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Tibetan people can live at altitudes above 4,000 metres where many humans struggle with…

The Cumberland Fossil Plant in Tennessee was supposed to be shutting down after years…

In 2011, Microsoft signed the Secure Boot certificates that still sit inside millions…

Naked mole rats almost never get cancer and routinely live more than thirty years

Mars wasn’t always the frozen desert we see today

Most of an octopus's brain cells live in its arms, not in its head

In 1944, Neal Miller harnessed hungry rats in a runway and watched them pull harder…

Olive oil flavoured with oregano was recovered from clay jars sealed inside a Greek…

In 1872, Charles Darwin catalogued the facial muscles of suppressed rage

For 400 years, sailors crossing parts of the Indian Ocean have reported patches of sea…
