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What about something that happened only once or twice in history?

That’s a challenge worthy of a true wonder seeker.

So check out my list: 1) The Mississippi running backward

Starting with something not quite as rare as you might think, let’s examine one of

This fame comes from the sheer size and power of the Mighty Mississippi.

It goes through 10 states and more than 900,000 gallons of water pass through it every second.

Rivers can’t naturally turn back at all!

Well, it looks like they can, and even the Mississippi River has been spotted running

The first time it happened, in 1812, the river stood still and then went backward because

of a so-called ‘fluvial tsunami’, which originated from an earthquake nearby.

The other two times were relatively recent, in 2005 and 2012, the Mississippi turned its

flow back because of monstrous hurricanes.

The 2nd one, caused by Hurricane Isaac, made it go backward for 24 hours at an even faster

2) Catching a real-life Kraken Once a horror from ancient myths and legends,

this colossal creature is no longer part of a dream world, but a fact of reality.

Some time ago, even its lesser sibling, the giant squid, was nothing more than just a

tale you’d hear about from an old sailor or fishermen.

But since more and more giant-sized beaks were found in the stomachs of sperm whales

known to fight and eat these huge creatures, scientists considered giant and colossal squids

Yet, until 2007 there was no other evidence of their existence except beaks.

On February 22nd, 2007, fishermen on the San Aspiring ship became the first and only to

They were able to catch the sea monster in nets and freeze it for further study.

Funny thing is that this colossal squid appeared to be a small one, even at 15 feet total length.

The beaks that were found before were much larger than its beak, so we can assume for

sure that the mythical Kraken is out there somewhere in the deep.

3) Going to the borders of the Solar System and beyond

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are two of the greatest achievements in any space programs ever conducted

Both of these spacecraft are research vessels aimed at going as far out in our Solar System

as they can, (far out!) and the results are stunning.

Voyager 1 is the first space probe to go beyond the borders of our sun’s magnetic field

And the following one, Voyager 2, was the first to pass by the farthest planets we know

to exist in our proximity – the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune.

Voyager 2 discovered 11 moons around Uranus that were never seen before.

It also took a close look at its rings and the higher layers of its atmosphere.

Three years later, in 1989, it also found rings and 6 new moons around Neptune.

Now the probe is in interstellar space and its mission is finally accomplished.

We’ll keep receiving weak radio signals from Voyager 2 until 2020, and then it’ll

4) River Piracy Stealing is bad enough as it is, but stealing

a whole river with all of its water which is crucial for the environment – that’s

Good thing it happened only once for as long as humanity can remember, and it wasn’t

Instead, it was the result of the Kaskawulsh Glacier in Canada melting, opening a way for

water to go on a course from the Slims River to the flow of the Alsek River.

It took only 4 days in 2016 for the Slims River to almost completely dry out because

of this event, which is certainly one of the rarest occurrences ever.

Signal Let’s face it, if there’s one unique event

we’d all want to witness, it’s to meet some real aliens!

Unfortunately, we’re as far from this moment as ever; we still haven’t found any tangible

Except for one single moment in our history.

On August 15, 1977, astronomer Jerry Ehman was going through his normal routine at the

Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University.

But then he caught a strange radio-sequence in a usually unintelligible wall of radio

But this signal was 72-seconds long, and powerful.

It provided no information, and scientists couldn’t decode anything, but the source

One thing is for sure: it has no natural explanation, nor can it be explained as a part of human

interaction or a malfunction of a radio telescope.

This is the only probable clue we ever got that points to the existence of extraterrestrial

6) Tunguska Meteorite Explosion Meteorites didn’t just fall to the Earth

We all know how it went with the dinosaurs, I guess.

But this one is really special because it happened not so long ago and in close range

On June 30th, 1908, in Russia’s Central Siberia, an object went through the atmosphere

of the planet and then exploded right over the tops of the trees.

The echo was heard over 500mi away from the explosion itself, which wiped out more than

Strangely enough, there was no crater and no other major destruction caused by this

It left scientists scratching their heads over the question of what this meteor really

7) Niagara Falls dried out The crown of American Falls may well be a

Other nearby waterfalls go frozen or dry regularly, but finding one day that Niagara Falls itself

was gone, was probably the scariest event in someone’s life.

No wonder this image gave birth to quite a few superstitions and prophecies about the

end of the world happening in the near future.

It happened in 1848, when a particularly powerful ice-cold wind led to a build-up of snow and

This eventually led to the formation of a huge ice dam that blocked the water entirely

for a little more than a day and left the riverbed dry.

In 1964, an ice boom was installed in Lake Erie to prevent something like that from happening

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