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These gigantic graffiti artworks spray-painted over the fields and the hillside were made by Swiss artist Guillame Legros, who goes by the n...
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In most countries sleeping at work is not only embarrassing, it might even cost one’s job. But in Japan, sleeping in the office is common an...
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Sixty years ago the United States took upon itself a challenge—eradicate malaria from the entire country, all 3.8 million square miles of it...
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The tiny landlocked country of Moldova in Eastern Europe is one of Europe’s poorest. “The roads are a bone-shaking ordeal. Horses haul carts...
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At the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh are a set of eight miniature coffins carved in wood and decorated with tinned iron. Each cof...
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In the far eastern edge of the desolate Taklamakan Desert, hundreds of kilometers from the nearest settlement, a clump of dense wooden stake...
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Sometime in the late 19th century, the body of a young woman was fished out of the Seine River in Paris. Because there was no evidence of vi...
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A lot of objects flew to the moon and back aboard NASA’s Saturn rocket. During the Apollo missions and those before that, astronauts were al...
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The amount of Bolivars needed to buy 2.4 kg of chicken in Venezuela today. Photo credit: Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters The economic situa...
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The brown rat is an extremely invasive species—a pest, that survive on human-produced garbage, usually, but often times this nasty rodent ...
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A record drought in Europe this year has exposed over a dozen boulders along the Elbe River, that usually stays below the water line, in an...
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In a cellar under the Heidelberg Castle, in the German town of Heidelberg, sits a gigantic wooden keg. It’s the world’s largest wine barrel ...
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Satellite imagery, made available to the public through applications such as Google Earth and Google Maps, have allowed anybody with a compu...
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Perched dramatically on the edge of a 120 feet tall cliff, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, the Mussenden Temple near Castlerock, in the nort...
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Pictured above is the council meeting of the University College London. The council meets every year, but this particular picture was taken...
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For four years, a disused slate quarry in a remote mountain in North Wales became home to some of the world’s greatest artistic masterpieces...