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The planet's trees have seen plenty of history pass by their trunks. In fact, they began to populate Earth 385 million years ago, toward the end of the Devonian period. Considered living historical...

The moon has a lot of junk on it, including a gold olive branch, a flag kit, several lunar orbiters, and a hammer and a falcon feather. There are dozens more pieces of lunar debris. But how much ga...

Imagine that the taps switched off tomorrow, the rivers and streams ran dry, and the oceans turned into dry valleys. How would you react? And more importantly, how long would you survive?

Roses are red and violets are blue, but we only know that thanks to specialized cells in our eyes called cones.

Teeth and bones are both hard, white and heavy with calcium, but that doesn't make them one and the same. From the way they look to how they heal, teeth are quite different from the body's bones.

In 1776, whether you were declaring America independent from the crown or swearing your loyalty to King George III, your pronunciation would have been much the same. At that time, American and Brit...

It took millions of years for the world’s biggest shark to evolve its killer teeth.

Civil War myths both big and small persist to this day. LiveScience clears up a few.

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The Code of Hammurabi refers to a set of laws enacted by the Babylonian King Hammurabi, who reigned between 1792 and 1750 B.C.

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Marco Polo, one of the most famed travelers of the Middle Ages, inspired countless explorers and helped to define Europeans' understanding of travel routes and geography.

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Scientists find that the famous Mona Lisa is not really watching you.
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During the fourth century, a group of Romans mysteriously decapitated already dead people and buried the heads between each owner's legs.
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Scientists think they know why some icebergs are emerald.

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A sleeping octopus was caught on video changing color as it slept. Was it dreaming?

Extremely rare semi-identical twins were born in Australia, with only one other case documented before.

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Analysis of long-hidden letters reveals that Dickens schemed to have his wife falsely declared insane.

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There could be a planet hiding out on the distant frontiers of our solar system. Astronomers have published new details about what it probably looks like.

And other strange things people have swallowed.