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The 100 Prisoners Riddle feels completely impossible even once you know the answer.
A fun video explanation. | learn more
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Whale sharks have tiny teeth on their eyeballs.
“The scientists also noted that whale sharks have the ability to partially retract their eyeballs into their skulls, reports Hannah Osbourne for Newsweek. Both protective mechanisms—retractability and the tiny teeth—suggest to the researchers that whale shark’s eyes might be more […]
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Diamonds are forever.
“The British financiers who had organized the South African mines quickly realized that their investment was endangered; diamonds had little intrinsic value — and their price depended almost entirely on their scarcity.” And so, the De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. […]
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Dark plots and secret explanations.
Okay this one’s a bit weird. Be warned. Mike Solana, writer of “Pirate Wires” and lover of a good conspiracy theory, talks about eroding trust in the establishment. “The future is a world in which nobody controls a single, unifying, […]
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A map of the most notable person from every hometown.
“Data has been processed to show only one person for each unique geographic location with the highest notability rank.” There’s at least one data quality problem: Jean-Paul Sartre was not born in Colombia. | learn more
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Why everything eventually becomes a crab.
“The joke—that everything will eventually look like a crab—comes from an actual truth. The crab shape has evolved so many times that scientists had to come up with a special term for it: carcinization.” | learn more
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Internal tech industry emails surfaced in public records.
Endless hours of entertainment thanks to this twitter account. | learn more
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The world’s 25 largest lakes, side by side.
“The largest lake in the world by a long shot is the Caspian Sea – a name that hints at a past when it was contiguous with the ocean around 11 million years ago.” | learn more
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You can set your watch to this glowing green worm party.
“Scientists would identify the spectacle as a mating ritual in the 1930s, as occurring in the summer and autumn, at an eerily prompt 55 minutes after sunset, three nights after a full moon.” | learn more