Lightning is one of nature’s most amazing and potentially deadly events. Most lightning lasts for one to two seconds and travels a few miles, but two record-breaking lightning bolts shattered ...

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Daniel Rubio/Flickr The Gate Tower Building in Osaka, Japan, is a 16-story building that has a unique characteristic unlike other buildings. It has a highway running right through the middle ...

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Everything in life is dictated by time, and depending on where you live, your time is different than someone somewhere else. This hasn’t always been the case. How then was ...

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The Leaning Tower of Pisa is an architectural oddity and probably the most famous leaning building in the world. Construction of the tower started in 1173 and wasn’t officially finished ...

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A disaster occurred in the early 20th century that seemed improbable. The day was January 15, 1919, and just a little after midday, something terrible happened at the Purity Distilling ...

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Most streets in Japan have no name. They use a different addressing system than what is used in Western countries. Imagine strolling through a city street and having no street ...

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Mount Everest was named after Sir George Everest, a previous British Surveyor General of India, in 1865. But Everest didn’t even want it named after him, and it’s believed he ...

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The Hawaii state flag is one of the more interesting flags of the fifty states. It has the Union Jack of Great Britain in the left corner, and the rest ...

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The American Discovery Trail We’ve all heard of the famous Appalachian Trail that runs from Georgia to Maine and vice versa, but there is another trail that is even longer ...

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A hot dog cart might be as much a part of New York City as the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building, but what does it cost to ...

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Photo © Chris Downer (cc-by-sa/2.0) If you take a look at your bookshelf at home, or you’ve been to the library or bookstore recently, you’ll notice that the books are ...

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