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Guillame Legros’s Ephemeral Landart
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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Inemuri, The Japanese Art of Sleeping at Work
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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Dr. Charles Campbell And His Malaria-Fighting Bat Towers
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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Moldova’s Underground Wine City
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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The Miniature Coffins of Arthur’s Seat
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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Xiaohe: A 4000-Year-Old Desert Cemetery
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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The Most Kissed Girl in The World: The Mona Lisa of The Seine
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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The Mail That Was Smuggled to The Moon
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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Hungary’s Hyperinflation: The Worst Case of Inflation in History
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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Alberta’s War on Rats
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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The Hunger Stones of The Elbe River
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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The Gigantic Wine Barrel of Heidelberg
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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The Island Named After A Satellite
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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The Clifftop Folly of Frederick Hervey
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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The Skeleton of Jeremy Bentham
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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The British Quarry That Hid Van Gogh, da Vinci and Rembrandt
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...