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CuriositiesHistory of black cat superstitions, from Bastet in Egypt to a 1233 papal bull, the witch trials, sailors,…
CuriositiesWhat is the Mandela Effect? The shared false memory phenomenon explained: Berenstain Bears, Fruit of the Loom cornucopia,…
CuriositiesPetrichor explained: the 1964 word, geosmin from Streptomyces bacteria, MIT high-speed camera science, and why humans detect it…
CuriositiesA plant that vanished from the scientific record in 1967 just showed up on a private cattle station…
CuriositiesThere is a houseplant sitting in roughly half the apartments on Instagram that has been quietly solving a…
CuriositiesA robotaxi is supposed to take you somewhere. That is the entire pitch. You tap a button, an…
CuriositiesAn amateur naturalist named Eviatar Itzkovich was wandering the Golan Heights one summer night and noticed something deeply…
CuriositiesA South Philadelphia parking spot on Lambert Street has been quietly hosting 10,000 squatters for the past three…
CuriositiesDaniel Park lives in Palatine, Illinois, and as of March 2026 he is the official Guinness World Records…
CuriositiesSomewhere in an Emerson College freshman dorm, a two-foot plastic soft-serve ice cream cone is sitting in a…
CuriositiesSo what is the Backrooms, and why does an empty hallway with yellow wallpaper haunt half the internet?…
CuriositiesEgmond Molina is 49 years old, weighs 87 kilograms, and has just dragged a 21,737-pound bus across 20…
CuriositiesYerevan started May Day with a small civic emergency. A zebra, free and unsupervised, was clopping down Myasnikyan…
CuriositiesThere is a vault in northern Italy holding €325 million in gold, and the gold is cheese. Five…
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