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Somewhere near you, an animal is defecating.
In fact, each day, the animal kingdom produces roughly enough dung
to match the volume of water pouring over the Victoria Falls.
So why isn’t the planet
It was the dawn of 1863,
and London’s not-yet-opened subway system,
the first of its kind in the world, had the city in an uproar.
Digging a hole under the city and putting a railroad in it
seemed
On July 4, 2015,
a NASA spacecraft called New Horizons was 5 billion kilometers away from Earth.
It was only 10 days away from Pluto, after flying for 9.5 years,
when it suddenly dropped out of cont
The coldest materials in the world aren’t in Antarctica.
They’re not at the top of Mount Everest
or buried in a glacier.
They’re in physics labs:
clouds of gases held just fractions of a degree above
On May 27th, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck sank in a fierce firefight,
leaving only 118 of her 2,200 crew members alive.
But when a British destroyer came to collect the prisoners,
they found
“All the World’s a Stage”
from "As You Like It"
by William Shakespeare
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his
Over the course of the 1960s,
the FBI amassed almost two thousand documents
in an investigation into one of America’s most celebrated minds.
The subject of this inquiry was a writer named James Bal
Little do they know it,
but these six creatures are each about to experience a very unusual death.
One-by-one,
they will fall prey to the remarkable, predatory antics of...
a carnivorous plant.
Aroun
In 2008, archeologists uncovered two 9,000-year old skeletons.
There’s no definitive way of knowing what killed these ancient people,
but we do know their bones were infected by an all too familiar
Corn currently accounts for more than one tenth of our global crop production.
The United States alone has enough cornfields to cover Germany.
But while other crops we grow come in a range of varie