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A family in the Netherlands has been rescued after being kept in a secret room waiting for the end of the world.
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A population of woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth at the time the Egyptian pyramids were being built.
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Scientists have revealed the first photograph of a universe-spanning network of intergalactic filaments.
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A new study has revealed how long it took for the world's oceans to recover after the death of the dinosaurs.
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Maritime archaeologists believe that they may have finally identified the wreck of the HMS Endeavour.
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Engineers at MIT have accidentally created a material 10 times blacker than anything that has come before.
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The case is believed to be the first time that someone has been accused of committing a crime aboard the ISS.
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Amusing archive footage has highlighted how attitudes on the topic of alien life have changed over the years.
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Marylou Ward and her husband got the fright of their lives when their toilet exploded in to pieces on Sunday.
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Franky Zapata's second attempt to cross the English Channel on a hoverboard has been met with success.
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For the first time ever, scientists have managed to capture Einstein's 'spooky' phenomenon on camera.
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A large number of social media users have reportedly committed to rushing in to the facility at the same time.
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For the first time, someone has managed to snap an image of the enigmatic mini-shuttle in Earth's orbit.
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For the first time ever, astronomers have been able to trace a fast radio burst back to its galaxy of origin.
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Scientists have unearthed the fossil remains of a gargantuan marine reptile from the time of the dinosaurs.
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A visitor to a museum in Canada recently guessed the code to a safe that hadn't been opened in decades.
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An 86-year-old man has been treated for rabies in the US after a bat emerged from his iPad case and bit him.
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A driver captured on a speed camera in Germany had their identity hidden by a rather timely dove.
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An evolutionary biologist has outlined what is likely to happen when people start living full-time on Mars.
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For the first time, the Roman Catholic Church is offering exorcism training to all major Christian denominations.