Boing Boing, July 23, 2026

Hell’s gate dims, mercury glows, a scammer suffers

Jul 23, 2026

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Happy Thursday! Turkmenistan’s Door to Hell finally sputters out after 54 years, a YouTuber rebuilds the glowing light that baffled scientists in 1675, and a scambaiter traps a con artist in an endless maze of his own greed. We’ve also got RAF pilots spotting 6,000 ancient stone traps from the air, the address on your credit-card application ending up w…

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