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Ainsley Brown

Based in St. Paul, Minnesota, Ainsley Brown is an editorial fellow with All That’s Interesting. She graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in journalism and geography from the University of Minnesota in 2025, where she was a research assistant in the Griffin Lab of Dendrochronology. She was previously a staff reporter for The Minnesota Daily, where she covered city news and worked on the investigative desk.

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Workers Find Four Radioactive Wasp Nests At A Nuclear Site In South Carolina

Workers Find Four Radioactive Wasp Nests At A Nuclear Site In South Carolina

The wasps pose no threat to the general public, but there is much experts still don’t know about how the nests became radioactive.

The Tartarian Empire: The Fabled Lost Civilization At The Center Of A Bizarre Conspiracy Theory

The Tartarian Empire: The Fabled Lost Civilization At The Center Of A Bizarre Conspiracy Theory

Tartaria was purportedly an advanced ancient empire that built some of the world's most iconic landmarks before it was destroyed by mudslides and then deliberately erased from history.

An Old Watercolor Purchased For $200 At An Estate Sale Turns Out To Be A Lost Salvador Dalí Worth Up To $40,000

An Old Watercolor Purchased For $200 At An Estate Sale Turns Out To Be A Lost Salvador Dalí Worth Up To $40,000

An antiques dealer stumbled upon the watercolor at a house clearance sale in Cambridge, England — and his hunch that it was a lost Salvador Dalí was just proven true.

Conrad Schumann, The East German Border Guard Who Famously ‘Leapt Into Freedom’

Conrad Schumann, The East German Border Guard Who Famously ‘Leapt Into Freedom’

Conrad Schumann leapt over the nascent Berlin Wall on August 15, 1961 because he didn't want to "live enclosed" in East Germany — a powerful moment famously captured by a nearby photographer.

The Little-Known Story Of Matthew Broderick’s Car Accident, When The ‘Ferris Bueller’ Actor Killed Two Women While Driving In Northern Ireland

The Little-Known Story Of Matthew Broderick’s Car Accident, When The ‘Ferris Bueller’ Actor Killed Two Women While Driving In Northern Ireland

Matthew Broderick's car accident took place on August 5, 1987 as he was driving near Enniskillen, County Fermanagh during a vacation with then-girlfriend Jennifer Grey.

An Archaeology Student Digging In The Scottish Isles Just Found A Stone Head From The Viking Era

An Archaeology Student Digging In The Scottish Isles Just Found A Stone Head From The Viking Era

Archaeology student Katie Joss found the 900-year-old carving at the historic Skaill Farm settlement on Rousay, one of Scotland's Orkney Islands that's known as the "Egypt of the north" due to its wealth of centuries-old treasures.

Archaeology Students In Missouri Just Uncovered An Historic Pioneer Homestead That Was Built In The 1830s

Archaeology Students In Missouri Just Uncovered An Historic Pioneer Homestead That Was Built In The 1830s

In some of their final days of excavation at a Springfield dig site, these 20 undergrads helped unearth the foundation of the William Townsend house, a pioneer home built upon his arrival in the area in 1832.

Aspen Trees In Yellowstone Are Flourishing For the First Time In 80 Years — Thanks To Gray Wolves

Aspen Trees In Yellowstone Are Flourishing For the First Time In 80 Years — Thanks To Gray Wolves

The reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995 led to a decrease in the elk population, which has now allowed young aspen saplings to grow before they are eaten.

Archaeologists Digging Inside A Spanish Cave Just Found The Oldest Evidence Of Early Human Cannibalism

Archaeologists Digging Inside A Spanish Cave Just Found The Oldest Evidence Of Early Human Cannibalism

Among several skeletons showing defleshing cuts and intentional fractures consistent with butchery, the grisliest recent discovery at Gran Dolina cave was the 850,000-year-old remains of a toddler as young as two that had been decapitated and eaten.

Marine Archaeologists Just Found The Wreck Of A World War II Japanese Destroyer 83 Years After It Sank

Marine Archaeologists Just Found The Wreck Of A World War II Japanese Destroyer 83 Years After It Sank

On December 12, 1942, the Japanese destroyer Teruzuki was sailing through the Solomon Islands when it was suddenly struck by two American torpedoes, setting the ship ablaze and soon sending it to the bottom of the Pacific.