Eric Salard/Wikimedia In 1991, the country of Ethiopia was nearing the end of a debilitating civil war. The government of the country was about to be toppled, and the country ...

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Surrey NanoSystems/Wikimedia Scientists in 2014 created the darkest commercially available material in the world called Vantablack. Then they bested themselves and made an even darker version. But in 2019, Vantablack ...

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The weekly collection of random and fun facts.  In this week’s edition: Missing Moon Rocks, A Confusing Food Tax, The World’s Largest Truffle, A Novel Without “E”, and The Licks ...

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