungal infections in check.

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#28 · explainers Jan 24, 2025

Warren Buffett's advice for middle-class investors includes "pay yourself first"

Warren Buffett might not be part of the middle class himself (he's one of the richest people in the world), but he still knows a thing or two about everyday personal finance tips. This article chronicles his six best pieces of advice for the middle class.

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#29 · explainers Dec 20, 2024

Track Warren Buffett’s real-time net worth

Buffett is worth many, many billions of dollars. As a self-made billionaire, he is the eighth-richest man in the world, and his real-time net worth changes daily.

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#30 · curiosity Feb 11, 2026

Former Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett is among the world's most generous philanthropists, having given away more than $68B.

That's about 32% of Buffett's total net wealth.

Jeff Bezos' ex-wife, Mackenzie Scott, is also famously generous, having given away almost half of the $30B she received in her divorce from the Amazon founder.
Mark Zuckerberg has also donated a significant amount of money in his lifetime—more than $6B.

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#31 · explainers Mar 9, 2026

Bats are uniquely suited to act as reservoirs of viruses.

Some of the deadliest diseases to jump from animals to humans originate in bat species. This rich visualization explores the diversity of bats and the factors that make them efficient vectors for harboring and transmitting disease, from their long lifespans to their migration patterns.

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#32 · curiosity Aug 1, 2024

Bats have evolved to carry viruses without getting sick

Bats—the likely animal reservoir for diseases including Ebola and coronavirus—tolerate viruses without getting sick. The secret lies in evolutionary adaptations allowing bats to become the world’s only flying mammal and to thrive under immense physiological stressors.

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#33 · curiosity Aug 6, 2025

Hubble revealed that planet-forming disks are common around young stars

One of Hubble’s early images captured 30 young star systems in the Orion region, each surrounded by material that looked like it was forming planets. These systems increased the number of data points scientists had to test planetary formation models.

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#34 · experiences Nov 2, 2022

National Geographic's list of best places to visit in 2023

National Geographic has released its latest Best of the World list with 25 must-see destinations for 2023 from Alberta, Canada, to Busan, South Korea.

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#35 · curiosity Aug 13, 2025

How Michelin-starred chefs cook steak

Earning a Michelin star is no easy feat; neither is cooking a steak. This tutorial, featuring three Michelin-starred chefs, shows how the pros tackle the subtle art, walking even the most kitchen-averse eaters through the best ways to cook a great cut.

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#36 · curiosity Jun 30, 2026

Chefs face intense pressure to maintain Michelin stars

Explore the pressure pursuing a star puts on chefs—sometimes at the expense of their mental health, and social media's impact on the culinary landscape. A conversation with Nick Kokonas, co-owner of the three-starred Alinea in Chicago, gets into the ways Michelin's rankings affect business.

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#37 · curiosity Dec 20, 2024

Warren Buffett plays about 12 hours of bridge a week with Bill Gates

Known for being one of the most frugal billionaires alive, Buffett never spends more than $3.17 on breakfast (opting for either McDonald’s or Oreos). He also has New York Times front pages detailing horrible days on Wall Street hanging on his walls.

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#38 · explainers Dec 20, 2024

Buffett is known for being extremely generous with his fortune

So generous that in 2010 he pledged to donate 99% of his money. He said this money “can have a huge effect on the health and welfare of others.” This letter is Buffett’s philanthropic pledge, which details his commitment to giving and how luck and privilege helped him accumulate so much money.

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#39 · explainers Dec 20, 2024

In 2011, President Obama awarded Warren Buffett the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Buffett was awarded the medal for his success as an investor and commitment to philanthropy alongside author Maya Angelou, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and Congressman John Lewis, among others. It’s perhaps the highest honor a civilian can receive.

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#40 · curiosity Aug 6, 2025

Asteroids were discovered by 18th-century planet hunters

While looking for a planet between Mars and Jupiter to coincide with an apparent mathematical pattern in the distances of known planets from the sun, a group calling themselves the "Celestial Police" discovered multiple objects that fell into a new classification.

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#41 · curiosity Mar 19, 2026

The 45 planets astronomers think are most likely to host alien life

The list includes familiar names like Proxima Centauri b (4 light-years away) and four planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system (about 40 light-years away), but even the nearest of those would take humanity roughly 114,000 years to reach at current spacecraft speeds. The list's real near-term value is as a targeting guide for the James Webb and upcoming Nancy Grace Roman space telescopes.

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#42 · experiences Apr 4, 2026

Check out an interactive map of 250 American places worth visiting before you die.

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#43 · curiosity May 31, 2022

Ranking the best fast food in America

Grab some ketchup packets, toss on your cardboard crown, and meet us in the drive-thru! Browse through the best of the best from fast food and fast casual restaurant chains in 15 categories, including Best Cheeseburger, Best Spicy Chicken Sandwich, Best Fries, Best Onion Rings, and even Menu Item of the Year.

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#44 · curiosity Dec 31, 2025

James Garfield's 79-day decline hooked America on news updates

After he was shot while departing Washington, DC, in 1881, the president was treated for his wounds and cared for at the White House. Since 1861, telegraphs had spanned the continent, and the Associated Press pooled sources to share telegraph news. The public, seeking updates on the president's condition, was able to receive them regularly for the first time due to this network, laying the foundation for the continuous news cycle.

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#45 · explainers Dec 20, 2024

Warren Buffett’s investing advice includes never paying too high a price for any investment

Buffett is perhaps the greatest investor of all time, and his investing philosophies are highly regarded and practiced around the world. His advice also includes investing in productive assets (like stocks, bonds, and real estate) and imagining what could go wrong before thinking about how much money you could make.

