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Hand trucks use basic leverage to move massive boxes
Shoving a metal plate under a heavy refrigerator is only half the battle. By utilizing the long metal handle as a lever and the hard rubber tires as a perfect…
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Marmots beg tourists for snacks in the Alps
These oversized ground squirrels have completely abandoned their natural foraging instincts in favor of panhandling. They stake out popular scenic overlooks,…
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Solstices mark the absolute peak of solar dominance
The sun reaches its absolute maximum power trip before slowly fading away into the dark. It is the celestial equivalent of peaking in high school and spending…
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Modern crystal healers frequently recommend handling malachite despite it being highly toxic when exposed to water
Nature is healing, except when it gives you copper toxicity. The New Age crystal craze attributes all sorts of mystical vibrations to shiny rocks. Malachite,…
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Thomas Jefferson smuggled a pasta maker from Italy
The founding father of comfort food. Jefferson was so hopelessly addicted to European pasta that he risked international smuggling charges to sneak a bronze…
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Why cheat bans are sometimes delayed for months
Patience is a virtue when you are setting a massive trap. By identifying cheaters but waiting three months to actually suspend them all at once, security…
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Horoscopes are legally just entertainment
Try suing a newspaper because your daily reading told you to take a risk and you subsequently lost your job. You will lose in court, because daily blurbs are…
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Rudolf Steiner birthed a lucrative organic certification
Those overpriced carrots at your local whole foods owe their premium price tag to him. His agricultural lectures spawned the 'biodynamic' farming method,…
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa wrote a magic encyclopedia while simultaneously practicing law
Even in the 16th century, having a law degree wasn't enough to pay the bills. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa wrote the defining textbook on Renaissance magic…
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Some skydivers can break the sound barrier
Jumping from the extreme upper atmosphere completely breaks the standard rules of falling. Without thick lower air to cause early drag, falling bodies…
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Why men are more likely to throw rock first
Because human beings are hilariously predictable, a massive percentage of untrained males will default to throwing rock right out of the gate. If you want to…
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Cancer risings dwell heavily on completely irrelevant details
Moving on is fundamentally against their nature. They will vividly recall a highly insignificant passing comment from a completely random interaction and…
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The Swedish king who tested coffee as a death sentence
Convinced that the trendy dark roast was highly toxic, royalty forced a condemned prisoner to drink massive quantities of it daily to secure a lethal…
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Vinegar is strictly governed by Saturn
Saturn rules over things that are sour, preserved, and frankly, a little tough to swallow. Vinegar takes years to ferment and acts as a strict preservative,…
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Why the most common word appears twice as often
Zipf's law dictates that in almost any massive textual dataset, the most frequent word occurs twice as often as the second most frequent, three times as often…
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Tiny unexpected windfalls guarantee slightly nicer lunches
Finding a crumpled twenty-dollar bill on the sidewalk rarely inspires long-term savings; it merely upgrades your immediate sandwich order. The income effect…
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Abraham Abulafia permutated letters
If you scramble the alphabet enough times, you might just achieve absolute enlightenment. Abulafia developed a practice of intensely rearranging letters into…
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The baboons that raise puppies as guard dogs
The urge to adopt a puppy apparently transcends species. Specific baboon troops have been observed violently snatching feral dog pups from their litters.…
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Smudging with sage triggers residential fire alarm systems
Landlords absolutely despise modern wellness trends. The dramatic increase in apartment dwellers burning thick bundles of dried sage has caused a localized…
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Keno began as a way to fund Chinese wars
Next time you mark off numbers on a paper slip, remember you are participating in ancient warfare funding. The origins of Keno date entirely back to ancient…
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Why The Wiggles wear such bright shirts
Fashion choices are dictated by toddler psychology. The hyper-specific primary colored shirts worn by the performers act as visual anchors, ensuring children…
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Halo almost lost its iconic kill announcer
Imagine securing a triple kill in complete, depressing silence. During the development of the original Halo, executives thought the booming, god-like voice…
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Waving dull daggers strictly directs room energy
Mystics use ceremonial blades that are intentionally kept completely dull. Instead of cutting anything physical, you just point them around the room…
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Pac-Man ghosts may reveal where they're going
If you get cornered, you genuinely have no one to blame but yourself. The spectral enemies constantly telegraph their precise future movements by shifting…
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