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For as long as we’ve had clothes, we’ve done laundry. Long before detergent pods and spin cycles, people figured out the simple trick of rubbing textiles against rough surfaces, which squeezes dirty water out of the fibers and pulls cleaner water back in. Roughly around the 1800s, that idea g...


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Mosul Dam rises 370 feet or 113 meters above the Tigris River in northern Iraq as one of the tallest dams in the Middle East. The dam was built in the 1980s, but, in a way, construction never really stopped. That’s because ever since the reservoir filled behind Mosul Dam, the ground has liter...


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