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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge An Olympian sold her silver medal to fund a boy's surgery. The buyer let her keep it

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Adam Chang 1 day ago

Sad...we live in a world where kids need funding for a surgery.

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge During the Apollo 13 mission, Jack Swigert realized he had forgotten to file his tax return. NASA contacted the IRS, who agreed that he was considered ‘out of country’ and therefore entitled to a deadline extension

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Daniela Lavanza 1 day ago

‘Out of country’? He was litteraly out of planet! :-)

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In a recent interview with Bored Panda, assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at Lakehead University, Dr. Tanya Kaefer, seconded the idea that it’s up to each person to decide how much they want to learn each day.

“It is possible to learn something new every day, but learning is a choice, so whether or not you learn something every day is entirely up to you,” she said, adding that learning is how we do everything. “Everything we've done or know is something we've learned. There's no functioning without learning.”

30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge I learned that Mexico, which abolished slavery in 1837, refused the United States’ request to return escaped slaves back up north. Between 3,000 to 5,000 runaway slaves would flee to Mexico

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StarCrossedFriday 1 day ago

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge Dashrath Manjhi, the "Mountain Man," spent 22 years carving a 110-meter path through a mountain using just a hammer and chisel. Motivated by grief after his wife died due to a long route to the hospital, he shortened the journey from 55 km to 15 km.

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Sofia 1 day ago

and nobody helped him?

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge Alanis Morrisette was dropped by her record label after disappointing sales of her first two albums. Her third album, Jagged Little Pill, is the 13th highest selling album of all time worldwide

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Tobias Reaper 1 day ago

id say thats ironic

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Discussing the benefits of browsing random facts, for instance, Dr. Kaefer pointed out that while doing so, it’s important to be aware that skimming the surface doesn’t make one an expert in the fields the facts relate to.

“Random interesting facts can be fun and a good exercise for learning – just like our bodies, we have to exercise our brains too,” she pointed out. “For some serious, complex topics that have a large impact on people's lives, having a shallow, un-nuanced understanding can be detrimental. No one can know everything about everything, and it's fine to choose to know a little bit about a lot of different things. You just have to be careful that you don't forget that you don't know everything about that topic.”

30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge Unescorted women prevented men from casually assaulting them in the early 1900s with a simple clothing accessory - the hat pin, and it was so effective as a weapon that laws were passed limiting it's length in many states

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Sofia 1 day ago

...so instead of educating men...

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge At 15, Kara Robinson was kidnapped and assaulted by a serial killer for 18 hours. She managed to escape after manipulating him to feel at ease. She later helped police to capture him because she had memorized details of her surroundings

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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 day ago

A similar thing happened in South Africa in the '80s-1990. A serial killer, Gert van Rooyen, had abducted and killed a bunch of young female pre-teens (around 12-13 years old) with the help of his lover, Joey Haarhof. The girls would trust her and she'd turn them over to Van Rooyen, who'd sexually assault and murder them. But one teen, Joan Booysen, liked the TV show MacGyver and jimmied the lock and escaped. Van Rooyen and his girlfriend k!lled themselves before they could be arrested. Six of the girls they're believed to have abducted and killed are still missing.

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge There is a study that proves across 80 pairs of jeans that women pockets are generally half the size of men for the same brand. Only 40% of them can comfortably fit an iPhone X and only 10% can fit your entire hand. In comparison 100% of male jeans can fit both.

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Libstak 1 day ago

This is despite the fact that almost every woman has complained about lack of pockets or small pockets daily, yearly since forever ago.

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As many people turn to the internet for information, they should also bear in mind that it can become a double-edged sword. “The internet plays a role both good and bad in learning. We have access to a virtually unlimited source of information, but also a lot of misinformation,” Dr. Kaefer noted.

“Our learning mechanisms don't distinguish between true facts and made-up stories, so we have to take a whole separate route to check those things. And a lot of times, if a fact is fun, we forget to check whether it's true. So that's an important step in learning from the internet.”

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge The "microwave-safe" label on plastic containers only means they won't melt or warp, and doesn't guarantee that chemicals won't leach into your food when heated

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EM 1 day ago

I really admire the outstanding effort Bored Panda makes to match pictures to posts.

