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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Aug 06, 2026

How Ancient Greek Warships Worked: The Engineering of the Trireme Explained in 3D Animation https://www.openculture.com/2026/08/how-ancient-greek-warships-worked-the-engineering-of-the-trireme-explained-in-3d-animation.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Aug 05, 2026

The Isolator: A 1925 Helmet Designed to Eliminate Distractions & Increase Productivity (Created by SciFi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback) https://www.openculture.com/2021/05/the-isolator-a-1925-helmet-designed-to-eliminate-distractions.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Aug 04, 2026

Hear the Earliest Recorded Customer Complaint Letter: From Ancient Sumeria 1750 BC https://www.openculture.com/2021/05/hear-the-earliest-recorded-customer-complaint-letter-from-ancient-sumeria-1750-bc.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Aug 04, 2026

Salvador Dalí & Walt Disney’s Short Animated Film, Destino, Set to the Music of Pink Floyd https://www.openculture.com/2018/08/salvador-dali-walt-disneys-short-animated-film-destino-set-music-pink-floyd.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Aug 03, 2026

"The tragedy of the Internet is that it has promoted the village idiot to the level of bearer of truth” --Umberto Eco

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Aug 03, 2026

Watch David Bowie & Annie Lennox in Rehearsal, Singing “Under Pressure,” with Queen (1992) https://www.openculture.com/2026/08/david-bowie-annie-lennox-singing-under-pressure-with-queen.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 29, 2026

Hear What Homer’s Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient Greek https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/homers-odyssey-sung-in-ancient-greek.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 28, 2026

What Miles Davis Taught Herbie Hancock: In Music, as in Life, There Are No Mistakes, Just Chances to Improvise https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/what-miles-davis-taught-herbie-hancock-in-music-as-in-life-there-are-no-mistakes.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 28, 2026

Christopher Nolan Picks 15 Favorite Films from the Criterion Closet https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/christopher-nolan-picks-15-favorite-films-from-the-criterion-closet.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 26, 2026

A Free Online Archive Lets You Explore 5.8 Million Works of Art Spanning 5,000 Years of History https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/a-free-online-archive-lets-you-explore-5-8-million-works-of-art-spanning-5000-years-of-history.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 25, 2026

Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Albert Camus’ Touching Thank You Letter to His Elementary School Teacher https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/benedict-cumberbatch-reads-albert-camus-touching-thank-you-letter.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 24, 2026

Where Did Europe’s Countries—and the United Kingdom—Get Their Names? https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/where-did-europes-countries-and-the-united-kingdom-get-their-names.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 22, 2026

The Greek Mythology Family Tree: A Visual Guide Shows How Zeus, Athena, and the Ancient Gods Are Related https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/the-greek-mythology-family-tree.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 22, 2026

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Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Them https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/umberto-ecos-personal-library-opens-to-the-public.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 20, 2026

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Discover the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944) The Trump administration has clearly studied it. https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/the-cias-simple-sabotage-field-manual.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 19, 2026

When David Bowie & Brian Eno Made a Twin Peaks-Inspired Album, Outside (1995) https://www.openculture.com/2022/06/when-david-bowie-brian-eno-made-a-twin-peaks-inspired-album-outside-1995.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 16, 2026

Watch the Rolling Stones Write “Sympathy for the Devil”: Scenes from Jean-Luc Godard’s ’68 Film One Plus One https://www.openculture.com/2013/11/godard-films-rolling-stones-writing-sympathy-for-the-devil.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 12, 2026

Alfred Hitchcock Wanted Frank Lloyd Wright to Design the North by Northwest House: An Architect Just Built It for $45 Million https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/alfred-hitchcock-wanted-frank-lloyd-wright-to-design-the-north-by-northwest-house.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 12, 2026

“Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language https://www.openculture.com/2024/07/tsundoku-should-enter-the-english-language-now.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 10, 2026

The Bayeux Tapestry Explained: Watch an Animated Retelling of the Norman Conquest https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/the-bayeux-tapestry-explained-watch-an-animated-retelling-of-the-norman-conquest.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 08, 2026

A 3,000-Year-Old Painter’s Palette from Ancient Egypt, with Traces of the Original Colors Still In It https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/3000-year-old-painters-palette-from-ancient-egypt.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 06, 2026

Vincent Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night”: Why It’s a Great Painting in 15 Minutes https://www.openculture.com/2021/07/vincent-van-goghs-the-starry-night-why-its-a-great-painting-in-15-minutes.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 04, 2026

One of the Greatest Dances Sequences Ever Captured on Film Gets Restored in Color by AI: Watch the Classic Scene from Stormy Weather https://www.openculture.com/2020/12/one-of-the-greatest-dances-sequences-ever-captured-on-film-gets-restored-in-color-by-ai-watch-the-classic-scene-from-stormy-weather.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 04, 2026

The Hobo Code: An Introduction to the Hieroglyphic Language of Early 1900s Train-Hoppers https://www.openculture.com/2018/08/hobo-code-introduction-hieroglyphic-language-early-1900s-train-hoppers.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 03, 2026

Frederick Douglass’s Fiery 1852 Speech, “The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro,” Read by James Earl Jones https://www.openculture.com/2023/07/frederick-douglasss-fiery-1852-speech-the-meaning-of-july-4th-for-the-negro-read-by-james-earl-jones.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 03, 2026

