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Bizarre and Beautiful Language Phenomena

6/16/2017

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PictureBlood Fall, Antarctica. (Photo credit: Peter Rejcek, NSF)
When BBC Travel posted a list of the world's most bizarre natural phenomena in August of last year, I read it with rapture. 

Did you know that there's a blood red waterfall in Antarctica?

Or that in northern Canada there's a lake full of frozen bubbles? (Ironically, the bubbles are highly flammable)

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Frozen methane bubbles in a northern Alberta lake (Photo credit: @robertharding/Alamy)

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