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Creepy Discoveries
Comet 67P would smell like eggs, a horse stable and almonds. ☄️
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Creepy Discoveries
Miners opened a cave filled with 11-meter crystals. 💎
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Creepy Discoveries
Rain's familiar smell had no scientific name until 1964. 🌧️
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Creepy Discoveries
This cave hid its own world for 5.5 million years. 🕳️
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Heartwarming Humanity
A homeless veteran in Philadelphia gave his last $20 to buy gas for a stranded woman, and grateful strangers raised $400,000 for him through crowdfunding.
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Animal Oddities
Eclipse rode Seattle buses alone to reach her dog park. 🚌
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Current World
On Sep 22, 2026, the Pacific nation of Nauru told the UN it's now 'Naoero' — its original name, which colonizers mispronounced for so long the wrong version stuck.
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Science Gone Wrong
Your microwave window is a metal cage in disguise. 📡
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Current World
On August 1, 2026, the Netherlands enacted a nationwide ban on consumer fireworks — with limited exceptions such as F1 fireworks and club exemptions — ending a famously chaotic tradition that injured thousands each New Year's Eve.
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Dark History
Kent cigarette filters once contained asbestos. 🚬
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Science Gone Wrong
Airplane “black boxes” are orange—and built for catastrophe. ✈️
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Animal Oddities
Koshik the elephant learned to speak five Korean words. 🐘