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Urine isn't the most pleasant liquid, but it had its uses to the ancient Romans, who used it as a potentially unexpected ...

Scientists looking at old gharial fossils from Egypt took a reexamined one that was missing its nose, like the Sphinx, and ...

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Lightning is one of nature's most brilliant displays and we mostly understand it, but the rare phenomenon of ball lightning ...