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Monday, April 13, 2026

A New York Newspaper Convinced Its Readers That Creatures Lived on the Moon and Nobody Caught On for Weeks

In August of 1835 the New York Sun began publishing a series of articles about a remarkable scientific discovery. A famous astronomer, they...

In 1908 Something Exploded Over Siberia With the Force of a Nuclear Bomb and We Still Are Not Completely Sure What It Was

On the morning of June 30, 1908, something exploded over the Siberian wilderness near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River. The explosion was he...

In 1788 an Army Fought Itself in the Dark and Hundreds of Its Own Soldiers Died

On the night of September 21 and 22 in 1788 the Austrian army suffered one of its worst defeats of the Austro-Turkish War. The Turks were n...

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Robert Lee Beers III: Bonneau, SC, United States; I have 2 kids on 8 year old boy and 3 year old daughter. I love technology and talking politics.

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