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In 1971, Soviet engineers working in the Turkmenistan desert set a hole on fire which was full of natural gases. The engineers expected the flames to burn out within a few days. However, 52 years on, “The Door to Hell” is still burning today.
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but who took that photo
A scorpion can hold its breath for up to 6 days. This is enabled by their modified lungs, which are known as book lungs.
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A 2014 case study found out that, you are three times more likely to be bitten by Luis Suarez if you play a football match against him than you are being bitten by a shark in the ocean.
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In Japan, there is a restaurant called “The restaurant of mistaken orders” which only employs waiters with dementia so you never know what food you’re going to get.
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In Iceland, if you don't know the address of where to mail a letter, you can draw a map of the destination for postal workers and it can get to your destination.
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Stonehenge is a rebuild. It was originally erected in Wales 5,000 years ago, before its stones were dug up and dragged over 140 miles (225 km) to their current location on Salisbury Plain.
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This is cannabis growing naturally in the Indian Himalayas.
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In 2017, a deer walked into a store in Colorado. In an attempt to get it to leave, an employee fed the deer a peanut bar. The deer did leave but returned later that day with it's whole family.
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In 1993, a Frenchman named Emile Leray driving a Citroen car in a remote area of the Moroccan desert had a breakdown and became stranded. To survive, he tore down the car, built a motorcycle from the parts and then rode it back to civilization.
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Egyptian Pharaohs were once required to masturbate into the River Nile to keep its flow cycle stable. The event was known as the Fertility Festival.
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my whole life was a lie
they figured out fossil fuels won't be unlimited long time ago...
Dubai government has the spirit when it comes to enhancing tourist experience.....
Googling "Chicxulub", the name of the location where the asteroid that wiped off most dinosaurs struck Earth, summons a meteor that zooms past the screen and crashes, shaking the screen.
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In 2002, Jason Padgett was brutally beaten outside a karaoke bar, resulting in a brain concussion and a severe case of PTSD.
But this may have actually been the best thing that happened to him because he now has Acquired Savant Syndrome - Savant syndrome is a condition in which a person demonstrates profound and remarkable knowledge after suffering a physical or psychological trauma.
Savant skills are usually found in one or more of five major areas: art, musical abilities, calendar calculation, mathematics, and spatial skills and as many as 50 cases of sudden or acquired savant syndrome have been reported, thought likely many more go unreported.
But even so, the syndrome is extremely rare, and for someone to develop sudden mathematical skills, that's even rarer.
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In Dubai, you can UBER a helicopter instead of a taxi. A helicopter ride booked for a group of six costs 144.30$ per person, while individual seats are priced at 171.52$. UberTour is being operated in the same fashion as the company's car service, with bookings made through the app.
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Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd was best known for his constant run-ins with police and violent bank robberies. When Pretty Boy Floyd robbed banks in the 1930s, he would often destroy many of the banks' mortgage records, leaving many people free of debt.
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