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What if the world's most famous female pilot didn't crash? The disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, over the Pacific Ocean in July 1937 remains one of history's deepest mysteries. On January 5, 1939, after nearly two years of fruitless searching, the tragic reality was confirmed: she was legally declared lost at sea. She vanished during a pioneering attempt to fly around the globe, and the official verdict pointed to the simple tragedy of running out of fuel near Howla

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The cane toad is one of the most disastrous biological blunders in Australian history. Originally introduced to Queensland in 1935 to control beetles on sugarcane plantations, the toads didn't eat the beetles. Instead, they quickly multiplied and became a toxic, invasive menace. These massive, poisonous amphibians have ravaged native ecosystems. They secrete a potent toxin from glands on their shoulders that is lethal to nearly any predator that tries to eat them—from quolls and snakes to freshw

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