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Miners hit a chamber of glassy crystals up to 36 feet long and 55 tons apiece under Mexico

Half a Minnesota river vanishes into a hole at a waterfall, and it took decades to explain

The largest cave on Earth is big enough to fly a 747 through and grows its own jungle

Seven-hundred-pound rocks slide across a Death Valley lake bed and leave trails behind them

A sperm whale can plunge over a mile deep and hold its breath for an hour

A stretch of the Amazon runs hot enough to boil you alive, far from any volcano

A cone snail fires a hollow, harpoon-like tooth that can punch through a diver’s glove

Angkor Wat is the largest religious monument on Earth, spread across 400 acres

A rock-cut web of pipes and cisterns let 30,000 people thrive in Petra’s desert

Some desert lines in Peru run dead straight for miles, carved more than 2,000 years ago

A black hole four million times the Sun’s mass sits at the center of our galaxy

A sperm whale’s clicks hit 230 decibels, the loudest sound any animal makes

The Portuguese man o’ war is not a jellyfish, and it can still sting you after it dies

A hagfish can choke a shark’s gills with slime in under half a second

A wrinkled rodent lives nearly 40 years and almost never gets cancer

A row of stone blocks off the Bahamas looks man-made, but geologists say the sea built it

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