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There’s A South Carolina Island That You Are Banned From: ‘The Most Dangerous Place In America’

South Carolina's Morgan Island has been an object of fascination and fear ever since thousands of rhesus monkeys were ...
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A Serial Killer, The Bubonic Plague, And Human Sacrifice: The Chilling Backstories Behind Seven Nursery Rhymes

On the surface, these popular nursery rhymes may seem lighthearted, but their origin stories might be far darker than you ever imagined. There are certain rhymes that follow us from childhood. Tunes ...
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Researchers Just Identified Four Sailors Who Perished In The Arctic During The Doomed Franklin Expedition

Scientists have identified the bodies of Franklin expedition members William Orren, David Young, John Bridgens, and Harry ...
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Archaeologists In Australia Discover An Ancient Dingo That Had Been Ceremonially Buried And Tended To By Aboriginals For Centuries

After this dingo was buried by the Barkindji people in what's now Kinchega National Park, they lovingly tended to its grave ...
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The Mysterious History Of Ksar Draa, The Citadel In The Middle Of The Sahara Desert

Ksar Draa, located in the middle of the Sahara Desert, was built at least 700 years ago by an unknown people for an unknown ...
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These Three Ancient Civilizations Across Three Continents Built Similar Monuments. Were They Mapping The Stars?

Across the world, different ancient civilizations built similar structures. Could they have been mapping out the stars?
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Archaeologists In Russia Just Unearthed An Exceptionally Long Medieval Sword Once Wielded By An Unusually Large Warrior

During excavations at the Eagle's Nest burial site in Astrakhan, archaeologists found a medieval sabre that's almost four ...
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Researchers Just Realized That This Island In A Scottish Lake Is Actually Manmade — And It Predates Stonehenge

A small island in Loch Bhorgastail on the Isle of Lewis was recently revealed to be a manmade crannog that was built around ...
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‘Graveyard’ Of 5,000-Year-Old Mummified Penguins Found In Antarctica Baffles Scientists

Rapidly melting polar ice caps have revealed that thousands of years ago, there was a thriving penguin community in the ...
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Archaeologists In Germany Just Found A Completely Intact Notebook From The Middle Ages Among The Ruins Of A Latrine

This well-preserved, leather-bound notebook, discovered in a medieval latrine in Paderborn, likely dates back to the 13th or ...
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The True Story Of ‘Dog Day Afternoon’: Inside The Wild Real-Life Bank Robbery That Inspired The Iconic Film

Most people know Dog Day Afternoon as the 1975 crime film starring Al Pacino. It tells the story of a Brooklyn bank robbery ...
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An Archaeologist Found Dozens Of Religious Artifacts In An English River — And Now He Knows Why

For years, Gary Bankhead kept finding dozens of religious relics clustered within one section of England's River Wear — and ...