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One teaspoon of a dead star called a magnetar would weigh about 100 million tons

A toxic layer 290 feet down has been preserving everything that sinks into Belize’s Great Blue Hole

A five-foot man moved 1,100 tons of stone alone in Florida, and no one knows how

An electric eel can unleash an 860-volt shock and hunts in coordinated packs

A metal scroll from the Dead Sea lists buried treasure no one has ever found

A crab’s blue blood, worth $60,000 a gallon, tests nearly every vaccine you take

A California supervolcano has bulged upward about two and a half feet since 1978

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

Monks Mound rose 100 feet from 22 million cubic feet of earth hauled by hand

A whale calling at 52 hertz has been heard for decades but never once seen

Chaco Canyon’s dead-straight roads run 30 feet wide across empty desert

Two miles down, Soviet drillers hit flowing water and ancient microfossils no one expected

A pod of orcas was filmed running down a pygmy sperm whale off Madeira

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

A tiny shrimp snaps its claw so fast it fires a bubble hotter than the surface of the sun

The deepest hole ever drilled was sealed shut when the rock turned soft at 356 degrees

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