The Monty Python Philosophy Soccer Match: The Ancient Greeks Versus the Germans https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/monty-python-philosophy-soccer-match.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 02, 2026

Meet the Syntopicon: The Ambitious Index That Tried to Organize All of Western Thought (1952) https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/meet-the-syntopicon-the-ambitious-index-that-tried-to-organize-all-of-western-thought-1952.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 01, 2026

The Thai Beef Noodle Soup That Has Been Continuously Simmering for 52 Years https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/the-thai-beef-noodle-soup-that-has-been-continuously-simmering-for-52-years.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jul 01, 2026

Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (1980) https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/isaac-asimov-laments-the-cult-of-ignorance.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jun 30, 2026

Hannah Arendt on “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship:” Better to Suffer Than Collaborate https://www.openculture.com/2026/06/arendt-on-personal-responsibility-under-dictatorship.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jun 29, 2026

How Japan Invented Daisugi, the Ancient Method of Growing Lumber Without Cutting Down Trees https://www.openculture.com/2026/06/how-japan-invented-daisugi-the-ancient-method-of-growing-lumber-without-cutting-down-trees.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jun 27, 2026

David Lynch Teaches You to Cook His Quinoa Recipe in a Strange, Surrealist Video https://www.openculture.com/2023/10/david-lynch-teaches-you-to-cook-his-quinoa-recipe-in-a-strange-surrealist-video.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jun 26, 2026

Daisugi, the 600-Year-Old Japanese Technique of Growing Trees Out of Other Trees, Creating Perfectly Straight Lumber https://www.openculture.com/2020/10/daisugi.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jun 16, 2026

Hear Lost Recording of Pink Floyd Playing with Jazz Violinist Stéphane Grappelli on “Wish You Were Here” https://www.openculture.com/2014/04/pink-floyds-wish-you-were-here-with-stephane-grappelli.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jun 15, 2026

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The Splendid Book Design of the 1946 Edition of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire https://www.openculture.com/2026/06/splendid-book-design-of-gibbons-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jun 10, 2026

The “Amen Break”: The Most Famous 6‑Second Drum Loop & How It Spawned a Sampling Revolution https://www.openculture.com/2013/03/the_amen_break_the_most_famous_6-second_drum_loop_how_it_spawned_a_sampling_revolution.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · Jun 08, 2026

Ian McKellen Reads a Passionate Speech by William Shakespeare, Written in Defense of Immigrants https://www.openculture.com/2017/01/ian-mckellen-reads-a-passionate-speech-by-william-shakespeare-written-in-defense-of-immigrants.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · May 13, 2026

Watch the Moment When the Wreck of the Titanic Was First Discovered (1985)

https://www.openculture.com/2026/05/watch-the-moment-when-the-wreck-of-the-titanic-was-first-discovered-1985.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · May 13, 2026

What Happened to Jesus’ Twelve Disciples After the Bible—It Wasn’t Pretty

https://www.openculture.com/2026/05/what-happened-to-jesus-twelve-disciples-after-the-bible-it-wasnt-pretty.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · May 12, 2026

How John Coltrane Introduced the World to His Radical Sound with His Recording of “My Favorite Things” (1961)

https://www.openculture.com/2026/05/how-john-coltrane-introduced-the-world-to-my-favorite-things-1961.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · May 12, 2026

When the Nobel Prize Committee Rejected The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien “Has Not Measured Up to Storytelling of the Highest Quality” (1961)

https://www.openculture.com/2026/05/when-the-nobel-prize-committee-rejected-the-lord-of-the-rings-tolkien-has-not-measured-up-to-storytelling-of-the-highest-quality-1961.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · May 12, 2026

The Japanese Traditions of Sashiko & Boro: The Centuries-Old Craft That Mends Clothes in a Sustainable, Artistic Way

https://www.openculture.com/2020/10/the-japanese-traditions-of-sashiko-boro.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · May 11, 2026

Watch a Master Japanese Printmaker at Work: Two Unintentionally Relaxing ASMR Videos

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · May 11, 2026

Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

https://www.openculture.com/2026/05/nearly-50-years-later-wkrp-in-cincinnati-becomes-a-real-radio-station.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · May 11, 2026

Why The Founding Fathers Were Obsessed with This Muslim Ruler

https://www.openculture.com/2026/05/why-the-founding-fathers-were-obsessed-with-this-muslim-ruler.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · May 11, 2026

The Greatest Shot in Television: Science Historian James Burke Had One Chance to Nail This Scene … and Nailed It

https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/the-greatest-shot-in-television.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · May 10, 2026

Meet the Forgotten Female Artist Behind the World’s Most Popular Tarot Deck (1909)

https://www.openculture.com/2025/10/meet-the-forgotten-female-artist-behind-the-worlds-most-popular-tarot-deck.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · May 10, 2026

David Foster Wallace’s Famous Commencement Speech, “This is Water,” Gets Animated on a Whiteboard

https://www.openculture.com/2023/10/david-foster-wallaces-famous-commencement-speech-this-is-water-gets-animated-on-a-whiteboard.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · May 09, 2026

“Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language

https://www.openculture.com/2024/07/tsundoku-should-enter-the-english-language-now.html

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Open Culture (Official) @openculture@toot.community · May 09, 2026

Why Ancient Egyptian Honey Remains Edible After 3,000 Years

https://www.openculture.com/2026/05/why-ancient-egyptian-honey-remains-edible-after-3000-years.html

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