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Why we are mostly empty space despite appearances

All matter is mostly empty space, and removing that space from every human would compress the world’s population into a sugar cube-sized volume.
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Ancient Mesopotamian Map May Be World's First Urban Blueprint

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...
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This Is the Map Scholars Say “Can’t Exist”… Yet It Matches Parts of Antarctica Beneath the Ice

In 1739, long before anyone reached Antarctica, Philippe Buache published a map that appeared to show the continent without its ice. The map even split the landmass with a central sea, a feature some ...