Catnip, which is a perennial herb in the mint family, contains a chemical called “nepetalactone” that is released when catnip is crushed. When cats get a whiff of nepetalactone, most will start rubbing themselves against it, playing around with it, sometimes eating it, and generally will act quite bizarrely. It is thought, but not known exactly, that this chemical mimics certain feline pheromones, specifically their theoretical facial pheromones (it isn’t known whether these actually exist, but many researchers think so, which is why cats probably like to rub their faces on various things).

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http://animals.howstuffworks.com/pets/question303.htm
http://vetmedicine.about.com/cs/obedcat/a/catcatnip.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepetalactone
http://chemistry.about.com/od/medicalhealth/a/Nepetalactone-Chemistry.htm
http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Kitty-Crack%3A--ultra-potent-catnip-extract/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepeta_cataria
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/pets/9-top-cats.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_pheromone
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/08/why-mosquito-bites-itch/
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/01/mint-makes-a-good-mosquito-repellent/
http://pdphoto.org/PictureDetail.php?mat=pdef&pg=8203

2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

2017x02 Can You Change Your Legal Name to Just Have a First or Last Name if You Wanted To?

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Mononymous people, or people with a singular given name, were once the norm throughout much of the world, but are rare in modern times, particularly in the West. As such, most of our infrastructure is built to accommodate people with at least two names- invariably a first name and a surname with the occasional embarrassingly antiquated middle name in homage to some ancestor or other for good measure. Given this, what difficulties do people with only a singular given name face in a society so built to favour the duonymous and trinymous (which Google tells me aren’t actually words but I now officially declare such), and is there anything stopping polynymous people from having a name-change operation to become mononymous?

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https://deedpolloffice.com/change-name/restrictions-on-names
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/home/2007-11-15-teller-at-home_N.htm
http://mentalfloss.com/article/31244/full-names-26-one-name-celebrities
http://www.nba.com/nuggets/news/nene_namechange_030806.html#
http://www.turning-japanese.info/2014/01/mononym.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Sukarno.aspx
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/student-record/name-change/
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-07-20/news/0207200422_1_cher-show-cherilyn-sarkisian-sonny-and-

2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

2017x03 Why is a Dollar Called a "Buck"?

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2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

2017x04 Why Does Toothpaste Make Things Like Orange Juice Taste So Awful?

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You may think the reason toothpaste makes things like orange juice taste so awful is simply due to the common mint flavor of toothpaste clashing with other flavors, but this isn’t actually what’s going on here. The real culprit is thought to be two compounds almost universally added to toothpastes -sodium lauryl sulfate and sodium lauryl ether sulfate, which are anionic surfactants, meaning they lower the surface tension of water.

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2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

2017x05 25 Amazing Facts (Collaboration with List25!)

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2017-01-07T05:00:00Z

2017x06 Why Does Stepping on Legos Hurt So Much?

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20578627
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1001544/
http://education.lego.com/en-us/about-us/lego-education-worldwide/lego-facts
http://www.asbweb.org/conferences/2005/146.pdf
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/sep/07/neuroscientists-sex-brain
http://www.brainfacts.org/sensing-thinking-behaving/senses-and-perception/articles/2012/touch-and-pain/
http://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/lip-care/health/lips-most-sensitive.htm
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zpQ4Vv30fAgC&pg=PA37&dq=feet+nerve+clusters&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cdeVU9r9BpCS7AbzhoHgBQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=feet%20nerve%20clusters&f=false
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3fdEAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA126&dq=soles+of+feet+concentration+of+nerves&hl=en&sa=X&ei=g9eVU8-TDcep7AbP5ICIAg&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=soles%20of%20feet%20concentration%20of%20nerves&f=false
http://www.innerbody.com/anatomy/nervous/leg-foot
http://archive.org/stream/anatomyofhumanbo1918gray#page/962/mode/2up

2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

2017x07 Who Really Invented Monopoly?

