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Henry Goodsell captained a schooner similar to the one seen above. Credit: Deposit Photos In 1995, a mystery skull washed onto a beach in Longport, New Jersey.

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In 1995, a mystery skull washed onto a beach in Longport, New Jersey. Four years later, additional bone fragments were discovered less than two miles away on a shore in the neighboring southern New Jersey town of Margate. It would take another 14 years for even more skeletal remains to arrive on a beach another five miles away in Ocean City.

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The study focused on nearly 600 vulgar word variations. Credit: Getty Images Congratulations, United States.

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Congratulations, United States. The nation may lag behind in healthcare, education, and life expectancy, but Americans still reign supreme in at least one way—swearing like a bunch of drunken sailors. Linguists in Australia recently analyzed the Global Web-Based English Corpus (GloWbE), a massive database containing over 1.9 billion words from 1.8 million web pages across 340,000 websites in 20 English-speaking countries.

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Trace amounts of precious metals found in volcanic rock appear to come from the Earth's inner core. Credit: Deposit Photos Contrary to conspiracy theories, the Earth’s core isn’t hollow.