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Jul 12
Pack date
July 12, 2026
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The Pick · 01

Today

Curator's pick
Daily № 2026-07-12Jul 12, 2026From the rabbit hole
Horaiclavus filicinctus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae. It was previously included within the family Turridae. This is the type species of Cytharoclavus Kuroda & Oyama, 1971
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№ 02
Orthogonius legrandi is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Orthogoniinae. It was described by Tian & Deuve in 2006.
— Orthogonius legrandi · self-hosted
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A mellified man was a legendary medicinal substance created by entombing a human body in honey. It was described in Chinese sources.
— Mellified man · self-hosted
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Nine Soviet hikers died in the northern Ural mountains in February 1959 under mysterious circumstances that remain debated to this day.
— Dyatlov Pass incident · self-hosted
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The Tamam Shud case involves an unidentified man found dead in December 1948 on Somerton beach in Adelaide, Australia, carrying an unsolved cipher.
— Tamam Shud case · self-hosted
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Mary Toft was an English woman who in 1726 became the subject of widespread notoriety when she allegedly gave birth to rabbit parts.
— Mary Toft · self-hosted
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The Kentucky meat shower was a strange phenomenon that occurred on March 9, 1876, when chunks of flesh fell from the sky over a stretch of Kentucky.
— Kentucky meat shower · self-hosted
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A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peatland. They often show signs of violent death and have survived for millennia.
— Bog body · self-hosted
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The phantom time hypothesis is a historical conspiracy theory that claims 297 years of history were fabricated, placing the Early Middle Ages as invented fiction.
— Phantom time hypothesis · self-hosted
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A rat king is a collection of rats whose tails have become intertwined and bound together by blood, dirt, or ice. They are considered an ill omen in folklore.
— Rat king · self-hosted
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