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This New World Map Shows Just How Inaccurate Every Map You’ve Ever Seen Is

This New World Map Shows Just How Inaccurate Every Map You’ve Ever Seen Is

The Equal Earth projection hopes to put an end to distorted world maps for good.
25 Million-Year-Old Mega-Shark Teeth Discovered By Amateur Fossil Hunter In Australia

25 Million-Year-Old Mega-Shark Teeth Discovered By Amateur Fossil Hunter In Australia

The great jagged narrow-toothed shark was double the size of a great white and was so large that it feasted on whales.
Da Vinci Painting That’s The Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold Was Actually Painted By His Assistant, Expert Says

Da Vinci Painting That’s The Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold Was Actually Painted By His Assistant, Expert Says

The painting is attributed to Leonardo da Vinci but a historian has come forward with a theory that it is actually the work of one of his assistants.
13 Petrifying Real Stories That Inspired Your Favorite Horror Movies

13 Petrifying Real Stories That Inspired Your Favorite Horror Movies

From Ed Gein's house of horrors to the botched exorcisms of Anneliese Michel, go inside the true stories that inspired Hollywood's most iconic scary movies.
Dirty Jokes In 2,000-Year-Old Bathroom Mosaics Discovered In Turkey

Dirty Jokes In 2,000-Year-Old Bathroom Mosaics Discovered In Turkey

"I think this was really the most intimate piece of evidence that we have of the humanity who lived and breathed and worked and played here at our ancient city."
Family Killed By Vesuvius Blast Found Huddled Together In A Room In Pompeii

Family Killed By Vesuvius Blast Found Huddled Together In A Room In Pompeii

The skeletons were found remarkably undisturbed in a small room, untouched for nearly 2,000 years.
Archaeologists Have Just Found The World’s Oldest Cheese In An Ancient Egyptian Tomb

Archaeologists Have Just Found The World’s Oldest Cheese In An Ancient Egyptian Tomb

"The material analyzed in this study is probably the most ancient archaeological solid residue of cheese ever found to date."
Ancient Roman Grave Site Shows Child Was Subjected To ‘Vampire Burial’ To Prevent Him From Rising From The Grave

Ancient Roman Grave Site Shows Child Was Subjected To ‘Vampire Burial’ To Prevent Him From Rising From The Grave

Ancient Romans feared that "evils" would haunt them from the grave — and took drastic measures to keep that from happening.
Unexpected Corpses Unearthed At Stonehenge May Finally Reveal Who Built It — And Why

Unexpected Corpses Unearthed At Stonehenge May Finally Reveal Who Built It — And Why

Who built Stonehenge? And why? Some unusual corpses found there may have finally solved this mystery.
Why Walruses May Be Responsible For The Vikings Baffling Demise In Greenland

Why Walruses May Be Responsible For The Vikings Baffling Demise In Greenland

Researchers studied walrus ivory from museums around Europe to help reach their conclusion.
1,700-Year-Old Sock Reveals The Height Of Fashion In The Days Of Ancient Egypt

1,700-Year-Old Sock Reveals The Height Of Fashion In The Days Of Ancient Egypt

First discovered in 1913, it has taken researchers over a century to unravel the piece of clothing's secrets.