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Quantum entanglement is stranger than it sounds.
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The surprising truth about Coelacanth.
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Mimic octopus still raises strange questions.
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Pulsar still raises strange questions.
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Marfa lights deserves a closer look.
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The surprising truth about Mary Anning.
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Icefish still raises strange questions.
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The sourced background on Judge C. R. Magney State Park.
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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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Magnetar: what actually happened.
A magnetar is a type of neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field (~109 to 1011 T, ~1013 to 1015 G).
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Tunguska event: what actually happened.
The Tunguska event was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons TNT equivalent that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk…
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History
Strange turning points, forgotten names, and moments that still echo.
Vinland: what actually happened.
Vinland, Vineland, or Winland was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings.
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The facts behind Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar was an Indian mathematician who worked during the early 20th century.
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Petra is stranger than it sounds.
Petra, originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu, is an ancient city and archaeological site in southern Jordan.
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Attention, memory, habit, emotion, and the mind at work.
False memory is not quite what it seems.
In psychology, a false memory is a phenomenon in which someone recalls something that did not actually happen or recalls it differently from the…
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Dunning–Kruger effect is not quite what it seems.
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias that describes the systematic tendency of people with low ability in a specific area to give overly…
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The simple version of Phi phenomenon.
The term phi phenomenon is used in a narrow sense for an apparent motion that is observed if two nearby optical stimuli are presented…
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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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The surprising truth about Movile Cave.
Movile Cave is a cave near Mangalia, Constanța County, Romania discovered in 1986 by Cristian Lascu during construction work a few kilometers from the…
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Why Chicxulub crater still gets people talking.
The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
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Sacsayhuamán is stranger than it sounds.
Sacsayhuamán or Saksaywaman is a citadel on the northern outskirts of the city of Cusco, Peru, the historic capital of the Inca Empire.
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The sourced background on Lake Natron.
Lake Natron is a highly alkaline salt lake located in north Ngorongoro District of Arusha Region in Tanzania with its far northern end crossing…
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Catatumbo lightning still raises strange questions.
The Catatumbo lightning, also known as The Everlasting Storm, is an atmospheric phenomenon that occurs over and around Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, typically over…
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Lighthouse of Alexandria still raises strange questions.
The Lighthouse of Alexandria, sometimes called the Pharos of Alexandria, was a lighthouse built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, during the reign…
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Blood Falls: what actually happened.
Blood Falls is an outflow of an iron(III) oxide–tainted plume of saltwater, flowing from the tongue of Taylor Glacier onto the ice-covered surface of…
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