Human evolution skulls

Around 21 human species have lived on Earth.Read More

Cretaceous Antarctica

Antarctica had a rainforest 90 million years ago.Read More

Surface of the moon

Pan Am created a waitlist for moon travel in the 1960s.Read More

Women’s suffrage protest

A woman was elected to Congress before women had the right to vote.Read More

Washington with generals

George Washington didn’t know that dinosaurs existed.Read More

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