We see lighthouses everywhere but what do we really know about them? Here are all the lighthouse fun facts that you never knew. All the lighthouses in America are automated. The reflector system and Fresnel system used either fixed steady light or revolving flashing systems. This type of signal is called the characteristic. Other …
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The male is aggressive and dominant, while the female is submissive and meek. That’s just how it is —the natural order of things. Well, sometimes that is true. However, there are equally many examples that demonstrate this “traditional” dynamic between the sexes is far from a universal natural principle. Here are 7 animals that don’t …
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Everything we know happened for the first time at some point. There are a lot of famous world firsts, from the first phone call to the first man to walk on the moon. And then there are those first times that nobody’s heard about — yet they happened. We’ve covered some of them in the …
In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight… For being such a famous tune, The Lion Sleeps Tonight sure got a lot wrong about lions. They don’t live in the jungle. Today is the World Lion Day. This celebration of all things leonine aims to raise awareness of these majestic but threatened big …
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When the bigwigs in the government get carried away with abusing their power, we little guys have two options. We either vote them out or — if that doesn’t work or isn’t an option — we protest. Not every protest involves angry shouting and masses of people carrying plaques, though. Occasionally protests get really inventive, …
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White sands, balmy weather, palm trees, ocean waves… It can’t get any more boring than this. Traditional vacations aren’t for everybody. People seeking alternative ways to experience the world have come up with increasingly bizarre forms of tourism. Among them is something called extreme tourism. Extreme tourists are thrill seekers and adrenaline junkies who purposefully …
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It’s easy to think that being trigger-happy with lawsuits is a purely modern phenomenon. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. If anything, bringing up a frivolous lawsuit was even easier in the times gone by. With no well-established laws and plenty of superstitions, people were free to sue anyone — or anything. That’s …
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How small can you get? Pretty dang small, as nature has shown us. The thing about tiny animals is that we don’t often think about them. After all, they’re so minuscule that we barely notice them. So, what are the world’s tiniest creatures? Here are 9 of the world’s smallest animals in multiple categories. Smallest …
Not every crime gets solved. Some of them are so meticulously planned by such diabolical criminal masterminds that the police never manage to get on their trail. Others, however, go unsolved partially because they’re just so weird. You sometimes even find it hard to blame the cops for not cracking these cases — how do …
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Yesterday, we brought you a story about a boy who was decapitated internally, an exceedingly rare medical condition. That story got us asking ourselves what other rare diseases and medical conditions there are. As it turns out, there’s a whole bunch of them. The only connecting factor between them is that they’ve been known to …
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