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A blue whale’s heart alone weighs about as much as a small car

The peregrine falcon dives at over 200 mph, the fastest animal alive

The Voyager golden record still carries humanity’s message 15 billion miles out

Voyager 1 is now so far its radio signal takes 23 hours to reach Earth

Asteroid Bennu carries a 1-in-2,700 chance of striking Earth in 2182, NASA says

Lebanon’s Baalbek rests on a quarried stone heavier than any crane can lift

Peru’s Sacsayhuaman stacks 100-ton stones with no mortar at all

Easter Island’s giant moai ‘walked’ miles from the quarry, islanders insist

Mexico’s Teotihuacan was a vast metropolis whose builders remain unknown

Cambodia’s Angkor sprawled wider than any medieval city on Earth

Bolivia’s Puma Punku blocks fit so tight a knife blade won’t slip between them

Peru’s Nazca Lines only make sense from the sky, carved 2,000 years ago

The Antikythera mechanism was a working computer built 2,000 years too early

Jordan’s Petra still hides monuments buried under centuries of desert sand

A tomb in Egypt’s Theban necropolis held 16 mummies across centuries of reuse

La Brea’s tar pits just yielded a brand-new extinct amphibian hiding in old fossils

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