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In October 1869, two workers digging a well behind a barn on a farm in Cardiff, in upstate New York, struck something hard. As they cleared away the earth,…
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Here is a fact that sounds like it must be a myth, but isn't: the island of Manhattan, home today to one of the greatest cities on Earth, was…
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Early in the morning of June 30, 1908, over the basin of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in central Siberia, the sky tore open. Witnesses dozens of miles away described…
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There is a strange fact about air travel that most people never stop to consider: it used to be faster. For a 27-year stretch that ended in 2003, you…
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In the gray waters of the North Sea, a few miles off the coast of Suffolk in England, stands one of the strangest sovereign claims in the world: a…
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Long before travel bloggers and bucket lists, the ancient Greeks compiled the original list of must-see sights: the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was, in essence, a…