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Picture Alliance/Contributor/Getty Images Why Cambodia Built a Giant Rat Statue Wearing a Medal of Honor
A banana-motivated hero who helped clear more than 100 landmines is now getting the giant tribute he earned.
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Bruce Yuanyue Bi/Getty Images Chicago Found a Shockingly Simple Way to Improve the Lives of 315,000 Kids
By turning student IDs into instant library cards, Chicago just gave 315,000 kids access to books, tutoring, and digital resources.
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UCG/Contributor/Getty Images A Massive Chimp Community Collapsed Into Civil War, and the Details Are Horrifying
Researchers say this split turned a once-cooperative chimp community into a campaign of factional killing.
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Picture by Nick Dove Pregaming Annihilation—This Week on VICE: Members Only
What The New Atlantic’s viral “dinergoth” essay and a “Will Trump nuke Iran?” party thrown by a network state tells us about the internet in the 21st century.
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TikTok What Are ‘Scientology Runs’ and Why Is Gen Z So Obsessed With Them?
These “Scientology Runs” seem less like a real movement and more like the internet looping the same stunt over and over again.
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Jorge Villalba/Getty Images The 2026 Happy City Index Is Here, and the U.S. Failed Miserably. Again.
The Happy City Index 2026 delivers like the embarrassing message: American cities just aren’t very happy places to live.
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Cokada/Getty Images Is Space Full of Alien Megastructures We Just Haven’t Seen Yet?
This is all purely theoretical. That said, it is grounded in real physics, which is usually how science fiction turns into science fact.
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Jordan Lye/Getty Images 6 Weird Things That Happen to Your Penis as You Age, According to Doctors
Sadly, the penis you have now will likely look and function differently in 10 or 20 years.
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Connect Images/Joseph Giacomin/Getty Images 5 ‘Weird’ Sexual Preferences Your Partner Probably Has But Won’t Admit
Research suggests many of the sexual preferences people love to judge are way more mainstream than they pretend.
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