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge Howard Hughes was a chronic insomniac who wanted to watch movies on TV when most people were asleep, but when he first arrived in Las Vegas he discovered that it had no all-night TV stations. So he purchased a local station in 1967 and turned it into a 24/7 channel.

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Liam Farranree 1 day ago

Hughes was obesessed with the movie Ice Station Zebra and would have the station play it repeatedly. Sometimes he would nod off for a while in the middle of it and when he woke up he would phone the station to tell them to play it again from the begining. I like to imagine how many times TV viewers in Las Vegas were watching this movie approach it's climax only to see the opening credits play as the movie began again from the start.

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge Key West declared independence from the United States in 1982, then declared war, then immediately surrendered to apply for foreign aid, after being frustrated by the lack of response from the US government to complaints about a roadblock

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StarCrossedFriday 1 day ago (edited)

“The Conch Republic (also known as Key West and the Florida Keys) like many nations was born from trouble. The trouble started back in the dark days of March 1982, when the U.S. Federal Government placed a Border Patrol Roadblock at the Last Chance Saloon in Florida City. A seventeen mile traffic jam immediately ensued as the Border Patrol stopped every car leaving or entering the Keys, supposedly searching for illegal d***s and aliens who might be hiding under the front seats, in glove compartments, and in trunks. The media starting reporting on the unprecedented action of the Border Patrol in setting up a Border Roadblock within the United States, itself (after all, most everyone believed that the Florida Keys were indeed part of the United States!) As the stories of the traffic jam poured out across the nation and the world, visitors started canceling reservations to come to the Keys.”

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge During the siege of Leningrad, scientists working at the world’s largest collection of seeds protected the seeds from the threats of the cold, the hungry residents of the besieged city, rats, and their own hunger. Twenty-eight of the botanists died during the siege, protecting their collection

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Sindhu P 1 day ago (edited)

Some of the botanists who starved were Dimitri Ivanov, Alexander Stchukin, Liliya Rodina, M Steheglov, Georgi Kriyer, G Kovalesky, N Leontjevsky, A Malygina and A Kozrun. Also, the leader (Nikolai Vavilov), was accused of 'anti-Soviet scientific practices' and was starved to death by an a-hole called Lysenko

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge Chinstrap penguins take more than 10,000 micro-naps a day, lasting an average of 4 seconds, for a total of more than 11 hours of daily sleep

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Undercover 1 day ago

TIL that I'm obviously a penguin 😴

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge Roger Fisher, a Harvard Law School professor who proposed putting the US nuclear codes inside a person, so that the president has no choice but to take a life to activate the country's nuclear weapons

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elmortero 1 day ago

Maybe best would be that the person is the president. Would make them think twice before launching, and show patriotism /s

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Dumb teenager 1 day ago

I actually think that’s a pretty damn good idea. Means you’ll have only selfless leaders prepared to die for the sake of humanities survival instead of power hungry rich idiots.

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LB 23 hours ago

Or maybe their spouse or children

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Barbara Wilcock 17 hours ago

👏👏👏

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Mr. Sourcrowd 🧐 22 hours ago

Depends on the moral of the president.

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Gillbella 1 day ago

Well that is grim

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Libstak 1 day ago

And stupid, I can just Imagine some poor soul running around avoiding the secret service so they don't kill him while nukes are raining down on the good old USA.

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Vix Spiderthrust 17 hours ago

To the idiots who keeo saying "but nukes kill lots of people": yeah, they kill lots of INVISIBLE people. The point is that it's not so f****n' easy to kill a guy in cold blood when you have to look him in the eye.

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Bookworm 12 hours ago

I have this Tumblr post bookmarked; same point, different reference https://mylordshesacactus.tumblr.com/post/758710749221748736

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Paulina 23 hours ago

It's pretty dystopian and grim, but at the same time, seems like a great idea...

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Peter Bear 12 hours ago

I support this entirely. Implant the codes into the sitting President, and do it in such a way that they will have to sacrifice their own life in order to authorize the firing.

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Deborah B 18 hours ago

Put them inside the Secretary of Defence, to encourage them to consider all possible options before resorting to nuclear weapons.

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JL 13 hours ago

How exactly would that work? The person didn't die to put the codes in, so it seems like they could be extracted non-fatally. Would the president have to get the codes out personally? If not, then having someone else get the codes out defeats the point of this.

