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The Green Flash Isn’t Just a Fictional Character

This fact comes to you just in time for St. Patrick’s Day— the phenomenon of the green flash. Not to be confused with the fictional superhero character, a green flash

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Bizarre Facts: Strange Bone Washes Ashore in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO— Shorelines are often littered with driftwood and other trash and treasures that wash ashore. But one item caught the eye of beachgoer Elke Teichmann when she spotted something

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Bizarre Facts: Are you Fishing or Angling?

Are anglers and fishermen the same thing? It depends on who you ask, but technically the answer is no; they are not the same.    All angling is fishing, but

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Bizarre Facts: What Happened to the Carroll A. Deering

On January 31, 1921, the five-masted commercial schooner Carroll A. Deering was found wrecked on Diamond Shoals off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. At the time, she was returning to Newport News from a trip

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Bizarre Facts: What happened to the Mary Celeste

The story of the Mary Celeste, an American-registered merchant brigantine, began on Nov. 7, 1872, when the 282-ton brigantine set sail from the New York Harbor traveling to Genoa, Italy. On