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The deepest spot in the ocean crushes anything down there with the weight of 50 jumbo jets

One Siberian lake holds a fifth of all the unfrozen fresh water on Earth

One acid-pool desert in Ethiopia is the closest thing on Earth to another planet

A city bigger than London once stood in Illinois before it emptied for reasons unknown

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

A single cone snail holds enough venom to kill 700 people, and there is no antivenom

A Chinese civilization left behind bronze giants with bulging eyes, then vanished with no written word

Archaeologists opened 18 rock-cut tombs near Egypt’s coast west of Alexandria

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

Most of Australia’s giant red monolith is hidden underground, and no one knows how deep

A naked mole rat feels no pain from acid and survives on almost no oxygen

The tallest waterfall on the planet is hidden underwater between Greenland and Iceland

A fish so clear you can see its liver survives seven miles down in the Pacific

An entire city carved into rose-red cliffs stayed hidden from the outside world until 1812

The largest stone at Bolivia’s Puma Punku weighs about 131 tons and shows no chisel marks

The USGS puts the odds of a Yellowstone supereruption in any given century near 1 in 10,000

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