The Kummakivi Balancing Rock

The Kummakivi Balancing Rock
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Imagine a giant rock perched precariously atop another – how did it get there? Probably a giant troll, right? That’s just one of the theories you’ll hear about the Kummakivi Balancing Rock in Finland. Geologists, however, figure that the rock was deposited by a glacier during the last Ice Age.

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Most crop circles

Most crop circles
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When crop circles suddenly appear in the countryside, lots of people get excited, thinking, ‘This is it! This is proof we’ve been visited by other life forms.’ But in 1991, two men confessed that they’d been making crop circles as a prank for decades. According to Live Science, ‘Most crop circle researchers admit that the vast majority of crop circles are created by hoaxers…’ However, there are a few they still can’t explain.

Read on for the scientific mysteries boffins can’t figure out.

The Webdriver Torso YouTube account

The Webdriver Torso YouTube account
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In 2013, people began to notice a rather strange YouTube account posting really weird slideshows accompanied by even weirder beeping sounds. As Mental Floss says, ‘Commentors posited that the videos – which were usually 11 seconds long and featured coloured rectangles moving around on a white screen – were spy code, alien code, or recruitment searches for expert hackers.’ As it turns out, Google was behind the account. In 2014, the YouTube parent company revealed it was using the account to test the quality of YouTube videos.

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