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North Korea built an entire town inside the DMZ for a population that was never going to exist — brightly painted apartment blocks with lights that switch on and off on a timer, and, by most accounts, not a single family living behind any of the windows
Google Earth, the CIA, and National Geographic all once trusted that an island existed in the Coral Sea until it vanished in 2012, when an expedition proved a single 19th-century whaling ship's mistake had been quietly copied onto official maps for more than a hundred years
On October 27, 1962, the fate of the planet came down to one man's judgement inside an overheated Soviet submarine — the captain had ordered a nuclear torpedo readied against American ships, and it took one calmer head to stop him
In 1963, the average woman on had about 5.3 children, and the world feared running out of room — the figure is now about 2.2. Global fertility has more than halved in six decades, and the UN projects it will fall below the replacement rate around 2050