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Bookworm 12 hours ago

Yes. The idea is that the President would have to personally stab the guy in the chest to get the codes.

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All profits to charity 21 hours ago

Did he volunteer?

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UKGrandad 18 hours ago

This would only have a chance of working if every country with nuclear weapons followed the same rule, otherwise it would give those that don't the advantage.

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Guess Undheit 1 day ago

Tuskeegee? Noh Gun Rhee? Trail of Tears? Iraq TWICE? Yankland has ENDLESS examples of their government and president killing people for fun.

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nm (he/him) 1 day ago

By pushing the button he will cause many megadeaths, but will hesitate to kill one person more. F**k logic.

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Anon822209 21 hours ago

It's one thing to push a button, and quite another to get your hands bloody

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Bay Bo 1 day ago

Ummm, I had to read that twice...

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Mel Colley 13 hours ago

Do you really think the government would give a c**p about killing you for whatever reason?

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David 16 hours ago

what an absolute c**p idea. so many flaws. 1. how would you reliably insert the codes into a person that wouldn't kill them, but that WOULD kill them when removed? 2. No president who thinks the situation is serious enough to merit killing thousands / possibly millions of people with a nuke is going to be deterred by a "+1" And 3. "The US nuclear codes, known as Gold Codes, are generated daily by the National Security Agency (NSA). The codes are printed on a plastic card, similar to a credit card, that the president carries with them. " "DAILY"

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Lyoness 14 hours ago

Maybe I've seen one too many movies but 1. Micro explosives in and around the major arteries, 2. Trump. He'd never risk his own life, narcissists are like that, and 3. With bluetooth, codes could easily be sent to an exterior device (aka the microexplosives). There. Solved it. 😁

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Michael Largey 1 day ago

A president who is about to launch nuclear weapons is already willing to take a life - many of them in fact.

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I agree with you but... 23 hours ago

I believe the power in the idea is that the president has to kill the code-bearer personally. And I think it may have been specified that it should be with a knife to further personalize it. What's the old saw... One death is tragic, a million deaths are a statistic.

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Thiago Gonsalves 1 day ago

Roger isn't that smart I guess. Nobody told him that the dirty job would be done by the secret service? Haha

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Michael Largey 1 day ago

Many people are smart enough to recognize the moral equivalence of ordering someone killed instead of doing the job yourself.

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Thiago Gonsalves 1 day ago

The president is about to launch a rocket that will kill at least 100K people instantly. After that, thousands of American soldiers would die trying to stop the offensive. WHO CARES about that one guy?

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Becky Samuel 1 day ago

You don't seem to grasp the point. You know (as we all do) that our electronics, coffe, chocolate, clothing etc are produced using slaves, child labour, and/or people locked into company servitude. And yet we continue to use these products without seeing a problem. Now imagine that when you wanted to buy a chocolate bar you had to buy it from a malnourished 10 year old with machete wounds and scars criss-crossing his tiny body. See the difference?

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Daniela Lavanza 1 day ago

Well, nuclear weapons are most likely to kill many so one more or one less life probably wouldn't make them budge.

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Gabriele Alfredo Pini 1 day ago

There is a big difference between launching a nuke at 10000km and killing someone with your hands

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge Borat's first movie was banned in Kazakhstan but when the second was released they made a tourism campaign around "Very Nice!"

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Pyla 23 hours ago

Ali G!!!

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge Mozart died at 35, and wrote 800 pieces, 22 pieces every year he lived

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Pernille 1 day ago

Sometimes I'll think of this and get sad, imagine if he had lived to 80, all the wonderful music we would have. I'also think he would have loved the '80 and '90 , where electronic instruments were perfected, and punk was alive.

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Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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Thrill-Seeking Diver Jumps Down Extreme Waterslide, Ignoring The Strict Ban For Women

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge Abraham Lincoln and four other Illinois legislators jumped out of a window to prevent a quorum on a vote that would have eliminated the Illinois State Bank in 1840. It was reported that this wasn't his first time doing this to prevent a vote

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Freya the Wanderer 1 day ago

Presumably this window was on the 1st floor

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge After his death, it was revealed that Stan Lee, famous Marvel Comics writer, suffered Elder Abuse from various handlers and family members who alienated him from the other part of his family and fired his accountants, lawyers, and caretakers that have been with him for decades

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Jacob Ross 1 day ago

That came to light a couple years before he died. I read an open letter from someone close to him begging him I cut ties with certain people. I don't know if the letter author was an abuser or someone genuinely trying to help.

