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A tiny jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its adult cells back to a juvenile polyp when injured or starving, effectively restarting its life cycle and making it one of the only known animals with no fixed lifespan
Why did a wealthy delta nation deliberately breach its own dykes and pay farmers to let the rivers flood their fields, after four centuries of building the walls ever higher?
The USS Nautilus became the first submarine to cross beneath the North Pole in August 1958, travelling 2,945 kilometres under the Arctic ice cap on a single reactor core without surfacing
How did a temple complex in southern Anatolia get built roughly 6,000 years before Stonehenge by people who had neither metal tools nor the wheel?
