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Researchers witnessed this coral slowly slurp up a sea slug back in December of 2014.

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That Time a Mushroom Coral Ate a Sea Slug

Researchers observed the rare event off the coast of Thailand

Redwood tree canopy in California

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Here’s A Map of All the Trees in California

Every meter covered by trees shows up

Pasquino in Rome

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Have Something Rude to Say? Put it on This 2300-Year Old Statue in Rome

A cardinal started the tradition of decorating this statue with snarky poems and insults

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This Mockumentary Explains the Appeal of Skateboarding to Scared Parents

“The Devil’s Toy” looks “an epidemic from which no one was secure”: having fun on skateboards

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People Used to Wear Dunce Caps to Shower

“Extinguisher caps” were nineteenth-century shower caps

A mermaid as depicted in Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee, published in 1883.

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The Murky Tale of John Smith and the Mermaid

Alexander Dumas probably just made it up

A photograph of Claude Monet in his gardens circa 1917

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An Art Dealer Just Found a Forgotten Monet Pastel Hidden Behind Another Drawing

The pastel depicts a lighthouse and jetty near Monet’s childhood home

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In Sweden the Blood Bank Will Text You When Your Blood is Used

Stockholm’s blood bank uses text messages and Facebook posts to remind donors to give again

According to some scholars Vincent Van Gogh sits third from the left in this photograph. Surrounding him are artist Emile Bernard, politician Félix Jobbé-Duval, actor André Antoine and artist Paul Gauguin.

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Is This a Photograph of Vincent Van Gogh?

Some scholars think the camera shy artist can be spotted in an image taken by an amateur photographer, while others disagree

Evidence (some anecdotal and some clinical) suggests that hookworms could suppress the immune response in people with allergies and other inflammatory diseases.

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Can Hookworms Cure Hayfever?

Maybe. But we need to learn a lot more about them before they hit pharmacy shelves

Sand Mining on the banks of the Sita River near Mabukala bridge in Brahmavar, India

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The Demand for Sand is so High There are Illegal Sand Mining Operations

Only certain kinds of sand can be used in construction and mining it causes problems

Super Mario Bros. creators Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka in a screenshot from Kotaku's YouTube video "Design History of Super Mario Maker, E3 2015"

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The Creators of Super Mario Drafted The Game on Graph Paper

The levels were originally planned out one at a time by hand

A screenshot of the new visualization from Pitch Interactive and Google News Lab

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Here’s What People Are Asking Google About Climate Change

The visualization reveals what people want to know about the environment

These 15th-century female musicians are clearly in grave medical danger.

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Some 19th-Century Physicians Thought Music Could Infect the Brain

When it comes to music in the brain, medicine has come a long way

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70-Year-Old Tree Cut Down in NYC Will be Cloned and Planted Again

Residents of Astoria, Queens asked an arborist for help when a beloved neighborhood tree got the ax

Bart Shepard, the director of the California Academy of Sciences' Steinhart Aquarium collecting fish using a specialized decompression chamber

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More than 100 New Marine Species Were Just Discovered in the Philippines

The creatures hail from a rarely before explored region of the ocean’s water column

A chimpanzee family in Uganda in 2010.

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What Does it Really Mean to Be 99 Percent Chimp?

This video breaks down our statistical similarity to chimpanzees

Napoleon in battle, presumably craving rotisserie chicken

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Napoleon Had a Thing for Rotisserie Chicken

The military powerhouse ate chicken dinners 24/7 — even as his army starved

A wildlife camera captured this image of an adult Louisiana black bear foraging in a forest clearing.

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Louisiana’s Bears Are Making a Comeback

The state thinks the bears are doing well enough to merit removal from protected status. Others disagree

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Michigan Owns 1,500 Shipwrecks

Divers, historians and state officials team up to preserve the state’s underwater heritage

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