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What is the longest corridor in the world?
The world's longest corridor is believed to be at the British RAF Mount Pleasant Airforce base in the Falkland Islands. Nicknamed the ‘Death Star C...
Badwater 135 Ultramarathon | The world's toughest foot race
Earlier this month, in the height of southern Californian summer, the latest installment of the “world’s toughest footrace” took place. Under the b...
How mosquitoes are being used to fight dengue in Bali
Bali's climate makes it one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, but life on the Indonesian island also presents challenges, one of...
What is the world's highest unclimbed mountain?
When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay summited Mount Everest in May 1953, humans conquered the globe’s highest peak. In the 70 years since, t...
What was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold?
Think you splashed out on that bottle of red at dinner the other night? Chances are it was nothing compared to some of the wines mentioned below....
What was the first movie ever made?
These days, most of us are able to shoot movies in an instant. The ‘movies’ might not be any good, and even calling your shaky video of a mediocre sun...
The Great Banyan | The tree in India that looks like a forest
What looks like a dense forest on the outskirts of Kolkata, West Bengal, is in fact a single tree with thousands of aerial roots, known as The Great...
Kiplingcotes Derby | The annual horse race held every year since 1519
Steeped in tradition and dating back to the rule of King Henry VIII, the Kiplingcotes Derby is Britain’s oldest horse race. That’s not all that mak...
Why do onions make you cry?
Onions have long plagued cooks, prying open millions of tear ducts during their illustrative career. But why do onions make us cry? And is there any...
Why is there a fire in Turkmenistan that never goes out?
In Turkmenistan's Karakum Desert, there burns an eternal flame. Known as the Darvaza gas crater, or the “Gates of Hell”, the hole in the ground has...
Burj Al Babas | Turkey's abandoned Gothic village
In northwestern Turkey, on the outskirts of a village called Mudurnu, sit hundreds and hundreds of abandoned castles - 732 to be exact. What once...