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National Geographic's Explorer celebrates 25 years of award-winning documentary television.
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  • National Geographic’s Explorer Theme: The Cover

    Check out this hella funky cover of National Geographic’s world-famous theme song, then submit your own!.

    • 1. The Theme

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  • 3 Myths And 8 True Stories About LSD

    As we’ve learned from National Geographic Explorer, LSD has had a pretty wacky history since its invention by Albert Hoffman in 1938. How bout we take a crazy trip into the weird world of LSD facts and fiction?!

    • 1. True: The CIA Dosed An Entire French Village With Acid To See What Would Happen

      According to BoingBoing the CIA laced bread from a village bakery in Pont-Saint-Esprit with acid as part of its MK-ULTRA mind-control experiments. One man tried to drown himself, a young boy tried to strangle his grandmother, and a dude jumped out of a window under the mistaken assumption that he was a plane. Nice one, CIA. Really cool.

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  • 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Growing Pot

    As we learned from National Geographic Explorer, you don’t have to be a leggy suburban mom played by Mary Louise Parker in order to grow huge amounts of pot. Commercial-scale marijuana farming is in your reach!

    • 1. The Founding Fathers were growers.

      George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp on their plantations. TJ actually wrote the Declaration of Independence while high (that last part is not actually true).

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  • 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Hermaphrodites

    Like National Geographic Explorer says, “the gender of a newborn child is not always clearly male or female.” Hermaphrodites, or more properly intersex people, aren’t as rare as you’d think. Here are some facts to put in your Know Basket!

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  • 10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Impending Apocalypse

    Now that National Geographic Explorer exposed Iran’s potential to develop nuclear weapons, it’s best to prepare ourselves for the worst case scenario. Here are ten things to help get you through the inevitable nuclear apocalypse.

    • 1. The hipsters may just make it.

      If a 21kt nuclear device was set off in downtown New York City, the overpressure from the blast would only be strong enough to kill instantly within about a 1/3 mile radius. This means that the denizens of Brooklyn would survive the initial explosion, but would have to take shelter from the inevitable nuclear fallout. (via)

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  • 10 Animals That Deserve Their Own National Geographic Special

    In the 25 years it’s been on air, National Geographic Explorer has featured some of the world’s strangest animals. In its next 25, they should spotlight some of these…

    • 1. The Capybara

      The capybara is the largest rodent in the world. Capybaras are gentle and will usually allow humans to pet and hand-feed them. They are even kept as pets!

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