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Systemic racism kept him from a position in higher education—but it didn't stop Charles Henry Turner from rewriting our understanding of bees, ants, and cockroaches.

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Every evening, locals and visitors congregate at Austin’s Congress Avenue Bridge to watch a show made up of 1.5 million performers. Specifically: bats.

This facility is home to a lifesize replica of the original shuttle Independence—the only one of its kind in the world that’s mounted to an aircraft carrier.

Yes, says a group of Moroccans preserving—and reclaiming—the French-designed cityscape.

At least according to a hand-drawn map of mysterious origin.

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Sailors relied on the ration for centuries.

In this town located 15 minutes outside of Fredericksburg, musical performances are hosted 363 days a year. Grab a beer and kick back under 300-year-old oak trees that have heard some of the best country musicians of all time.

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Lauren Tischendorf is the first woman to complete the grueling 20-mile swim around Lord Howe Island in Australia.

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Sharks, beavers, and humans are all returning to London's iconic waterway thanks to decades of restoration work.

Transforming PhDs into pastries.

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Riverside Nature Center is a 2-acre property that packs in over 200 species of wildflowers, grasses, and ferns, 140 species of trees, and a Monarch Waystation for butterflies to stopover on their way from Canada to Mexico.