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Analysis of Inca Mummies Shows How Child Sacrifices Were Prepared
Embed from Getty Images Centuries ago, communities in the Inca Empire took children to the high peaks of volcanoes in the Andes to sacrifice them. This was to curry favor with the gods in times of famine or political turmoil. The cold dry air preserved their bodies as mummies.…
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The Short Film Hyperburn Has AI as a Character, Not a Creator
Hyperburn is a new science fiction short from DUST that's a post-apocalyptic battle scene and somewhat of a comedy, too. Our protagonist appears to be from a ragtag rebel group fighting against an oppressive regime with spaceships. He becomes stranded in the desert alone when…
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A Look Inside the Führerbunker, Where Hitler Ended His Reign of Terror
The underground Berlin bunker where Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945, is no longer there. It was dismantled over the years and finally filled in decades ago. But the photographs remain. The Führerbunker was constructed in 1943 as a vast expansion of an existing…
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Legolas Archery Sliding as a Sport
In The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers , the energy of the story culminates in the Battle of Helm's Deep. There is one scene in which Legolas surfs a shield down a flight of stairs while firing off arrows at the Uruk-Hai. The merry lads at Fell & Fair , a costume store for…
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The Godawan: A Pottery Animation About the Great Indian Bustard
Godawan whisky is an ecologically sustainable whisky company in India that was named after the critically-endangered godawan, or great Indian bustard . The distillery has worked for 20 years to save the species. Godawan hired Studio Eeksaurus to produce a video about the bird.…
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Now There's a Potato That Tastes Like Roast Chicken
Chicken is the most popular meat worldwide, and even in the US since beef is so expensive. Even chicken can be expensive, and some people have given up all meat for health or ethics reasons. But now the seed company Row7 has unveiled a new potato called Poulette that tastes like…
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How Catalonians Build Human Towers for Castell Competitions
As I've often said, people will turn any activity into a competition. For hundreds of years, the people of Catalonia have built human towers by climbing onto each other's shoulders in a stunt called castell , which originally meant "castle" and now translates to "human tower."…
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Happy Godzilla Day!
November 3 is Godzilla Day (marking the anniversary of the original 1954 film’s release) And starting today, at Hibiya Station, the train departure chime has been permanently changed to this: https://t.co/VzIEE9roJk — Spoon & Tamago (@Johnny_suputama) November 3, 2026 Today is…
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Woman Makes Food That Came to Her in a Dream
X user Devon Hardware's Wife writes that she had a dream in which there was a food called "King's Hand." This consisted of a hand made of M&M cookie batter and filled with Greek salad. The dream pursued her until she yielded to its demands. After a week of effort, the dream…
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The Green Man of Pittsburgh and the Nature of Legends
It is said that if you drive along Route 351 near Koppel, Pennsylvania, (a suburb of Pittsburgh) at night, you might see a glowing green man who haunts the highway. If you take a deep breath and step into the dark "Green Man Tunnel," you'll surely see him. At least that's the…
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Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cheesecake
We are now well into the Christmas season. It is time to put Mariah Carey on a continuous loop and break out the decorations from storage. And, most importantly, to gorge ourselves on sugary foods. Chef Lora has, in the past 24 hours, posted on X 10 recipes for Christmas foods,…
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Sir Patrick Stewart Delivered His Own Eulogy Years Ago
Fans are reeling from the death of Sir Patrick Stewart last Wednesday at age 86. Stewart was a classically-trained stage actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company who made a successful leap to science fiction by portraying Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation…
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Survivorship Bias Costume
Survivorship bias is a type of sampling error in which a person incorrectly attributes a quality to members of a set that have been presented as complete. Among the most famous occurrences of overcoming survivorship bias was the work of Abraham Wald , who during World War II…
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Wedding Gift Presented with Packing Slip
our friend wins best wedding gift with just the format of gifting alone omg https://t.co/6fYqhXtH1D — Sam Trust (@sammix_jpeg) November 2, 2026 Sam Trust, an avid collector and player of collectable card games, recently wed. She and husband Tim received as a gift two hundred…
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Costume of the Butt Music of Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights
The Garden of Earthly Delights is a masterpiece-level painting spread across five panels and composed by Hieornymus Bosch between 1490 and 1510. It is a deeply symbolic work from the well of Christian narrative that has fascinated art historians for centuries. Among its more…
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Advances in Saving the Cavendish Banana
When bananas began to be imported to Europe and North America, they were mostly the Gros Michel banana, but that cultivar was ruined by Panama disease in the 1950s, and ever since then, we've been eating the Cavendish cultivar, which tastes different . Yes, there are other types…
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Ten Incredible But Real Medical Cases
Weird History has compiled a list of very strange medical cases from the Middle Ages to modern times. They don't have anything in common with each other besides being medical and being weird. It starts with the cases of Phineas Gage and Gloria Ramirez, which longtime Neatorama…
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A Perfume Bottle, a Garter, and a Revolver
This lovely custom-made box contains a curious collection of personal items nestled in green and purple velvet. It dates to the 19th century and was sold at an estate sale for $39,999. Embedded in the lid is a dagger with a mother-of-pearl handle. In the pull out section below,…
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What Do Dogs Think of Halloween Decorations?
Dogs know that something human-shaped is probably a human. They also recognize something shaped like a dog. And they know when something is not quite right. Well, Halloween is the time when a lot of things are not quite right, so man's best friends have quite a variety of…
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Proper Methods of Killing Pop Culture Halloween Monsters
Embed from Getty Images We all know that you kill a vampire by driving a stake through its heart, but to vanquish a zombie, you need to aim for its brain. What makes the difference? Both are examples of revenants, or the dead rising again, and neither are good to have around the…