The Most Unexplainable Places on Earth

Door to Hell

The Door to Hell in Turkmenistan randomly opened up one day nearly 50 years ago. The crater burns day and night and can be seen from miles away. General public belief says that it was created by a Russian natural gas drilling accident where engineers set the area on fire to stop the spread of dangerous gases.

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The More You Know

  • Parts of the Great Wall of China were made with sticky rice.
  • An 11-year-old is responsible for naming Pluto.
  • Dentistry is the oldest profession in the world.
  • War pigs were used in ancient warfare to counter against war elephants, which feared the pigs (and their squeals) and would bolt. War pigs were sometimes lit on fire to enhance this effect.
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