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Antarctica is an amazing place that boasts incredible frosty landscapes, unbelievably low temperatures, and volcanic activity. It's also the "windiest, driest, and iciest place on Earth," according to National Geographic. Another thing that sets it apart? It's the only continent on Earth that can't naturally support grasslands. And for more information about the world around you, check out these 1

The Aldabra white-throated rail may not be a very well known bird, but it's certainly a remarkable one. The flightless creature first found itself in trouble around 136,000 years ago when it went extinct—something it's done twice. However, a 2019 study published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society explained that "the rail is

Humans blink in order to keep our eyes clean and moisturized. However, it turns out that some of us blink much more than others. Specifically, adults tend to blink around 15 times per minute while babies only blink an average of two or three times in the same time span. And f

Zebras are known for their striking black and white stripes, but it turns out that not all of the creatures are born with a lovely lined pattern. In fact, some rare zebras are born with spots, such as the polka-dotted baby zebra (seen above) that was spotted in Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve in 2019. Named Tira, the foal has a coat t

hen you look at the night sky and see the moon shining down, you might not have realized that it's not alone up there. Other than the lunar body, there are two asteroids that orbit close to our planet. One asteroid, Cruithne, follows the Earth's orbit, while Asteroid 2002 AA29 travels along a path that is shaped like a horseshoe. Bec

Everyone makes mistakes. But you wouldn't think that one of the largest newspapers in the United States would run a typo on its front page every day for more than 100 years. However, that's exactly what occurred when an employee of The New York Times accidentally entered the wrong serial number of an edition that went out back in 1898. Seeing that they were at issue 14,499, the editor on duty kicked it up by what they thought was one number for the

About 71 percent of the surface of the Earth is covered with water. However, it's hard to fully grasp just how much water that actually is. Thankfully, NASA put it in perspective. They explain that if we were somehow able to take all of the water on the planet and bring it together, it would form a massive 860-mile wide ball. For comparison, the Earth itself is 7,917.5 miles in diameter.

William Shakespeare had a flair for the dramatic, but he also relied on some tried and true tropes, including the ways he killed off his characters. When The Guardian broke down data from Open Source Shakespeare in 2016, they found that the majority of fatalities (54 out of the 100 deaths in all of his plays) were due to stabbings. The second most common cause of death was being poisoned, although just four characters met their maker this way. And for even more o

Don't blame your bad hand at the poker table on a stroke of bad luck; it's really just a matter of math, seeing as there are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are total atoms on Earth! If a card deck is shuffled properly, there's a pretty high chance that it comes out in an arrangement that has never existed before, because a deck of 52 c

If you happen to be around a monkey, you might be inclined to feed it a banana. But the fact is, bananas contain far too much sugar for monkeys to handle. "Giving this fruit to animals is equivalent to giving them cake