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It's still largely a vast and wild place, so it should come as no surprise that Canada has its very own pantheon of legendary beasts.

Meg Van Huygen
















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The human body is full of weird, gross and awe-inspiring stuff as we know it—but for people who lived when ideas were unbound by strict anatomical correctness, it was even more so. Here are 10 things people thought, and in some cases still think, were inh

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The Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain celebrated the quiet glory of incompetence.

Kate Horowitz