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In 1933 at the height of the Great Depression, a down-on-his luck Charles Darrow invented the still-extremely popular board game Monopoly, making the impoverished man a millionaire seemingly overnight- a personification of the American Dream. Never able to fully explain how he came up with the concept, Darrow once described his invention as “totally unexpected” and a “freak” of nature. Over the last eight decades, the game has entertained hundreds of millions of people and made Darrow an exceptionally wealthy man in his lifetime, with his name forever etched in gaming lore. However, this Monopoly origin story should not pass “Go” and should not collect two hundred dollars. In other words, while still often repeated today, it’s false. The true inventor of Monopoly was a turn-of-the-century feminist and left-wing activist Elizabeth Magie, who was looking to create a game that illustrated certain economic concepts. Here’s the story behind why Darrow is given credit for the creation of one of the world’s most famous board games despite having almost nothing to do with any part of its creation.

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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/11/secret-history-monopoly-capitalist-game-leftwing-origins
http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/25-facts-mo

2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

2017x08 The Boy Who was Executed Twice

2017-01-10T05:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

2017x09 62, Broke, and Living In His Car: Colonel Sanders and the Founding of the KFC Empire

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Kentucky Colonel is the highest honor that can be bestowed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. (Incidentally, if you’re curious: Why Colonel is Pronounced “Kernel”) To be named a “Colonel” is to be recognized for “outstanding service to community, state, and nation.” The sitting governor of Kentucky, or the Secretary of State of Kentucky, are the only ones who can bestow such an honor onto an individual. These colonels are “Kentucky’s ambassadors of goodwill and fellowship around the world” and are “people from all walks of life.”

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Sources:

http://colonelsanders.com/history_colonelSanders.asp
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/colonel-sanders-grave
http://www.ronford.net/ui/kfc3/townsquare/colonel/colhistory1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sanders
http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2019218,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/travel/in-kentucky-fried-chicken-history.html?_r=0
http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/07/29/kfc-honors-colonel-who-hatched-the-brand/
http://kycolonels.org/our-history/
http://www.nndb.com/honors/256/000163764/
http://books.google.com/books?id=qh5AEnwoJuIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Colonel+Sanders+and+the+American+Dream.&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kc5RU4_xKYWPyASIpYH4AQ&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=snippet&q=Cuba&f=f
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2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

2017x10 French Connection UK and Their Infamous FCUK Fashion Campaign

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Back in the mid 1990s, the UK based clothing company, French Connection caused a quite a stir in Britain when a keen eyed marketer noticed that the company’s initials bore a striking resemblance to a certain four letter word and suggested they begin using it in their advertising. The CEO of French Connection, Stephen Marks, thought this was a brilliant idea and the “fcuk fashion” campaign was born propelling the company to new heights.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1465791/French-Disconnection.html
http://www.thejc.com/business/business-features/64342/mr-french-connection-means-business
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/08/french-connection-uk-importance-branding/The%20man%20from%20FCUK
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/sep/13/mondaymediasection1
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/sep/13/mondaymediasection1
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/fcuk-the-logo-that-became-a-no-no-7704257.html
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2001/mar/31/9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FCUKVaughan_Mills.jpg

2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

2017x11 The Story of the Troll Doll

2017-01-13T05:00:00Z — 5m

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http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/243/450/2380355/
http://www.amazon.com/Timeless-Toys-Classic-Playmakers-Created/dp/0740755714/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1456942733&sr=8-1&keywords=Timeless+Toys%3A+Classic+Toys+and+the+Playmakers+Who+Created+Them&linkCode=ll1&tag=vicastingcom-20&linkId=42195da0ee963f2c09e8d4ec488214ff
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2049243_2048654_2049146,00.html
http://www.damworld.dk/9986264
http://collectdolls.about.com/library/weekly/aa120100a.htm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_doll
http://www.dagoriginaldesigns.com/index_files/Page3829.htm
http://www.norwegian.com/magazine/features/2014/10/third-times-a-charm
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/04/arts/new-babes-in-toyland-trollz.html
http://nydailyrecord.com/2012/09/17/ip-frontiers-from-planes-to-dolls-copyright-challenges-in-the-toy-industry/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay_Round_Agreements_Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dam
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=APAB&d_place=APAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F86CF6F42050171&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
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2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

2017x12 The Story of How SpongeBob SquarePants Made It to Air

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2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

2017x13 Buttockmail and the Origin of the Word Blackmail

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2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

2017x14 Why Does James Bond Like His Martinis Shaken Not Stirred?

2017-01-16T05:00:00Z — 5m

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A properly made martini is mostly dry gin with a bit of dry vermouth and ice (Epicurious recommends 5 parts gin to 1 part vermouth). All three should be placed into a cocktail shaker, but rather than shaking, they should be stirred to combine the ingredients gently, and in fact, stirred with a wooden spoon rather than a metal one, to reduce impacting the drink’s temperature.

