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Asteroid Bennu carries a small chance of striking Earth in 2182

The tomb of China’s first emperor has stayed sealed for 2,200 years

China’s Terracotta Army has 8,000 soldiers and no two faces are alike

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

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