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These Strange Rock Formations Have Been a Filmmaking Hotspot for Over a Century

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(via Atlas Obscura) California’s Alabama Hills have stood in for multiple states and countries, not to mention distant planets, alternate

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(via Smithsonian) The United States is the one of the world’s only holdouts at this point, but it could have

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(via Atlas Obscura) The main source for its largest megaliths is just a stone’s throw from the iconic site.

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(via Mental Floss) There are Star Wars fans everywhere, including among the scientists who study life on Earth. When these

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(via The Week) You go to the coffee shop and take your coffee to go. You enjoy your drink, then

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(via Smithsonian) A new book examines the 500-year record of devastating storms affecting the nation’s trajectory

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(via Atlas Obscura) Sally Snowman belongs to a tradition of freedom, loneliness, and pride.

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(via Atlas Obscura) Storm King’s director of facilities has to be a landscaper, an art conservator, and even a structural

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(via Smithsonian) Prairie dogs are not big and charismatic like bison, grizzly bears or pandas, but they are just as

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(via Mental Floss) Necessity is the mother of invention, so the saying goes, and World War II was certainly a

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(via Smithsonian) Peter Lax was just a teenager when he went to Los Alamos to join the team that developed

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(via Great Big Story) Mutlaq Khader Salem Al-Juwain lives in a goat-hair tent in the desert in Jordan. His family