LatestThere Is a Skeleton at the Bottom of a Roman Well in Frankfurt. Next to It, a Bronze Goddess. Somewhere beneath the streets of Frankfurt, under a school playground in…
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CuriositiesSomewhere in Wyoming, about 12,000 years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers sat around a fire and did something…
CuriositiesA Termite That Looks Like a Whale. No, Seriously. Somewhere in the canopy of a French Guiana rainforest,…
CuriositiesIn 1518, hundreds of people in Strasbourg danced uncontrollably for weeks, some dying of exhaustion. The city's solution…
CuriositiesIn Longyearbyen, Norway, dying is banned because the permafrost preserves bodies indefinitely. Cats are also completely banned. And…
CuriositiesIn January 1919, a 58-foot tank of molasses exploded in Boston, sending a 15-foot wave of syrup through…
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