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The events of September 11, 2001 will never be forgotten. Through the darkness of that day shone a light as one small Canadian community opened their doors & their hearts to stranded airline passengers from around the globe.

It was a growing community with schools & churches, yet it was deemed expendable enough to be demolished to make room for Central Park. Why?

When a young Japanese girl became a victim of war she didn't respond with anger, but with a peaceful gesture that still inspires hope around the globe.

It's not be much to look at, but the wax worm's unusual appetite for polythyrene might help scientists find solutions to biodegrading plastic safer & quicker than current methods.

Sunken World War Two-era warships, weighing tons and acting as graveyards for the perished men who crewed them, are completely disappearing from their final watery resting spots.

Want a disease-free life or a baby with blue eyes? CRISPR might be mankind's gene editing Get Out of Jail Free card, and it's on its way.

In 1940 thousands of Allied troops were surrounded, with water on one side & Nazis everywhere else. They needed a miracle, and they got one.

AIDS and its legacy have devastated millions of people around the globe since the 1980s. While hard-fought progress has been made, every day lives from every section of society are still being lost to the condition. Until HIV and AIDS are wiped out, the fight must carry on.

Looking for a thrill? Try slipping into a garment that will make you look like a neon flying squirrel and then dive off the tallest cliff you can find. The modern wingsuit is an engineering marvel, but many lessons in its development were learned the very hard way.

New Orleans is famous for a lot of things, including great food and amazing music. There's a darker past the city was built upon, and now it's taking major steps to remove the Confederate monuments erected for what many think were all the very wrong reasons.

In Tultepec, Mexico, fireworks are all about explosions, fire & celebratory folk dancing in the street as they're used as human targets.

Robot-staffed hotels are popping up in Japan where you're checked in by friendly dinosaurs. The lobby piano player has no soul, literally.

The History of the Sourtoe Cocktail: A shot of whiskey garnished with a human toe. #wtf

There are seven physical keys that keep the Internet glued together. Without them, your browsing would cease to exist.

China is literally floating its solar energy fututre atop of its coal-burning past.

In 1962 Centralia, PA started going down in flames & chemical fumes from the underground up.

Researchers can now communicate with vegetative patients once thought lost causes. What those patients are telling us is startling.

Hopefully none of these people were afraid of heights.

Through all the pain & suffering it inflicted during WWI, mustard gas still managed to lead doctors to a live-saving treatment for cancer.

Canada is celebrating 150 years of being the true north strong and free, and much of that strength is rooted in its openess to embrace cultures and traditions from around the globe. Pier 21 was Halifax's welcome port for over one million future Canadians, and one in five Canadians today can trace their roots directly there.

A tale of two inventors. One died rich and famous, the other broke and forgotten. Did the better inventor win?

In the 1600s Japan was not a big fan of Western culture. To emphasize that point it banned its citizens from travelling abroad with a penalty of death if they did for over 200 years.

If a human could do what a homing pigeon can we'd say they had superpowers. Over time these winged marvels have delivered the goods & saved lives.

A remote hunk of rock is the subject of a territorial dispute between two very polite countries who leave booze everytime they claim it back.

Some people might shrug it off as a fad; others take the path of self-righteousness and judgment. But gender identity and the concept of a person identifying as something other than “male” or “female” is an ancient question. And in some cultures, there are more than two options.