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Strychnine doping, car-riding impostors, wild dog attacks, and an impromptu nap in the middle of the race.
Nature
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Hura crepitans combines a trunk covered in venomous spikes with mechanical capsules that explode like pistol shots to spread its offspring.
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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The wood wide web: a natural internet connecting entire forests
Nature
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The importance of photosynthesis and the carbon cycle
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Nature
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In the peaks of Borneo, this plant abandoned hunting insects to feed on treeshrew feces using a laxative nectar.
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.
Engineering
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How a self-taught watchmaker raised the world's largest masonry vault without using a single wooden centering frame
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.
Nature
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This botanical wonder of the temperate rainforests of southern Chile alters the shape, color, and venation of its leaves to mimic surrounding plants.
Nature
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A biological discovery revealed that this plant alters its guardians' digestion so they rely solely on it.