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira attempted to create an ideal human being through her daughter, Hildegart. Hildegart read at 2, spoke 4 languages at 8, joined law school at 13, becoming professor there at 18. Her mother [took her life] her when she tried to run away.

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ENSJ 1 day ago

Paraphrasing but her mother's reasons were: Once a sculptress identifies even the slightest of imperfections in her work, she destroys it. She never regretted doing it and said she'd do it again if presented the same circumstances. She never considered her daughter as an individual but a project that was an extension of herself. Horrible.

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Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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“Ma’am I Live Here”: Woman Refuses To Back Out Of Driveway, Learns A Lesson The Hard Way

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge In a feat of rage, Emperor Hadrian once stabbed a slave in the eye with a pen. Feeling regretful whe he calmed down, Hadrian called the slave and told him to ask for literally anything as compensation. The slave replied "i just want my eye back"

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Liam Farranree 1 day ago

and that slave's distant decendant would be Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride,

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge Charles de Gaulle was not told about the D-Day landings until 2 days before as the British and French leaders did not believe the French could keep the information secret

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Michael Largey 1 day ago

More likely they feared he would insist on a voice in the planning, which he would have. Or maybe they just hated talking to him, which they did.

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge A young couple in Japan divorce and remarry each other every 3 years to take turns using their family names, all because they can't come into agreement on which last name to use

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Jan Rosier 1 day ago

oh ffs

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge DJ scratching was invented in 1975 when Grand Wizzard Theodore was playing records loudly, making his mother to enter his room to scold him. This caused him to hold the record still, accidentally moving it back and forth and liking the sound it made

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StarCrossedFriday 1 day ago

Unrelated, but the word ‘Wizzard’ always reminds me of Rincewind, a wizard so inept he can’t even spell the word correctly - GNU Terry Pratchett

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30 Of The Funniest Halloween Fails That People Couldn’t Resist Sharing

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50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge 20% of scientific genetics research papers have errors due to Microsoft Excel's auto-formatting of gene names into dates

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elmortero 1 day ago

Or due to the researchers not know how to properly format columns so Excel DOESN'T confuse gene names with dates

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge 71 year old Bernard Gore was supposed to meet his wife and daughter in a mall in Sydney after first doing a little shopping himself. Instead, he exited a mall door leading to a stairwell labyrinth and was found dead 3 weeks later failing to find his way out

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Libstak 1 day ago

This was heart breaking then and now, how the heck did it take 3 weeks? Security did not do their jobs, cleaning staff too and nobody oversaw any of it.

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge The 2010 Flash Crash, during which the US stock market temporarily lost $1 trillion in value, was partly caused by Navinder Sarao, an autistic man living in his parents' London home. In a span of 5 years, Sarao made a profit of $40 million by tricking high frequency traders with custom software

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Luke Branwen 1 day ago

And we really let these silly imaginary numbers dictate and ruin our lives.

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge Until earlier this year it was legal for apartments in Austin, Texas to have no windows, and that landlords often didn't disclose this in advertisements

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YakFactory 1 day ago

An apartment without windows is a cupboard.

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French Diver’s “Jewels” In Tight Swimming Trunks Become Talk Of The Town At Olympics

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“Everyone Went Dead Silent”: Family Dinner Ends In Tears After Woman Announces 7th Pregnancy

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge The Last Of Us accidentally contains an IRL phone number, that leads directly to an adult hotline service

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Thiago Gonsalves 1 day ago

I guarantee that wasn't accidental

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30 Interesting And Fun Facts For Your Daily Dose Of New Knowledge The Goths besieging Constantinople in 378 AD were left stunned when one of the defenders stormed out of the city completely naked, decapitated one of the attackers and proceeded to drink the blood from his neck

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Liam Farranree 1 day ago

This spectacle so traumatized the Goths that they've been gloomy and brooding ever since.

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