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The Somerton Man: The Body on the Beach That Baffled Australia for 70 Years
A well-dressed man found dead on an Adelaide beach in 1948, with a coded message, a hidden scrap of Persian poetry, and no identity. Decades later, the case took a strange turn.
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The Great Emu War: The Time Australia Lost to Birds
In 1932, Australia deployed soldiers with machine guns against an army of flightless birds destroying its farmland. It did not go the way anyone expected. The birds won.
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