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When Howard Carter's team opened Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, the inventory included alabaster jars of dark residue that legend turned into still-edible honey, sealed around 1323 BCE and never actually identified by any chemist who tested it — a Yale team now suspects opium
In November 1957, Soviet sources told the world that the dog Laika had survived several days aboard Sputnik 2, but at a 2002 space congress in Houston, scientist Dimitri Malashenkov revealed she had actually died within hours of launch when the cabin overheated
What happened when a Mediterranean national park watched its shallow marshes dry out while illegal wells fed a strawberry industry next door, and why did the European Court finally intervene?
Olympus Mons grew so large because Mars has no plate tectonics to carry its crust away from the volcanic source that fed it lava
