After World War 2 ended in 1945, a Japanese officer named Hiroo Onoda didn't surrender and continued the war for 29 years because he didn't know that Japan had surrendered and the war was over.
It’s a little-known fact, but some "modern" inventions actually appeared centuries or even millennia ago.
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Take a good look at these giraffe nap pics, because you won't often catch a giraffe sleeping.
California rancher John Wick says the Marin Carbon Project could help save the world from climate change.
The Queen was given almost 100 Burmese rubies for her wedding day. She had these rubies made into a tiara in 1973 with the addition of some diamonds, which were rescued from another dismantled tiara.
There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they'd stretch around the world more than twice. But, seriously, don't do that either.
Chilling tourist attraction which is decorated with the skeletons of 70,000 plague victims.
About 1.2 billion people worldwide don’t have access to electricity.
Here’s one of the most empowering short stories I’ve lately read. The author is unknown but its message is of utmost important.