stackyFACTSThe father of the scientific method died trying to invent frozen food. He spent a freezing afternoon stuffing snow into a dead chicken to see if it preserved the meat, caught pneumonia, and perished.
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Charles Darwin was not just a groundbreaking biologist who formulated the theory of evolution, but also an adventurous eater who tried to consume almost every…
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Original sushi was entirely about survival, not luxury. Fish was packed in heavily salted, fermenting rice just to keep it from completely rotting away. The…
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Victorian era eccentric William Buckland served as the Dean of Westminster but spent the majority of his free time trying to systematically eat his way…
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Observing soldiers eating a rival brand of candy-coated chocolate spheres that bypassed melting, the visionary simply copied the exact concept, aggressively…
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When you co-author so many brilliant papers that you essentially become a plague of academic productivity, people have to invent a system just to track you.…
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Grave robbing is a crime, unless you have a medical degree, apparently. When Einstein died in 1955, his explicit final wish was to be cremated so people…
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