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The War That Was Over in About 40 Minutes
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The War That Was Over in About 40 Minutes
The world’s shortest recorded war lasted less than an hour. In 1896, Britain bombarded Zanzibar’s palace, and the Anglo-Zanzibar War ended after rough…
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Jul 06, 2026 10:02 PM
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Sharks Are Older Than Trees
Sharks are older than trees: they’ve been cruising Earth’s oceans for about 400 million years, while true trees appeared tens of millions of years lat…
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Titan Has Lakes, But They’re Made of Methane
Titan is the only world beyond Earth known to have stable bodies of liquid on its surface. Its lakes and seas are methane and ethane, not water, chill…
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Australia Once Tried to Fight Emus With Machine Guns
Australia once sent soldiers with machine guns after emus; and the birds mostly won. In 1932, the army tried to cull crop raiding emus in Western Aust…
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Scotland’s National Animal Is a Unicorn
Scotland’s national animal is the unicorn. It’s been in Scottish heraldry for centuries, often shown chained because medieval lore said it was dangero…
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The Pringles Can Designer Was Buried in a Pringles Can
Pringles can designer Fredric Baur was buried with some of his ashes inside a Pringles can. His family honored his request in 2008, choosing the origi…
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Jun 13, 2026 09:11 PM
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Wombats Are Nature’s Tiny Cube-Poop Engineers
Wombats are the only known animals that poop cubes, thanks to stretchy, uneven intestines that mold the poop as it dries. Basically, nature invented a…
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Jun 13, 2026 09:09 PM
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