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The surprising truth about Coelacanth.
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Vinland: what actually happened.
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Cambrian explosion is not quite what it seems.
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The surprising truth about Superconductivity.
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Science
Space, biology, physics, and discoveries that redraw the map.
Horseshoe crab deserves a closer look.
Horseshoe crabs are arthropods of the family Limulidae and the only surviving xiphosurans.
Read moreThe facts behind Burgess Shale.
The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada.
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Noctilucent cloud is not quite what it seems.
Noctilucent clouds (NLCs), or night shining clouds, are tenuous cloud-like phenomena in the upper atmosphere.
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History
Strange turning points, forgotten names, and moments that still echo.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Factology Daily Launches: One Interesting Fact, Dug In Deep The Factology Daily today announced its launch at thefactologydaily.com, a publication…
Read moreThe Conversation Nobody Is Having: What Medicine Actually Has for Women Who Struggle to Orgasm
I saw a Women’s Health piece float through my feed this week — the one about millions of women struggling to reach orgasm, and…
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The real story behind Mansa Musa.
Mansa Musa was the ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire, which reached its territorial peak during his reign.
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Psychology
Attention, memory, habit, emotion, and the mind at work.
Ames room still raises strange questions.
An Ames room is a distorted room that creates an optical illusion.
Read moreThe real story behind Working memory.
Working memory is a cognitive system with a limited capacity that can hold information temporarily.
Read moreThe facts behind Eidetic memory.
Eidetic memory, also known as photographic memory and total recall, is the ability to recall an image from memory with high precision—at least for…
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Odd records, rare phenomena, and true stories that sound impossible.
Why The Hum still gets people talking.
The Hum is a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise audible to many, but not all, people in an area.
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The facts behind Hessdalen lights.
The Hessdalen lights are unidentified lights which have been observed in a 12-kilometre-long (7.5 mi) stretch of the Hessdalen valley in rural central Norway…
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Marfa lights deserves a closer look.
The Marfa lights are an optical phenomenon regularly observed near Marfa, Texas, in the United States.
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The surprising truth about Extremophile.
An extremophile is an organism that is able to live or even thrive in extreme environments, such as extreme temperature, pressure, radiation, salinity, or…
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Rogue wave still raises strange questions.
Rogue waves are large and unpredictable surface waves that can be extremely dangerous to ships and isolated structures such as lighthouses.
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Quantum entanglement is stranger than it sounds.
Quantum entanglement is the phenomenon in which the quantum state of each particle in a group cannot be described independently of the state of…
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The surprising truth about Mary Anning.
Mary Anning was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist.
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What people get wrong about Mammatus cloud.
Mammatus is a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud, typically a cumulonimbus raincloud, although they may be attached to…
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Pulsar still raises strange questions.
A pulsar is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles.
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