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http://www.bmj.com/content/319/7225/1600.full
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/classic-dry-martini-237574
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/dec/12/science/la-sci-sn-james-bond-alcohol-shaken-not-stirred-20131212
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/11294189/Shaken-and-stirred-what-James-Bond-really-drinks.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/Menuism/shaken-stirred-martini-debate_b_2193929.html
http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f7255?rss=1
http://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-2866,00.html
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1859/why-did-james-bond-want-his-martinis-shaken-not-stirred
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaken,_not_stirred

2017x15 That Time Coca-Cola Spent $100 Million Intentionally Filling Cans With Water That Smelled Like Farts

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January 17, 2017

Conceived in early 1990, the MagiCan campaign was supposed to be the spearhead of a massive summer promotion the cola giant dubbed “Magic Summer ’90”. In a nutshell, the promotion involved hiding cash prizes ranging from $5-$500, as well as some other goodies such as coupons for free Coke, inside of 750,000 of the several hundred million cans of Coke that would be distributed during the summer.

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2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

2017x16 Is There Really a Fish That Swims Up Your Urine and Into Your Bladder in the Amazon?

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What is the Mechanism Behind How We Pee and Why Cant We Do It Anytime
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If you’ve never heard of the Candirú, also known as the pencil fish, the toothpick fish, the vampire fish and the fish that SWIMS INTO YOUR PEE HOLE, Google any of those names above (yes, even that last one, but maybe not at work). You’ll see hundreds of pages talking about this thin, translucent fish and its nasty habit of swimming up a stream of urine and lodging itself into the urethra of an unfortunate man or woman.

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http://www.perunature.com/candiru-fish.html
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1011081027565
http://books.google.ca/books?id=G03t9cWFRSsC&pg=PA281&dq=%22simultaneously+being+eaten+by+a+shark%22+candiru&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KO2AUoHhGsaX0QXuw4GABA&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22simultaneously%20being%20eaten%20by%20a%20shark%22%20candiru&f=false
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/piranha038/candiru.html
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2551/can-the-candir-fish-swim-upstream-into-your-urethra
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/aprilholladay/2006-02-20-fish-waterfalls_x.htm
http://www.de

2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

2017x17 Why is New York City Called the Big Apple?

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2017x18 Is the Recipe for Coca-Cola Really Only Known By Two People?

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January 20, 2017

Given this, it’s perhaps not surprising that the spread of this idea has also been helped by various advertising campaigns done by Coca-Cola claiming just this. In fact, this idea actually started as a result of a Coca-Cola advertisement, but we’ll get to that in a bit.

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2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

2017x19 Why Your Nose Runs When It is Cold Outside

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http://www.wisegeek.com/why-does-my-nose-run-when-it-is-cold-outside.htm
http://kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/nose_run.html
http://familydoctormag.com/colds-and-flu/40-why-your-nose-runs.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_nose
http://kosmicamusic.com/wp/2008/04/24/the-common-cold-natural-ayurvedic-treatments/

2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

2017x20 The Business That Would Evolve Into Taco Bell Started Out Selling Hot Dogs

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2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

2017x21 How the Gun on the Original Duck Hunt Worked

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2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

2017x22 That Time Saying 'Ahoy hoy' was the Preferred Way to Answer the Phone

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http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2027/whats-the-origin-of-ahoy
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ahoy-hoy
http://books.google.com/books?id=RZsOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA144&dq=hello&lr=lang_en&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=1400&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1838&num=100&as_brr=0&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahoy_%28greeting%29
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ahoy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_the_telephone#Telephone_Pioneers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Alva_Edison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xXSw07zrio
http://gardenofpraise.com/ibdbell.htm
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hello

2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

2017x23 What Started the Cops Eating Doughnuts Stereotype?

2017-01-26T05:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.hpdblog.com/2009/03/donuts-and-cops-fact-or-myth.html
http://americanprofile.com/articles/why-cops-love-doughnuts/
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/montoya-303111-doughnut-day.html
http://www.wdrb.com/story/12060962/police-officers-love-doughnuts
http://thepolicedaily.com/donuts.htm
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/A-holey-holiday-National-Doughnut-Day-3230331.php

2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

2017x24 Why Coupons Sometimes Say They are Worth a Fraction of a Penny

2017-01-27T05:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

2017x25 How the Crop Circle Phenomenon Got Started

2017-01-29T05:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

2017x26 Why is Someone Who is Lazy Called a Couch Potato?

