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History
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The unusual blockade in the Great Bitter Lake where rival crews founded a neutral society with their own Olympics and postage stamps.
Geology
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The deepest hole in history revealed that theoretical models of the Earth's crust were completely wrong.
Animals
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A tiny deep-sea shark uses deceptive bioluminescence and vacuum lips to gouge circular bites out of ocean giants.
History
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In 1976, the United States and South Korea mobilized aircraft carriers, B-52 bombers, and hundreds of soldiers to cut down a single poplar on the Korean border.
History
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In 1967, a lightning war stranded hundreds of sailors in the Great Bitter Lake, giving rise to an unusual floating community.
Science and technology
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How the deliberate creation of a vapor bubble eliminates nearly all water resistance and redefines hydrodynamic limits.