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The Moon has been struck by billions of impactors over four billion years, but the one that hit near Einstein Crater yesterday is the only crater ever formed that comes with a full biography: we know who built it, what it weighed, when it left Earth, and where it hit to within metres

On a South Korean island, most of the professional divers who free-dive twenty meters into the sea on a single breath are grandmothers — some in their 80s and 90s, still working the ocean floor for hours a day, in a tradition once passed only to daughters

Identical twins separated at birth and reunited as adults in a Minnesota twin study turned up with parallel careers, the same taste for Miller Lite, and, in one documented case, a childhood dog with the same name — the coincidences got the study famous, but they weren't why it mattered

The Indian caste system is often described as a religious hierarchy, but historians trace much of its economic rigidity to colonial land-revenue policies the British introduced after 1765 — which locked land rights into tax records for the first time
