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25 Things You Didn’t Know About the World’s Oceans

June 12, 2017June 7, 2017 0 Comments science

(via mental_floss) If you don’t know much about the deep blue sea—like why it’s not actually blue, for example—check out

June 8, 2017May 26, 2017 0 Comments military

(via National Geographic) On a fortified hill in Scotland some 1,900 years ago, a Roman army attacked local warriors by

June 6, 2017June 6, 2017 0 Comments military, WWII

(via Heavy) Today is the 73rd anniversary of the Normandy landings in France during World War II on Tuesday, June

(via Amusing Planet) About 25 kilometers off the coast of Canada, in the North Atlantic, lies a tiny bit of

May 17, 2017May 17, 2017 0 Comments WWII

(via History Net) On this day in 1943, the crew of the Memphis Belle, one of a group of American

(via Atlas Obscura) In spring 1918, as hundreds of thousands of doughboys poured into Europe, one special group of eight

May 3, 2017April 24, 2017 0 Comments history

(via Atlas Obscura) In August 2015, though, the two Harvard researchers uncovered a copy of the Declaration created in the

(via Popular Mechanics) Some ruses can only go on so long before the fraud is uncovered. Here are just a

(via Amusing Planet) Two thousand years ago, when the Roman emperors ruled over a significant part of the world, they

(via Popular Mechanics) When we hear about the scientific advances that came out of World War I, which the United

(via Smithsonian) Today, less than 1 percent of vanilla flavoring comes from the vanilla flower. Is that a good thing?

(via Live Science) On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first