The Stories Behind These Abandoned Islands Will Freak You Out

Cumberland Island Today

Today, many structures still stand from the early days on the island. Additionally, there’s a lot of natural wildlife.

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The More You Know

  • Tarantula bites are about as painful as bee stings.
  • There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.
  • 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.
  • There is a fish with transparent bones and white blood.
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