Paleontology has a long history in the Americas, dating back to (at least) the Aztec and Inca, who excavated the bones of mammoths and other mega-fauna and showed them off to Spanish invaders.
Native Americans were digging up bones long before Columbus
For centuries people have watched glowing orbs drift through storms
For centuries, people have reported glowing balls of light during thunderstorms — spheres from pea-sized to several meters across that drift through the air for seconds at a time, far… READ THE REST
A YouTuber rebuilt a mercury light bulb discovered in 1675
In 1675, the French astronomer Jean Picard noticed something strange while carrying his mercury barometer through a dark room: the mercury glowed as it sloshed around the bulb. Two centuries… READ THE REST
RAF pilots spotted 6,000 stone traps invisible from the ground
RAF pilots flying over the Middle East in the 1920s kept seeing huge shapes laid out on the ground: two long stone walls converging into an enclosure, with a tail.… READ THE REST
Learning a new language is less intimidating with Promova for only $80
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A popular platform is making it easier to read in your spare time, and it's only $70 for life
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This is the $60 Montessori-inspired kids' app that won't leave you feeling guilty afterward
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