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#46 · explainers Jun 30, 2026

Berkshire Hathaway's origin story is strongly intertwined with Warren Buffett's

"Acquired" is a podcast that tells company origin stories—and in one series of episodes, it dives into Berkshire Hathaway's. While the Berkshire Hathaway story ended up becoming three "Acquired" episodes instead of one, Part I explores how Berkshire Hathaway's former CEO became who he is today.

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#47 · curiosity Dec 20, 2024

Famously frugal Warren Buffett owns a private jet

Buffett still lives in the same house he bought in 1958 for $31.5K. He has pledged to donate 99% of his fortune to charity. Yet he owns a private jet called "The Indispensable" (formerly called "The Indefensible" because he had no defense for buying it).

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#48 · curiosity Jun 15, 2026

One of the hottest known exoplanets seems to snow an active ingredient of sunscreen, titanium dioxide—but only on the dark side of the planet.

The planet, Kepler-13Ab, is one of the more than 2,300 confirmed exoplanets discovered using the Kepler space observatory, and it's located in a solar system only 1,730 light years away from us.

The planet is massive and gaseous, and roughly six times the mass of Jupiter.
Astronomers proposed the titanium dioxide snow theory after noting that, unexpectedly, the atmosphere was cooler at higher altitudes.
Their explanation is that the planet's powerful winds must blow gas to the dark side of the planet, where it condenses into clouds of snow containing the titanium dioxide, and its strong surface gravity—six times greater than Jupiter's—pulls it out of the upper atmosphere and traps it in the lower atmosphere.

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#49 · curiosity Aug 6, 2025

Hot Jupiters are giant planets that orbit very close to their host star

Discovered in 1995, hot Jupiters are a class of exoplanets—planets orbiting stars other than the sun—with size and mass similar to Jupiter. They are most commonly found orbiting metal-rich stars and have become essential for testing theories of planetary system formation.

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#50 · experiences Jul 13, 2026

Explore a detailed map of Odysseus' fictional journey from 'The Odyssey.'

The first known cartographic rendering of the 10-year journey was by Abraham Ortelius, the creator of the modern atlas, who traced Odysseus' travels in a 1597 map.

Many scholars have noted that the story is as much about memory as it is about travel, making an accurate map nearly impossible.
This 2025 map is based on University of Pennsylvania professor Peter Struck's analysis.

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#51 · curiosity Jul 8, 2026

Homer's warrior tales, including 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' were loosely based on Mycenaean civilization.

The great eighth- or ninth-century BCE poet Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey" portray a warrior culture centered on large palaces along the Aegean coast of the Mediterranean.

Historians and archaeologists have long believed Homer's stories were based on the Mycenaean civilization, which flourished several centuries before his time.

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#52 · curiosity Jul 13, 2026

The identity of the poet Homer remains a mystery, with some scholars arguing that he never really existed.

There are centuries of scholarship debating the identity of the author of "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey."

Many note that the Greek in the poems is more typical of islands off the west coast of what is now Turkey rather than mainland Greece.
Samuel Butler, the 19th-century author of the utopian satire "Erewhon," argued that the author of "The Odyssey" was a woman.

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#53 · explainers Dec 20, 2024

Warren Buffett first started investing in Geico in 1951

Buffett is known for his large collection of insurance investments, and Geico is no exception. This is partly due to investments from his mentor Benjamin Graham and a private, impromptu meeting with the company’s future CEO.

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#54 · explainers Apr 10, 2026

Ray Dalio and his wife signed Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge in 2011

That means Dalio and his wife, Barbara Dalio, committed to donating at least half of their net worth by the time they die. The couple also founded Dalio Philanthropies in 2003, with their main causes including advancing education and investing in ocean protection and research.

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#55 · curiosity Feb 27, 2026

Warren Buffett has been criticized for avoiding investing in tech stocks during the 1990s dot-com boom, as he wasn't confident in the future growth of the tech industry.

Buffett said at the time that tech is something Berkshire Hathaway doesn't "understand, so we don't invest in it."

This philosophy led him not to invest in Yahoo or Microsoft during the dot-com boom.
Buffett later admitted he missed out on gains from not investing in companies like Google and Amazon earlier.
He now invests in some tech companies, like Apple.

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#56 · experiences Oct 9, 2023

Webb Telescope zooms in on Orion Nebula and finds planet pairs

The Webb telescope has trained its infrared cameras on the nearest star-forming nebula in our universe, the Orion Nebula. Its images revealed a never-before-seen phenomenon: dozens of pairs of planet-sized objects in binary orbit, seemingly floating...

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#57 · curiosity Feb 27, 2026

An 87-year-old widower goes viral for hand-delivering party invitations door to door that read "4 pm until the cops arrive"

A man knocked on his neighbor's door to offer a paper invitation to a winter-themed party he was throwing. "My wife is gone now, so it gives me something to keep me busy," he later explained. "I'm going to get these people in one room, and maybe they'll get to know each other." The viral experience has since brought him fan mail and party treats.

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#58 · curiosity Feb 27, 2026

A group of 88 kindergarteners creates heartfelt centerpieces defining what love is for their teacher's wedding

Ahead of her big day, a kindergarten teacher came up with an idea to have her students help decorate her wedding tables. Teachers prompted their students to fill out the prompt "love is…" and found that the children shared a variety of heartfelt responses.

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#59 · experiences Aug 14, 2026

Explore interactive maps from fictional journeys, including 'The Odyssey,' 'Moby-Dick,' and more.

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#60 · curiosity Sep 13, 2024

Oktoberfest's beer tents have specific themes

With 17 big tents and 21 small ones, each with a unique personality, there’s one to suit every type of Oktoberfest visitor. The oldest, Augustiner Festhalle, has been a part of the festival since 1898 and can hold 8,500 people.

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