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Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)

Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

Two chicks near an egg with a white background (poultry, chick, chickens, birds).

What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?

Illustration for Demystified "How Dangerous is Quicksand"

How Deadly Is Quicksand?

illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum

Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs

New Zealand. Political/Physical map. Includes locator.

Where Is “Old Zealand”?

Entrants falling and tumbling over while chasing the cheese at the 2016 'Cheese Rolling' held at Cooper's Hill, in the Cotswolds, Brockworth England

7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Festivals

African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

Believe It or Not!

cartoon by Ripley

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In Robert L. Ripley
…American cartoonist who created “Believe It or Not!,” a widely popular newspaper cartoon presenting bizarre facts and oddities of all kinds.
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