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The Nazca Lines form giant figures only fully visible from the sky

Baalbek holds 800-ton cut stones no modern crane could easily lift

Turkey’s Derinkuyu is an 18-story underground city that once hid 20,000 people

Sacsayhuaman’s mortarless walls have shrugged off earthquakes for 500 years

The stones at Puma Punku were cut with a precision that still baffles engineers

No one can fully explain how Nan Madol was built on a Pacific reef

The Antikythera mechanism was an analog computer built 2,000 years ago

Gobekli Tepe was raising stone temples 6,000 years before Stonehenge

Regulators keep tying a popular hair-loss pill to a risk of suicidal thoughts

A single bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun

A Komodo dragon’s bite delivers venom that keeps large prey from healing

A saltwater crocodile’s bite is the strongest force ever measured in a living animal

The cassowary’s dagger-like claw makes it the world’s most dangerous bird

Beneath Rome lie catacombs that stretch for hundreds of miles

Divers keep pulling gold from a Spanish fleet still scattered off Florida

Bristlecone pines in California were alive before the pyramids were built

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