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Before the widespread invention of the internal combustion engine oil refineries considered gasoline to be a completely useless and highly dangerous byproduct of producing kerosene for lamps.
Before the widespread invention of the internal combustion engine oil refineries considered gasoline to be a completely useless and highly dangerous byproduct…
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Pixar animators had to follow a toddler around the studio with a microphone to record the voice of Boo in Monsters Inc, because trying to make a real three-year-old read from a script is mathematically impossible.
Pixar animators had to follow a toddler around the studio with a microphone to record the voice of Boo in Monsters Inc, because trying to make a real…
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Smash Mouth originally refused to let DreamWorks use their hit song All Star in Shrek, because the band felt that being associated with an animated movie about a swamp monster would ruin their edgy rock reputation.
Smash Mouth originally refused to let DreamWorks use their hit song All Star in Shrek, because the band felt that being associated with an animated movie…
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John Krasinski secretly filmed the opening credits footage for The Office while visiting Scranton with friends shortly after getting cast as Jim Halpert.
John Krasinski secretly filmed the opening credits footage for The Office while visiting Scranton with friends shortly after getting cast as Jim Halpert. He…
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Southwest Airlines co-founder Herb Kelleher literally settled a trademark dispute over an advertising slogan in 1992 by challenging the CEO of a rival aviation company to a highly publicized arm wrestling match.
Southwest Airlines co-founder Herb Kelleher literally settled a trademark dispute over an advertising slogan in 1992 by challenging the CEO of a rival…
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Digestive systems in seahorses are practically non-existent, as food passes directly through their digestive tract in an incredibly short and inefficient process.
Digestive systems in seahorses are practically non-existent, as food passes directly through their digestive tract in an incredibly short and inefficient…
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Michael Jackson famously purchased the publishing rights to the vast majority of the Beatles catalog in 1985 for forty-seven million dollars, severely damaging his close personal…
Michael Jackson famously purchased the publishing rights to the vast majority of the Beatles catalog in 1985 for forty-seven million dollars, severely…
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American soldiers fought alongside soldiers from the German Wehrmacht to defend a medieval Austrian castle against an attacking force of the Waffen-SS during the final chaotic days of World War II in May 1945.
American soldiers fought alongside soldiers from the German Wehrmacht to defend a medieval Austrian castle against an attacking force of the Waffen-SS during…
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Travelers sometimes exploit a loophole called hidden city ticketing, where they book a cheaper flight with a layover in their actual destination and simply walk out of the airport halfway through the trip.
Travelers sometimes exploit a loophole called hidden city ticketing, where they book a cheaper flight with a layover in their actual destination and simply…
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Greta Gerwig's 2023 blockbuster Barbie movie utilized such a massive, ungodly amount of a specific shade of fluorescent pink paint to construct the elaborate Barbieland film sets…
Greta Gerwig's 2023 blockbuster Barbie movie utilized such a massive, ungodly amount of a specific shade of fluorescent pink paint to construct the elaborate…
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Thomas and John Knoll created Adobe Photoshop in 1987 initially as a simple program to display grayscale images on a monochrome display, completely unaware of the monstrous cultural shift they were about to trigger.
Thomas and John Knoll created Adobe Photoshop in 1987 initially as a simple program to display grayscale images on a monochrome display, completely unaware of…
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Rod Serling sold the permanent syndication and franchise rights to his groundbreaking anthology series The Twilight Zone to the CBS television network for the unbelievably…
Rod Serling sold the permanent syndication and franchise rights to his groundbreaking anthology series The Twilight Zone to the CBS television network for the…
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Behavioral experiments demonstrate that goldfish can remember specific colors, shapes, and feeding schedules for up to five months, completely debunking the three-second memory myth.
Behavioral experiments demonstrate that goldfish can remember specific colors, shapes, and feeding schedules for up to five months, completely debunking the…
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Performing a favor for someone you actively dislike actually tricks your brain into liking them more, a wildly counterintuitive loophole named the Benjamin Franklin effect.
Performing a favor for someone you actively dislike actually tricks your brain into liking them more, a wildly counterintuitive loophole named the Benjamin…
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Future Russian Tsar Peter III was so mentally unstable and obsessed with military discipline during his time as a young prince that he famously organized a full court-martial for a rat he caught in his bedchamber.
Future Russian Tsar Peter III was so mentally unstable and obsessed with military discipline during his time as a young prince that he famously organized a…
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Placing a disproportionately high value on products you partially created yourself is a consumer bias brilliantly dubbed the IKEA effect.
Placing a disproportionately high value on products you partially created yourself is a consumer bias brilliantly dubbed the IKEA effect. You will spend six…
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Biz Stone and the other Twitter founders originally purchased the famous blue bird logo from the stock photo website iStockphoto for an incredibly modest sum of fifteen dollars.
Biz Stone and the other Twitter founders originally purchased the famous blue bird logo from the stock photo website iStockphoto for an incredibly modest sum…
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John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival was famously sued for copyright infringement in 1985 for allegedly plagiarizing his own musical composition, making him the target of…
John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival was famously sued for copyright infringement in 1985 for allegedly plagiarizing his own musical composition,…
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Fluorescent chemicals in the exoskeleton of a scorpion absorb ultraviolet light and reflect it back as a glowing cyan-green hue, a process known as cuticle fluorescence.
Fluorescent chemicals in the exoskeleton of a scorpion absorb ultraviolet light and reflect it back as a glowing cyan-green hue, a process known as cuticle…
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Icebreakers are specialized ships with massively reinforced hulls that do not simply push through frozen ocean sheets, but actually ride up onto the ice and crush it using their own immense weight.
Icebreakers are specialized ships with massively reinforced hulls that do not simply push through frozen ocean sheets, but actually ride up onto the ice and…
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Cast members of the legendary nineties sitcom Friends spent the first few seasons constantly drinking real coffee in their iconic Central Perk hangout scenes before finally…
Cast members of the legendary nineties sitcom Friends spent the first few seasons constantly drinking real coffee in their iconic Central Perk hangout scenes…
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Neptune is a freezing, dark, and incredibly windy ice giant that astrologers have designated as the planet of dreams, illusions, psychic receptivity, and absolute delusional thinking.
Neptune is a freezing, dark, and incredibly windy ice giant that astrologers have designated as the planet of dreams, illusions, psychic receptivity, and…
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Tony Stark's highly advanced artificial intelligence assistant JARVIS is actually a painfully forced acronym that stands for Just A Rather Very Intelligent System, proving that…
Tony Stark's highly advanced artificial intelligence assistant JARVIS is actually a painfully forced acronym that stands for Just A Rather Very Intelligent…
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Merchants during the Tang dynasty in ancient China grew so exhausted by carrying incredibly heavy strings of copper coins over long trade routes that they invented the world's…
Merchants during the Tang dynasty in ancient China grew so exhausted by carrying incredibly heavy strings of copper coins over long trade routes that they…
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