We have a morbid curiosity about nautical disaster stories. The Irish "Wreck Viewer" offers a window into centuries of marine misfortune.
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Break into London Zoo? Illegal, but it would improve the London Circle Walk
The popular game has a backstory rife with segregation, inequality, intellectual theft, and outlandish political theories.
The world’s great whales aren’t just vulnerable where they congregate, but everywhere they roam.
Humanity is poised to pass the 8 billion milestone mid-November, but population growth is actually slowing down.
This world map shows how the rest of the world LOLs. In France, you MDR; in China, you 23333.
The Bolsheviks may have created Ukraine’s current borders, but that doesn’t mean dismantling them is good for today’s Russia.
To clear Scotland’s roads in winter, the local traffic agency employs heavy machinery with punny names. Can you grit and bear it?
One hundred years ago, a Ukrainian flag flew over Vladivostok and other parts of the “Russian” Far East.
Best in class: Denmark and Uruguay. Worst in class: Papua New Guinea, Venezuela, and Russia.
Urinating in the direction of NATO’s staunchest opponent could cost you $350 or more. For world peace, aim wisely.
The weirdest thing about the 21 feet found near Vancouver since 2007? Foul play has been ruled out.
It's nearly 20,000 miles long.
This representation of the Bamum kingdom is a rare example of early 20th-century indigenous African cartography.
EV charging stations are the most widespread alternative to gas and diesel pumps. Each alternative has its own hotspots and "deserts."
This graph shows how badly German cities were hit by Allied bombing raids.
The World Air Quality Index shows how clean your city’s air is, in real time.
Using the Book of Mormon as a sacred but ambiguous atlas, the Latter-day Saints have been looking for the lost city of Zarahemla for decades.
"Politics is weird. It’s the only business in the world in which you take a really, really important position, and you give it to someone with no qualifications." —Tony Blair
The Centennial State is technically a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon.
In New Zealand, ambitious Kiwis want to launch a lawn mowing business; in South Africa, it's cooking gas refills. Start-up dreams vary widely.
An interactive “globe of notability” shows the curious correspondences and the strange landscape of global fame.
Diplomacy is war by other means.
Chemical changes inside Mars' core caused it to lose its magnetic field. This, in turn, caused it to lose its oceans. But how?
The U.S. has the world's largest debt in absolute terms, but Japan's is the largest when measured in terms of its debt-to-GDP ratio.
Presidential gravesites are spread out “democratically” — but this is more by accident than design.
Here's why mega-eruptions like the ones that covered North America in ash are the least of your worries.
France is split in two by its very own "desert," the Empty Diagonal. The area’s depopulation is fairly recent, and Paris is to blame.
Starting just about now, leaves start changing color from north to south, high to low, light to dark.
Any dataset that can be quantified over time can be turned into a contest that is both exciting and (a little bit) enlightening.