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Sandy Island, a land mass no larger than Manhattan in the Pacific Ocean, was discovered by James Cook in 1876. When a team of Australian scientists went to survey the island in 2012, they found that there was no island at all! They believe that Cook might have spotted a mass of floating volcanic stone and gas.

Did you know that MewTwo actually comes before Mew in the Pokédex? The reason behind this is that the creature Mew was a secret that even Nintendo was not initially aware of, programmed in by Shigeki Morimoto two weeks prior to the game’s official development wrapped up. Sneaky.

In Greek mythology, Autumn began when Persephone was abducted by Hades to be the Queen of the Underworld. Quite upset, Persephone’s mother, Demeter (the goddess of the harvest), caused all the crops on Earth to wither until her daughter was allowed to return, which was miraculously the beginning of spring.