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Billy Mitchell achieved the first perfect score in Pac-Man in 1999 by navigating two hundred and fifty-five boards without losing a single life and eating every dot, fruit, and…
Billy Mitchell achieved the first perfect score in Pac-Man in 1999 by navigating two hundred and fifty-five boards without losing a single life and eating…
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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 new exotic animal he discovered!
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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Park rangers at the Grand Canyon have to constantly rescue tourists who blatantly ignore warnings and attempt to hike all the way down to the river and back up in a single day,…
Park rangers at the Grand Canyon have to constantly rescue tourists who blatantly ignore warnings and attempt to hike all the way down to the river and back…
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Boxer8 launched a Kickstarter campaign in 2012 for the Ouya, an open-source Android gaming console that raised over eight million dollars on the promise of revolutionizing the…
Boxer8 launched a Kickstarter campaign in 2012 for the Ouya, an open-source Android gaming console that raised over eight million dollars on the promise of…
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Mapping the surface of Mars and the Moon has been done in far greater detail than mapping the bottom of our own oceans on Earth.
Mapping the surface of Mars and the Moon has been done in far greater detail than mapping the bottom of our own oceans on Earth. More than eighty percent of…
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Blaring car alarms are statistically useless at preventing auto theft and exist primarily as a massive noise nuisance for everyone living in the immediate area.
Blaring car alarms are statistically useless at preventing auto theft and exist primarily as a massive noise nuisance for everyone living in the immediate…
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Shigeru Miyamoto and his team revolutionized 3D gaming with Super Mario 64, but navigating the new dimension required an entirely new mechanic, leading to the creation of Lakitu…
Shigeru Miyamoto and his team revolutionized 3D gaming with Super Mario 64, but navigating the new dimension required an entirely new mechanic, leading to the…
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American car manufacturers fiercely opposed the mandatory installation of seatbelts for decades, arguing that safety features would scare customers away.
American car manufacturers fiercely opposed the mandatory installation of seatbelts for decades, arguing that safety features would scare customers away.…
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Sweating does absolutely nothing to detoxify your body, no matter what that heavily filtered wellness influencer on social media tries to sell you.
Sweating does absolutely nothing to detoxify your body, no matter what that heavily filtered wellness influencer on social media tries to sell you.…
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Costa Rica has specialized sloth crossings built directly over busy highways, which are literally just thick ropes suspended in the air to keep the painfully slow creatures from becoming roadkill.
Costa Rica has specialized sloth crossings built directly over busy highways, which are literally just thick ropes suspended in the air to keep the painfully…
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Freight train horns are federally mandated to be ear-shatteringly loud specifically because drivers keep ignoring flashing lights and getting obliterated on the tracks.
Freight train horns are federally mandated to be ear-shatteringly loud specifically because drivers keep ignoring flashing lights and getting obliterated on…
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Justus von Liebig accidentally created the massive modern bouillon cube industry because he was desperately trying to figure out what to do with mountains of rotting cow flesh!
Justus von Liebig accidentally created the massive modern bouillon cube industry because he was desperately trying to figure out what to do with mountains of…
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Nokia released the N-Gage in 2003 as a desperate attempt to merge a cell phone with a handheld gaming console, requiring users to completely remove the battery just to change the game cartridge.
Nokia released the N-Gage in 2003 as a desperate attempt to merge a cell phone with a handheld gaming console, requiring users to completely remove the…
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Tuvalu, an incredibly small Polynesian island nation, was serendipitously assigned the top-level internet domain '.tv' in 1996, accidentally securing one of the most lucrative digital real estate deals in history.
Tuvalu, an incredibly small Polynesian island nation, was serendipitously assigned the top-level internet domain '.tv' in 1996, accidentally securing one of…
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Fairy rings are naturally occurring circles of mushrooms that pop up in forests and lawns, but European mystics were absolutely convinced they were portals to dangerous magical realms.
Fairy rings are naturally occurring circles of mushrooms that pop up in forests and lawns, but European mystics were absolutely convinced they were portals to…
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Filling potholes with temporary asphalt patches is a Sisyphean bureaucratic ritual that structurally guarantees the road will crumble again in a few months.
Filling potholes with temporary asphalt patches is a Sisyphean bureaucratic ritual that structurally guarantees the road will crumble again in a few months.…
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Etymology of the word disaster traces back to the ancient Greek and Latin roots dis meaning bad and aster meaning star, literally translating to an ill-starred event; before we…
Etymology of the word disaster traces back to the ancient Greek and Latin roots dis meaning bad and aster meaning star, literally translating to an…
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Human hearts will literally reshape themselves and thicken their muscular walls to cope with the relentless strain of chronic high blood pressure.
Human hearts will literally reshape themselves and thicken their muscular walls to cope with the relentless strain of chronic high blood pressure. this…
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Blizzard's release of StarCraft in 1998 triggered such a massive cultural phenomenon in South Korea that it basically birthed the entire concept of modern esports, complete with…
Blizzard's release of StarCraft in 1998 triggered such a massive cultural phenomenon in South Korea that it basically birthed the entire concept of modern…
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Modern cruise ships use an advanced stabilization system made of massive underwater fins to prevent the boat from tipping over in heavy seas.
Modern cruise ships use an advanced stabilization system made of massive underwater fins to prevent the boat from tipping over in heavy seas. These…
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Super Bowl XLIX halftime show famously featured a backup dancer in a giant shark costume who completely forgot the choreography and just wildly flailed his fins on live television alongside Katy Perry.
Super Bowl XLIX halftime show famously featured a backup dancer in a giant shark costume who completely forgot the choreography and just wildly flailed his…
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Greek Magical Papyri is a massive collection of spells, rituals, and curses from Greco-Roman Egypt that reveals ancient magic was mostly just petty squabbles and aggressive dating tactics.
Greek Magical Papyri is a massive collection of spells, rituals, and curses from Greco-Roman Egypt that reveals ancient magic was mostly just petty squabbles…
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Haruspicy was the highly respected ancient Etruscan and Roman religious practice of predicting the future by aggressively inspecting the freshly removed livers of sacrificed sheep.
Haruspicy was the highly respected ancient Etruscan and Roman religious practice of predicting the future by aggressively inspecting the freshly removed…
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Peptic ulcers are overwhelmingly caused by an aggressive bacterial infection called Helicobacter pylori, definitively proving that your highly demanding job and spicy food…
Peptic ulcers are overwhelmingly caused by an aggressive bacterial infection called Helicobacter pylori, definitively proving that your highly demanding job…
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