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A science fiction writer called it an “artifact of such utter simplicity and perfection that it seems it must be either the ...

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We give you an obscure word with four definitions—one correct, three made up. Can you identify the correct one?

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In the 1950s, the science kits sold in toy stores may have contained real radioactive material.