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This Painting Was Purchased At An Estate Sale In Michigan For $30. It Just Sold At Auction For $1.3 Million

In 2025, a man purchased Gertrude Abercrombie's 1951 painting "Alderman Merriam's Shells" in Michigan for $30 — and just sold ...
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‘It Would Have Been Very Gruesome’: Researchers Just Proved That Egyptian Rulers Were Buried With Dozens Of Human Sacrifices

Researchers studying remains from the royal cemetery of Umm el-Qaab in Abydos found that the pharaohs were buried alongside ...
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Melting Ice In Southern Norway Just Revealed Dozens Of Prehistoric Arrows Dating As Far Back As 6,000 Years

Archaeologists exploring Kvitingskjølen mountain recently came across dozens of prehistoric arrows dating as far back as ...
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Archaeologists In Egypt Just Found A 1,900-Year-Old Ring Depicting The Lighthouse Of Alexandria

Archaeologists exploring the waters off Egypt's Mediterranean coast discovered a 1,900-year-old ring emblazoned with an image ...
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Inside The Amazonian Guards, The Elite All-Female Unit That Protected Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi

The Amazonian Guard was formed around the 1980s to protect the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, but little is known about the ...
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This Cipher That Napoleon Used Went Unsolved For 217 Years. ChatGPT Just Solved It In Six Hours

Napoleon's cipher to General Auguste de Marmont went unsolved for 217 years — but an AI engineer used ChatGPT to solve it in ...
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A New Species Of Dinosaur With Four Wings Was Just Identified By Paleontologists In China

Norellraptor barsboldi was identified in a perfectly-preserved fossil from the Early Cretaceous that was found at the ...
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This 2,800-Year-Old Palace Discovered In Ethiopia May Have Been One Of The World’s Very First ‘Skyscrapers’

Researchers studying the Grat Be’al Gibri palace in Yeha, Ethiopia have concluded that it may have stood a whopping 19 ...
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What Is The Ningen, The Mermaid-Like Cryptid Of Japanese Lore?

In the lonely, icy waters of Antarctica, a mysterious monster is said to lurk in the depths. Known as the Ningen, it’s allegedly ghostly white and longer than a blue whale. Eerily, it’s also said to ...
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Was An Advanced Civilization Erased From History By Its Enemies? The Tartaria Theory Explained

You know how some people can’t stop thinking about the Roman Empire? Well, for a growing corner of the internet, the Romans are yesterday’s news. The civilization that captures their imagination is ...
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Who Were The ‘Butterfly People’ Children Said They Saw During The 2011 Joplin Tornado?

On the evening of May 22, 2011, an EF5 tornado (the highest on the scale used to estimate tornado intensity) carved a 22-mile path through Joplin, Missouri, killing 161 people, injuring more than ...
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The Bizarre Story Of Michel Lotito, The French Entertainer Who Ate Everything From Bicycles To Chandeliers

If someone asked you about your favorite food, a Cessna 150 airplane probably wouldn’t be the first thing that came to mind. For Michel Lotito, France’s Monsieur Mangetout (or Mr. Eat-All), a plane ...