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Ötzi the Iceman ate pancakes and bacon—and other fun facts from The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week.

Field & Stream put three types of line through an exhaustive series of tests and ­discovered the very best knots.

Images that supposedly showed the extinct thylacine were actually of a pademelon. But how could you even confuse the two?

Be the hero you want to be.

How the ‘curb-cut effect’ makes the world easier to navigate.

Self-unloading ships quickly discharge goods such as salt by using some elegant engineering. Here’s how they do it.

More than 27,000 people applied for permits for the state’s first wolf hunt since 2014.

A new Ranger side-by-side comes out in December.

It’s time to put on your detective hat.

The new currency in the novel Ministry for the Future has real-world supporters.

For the first time, NASA will attempt to generate a resource in space.

Doses should be available to states within days.

We might one day fix our whole bodies by balancing the organisms inside.

The potential third vaccine to hit the US market works a little differently from the rest.

The uncrewed submarine is nearly 30 feet long and weighs almost 10 tons.

Does your heart start racing when you hear the phone ring?

Ocean sounds are full of surprises.

We know card and tabletop games are not technically board games, but hear us out…

This photo isn’t of your typical starry night—each one of these dots is a supermassive black hole.

The steering wheel will still be on the right-hand side.