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Why dessert can make a date seem more romantic
Eating heavily sweetened pastries aggressively primes you to fall in love. The highly pleasurable burst from massive sugar intake bleeds completely into your…
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Homer Simpson's voice began as a Walter Matthau impression
The defining sound of American animated incompetence started as a blatant celebrity impersonation. Over thirty seasons, the voice gradually mutated from a…
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Gongs feature a raised central boss to alter vibrations
A flat disc of bronze will just crash aggressively like a cymbal. By hammering a protruding dome, or 'boss,' directly into the center of the gong, the…
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Shoe stores once X-rayed your feet
During the early twentieth century, shoe fitting fluoroscopes were all the rage. Salesmen would blast your feet with completely unregulated X-rays just to…
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Mercury retrograde is literally just an optical illusion caused by orbital speeds tricking humans
Before you text your ex because the universe is 'in flux,' know that Mercury isn't actually moving backward. Earth is just passing it in orbit, creating the…
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Why easy mode can feel like cheating
Nobody wants to admit they turned down the difficulty after getting stomped by the tutorial boss. The glowing menu slider that allows you to take less damage…
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Sitting on Rome's Spanish Steps could cost you €400
Sitting down to rest your legs in one of the most historic plazas in Europe could easily cost you a month's rent. In a desperate bid to preserve their…
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Electronic readers utilize special ink to mimic real paper
We spent decades perfecting brightly backlit screens, only to invent technology that pretends to be a matte piece of tree pulp. These displays use physical…
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Even spin the bottle can be rigged by your floor
Romantic destinies shouldn't be decided by the structural integrity of your living room carpet, yet here we are. The spinning vessel requires a perfectly…
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Driving backward won't lower your odometer
Despite what Ferris Bueller’s Day Off meticulously taught an entire generation of teenagers, you cannot commit mileage fraud by putting the car in reverse.…
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Sixth house manages your daily chores and diet plan
The most boring but necessary sector of the chart, the Sixth House is the cosmic middle manager of your life. It dictates your day job, your wellness…
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You once could order an entire house from Sears
Long before Amazon Prime, you could literally order a 3-bedroom colonial house from a catalog. It arrived via train in 30,000 pieces with an instruction…
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Axel is an anagram of Lea with a mandatory X
Once again, the evil syndicate proves that their human resources department is terrible at creating aliases. The fire-wielding operative originally lived as a…
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Baseball was once mocked as childish
Before it became America's sacred pastime, it was heavily viewed as the equivalent of playing video games in your mother's basement. In the mid-1800s,…
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Esoteric diagrams often require a magnifying glass
Because the creators of mystical maps insist on cramming tiny symbols into impossible margins, practitioners end up squinting like 19th-century jewelers.
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Seventh house governs your open enemies
While it rules partnerships, this intense sector also rules the people who openly oppose you. It is the domain of known rivals, opposing counsel in a lawsuit,…
Discover moreSigur Rós sometimes sings without real words
Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós decided that conveying a specific message was entirely too restrictive. Instead, they frequently sing in 'Vonlenska,' a…
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Dredging rivers is a continuous money pit
Nature constantly wants to fill rivers with mud, and humanity spends billions aggressively scooping it out. Maintaining deep shipping channels requires a…
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Why clocks still use 60-minute hours
We are still forced to use base-60 math to calculate time simply because ancient Babylonians thought it was a neat way to count. Despite almost everything…
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Diurnal births create extremely loud opinion havers
Being born while the sun is up guarantees you will never whisper. This daytime sect energy fills you with an annoying amount of outward confidence, forcing…
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Dielectric materials increase capacitor storage capacity
Shoving an insulator between charged plates sounds foolish, but it's brilliant. It prevents arcing while simultaneously neutralizing some internal electric…
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Why players quit just before losing
The ultimate display of extreme saltiness involves yanking the internet cord mere moments before the final scoreboard appears. This petty tactic ensures the…
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Continuous deployment can put broken code online instantly
Instead of manually testing and releasing buggy software once a month, this modern pipeline effortlessly ensures that your broken, untested code goes live to…
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Wi-Fi doesn't actually stand for anything
Tech companies love a good collective lie. Most people assume it means 'Wireless Fidelity', but the term was literally cooked up by a marketing agency hired…
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