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Thomas Wedders Had The Longest Nose Ever Recorded, And It Was Much Bigger Than Yours

How do we know? Because Thomas had the dubious distinction of owning the largest nose ever recorded. At 7.5 inches long, or ...
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Dehnel's Phenomenon: How Some Species Can Shrink Their Bones And Brains By 20 Percent To Survive Winter

The animal world is pretty inventive when it comes to strategies to survive harsh winter weather; some species hunker down ...
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Years Before 3I/ATLAS Arrived, Our First Known Interstellar Visitor Was A Weirdo Called 'Oumuamua

Its name – pronounced oh-MOO-ah-MOO-ah – is a Hawaiian term that loosely means “scout” or “a messenger from afar arriving ...
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Can Artificial Intelligence Get High, And Why Are Scientists Even Trying?

This held true for all five substances, suggesting that LLMs are capable of mimicking the nuanced altered states of ...
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All The Times The US Accidentally Dropped A Nuclear Weapon On Itself

Things were bad. But they were about to get worse.
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This Mysterious Skull Baffled Scientists After Being Embedded In A Cave Wall For 300,000 Years

Interestingly, the Petralona skull bears a striking resemblance to a 300,000-year-old cranium found in Zambia, southern Africa, over a century ago. Most researchers classify this specimen as Homo ...
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The Kentucky Meat Shower Of 1876: It Came Down Like "Snowflakes"

I t started out as any other day. I don’t actually have any evidence to make this claim, but that feels like the right thing to say when introducing a story like this. It started out as any other day ...