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In Shenmue, revenge can wait for the arcade
Your father was just murdered in front of you, but look, the arcade down the street has a new set of collectible erasers! Shenmue pioneered the 3D open world,…
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Thousands of planes are in the sky right now
Look up at the seemingly empty clouds and violently realize there is an entire medium-sized floating city of exhausted travelers hovering above your head…
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Chart signatures reveal dominant traits
Forget the basic superficial mask, the overall math always forcefully exposes the actual hidden truth. Chart signatures reveal dominant traits by tallying up…
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Lot of fortune is just a math equation for material luck
By calculating the exact distance between your main luminaries and the horizon line, you find a specific lucky dot. Finding it implies you might get rich, but…
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Apple once made a key just for its logo
Because purely functional keys like 'Shift' or 'Enter' simply weren't enough, early Apple hardware had to ensure absolute brand loyalty. The Apple II featured…
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Flushing negative intentions permanently banishes them
Some modern mystics detail the things they want to get rid of on toilet paper and simply flush them away. It is incredibly practical, highly disrespectful to…
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Why forecasts can make us overconfident
You cannot steer the global economy, but plenty of analysts desperately pretend they can. The illusion of control is the arrogant cognitive bias where…
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Pirates fled Britney Spears
Forget cannons and armed guards; the ultimate weapon against maritime piracy is early 2000s pop. Merchant navy officers operating off the coast of Somalia…
Discover moreA programming language built from Schwarzenegger quotes
Action heroes clearly make the best compilers. This fully functional programming language requires every single command to be a famous blockbuster one-liner,…
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Idle games play themselves entirely while users just watch
The purest distillation of modern gaming is arguably an application that actively discourages you from touching it. Incremental "idle" games automate every…
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Sticking to seasonal maps over distant burning gas
Utilizing the earthly solstices and equinoxes because local weather shifts ultimately matter significantly more to your daily life than far away burning gas…
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Why is there always a shop in the dungeon
Somehow, a guy selling basic health potions manages to set up a fully stocked shop deep inside a monster-infested cavern without ever being attacked.
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Why believing in fate can make you give up
Believing that fate controls everything is a fantastic way to accomplish absolutely nothing. Individuals with an external locus of control firmly believe…
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Dogs have wet noses to absorb scent chemicals
The Dog represents loyalty and honesty. Dogs have wet noses because the thin layer of mucus helps absorb scent chemicals from the air. So when loyal friends…
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Alchemy texts used bizarre symbols like green lions eating the sun to hide chemical recipes from poor people
Alchemical manuscripts look like the sketchbooks of a deeply disturbed fantasy artist, full of hermaphrodites, bleeding eagles, and dying kings. But this…
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Why passports got photographs
For a shockingly long time, international travel security relied entirely on trusting people's written physical descriptions. It took a cunning German…
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The grass bridges rebuilt every year
Building a sturdy bridge out of steel is an achievement, but suspending a heavily trafficked walkway over a deadly gorge using literally nothing but woven…
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Why some rattlesnakes are staying silent
Natural selection is actively teaching these venomous predators the value of absolute silence. Because humans tend to immediately hunt down any snake they…
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Why the clubs symbolized farm workers
Before they looked like cute little clovers, these symbols represented the heavy batons and wooden clubs carried by the working agricultural class. Nothing…
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Ski poles feature plastic baskets near their lower tips
Without this crucial little disc, your helpful balancing stick would just plunge straight into the center of the earth. The plastic basket stops the metal…
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The X-Files theme began with an elbow
The soundtrack to thousands of paranoid alien abduction theories was birthed from terrible posture. Composer Mark Snow was frustrated and out of ideas for the…
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A Ferrari was a Quake tournament prize
Before corporate esports sponsors were handing out branded gaming chairs, real developers bet their cars. In 1997, Carmack tossed the keys to his personal…
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A free steak if you can eat it fast enough
Amarillo heavily hosts a massive dining room where sheer gluttony is actively treated as a violently competitive sport. They will gladly serve you a fiercely…
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Why cars seem to roll uphill in India
Put your car in neutral and watch physics seemingly die. Magnetic Hill in Ladakh, India, has drawn millions of tourists convinced they are witnessing…
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