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Geology
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More than 2,400 million years ago, the first biological oxygen triggered a colossal rust precipitation that covered the seafloor and formed most of the iron we mine today.
Nature
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The 1883 Krakatoa eruption ruptured eardrums and circled the globe 4 times
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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Strychnine doping, car-riding impostors, wild dog attacks, and an impromptu nap in the middle of the race.
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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The daring 1943 British stratagem that used a false identity attached to a body at sea to conceal the invasion of Sicily.
History
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For twenty-one years, an entire metropolis played along with a throneless monarch who issued his own banknotes and decreed works ahead of his time.
Nature
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These unique geological formations are true time capsules that reveal the history of our planet
Science and technology
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The mathematical concept that took millennia to be accepted and revolutionized science
Science and technology
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A breakthrough exceeding the computational capacity of the entire history of the universe
History
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In 1803, before refrigeration, a medical expedition transported the live smallpox vaccine across two oceans through bodily relays in children.
History
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In the year 897, the Roman basilica of Saint John Lateran hosted one of the most macabre and bizarre legal episodes in medieval history.