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Germans are masters of building cars, cooking brats — and sitting while peeing.

If we’re going to discuss oceanography and climate change, we should at least identify the currents correctly.

If you want to sleep more, try working less, eating better, and exercising more. Alternatively, you could emigrate to Albania.

Fantasy, meet statistics: The census comes to Middle-earth!

Thanks to protocols established centuries ago in Europe, world leaders no longer need to worry about having their heads bashed with an axe.

Like Mars today, Venus used to be a sci-fi superstar. Recent discoveries could re-ignite our interest in Earth’s “evil twin.”

One possible vision of the distant future.

Almost 18,000 projects, brought together on one clickable map.

How to say “I love you” in Basque, the “most loving” cities around the world, and where most of America’s singles live — and so much more!

To this day, one cult believes that Lemuria was real, and that its people left us the sacred wisdom to revive their advanced civilization.

In 1934, American Communists translated a Stalinist book about revolution into a children’s game. Curiously, it didn’t catch on.

If you find yourself on one of these roads, it might be a while before you see another fellow traveler.

Here’s what Europe would have looked like if the Confederation of the Danube had been established after WWII.

Worldwide, 15% of children are born out of wedlock, but the figure varies from less than 1% in places like China to 69% in Iceland.

True north, magnetic north, and grid north have aligned. There’s also a connection to James Bond.

In 1903, a Vermont doctor bet $50 that he could cross America by car. It took him 63 days, $8,000, and 600 gallons of gas.

Is the vast “Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area” the final resting place of Genghis Khan?

Ancient bones reveal that domesticated felines were at home in Pre-Neolithic Poland around 8,000 years ago.

Get ready for the most peculiar road trip that will help you understand the vastness and emptiness of the solar system — and Sweden.

Some Europeans really don’t want to use the internet.

Is the dumpster in the alley worthy of a poem?

Guess which country has 269% inflation.

Meet the world’s largest landowners.

You might think it’s impossible to run out of wind, but Europe’s “wind drought” proves otherwise. And it’s only going to get worse.

For the first time in nearly 1500 years, fewer than half the people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian.

When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called “cartophilately.”

In 100 years, perhaps this map showing humanity clustering around the equator will seem “so 21st century.”

A 19th-century surveying mistake kept lumberjacks away from what is now Minnesota’s largest patch of old-growth trees.

When the great American tradition of the road trip meets the great Jewish tradition of the deli, we get the Great American Deli Schlep.

“When you see me, weep.” When rivers dry up in Central Europe, “hunger stones” with ominous inscribed warnings from centuries past reappear.