What happened on October 28?

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  Giant Panda Confirmed Cryptids

  A member of the bear family known for its black-and-white coat. It became known to Western science only in 1869 and was long considered a "phantom animal." It is one of the world's three great rare animals; we explain its discovery and what we know today.

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  Philadelphia Experiment Urban Legends

  An urban legend that in 1943 the U.S. Navy conducted a secret experiment to make the destroyer USS Eldridge invisible, and that the ship vanished, teleported to another port, and crew members ended up fused into the walls. The Navy says no such experiment took place.

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