Do you know the true origin of Women’s Day?
In short Women’s Day was not born from a factory fire in 1908, which never happened, but from the political
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DB Cooper and the $200,000 that was never found
In short On November 24, 1971 a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305 from Portland to
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Rongorongo, the forgotten writing system
In short Rongorongo is a system of glyphs carved on wooden tablets from Easter Island, discovered by Europeans in 1864
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Vesna Vulović, who survived a 10,000-meter fall
In short On January 26, 1972 JAT Flight 367 exploded in mid-air over Czechoslovakia, probably because of a bomb. The
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Japanese woman lives in a closet for a year, the owner doesn’t notice
In short In May 2008 in Kasuya, Japan, a 57-year-old man noticed food disappearing from his fridge and installed a
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Is the remake of IT about to be made?
In short When I wrote this article, in January 2016, the new adaptation of Stephen King’s IT had just passed
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Found a fish with legs in New Zealand
In short In January 2016 some tourists on holiday in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, found a strange black
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Liber Linteus, an Etruscan mummy?
In short What it is: the Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis, the “Linen Book of Zagreb”, the longest known Etruscan text. When:
Continua a LeggereThe galleon San Jose been found: the greatest treasure of history
In short What: the Spanish galleon San José, launched in 1698, with 64 guns and three masts. When it sank:
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The 116th birthday of Emma Morano
Today Emma Morano celebrates 116 years and becomes the oldest woman both in Italy and in Europe. The birthday of
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UFO: the friendship case
In short What it is: an alleged case of contact with extraterrestrials in Italy, from 1956 to 1978. Where: mainly
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The Nigerian professor who said he had won $1 million
In short Who: Opeyemi Enoch, mathematics lecturer at the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria. What he claimed: to have proved
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