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The First in Two Hundred Years: Wild Horses Have Foaled on Their Own on the Kazakh Steppe — and Their Father Did Not Live to See It

Not One Cent of the $245 Million Was Taken by Force: a 22-Year-Old Spent Two Years on the Phone, and Every Victim Handed It Over Themselves

A Tick Bit Him and He Could Never Eat Beef Again — Seven Years Later, This Nutritionist Is Raising Four Hundred Ostriches

A Jury Made Her Their Foreman Because "You Went to Law School" — She Had Only Played a Lawyer in Legally Blonde, and Never Finished College

One Person Spent Twenty-Two Months Rebuilding the Mexico You Could See But Never Reach in Red Dead Redemption 2 — and He Is Giving It Away Free on 16 September

He Was 8-2 With a 1.79 ERA and He Will Not Pitch Again This Year: "He Loves Being a Two-Way Player. But Right Now, It Just Doesn't Make Any Sense."

Krakatoa's Child Woke Up at Midnight, Was Heard Seven Hundred Kilometres Away and Stranded 270,000 People — Without Killing a Single One

The Sweetener in Your Sugar-Free Gum Turned Up Alongside Heart Attacks in 17,710 People — and the Researchers Went Out of Their Way to Say That Is Not the Same as Causing Them

They Dyed the White Doves Blue and Sent Them Up for a Gender Reveal — Days Later They Turned Up by the River, and the Blue Would Not Wash Off