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Buried Secrets of the 10-Foot Giants: A Cave Full of Questions

Buried Secrets of the 10-Foot Giants: A Cave Full of Questions

They say truth is stranger than fiction, and in the case of Nevada’s Lovelock ...
Brooklyn's Ladder 118

The Extraordinary Men of Brooklyn’s Ladder 118

On the morning of 11 September 2001, a bright red fire truck blazed across ...
Tim Friede

Deadly Bites for a Cure: The Unbelievable Story of Tim Friede

Imagine willingly letting some of the planet's most venomous snakes sink their fangs into ...
The Gherkin, London

The Gherkin: London’s Most Bizarre Eco-Wonder

If buildings could breathe, The Gherkin would be gasping in delight above London’s skyline ...
Hsuehshan Tunnel Taiwan

How Taiwan Tiptoed Through a Geological Minefield to Build the Hsuehshan Tunnel

Beneath a silent mountain, a battle raged not with explosives or bulldozers, but with ...
Sydney Opera House

This Building Nearly Ruined Australia But Now It’s a Global Icon

One man peeled an orange—and in doing so, cracked the mystery behind the Sydney ...
Devil in Bloom: The Hairy New Sunflower That’s Defying Evolution in Texas

Devil in Bloom: The Hairy New Sunflower That’s Defying Evolution in Texas

It’s hairy, it’s hardy, and it’s hellishly unique, meet the Woolly Devil, a newly ...
This Olive Tree is Older Than the Pyramids—And Still Makes Olives!

This Olive Tree is Older Than the Pyramids—And Still Makes Olives!

Imagine being so old that the pyramids of Egypt seem like toddlers compared to ...
Detroit’s Giant Secret: Why Sequoias Are Sprouting in the Motor City

Detroit’s Giant Secret: Why Sequoias Are Sprouting in the Motor City

In a twist worthy of a sci-fi reboot of FernGully, something gigantic is growing ...
The Manhattan on Ice: Inside the World’s Most Remote and Remarkable Bar Scene

The Manhattan on Ice: Inside the World’s Most Remote and Remarkable Bar Scene

If there’s one trait most famous explorers share, aside from an unmitigated thirst for ...
Dubai Chocolate

The Chocolate Bar That Caused a Pistachio Crisis

They queued in the cold, traded it in crypto, and even faked versions that ...
The Pasta Equation: Scientists Crack the Code to the Perfect Cacio e Pepe

The Pasta Equation: Scientists Crack the Code to the Perfect Cacio e Pepe

It’s not magic—it’s molecular. A group of scientists have just unlocked the exact formula ...
Zen And The Art Of Being A Monkey: Meet The Red-shanked Douc In Full Meditation Mode

Zen And The Art Of Being A Monkey: Meet The Red-shanked Douc In Full Meditation Mode

In the mist-veiled mountains of Vietnam, where the jungle hums with ancient whispers and ...
Grieving Elephants

Grieving Giants: How Elephants Honour Their Dead

In the dusty plains of Kenya, under a brutal sun and in the grip ...
No Fur, Just Fangs: Meet the Arctic’s Real-Life Viper

No Fur, Just Fangs: Meet the Arctic’s Real-Life Viper

A snake with fur slithering through Arctic snow? That viral video might have duped ...
The River That Boils You Alive: Nature’s Deadliest Hot Tub in the Amazon

The River That Boils You Alive: Nature’s Deadliest Hot Tub in the Amazon

If you stumbled across a steaming river in the middle of the Peruvian Amazon, ...
Mastodon in Lake Michigan

A Mastodon Underwater? Meet Michigan’s Ancient Mystery Hidden Beneath a Lake

It wasn’t Atlantis. It wasn’t a shipwreck. But it was a carved mastodon staring ...
Locked Away and Still Terrifying: The Haunted Legacy of the Warren Occult Museum

Locked Away and Still Terrifying: The Haunted Legacy of the Warren Occult Museum

Forget skeletons in the closet. Ed and Lorraine Warren kept theirs on full display, ...

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