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Two Dudes Broke Into An Aquarium And Freed A Penguin Named Buddy
An actually wild African penguin. (Photo: Paul Mannix/CC BY 2.0)On certain Wednesday mornings, we must contend with questions. Which is better: the new or the old? Risk or acceptance? A life of...
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Précontinent II in Sudan
Précontinent II is the last visible reminder of a series of three French underwater habitats built between 1962 and 1965. Developed by the world-famous oceanography pioneer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the...
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What's This Strange Patch in the Australian Desert?
A light patch in the Western Australian desert. (Photo: NASA Earth Observatory)Back in November 2015, the Landsat 8 satellite passed over Western Australia's Gibson Desert and captured the image above....
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We're Sequencing Every Member Of The Weirdest Bird Species On Earth
A kākāpō chows down on some berries. (Photo: Chris Birmingham/CC BY 2.0)Getting endangered animals to reproduce can be a long, slow slog, full of turkey basters and hand puppets. But scientists have a...
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Château de Bonneval and The Devils Tower in Coussac-Bonneval, France
Nestled out in the Haute-Vienne department in western France you'll find one of the earliest French aristocratic homes. Château de Bonneval is the site of one thousand years of Bonneval family history,...
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Gislövshammar in Sweden
Walking along the shoreline outside of this small village in the south of Sweden will reveal a number of odd, circular formations above and under the water. What would probably have been a sign of an...
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An Entire State in Australia Lost Power Following Most Powerful Storm in Decades
(Photo: Australia Bureau of Meteorology)A massive storm—possibly the biggest in over 50 years—swept through South Australia on Wednesday, with lightning striking the country over 21,000 times and...
View ArticleWatch an Impromptu Medieval Icelandic Hymn Sung in a Modern Train Station
Imagine making your commute home, bracing yourself for the human tsunami that is sure to greet you when cutting through a busy train station. Only this time, instead of the din of a bustling crowd,...
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The Ballad of Lucille Mulhall, America's Original Cowgirl
At a Rough Riders reunion in Oklahoma City in 1900, Theodore Roosevelt watched as the 14-year-old girl galloped her horse, swinging a lasso overhead. When she roped around a running steer, she beat...
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Abandoned Crematorium and Cemetery in Dessau-Roßlau, Germany
There are parts of this abandoned cemetery in Dessau, Germany where it truly feels like stepping into a horror movie. Fallen tombstones and urns are already spooky, and the creepy reliefs on the stones...
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Titanic Memorial in Washington, D.C.
A slim granite figure stretches its arms out towards the DC waterfront, an arresting figure with an air of mystery. It sits at the end of an out-of-the-way promenade at the northern tip of Fort McNair,...
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Baltimore Basilica in Baltimore, Maryland
One of most historic houses of worship is the U.S. is also a masterpiece of American architecture. This National Historic Landmark includes a 75-foot dome whose design was directly influenced by an...
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The Three Gossips in Gießen, Germany
When the Die drei Schwätzer, or "The Three Gossips" statue was erected in the public square of Giessen, Germany, it was immediately loved by the townsfolk, who perhaps saw a bit of themselves in these...
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The Complaints the FTC Received Over Pokémon Go
(Photo: Eduardo Woo/CC BY-SA 2.0)A version of this story originally appeared on Muckrock.com.FTC complaints released to Robert Delaware regarding the uber-popular augmented reality game Pokemon GO run...
View ArticleFound: A Hand-Drawn Map of Detroit from 1790
Ah, Detroit. (Photo: Courtesy of the William L. Clements Library) Detroit just ain’t what it used to be. Especially according to a centuries-old, hand drawn map that was recently discovered in an...
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The Bizarre Drama Over the Internet's Domain Naming System
(Photo: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 3.0)If you've ever registered a website, you may have dealt with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), but for a lot of others, it remains an...
View ArticleWatch a Cold War Era Video That Advises You How to Survive a Nuclear Attack
The threat of nuclear attack loomed large for Americans in the 1950s. In an effort to prepare for such a scenario, President Truman formed the Federal Civil Defense Administration, and commissioned...
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Found: A Goddess Statue That's 8,000 Years Old
This statue is 8,000 years old. (Photo: Çatalhöyük Research Project)As soon as archaeologists found this statue, they knew it was special.It was found at a Neolithic site in Central Turkey, where it...
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A Fly With a Forked Penis Was Accidentally Found in Australia
The fly's forked penis. (Photo: NSW Office of Environment and Heritage/Used with Permission)When it comes to insect genitalia, it’s not size that matters, but apparently how many you’ve got. At least...
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Original American Kazoo Company in Eden, New York
In 1916, a sheet metal shop in a town south of Buffalo decided to engage in a new endeavor: the manufacture of kazoos, a toy instrument craze brought to the area by a traveling salesman. The gambit...
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