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Malorie Mackey

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Actress (SAG-AFTRA). Bonafide Weirdo. Proud Adventurer. Weird World Adventures Season 2 is on Prime: https://teapaw.org/t.co/GCFrl2SMP8

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How Crowd Dynamics Actually Works, and Why Crowds Turn Deadly

How Crowd Dynamics Actually Works, and Why Crowds Turn Deadly

Every time a crowd disaster makes headlines, the same word shows up: stampede. People picture panic, trampling, everyone running in different directions.

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James Lick's Grave: The Millionaire Buried Inside His Own Telescope

James Lick's Grave: The Millionaire Buried Inside His Own Telescope

There's a brass plaque on Mount Hamilton, California, that just says "Here lies the body of James Lick." Nothing fancy. No angels, no marble columns. It

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Human Echolocation: The Real Skill Letting Blind People "See" With Sound

Human Echolocation: The Real Skill Letting Blind People "See" With Sound

When expert blind echolocators process the echo from a click, their brains light up in the visual cortex. That's the same region sighted people use to

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The Odyssey's Most Important Characters, Explained Before You See the Movie

The Odyssey's Most Important Characters, Explained Before You See the Movie

Knowing who's who going in is one thing. Knowing why any of them actually matter is another. Here's what's actually worth understanding about the five

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The Real Monsters of the Odyssey, and What They Might Have Actually Been

The Real Monsters of the Odyssey, and What They Might Have Actually Been

I finally saw The Odyssey this week, and honestly, the monsters are what stuck with me most. Not because they're scary, exactly, but because a few of them

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The World's Most Crowded Places on Earth

The World's Most Crowded Places on Earth

Some places on this planet pack in more people per square foot than seems physically possible. Not crowded like a busy subway platform. Crowded like

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The Crown Jewels of Ireland: Stolen in 1907 and Never Recovered

The Crown Jewels of Ireland: Stolen in 1907 and Never Recovered

Someone walked into one of the most heavily guarded buildings in the entire United Kingdom. They opened a locked safe. They took a small fortune in crown

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Genghis Khan's Lost Tomb: The Location Nobody Has Ever Found

Genghis Khan's Lost Tomb: The Location Nobody Has Ever Found

One man built the largest connected land empire in human history. He conquered from the Pacific coast to Eastern Europe. And when he died, his own people

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The Everyday Test: Choosing Two Rings for Two Different Lives

The Everyday Test: Choosing Two Rings for Two Different Lives

Couples share a home, a calendar, and frequently a bank account. They do not share a pair of hands. One partner may spend the day at a keyboard while the

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Strange Phenomena of Waterways and Their Allure

Strange Phenomena of Waterways and Their Allure

The planet's vast oceans, rivers, and lakes have always held a magnetic pull on our imagination. For millennia, we've stared into their depths, seeing

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What You Need to Know Before You See The Odyssey: The Real Mythology and the Trojan War Behind It

What You Need to Know Before You See The Odyssey: The Real Mythology and the Trojan War Behind It

Here's the thing nobody tells you about the Trojan War before you watch a movie about its aftermath. The whole conflict kicked off because a teenage boy

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The Ring of Brodgar: Scotland's Mysterious Neolithic Stone Circle

On a narrow strip of land between two lochs in Scotland's Orkney Islands, dozens of ancient stones still stand. Someone put them there roughly 4,500 years

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Villa Pisani's Hedge Maze: The Center Nobody Can Find Without Getting Lost

Villa Pisani's Hedge Maze: The Center Nobody Can Find Without Getting Lost

A hedge maze outside Venice has nine concentric rings and dozens of dead ends. The hedges are tall enough that once you're inside, you genuinely cannot

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The Ark of the Covenant: History's Most Famous Missing Religious Artifact

The Ark of the Covenant: History's Most Famous Missing Religious Artifact

A sacred gold chest sat at the center of some of the Bible's most dramatic stories. It reportedly parted a river. It reportedly brought down city walls.

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The SS Baychimo, the Ghost Ship That Wandered the Arctic for Decades With No Crew

The SS Baychimo, the Ghost Ship That Wandered the Arctic for Decades With No Crew

A cargo ship got abandoned in the Arctic ice in 1931. That part isn't unusual. Ships got trapped and lost up there fairly often. What happened next is the

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The Toynbee Tiles: Cryptic Messages Someone's Been Burying in America's Streets for Decades

The Toynbee Tiles: Cryptic Messages Someone's Been Burying in America's Streets for Decades

Somewhere on a busy street in Philadelphia, or Chicago, or maybe Buenos Aires, there's a small tile pressed permanently into the asphalt. It says

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Salvador Dalí's House Museum Is Just as Strange as You'd Hope

Salvador Dalí's House Museum Is Just as Strange as You'd Hope

A stuffed polar bear greets you at the door. That's genuinely one of the more normal things you'll see. By the time you leave Salvador Dalí's actual

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Inside the Life-Size Mousetrap, a 25-Ton Machine That Tours the Country

Inside the Life-Size Mousetrap, a 25-Ton Machine That Tours the Country

Somewhere in America right now, there's a very good chance a bowling ball is about to drop a two-ton bank safe onto a junked car, on purpose, in front of

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How Thieves Stole an Entire Beach's Worth of Sand From Jamaica

How Thieves Stole an Entire Beach's Worth of Sand From Jamaica

An entire beach vanishing overnight sounds like the setup for a heist movie nobody would greenlight for being too ridiculous. In July 2008, it actually

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Vantablack, the Blackest Color Ever Made, and the Artist Who Wouldn't Share It

Vantablack, the Blackest Color Ever Made, and the Artist Who Wouldn't Share It

A British company invented a material so black it doesn't look like a color anymore. It looks like a hole. Then one artist made sure he was the only

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