- newThe largest meteorite on Earth is still exactly where it landed
The Hoba meteorite weighs about 60 metric tons and has never been moved. It lies on a farm in Namibia, right where it fell roughly 80,000 years ago. It's the largest known intact meteorite on Earth, and it's still just sitting there because moving 60…
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- newHow to see "impossible colors"
What does "reddish green" look like? Not brown, not olive — an actual color that's simultaneously red and green the way cyan is simultaneously blue and green. You can't picture it. Neither can I. These are called "impossible colors and the reason i…
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- newThe 1990s panic over "phantom social workers" trying to abduct children
In the early 1990s, reports began surfacing across the UK and the United States of mysterious strangers posing as social workers, showing up at homes and attempting to examine or abduct children. Police took the reports seriously. Parents were terrif…
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- newAustralia's Prime Minister went swimming in 1967 and was never seen again
On December 17, 1967, Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt went for a swim at Cheviot Beach in Victoria. He walked into the rough surf and disappeared. His body was never found.Holt was 59 and an experienced swimmer who'd been swimming at that beac…
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- newThe tragic love life of Jeremy, the world's loneliest snail
In 2016, a retired scientist in London discovered a garden snail with a shell that coiled counterclockwise — the opposite of nearly every other snail on Earth. He named the snail Jeremy, after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (also a lefty), and what fo…
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- newChemistry YouTuber claims to perfectly replicated Coke
The formula for Coca-Cola is one of the most closely guarded trade secrets. After a full year of experimentation and an untold amount of taste testing by family and friends, a chemistry YouTuber thinks he has finally cracked it. Coca-Cola is the mos…
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- newCalifornians really need to stop eating deadly mushrooms
Deadly mushrooms are continuing to claim lives in California despite warnings.Warm weather and early rains in California have caused a "super bloom" of Amanita phalloides, also known as the death cap mushroom. Death cap mushrooms are extremely dange…
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- newAI agents have made self-hosting your own server fun for normies
Running your own home server used to mean spending hours fighting with Docker configs, memorizing arcane Linux commands, and debugging networking issues at 2am. Developer Jordan Fulghum argues that 2026 is the inflection point where that changed —…
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- new"This is why we killed that lesbian b****" ICE agents in Minnesota beat a veteran US marine
This tearful interview with a US Marine Veteran recounts a violent encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, where she is physically abused for legally observing the Federal agents.While being followed from a safe distance, Trump's terror…
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- newTrump Administration tells US citizens to flee Venezuela after destabilizing it
As armed militias take control of the streets, the U.S. State Department has issued an urgent warning telling American citizens to leave Venezuela immediately. Amid the rapidly deteriorating security situation, convicted felon Donald Trump has taken…
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