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DECODING: Trump Demands Hormuz Declared Open, Iran Refuses to Bend
On July 11, 2026, the White House made a request that sounds almost disarmingly simple: that Iran publicly declare the Strait of Hormuz open…
The shortest boxing match in history was over in a matter of seconds
The shortest professional boxing match in history, certified by Guinness World Records, ended in a knockout just seconds after the opening bell,
This cricket match lasted 12 days without either team winning
In March 1939, in Durban, South Africa, England and South Africa played an international cricket match that would go down in history
Live pigeon shooting, the most controversial Olympic event in history
At the Paris Olympic Games held in 1900, the official program included an event that would seem utterly inconceivable in today's sporting
The wild Cooper's Hill cheese race that injures its participants every year
Every year, in Gloucestershire, England, hundreds of people gather at the top of Cooper's Hill to take part in one of the
Modern tennis descends from a handball game born in French monasteries
Before becoming one of the most popular sports in the world, tennis had a little-known prehistory, woven through the corridors and cloisters
The world's oldest stock exchange opened in Amsterdam in 1602
Did you know that the claim that the Amsterdam Stock Exchange was the world's oldest securities exchange keeps popping up in economic
The Galápagos Islands once had their own currency adorned with giant tortoises
Did you know the famous Galápagos Islands, an Ecuadorian territory known worldwide for inspiring the work of naturalist Charles Darwin, once had
Monopoly, the game originally designed to denounce capitalism
Did you know the famous board game Monopoly, an absolute symbol of wealth accumulation and capitalist triumph in the popular imagination, was