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The Google Lat Long blog has announced that Google has just added 12 more US cities to their street view coverage, bringing their total coverage to, um.. lots. The new cities added are as follows: Albany and Schenectady, NY Boise,…

Well it's been a while since we had a real Friday mystery! So, who can tell us why this group of people seems to have randomly formed a circle in the middle of the road in downtown Las Vegas? Thanks…

When I was younger, it was always one of my favourite 'facts' that "millions of years ago crocodiles and alligators were, like, hundreds of feet long". Of course it's difficult to argue with a statement this naïve, but we do…

In 1962, a landfill site in Centralia, Pennsylvania was set on fire. The rubbish was located in the pit of an abandoned strip mine, and although it was believed to have been extinguished at the time, the fire actually remained…

Originally conceived by the philosopher Jeremy Bentham in 1785, the panopticon was intended to be a type of prison that allowed the guard to observe any of the inmates without them knowing if and when they were being watched. The…

Continuing the thread of unique plane finds is this sighting of a Northrop YF-23 . Specifically, this aircraft is YF-23 model PAV-2, which was nicknamed "Gray Ghost". We know for a fact that it's this model as only two were…