Most Roman emperors died violent deaths, and many were far from Rome when they did
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Can neuroscience provide an alternative hypothesis for the Mandela effect, without evoking quantum physics?
Will your grandchildren live in cities on Antarctica?
Britain hasn’t brexited yet, but the EU has already scrapped it from its map
Perhaps it is more doable now than when it was first proposed, back in the early 1980s
The Tour is both the oldest and most popular of the world’s major cycling races. The Tour has been to Holland more often than it has been to Corsica.
Are Macron and Le Pen re-enacting a centuries-old conflict?
It’s not the ice that turns Greenland white, but the lack of data
A trio of new reports by the Small Arms Survey finds that 85% of the world’s one billion guns are in the hands of its citizens who far outgun the militaries and police responsible for their protection.
If you value your life, stay away from U.S. Route 1 in Florida
Wingland? Flemingia? The indignity of colonisation includes the imposed ignorance of the coloniser
How did New York end up there?
Two insults for the price of one
Visit the place where in 1593 an astrologer and a playwright used a shamanic ritual to found the British Empire
Together, Russia and America sell almost 60% of all weapons traded around the world.
Fancy a game of Japanese chess?
Americans live the the broadest, emptiest slice of the planet.
Was Oscar Wilde—witty author, gay rights icon, and lover of champagne and material beauty—a radical socialist?
From peanuts over petroleum to opium: these are the exports that power global trade
Number of terrorist acts perpetrated in the U.S. by nationals of any of the seven countries? Zero.
New York has the same GDP as Canada, Los Angeles makes as much money in a year as Australia
Warning: these maps might leave a strange taste in your mouth
Caught between a rock and a hard place, the EU had better get ready for some of these exit-names
A Finn and a Spaniard walk into a bar…
The Bermuda Triangle, one of the most mysterious places on Earth, doesn’t have an official map and the U.S. Coast Guard is why.
Ravenser Odd is just one of 29 towns swallowed by the North Sea
DNA testing of the remains of nine women with elongated skulls suggests a strange explanation for how they likely ended up hundreds of miles from their homeland.
Shouldn’t that be Hindenburgburg, mate?
The Vatican is world leader in one particular variable. Can you guess which?
Prime minister or postal worker: if you’ve been condemned for corruption in France, you’re on this map