Why is Greenland an Island and Australia a Continent?
(via Today I Found Out) What makes a continent? There’s no simple definition, but Simon Whistler of Today I Found
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8 Explorers Who Mysteriously Disappeared (and Some Who’ve Been Found)
(via mental_floss) By their very nature, explorers often push the boundaries of survival in the name of glory, so it’s
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8 Awesome Facts About the Catskills
(via mental_floss) The concrete jungle may be sprinkled with man-made parks and tree-lined streets, but the great outdoors? Not so
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Antarctica
(via Listverse) As the fifth-largest continent, you would think that the secrets of Antarctica would be widely known. However, this
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Cape Agulhas: The Place Where Two Oceans Meet
(via Amusing Planet) Many people believe that Cape of Good Hope is the southern-most tip of the African continent, but
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Stiltsville: The Stilt Houses of Florida
(via Amusing Planet) A mile off the coast of Cape Florida on the edge of Biscayne Bay, in Miami-Dade County,
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How A Fake Mountain Range Slowed Down Arctic Exploration
(via Atlas Obscura) The 19th-century naval officer John Ross had a knack for seeing land where it wasn’t.
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The 7 Highest Points Across All 7 Continents
(via Popular Mechanics) Every continent has a mountain it can call its pinnacle, and across the globe, these highest points
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St. Pierre and Miquelon: The Last French Colony in North America
(via Amusing Planet) About 25 kilometers off the coast of Canada, in the North Atlantic, lies a tiny bit of
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7 of the Most Extreme Towns on the Planet
(via Popular Mechanics) In towns that have hundreds of citizens to cities that have hundreds of thousands, residents of Earth
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Why is Greenland an Island and Australia a Continent?
(via Today I Found Out) What makes a continent? There’s no simple definition, but Simon Whistler of Today I Found
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9 Unusual Items Found in Rivers Around the World
(via mental_floss) What do a brothel token, ice cream trucks, and an ancient Egyptian portico have in common? They’ve all
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