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Engineering
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Suspended between floors 87 and 92, this steel mass acts as an inertial counterweight that dampens the swaying of the Taiwanese colossus without using electricity.
History
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The unusual military campaign that ended without firing a shot, with zero casualties, and with a new friend in the ranks.
History
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Five days before the end of World War II in Europe, US troops, Wehrmacht soldiers, and French prisoners joined forces to repel a Waffen-SS siege.
History
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In 332 BC, the Macedonian conqueror built a one-kilometer causeway across the Mediterranean that transformed an island fortress into an enduring peninsula.
Nature
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The unusual behavior of birds of prey that carry burning twigs to ignite new fire fronts and flush out prey.
Nature
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With sonic pulses reaching 236 decibels underwater, sperm whales use the spermaceti organ as an acoustic cannon capable of stunning prey and vibrating living tissue.
Science and technology
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An underground tunnel over three kilometers long fires 27,000 flashes per second to capture the exact moment molecular bonds form or break.
Nature
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At barely three centimeters long, 'Glaucus atlanticus' devours lethal tentacles to store the venomous micro-harpoons of its prey inside its own tissues.
Health and wellness
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Far from being an expendable organ, it houses a tactical reserve of millions of cells ready to deploy in a vascular crisis.
History
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Two gigantic naval citadels with marble, heating, and running water that modern engineering rescued by draining a volcanic crater.
Animals
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Its internal combustion chamber mixes explosive reactants and ejects them in ultrasonic bursts without burning its own abdomen.
History
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During the Russo-Japanese War, an imperial navy sailed 33,000 kilometers, causing chaos and mistakenly attacking British fishing boats.