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Nov 4, 2024 | allthatsinteresting.com | Kaleena Fraga |Cara Johnson

The dime, which is one of only two known to exist in the world, was kept by a collector in a bank vault for 46 years. In 1975, the U.S. Mint in San Francisco produced 2.8 million proof sets — coins for collectors, not for circulation — marked with an “S.” But at least two of these coins lacked the “S” mark. Now, after being hidden in a bank vault for 46 years, one of them has been sold for a jaw-dropping $500,000. Its fate was long unknown to coin collectors — until now.

Nov 4, 2024 | allthatsinteresting.com | Amber Morgan |John Kuroski

In 2022, researchers in Poland unearthed a 17th-century "vampire," a young woman since dubbed Zosia, buried with a sickle across her neck and a padlock on her foot. Now, experts have both reconstructed her face and unveiled a possible reason for why she was thought of as a monster. Throughout the 17th century, Europe was repeatedly ravaged by war. The Thirty Years’ War, for instance, raged across Central Europe and claimed some 8 million lives.

Nov 1, 2024 | allthatsinteresting.com | Amber Morgan |Cara Johnson

The 300-year-old glass bottles were pulled from the wreckage of a fleet of ships that sank after sailing into a hurricane in July 1715. In July 1715, 11 Spanish ships sank in a hurricane off the Atlantic coast of Florida, and more than 300 years later, divers visited the site to pull artifacts from the wreckage. Now, the Florida Division of Historical Resources has announced the restoration of two rare “onion bottles” found on one of the doomed ships.

Nov 1, 2024 | allthatsinteresting.com | Kaleena Fraga |Cara Johnson

It's long been believed that the ancient city of Mitla in Mexico sat over tunnels to the underworld — and archaeologists are getting closer to proving that such tunnels actually exist. The Zapotec people believed they knew where to find the underworld: beneath their feet in the ancient Mexican city of Mitla.

Oct 30, 2024 | allthatsinteresting.com | Amber Morgan |John Kuroski

Markings that may date back to the 15th century and were meant to ward off witches, demons, and the evil eye were found on the walls of Gainsborough Old Hall in Lincolnshire, England. Gainsborough Old Hall, a historic Tudor manor in Lincolnshire, England, has a rich past dating back to the 15th century, and hosted famous figures like King Richard III and Henry VIII and his wife Catherine Howard.