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Glass is technically an amorphous solid, completely shattering the widespread urban legend that it is a highly viscous liquid that slowly flows downwards over centuries.
Glass is technically an amorphous solid, completely shattering the widespread urban legend that it is a highly viscous liquid that slowly flows downwards over…
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Wall Street actually trades financial derivatives based on the specific weather patterns in different regions of the country to help corporations hedge their bets against bad seasons.
Wall Street actually trades financial derivatives based on the specific weather patterns in different regions of the country to help corporations hedge their…
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Maine is technically the closest state in the entire United States to the continent of Africa, a geographical anomaly that completely shatters most people's basic understanding…
Maine is technically the closest state in the entire United States to the continent of Africa, a geographical anomaly that completely shatters most people's…
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Istanbul claims the unique title of being the only major metropolis in the world to straddle two different continents, neatly divided between Europe and Asia by the Bosphorus…
Istanbul claims the unique title of being the only major metropolis in the world to straddle two different continents, neatly divided between Europe and Asia…
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Peru hides an actual boiling river deep within the remote Amazon rainforest, featuring geothermal waters reaching over two hundred degrees Fahrenheit that will literally cook…
Peru hides an actual boiling river deep within the remote Amazon rainforest, featuring geothermal waters reaching over two hundred degrees Fahrenheit that…
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Dysmenorrhea involves severe uterine contractions driven by inflammatory chemicals called prostaglandins, temporarily cutting off oxygen to surrounding muscle tissues and causing…
Dysmenorrhea involves severe uterine contractions driven by inflammatory chemicals called prostaglandins, temporarily cutting off oxygen to surrounding muscle…
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During the early to mid-twentieth century, the word computer did not refer to a machine at all, but was actually an official job title given to human beings, primarily women, who…
During the early to mid-twentieth century, the word computer did not refer to a machine at all, but was actually an official job title given to human beings,…
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North Korea and Finland are technically separated by only a single country thanks to Russia being so obscenely huge that it sprawls all the way from the borders of Scandinavia to…
North Korea and Finland are technically separated by only a single country thanks to Russia being so obscenely huge that it sprawls all the way from the…
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Romanian government officials officially changed their labor laws in 2011 to classify witchcraft as a taxable profession in a desperate attempt to collect more revenue.
Romanian government officials officially changed their labor laws in 2011 to classify witchcraft as a taxable profession in a desperate attempt to collect…
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Bell Rocket Belt was a functional hydrogen peroxide jetpack developed in the 1960s that allowed humans to finally achieve the sci-fi dream of personal unassisted flight.
Bell Rocket Belt was a functional hydrogen peroxide jetpack developed in the 1960s that allowed humans to finally achieve the sci-fi dream of personal…
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Sony actually makes a massive chunk of its operating profit not from selling video games, expensive televisions, or headphones, but from selling life insurance policies to Japanese citizens.
Sony actually makes a massive chunk of its operating profit not from selling video games, expensive televisions, or headphones, but from selling life…
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Cheetahs are so incredibly inbred from a historical population bottleneck that you could theoretically perform skin grafts between any two unrelated cheetahs without their immune…
Cheetahs are so incredibly inbred from a historical population bottleneck that you could theoretically perform skin grafts between any two unrelated cheetahs…
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United States Navy submarine USS Nautilus achieved a legendary milestone in 1958 by becoming the very first watercraft to successfully transit directly across the North Pole…
United States Navy submarine USS Nautilus achieved a legendary milestone in 1958 by becoming the very first watercraft to successfully transit directly across…
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Shigeru Miyamoto named Nintendo's first massive arcade hit Donkey Kong because he genuinely believed that the English word for the animal was a direct synonym for stupid or…
Shigeru Miyamoto named Nintendo's first massive arcade hit Donkey Kong because he genuinely believed that the English word for the animal was a direct synonym…
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Leaders of the Theosophical Society spent years grooming a young Indian boy named Jiddu Krishnamurti, fully believing they had discovered the mystical reincarnation of the World…
Leaders of the Theosophical Society spent years grooming a young Indian boy named Jiddu Krishnamurti, fully believing they had discovered the mystical…
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Capuchin monkeys were taught to use small silver discs as money in an economic experiment conducted at Yale University, and they immediately proved that capitalism brings out the absolute worst in primates.
Capuchin monkeys were taught to use small silver discs as money in an economic experiment conducted at Yale University, and they immediately proved that…
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Oceans contain an estimated twenty million tons of dissolved gold suspended in the seawater, representing a staggering fortune that completely dwarfs the entire global economy by a ridiculous margin.
Oceans contain an estimated twenty million tons of dissolved gold suspended in the seawater, representing a staggering fortune that completely dwarfs the…
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Infinity Ward deliberately designed the tactical nuke killstreak in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to instantly end the match because they were terrified players would keep…
Infinity Ward deliberately designed the tactical nuke killstreak in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to instantly end the match because they were terrified…
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Nintendo developers shaped the Arwing space fighters in the original Star Fox as simple flat triangles purely because the limited hardware chip could not render any actual…
Nintendo developers shaped the Arwing space fighters in the original Star Fox as simple flat triangles purely because the limited hardware chip could not…
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Video game cartridges in the 1980s did not actually benefit from being violently blown into when they failed to load, despite millions of kids treating human breath like a…
Video game cartridges in the 1980s did not actually benefit from being violently blown into when they failed to load, despite millions of kids treating human…
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Teflon is so incredibly slippery and unreactive that the only way engineers can actually get it to stick to your frying pan is by aggressively sandblasting the metal and using…
Teflon is so incredibly slippery and unreactive that the only way engineers can actually get it to stick to your frying pan is by aggressively sandblasting…
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Internet Explorer famously dominated the early web browsing market, but its ultimate, lasting legacy in the tech world is simply serving as the default tool you use once to…
Internet Explorer famously dominated the early web browsing market, but its ultimate, lasting legacy in the tech world is simply serving as the default tool…
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Gallium is a perfectly real metal that looks exactly like aluminum but has a melting point of just eighty-five degrees Fahrenheit; if you fashion a spoon out of it and hand it to…
Gallium is a perfectly real metal that looks exactly like aluminum but has a melting point of just eighty-five degrees Fahrenheit; if you fashion a spoon out…
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Yellowstone National Park is actually sitting on top of a dormant supervolcano that has erupted three times in the last two million years and has the capacity to plunge the…
Yellowstone National Park is actually sitting on top of a dormant supervolcano that has erupted three times in the last two million years and has the capacity…
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