Kayakers Came Across a Chilling Secret While Out on the River

The Rosetta Stone

Napoleon Bonaparte failed his mission to search for relics in Ancient Egyypt, and if he hadn't overlooked the Rosetta Stone, he would have realized what an important discovery he'd made. An institude examined the stone with several different languages of writing on it and determined that it was the starting place to study linguistics....

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The More You Know

  • There's a "floating rainforest" in the sea.
  • A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and surviving — seven times between 1942 and 1977.
  • It's a tradition in Ireland that if you donated a pint of blood, they give you a pint of Guinness to replace the iron.
  • The space between your eyebrows is called the glabella.
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