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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 unusual story of the only volcano on the planet whose full life cycle was documented by modern science from its very first second.
Geology
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A near-miraculous thermal equilibrium 300 meters underground allowed the development of the planet's largest selenite beams.
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.
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.
Geology
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At a depth of 300 meters in Chihuahua, a thermal anomaly kept saturated water at 58 °C for half a million years to conceive the most colossal crystals on the planet.
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.
Nature
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A Mexican amphibian capable of regenerating everything from limbs to brain tissue, defying the limits of biological recovery.
Nature
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Discover how this fragile insect migrates across continents, defying logic and connecting landscapes in one of the animal kingdom's greatest feats.
Nature
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This desert "phoenix" can survive decades without water, curling into a dry ball and coming back to life with the first drop.
Science and technology
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Discover how colonies of the species 'Pogonomyrmex barbatus' in the Sonoran Desert draw perfect 10-meter-diameter patterns revealed only by drones and satellites
Nature
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Discover how these fragile insects navigate thousands of kilometers, using a complex biological clock and an inherited "genetic GPS," to complete the animal kingdom's most epic migration.