One York cemetery held dozens of headless Roman men. 💀

Comet 67P would smell like eggs, a horse stable and almonds. ☄️

Miners opened a cave filled with 11-meter crystals. 💎

Rain's familiar smell had no scientific name until 1964. 🌧️

This cave hid its own world for 5.5 million years. 🕳️

Old Tom recruited humans to hunt other whales. 🐋

Ben Underwood, a boy from Elk Grove, California who was diagnosed with retinal cancer at age two and had both eyes removed at age three, taught himself to navigate the world by human echolocation — clicking his tongue and interpreting the returning sound — and could ride a bicycle, skateboard, shoot baskets, and identify parked cars by clicking, until his death from the same cancer on January 19, 2009 at age 16.

Your childhood cereal was sweeter than a glazed doughnut. 🥣

Doctors used to advertise cigarettes as good for your throat. 🚬

You could taste the paint that made your jaw fall off. ☢️

Killed By His Own Invention

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The Bone Wars of the 1870s saw rival paleontologists dynamiting fossil sites to prevent competitors from finding dinosaurs