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Friday Links

Here’s Kurt Vonnegut’s May 29, 1945 letter home after imprisonment in an underground slaughterhouse during the Dresden bombing. Related: In 2006, Kurt Vonnegut sent this excellent letter to a high-school class.

The real “no-go zone” of France: a forbidden no-man’s land poisoned by World War I.

How to ship a beluga whale via UPS.

Pre-sliced bread was once banned in the United States.

This is a wheelchair for a goldfish.

New evidence may solve the mystery of America’s huge St. Louis–area ancient city.

Japanese farmer finds an enormous, mutated strawberry that’s now officially the heaviest ever found.

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