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Tucked away in a valley in the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, is this: the Green Bank Radio Telescope, the largest steerable radio telescope in the world. And there are some rather special rules... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 589 views • 5:50Coober Pedy is a small desert town in Australia where the entire population lives in underground homes. With outside temperatures hovering over 100 degrees, residents made permanent homes in the cooler... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months ago • 589 views • 2:11YT: In a small town with an unfortunate name, let's talk about filtering and innuendo. And use it as an excuse for as many visual jokes as possible.
posted by Fantomas 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 51 views • 3:38Published on Mar 11, 2012 Sometimes a single unlikely idea can have massive impact across the world. Sir Harold Evans, the author of They Made America, describes how frustration drove Malcom McLean,... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 7 years 12 months ago • 475 views • 4:47YouTube description: It varies from town to town, or even within families. Part of the problem with the word pecan has to do with the way it came into the English language. Produced for Mental Floss,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years ago • 656 views • 3:17YouTube Description: Although widely thought to hail from the North Pole, Santa Claus is in fact originally from Turkey. The BBC's Mark Lowen visited the southern Turkish town of Demre to trace the... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 4 months ago • 159 views • 2:47(youtube) 5 of the hottest, driest, strangest, deadliest and most amazing places in the world, including The Door to Hell, the Centralia ghost town, Dallol Crater, Erta Ale and the Dasht-e Lut Desert.
posted by pumkinandstorm 1 decade 6 months ago • 482 views • 4:36