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Story Of "Mike" The Time Traveler From The Year 3,700 May Be The Stupidest Thing We've Seen In MonthsA sign along a road reading "killer robots in area".

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Story Of "Mike" The Time Traveler From The Year 3,700 May Be The Stupidest Thing We've Seen In MonthsA sign along a road reading "killer robots in area".
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Story Of "Mike" The Time Traveler From The Year 3,700 May Be The Stupidest Thing We've Seen In Months

clock-iconJuly 9, 2026
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In 1906, A “Frankenstein Plant" Hidden In Kew’s Herbarium Was Exposed As A Hoax. Not A New Species, But Two Stuck Togethercarefully constructed composite specimen made up of the flowers of Quesnelia liboniana inserted into the rosette of Vriesea poenulata

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In 1906, A “Frankenstein Plant" Hidden In Kew’s Herbarium Was Exposed As A Hoax. Not A New Species, But Two Stuck Togethercarefully constructed composite specimen made up of the flowers of Quesnelia liboniana inserted into the rosette of Vriesea poenulata
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In 1906, A “Frankenstein Plant" Hidden In Kew’s Herbarium Was Exposed As A Hoax. Not A New Species, But Two Stuck Together

clock-iconMay 4, 2026

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There's Just One Small 81 Billion Billion Ton Mistake In The Viral AI Artemis Mission Photoplanet earth next to a photo of the full moon

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There's Just One Small 81 Billion Billion Ton Mistake In The Viral AI Artemis Mission Photoplanet earth next to a photo of the full moon
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There's Just One Small 81 Billion Billion Ton Mistake In The Viral AI Artemis Mission Photo

clock-iconApril 17, 2026

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The Australian "Ghost Nuisance" Got So Bad Newspapers Called For Ghosts To Be Shot On SightGraves and a tree in a dark, foggy graveyard.

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The Australian "Ghost Nuisance" Got So Bad Newspapers Called For Ghosts To Be Shot On SightGraves and a tree in a dark, foggy graveyard.
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The Australian "Ghost Nuisance" Got So Bad Newspapers Called For Ghosts To Be Shot On Sight

clock-iconApril 7, 2026

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IFLScience Investigates The Loch Ness Monster: A Documentary On The Science, The Story, And The Power Of BeliefIFLScience Investigates The Loch Ness Monster

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IFLScience Investigates The Loch Ness Monster: A Documentary On The Science, The Story, And The Power Of BeliefIFLScience Investigates The Loch Ness Monster
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IFLScience Investigates The Loch Ness Monster: A Documentary On The Science, The Story, And The Power Of Belief

clock-iconOctober 29, 2025
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Monster Hoaxes In The Age Of AI: Seeing Isn’t Believing AnymoreAn illustration of a plesiosaur but its body has been broken up into 0s an 1s to suggest it is being digitally created.

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Monster Hoaxes In The Age Of AI: Seeing Isn’t Believing AnymoreAn illustration of a plesiosaur but its body has been broken up into 0s an 1s to suggest it is being digitally created.
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Monster Hoaxes In The Age Of AI: Seeing Isn’t Believing Anymore

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The Legend Of Ol' Rip The Horned Toad Who Reportedly Survived 31 Years Of Hibernation And Met President CoolidgeOl' Rip, the Texas horned toad which allegedly lived over 30 years.

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The Legend Of Ol' Rip The Horned Toad Who Reportedly Survived 31 Years Of Hibernation And Met President CoolidgeOl' Rip, the Texas horned toad which allegedly lived over 30 years.
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The Legend Of Ol' Rip The Horned Toad Who Reportedly Survived 31 Years Of Hibernation And Met President Coolidge

clock-iconOctober 21, 2025
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Toad In The Hole: The Myth And Mystery Of The Living Frogs Entombed In Rocksarticle image

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Toad In The Hole: The Myth And Mystery Of The Living Frogs Entombed In Rocksarticle image
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Toad In The Hole: The Myth And Mystery Of The Living Frogs Entombed In Rocks

clock-iconMay 22, 2025
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Tall Tales: The Dark Truth Behind Our Fascination With GiantsGiant silhouetted against the Moon

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Tall Tales: The Dark Truth Behind Our Fascination With GiantsGiant silhouetted against the Moon
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Tall Tales: The Dark Truth Behind Our Fascination With Giants

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Don't Get Too Excited By Images Of So-Called "Doorways" On MarsA door-like rock structure on Mars.

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Don't Get Too Excited By Images Of So-Called "Doorways" On MarsA door-like rock structure on Mars.
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Don't Get Too Excited By Images Of So-Called "Doorways" On Mars

clock-iconFebruary 11, 2025
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The "Coleman Frog" Was A Massive, Whiskey-Swilling, Baked-Beans-Eating, Canadian Bullfroga vintage postcard featuring Fred Coleman and his very definitely real frog

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The "Coleman Frog" Was A Massive, Whiskey-Swilling, Baked-Beans-Eating, Canadian Bullfroga vintage postcard featuring Fred Coleman and his very definitely real frog
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The "Coleman Frog" Was A Massive, Whiskey-Swilling, Baked-Beans-Eating, Canadian Bullfrog

clock-iconAugust 23, 2024
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The Chess Playing "Machine" That Beat Benjamin Franklin And NapoleonThe Mechanical Turk cabinet.

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The Chess Playing "Machine" That Beat Benjamin Franklin And NapoleonThe Mechanical Turk cabinet.
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The Chess Playing "Machine" That Beat Benjamin Franklin And Napoleon

clock-iconMarch 7, 2024
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How A 14-Year-Old Boy Convinced His Class To Ban Dihydrogen MonoxideTwo people in protective clothing carrying dihydrogen monoxide.

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How A 14-Year-Old Boy Convinced His Class To Ban Dihydrogen MonoxideTwo people in protective clothing carrying dihydrogen monoxide.
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How A 14-Year-Old Boy Convinced His Class To Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide

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How The Supposedly Ancient Kensington Runestone Became Inscribed With 19th-Century RunesA stone covered in runes.

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How The Supposedly Ancient Kensington Runestone Became Inscribed With 19th-Century RunesA stone covered in runes.
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How The Supposedly Ancient Kensington Runestone Became Inscribed With 19th-Century Runes

clock-iconJanuary 18, 2024
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See The First True Reconstruction Of Piltdown Man – One Of The Greatest Ever Scientific HoaxesPiltdown Man

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See The First True Reconstruction Of Piltdown Man – One Of The Greatest Ever Scientific HoaxesPiltdown Man
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See The First True Reconstruction Of Piltdown Man – One Of The Greatest Ever Scientific Hoaxes

clock-iconJanuary 2, 2024
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