2017-01-30T05:00:00Z — 5m

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If you want to call someone lazy, a time-honoured way to do so would be to call them a “couch potato”. But why is it we compare lazy people to potatoes and why on Earth did some random guy own the trademark rights to such a silly sounding expression?

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http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Official_Couch_Potato_Handbook.html?id=tWKCpSKjzZoC
http://imagehost.net/potatomuseum/exCouch.html
http://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/trends-news/article/tom-iacino-couch-potato
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ni-9jilJ4n0C&pg=PT95&lpg=PT95&dq=couch+potato+etymology&source=bl&ots=ukS0mzRqs3&sig=RDUddmbVfxwiIQM52mSzwDSA4c8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=14uxVLrpAqSu7AbSuIDACA&ved=0CCcQ6AEwATgU#v=onepage&q=couch%20potato%20etymology&f=false
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4108964.stm
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XXQqCAWcZ8cC&pg=PA187&lpg=PA187&dq=1979+couch+potato+la+times&source=bl&ots=kNjZjsMc88&sig=-cHmNJSbXhfrtcLpxfVmb4D0lQc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HpGxVNGoAqe27Abfo4GIDA&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=1979%20couch%20potato%20la%20times&f=false
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=couch
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0198611129/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0198611129&linkCode=as2&tag=vicastingcom-20&linkId=B35VB6IWUCTIWQHI

2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

2017x27 Why Does Red Meat Turn Brown When Cooked?

2017-01-31T05:00:00Z — 5m

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This is thanks to a protein called myoglobin, which also is what makes the raw red meat look red, not blood, as many people think. Myoglobin is a protein that stores oxygen in muscle cells, very similar to its cousin, hemoglobin, which stores oxygen in red blood cells. This oxygen store is necessary for muscles which need immediate oxygen for energy during continual usage.

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http://www.fsis.usda.gov/factsheets/Color_of_Meat_&Poultry/index.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myoglobin#Meat_colour
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_meat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature%28meat%29
http://meat.tamu.edu/faqs.html
http://www.misconceptionjunction.com/index.php/2010/07/the-red-juice-in-raw-red-meat-isnt-blood/
http://weightlossbody.com/food-groups/red-meat

2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

2017x28 The King of the Dudes

2017-02-01T05:00:00Z — 5m

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The Story of the Troll Doll
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If we learned anything from the excellent Bill and Ted movies, it’s that the word “dude” is a remarkably versatile utterance that can either be used to refer to any male acquaintance or as a general vocalisation of surprise or confusion. Go back a hundred years or so to the 1800s and the word dude could actually roughly be understood to mean “a male who dressed in an extremely flamboyant or otherwise eccentric fashion”. Amongst this subset of fashion-conscious men, one man reigned as the undisputed king for over five decades- Evander Berry Wall.

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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1163158267/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1163158267&linkCode=as2&tag=vicastingcom-20&linkId=GFJMYZF2SZXBYERN
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=V9PSCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT130&dq=Evander+Berry+Wall&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi2j_mnvu7JAhVFvxQKHeAJBEkQ6AEIRzAH#v=onepage&q=Evander%20Berry%20Wall&f=false
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9801E0D7173BE733A25751C2A9609C946397D6CF
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,764721-1,00.html
http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/social-history/2012/evander-berry-wall-king-of-the-dudes
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=b5SG2qqRVnUC&pg=PA61&dq=Evander+Berry+Wall&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi2j_mnvu7JAhVFv

2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

2017x29 Where was Lincoln's Bodyguard on the Night He was Assassinated?

2017-02-03T05:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813122171/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0813122171&linkCode=as2&tag=vicastingcom-20
http://nowiknow.com/abraham-lincoln-created-the-secret-service-the-day-he-was-shot/
http://www.secretservice.gov/protection.shtml
http://www.secretservice.gov/faq.shtml
http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/kids/inside/html/spring98-2.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Lincolns-Missing-Bodyguard.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frederick_Parker
http://www.secretservice.gov/protection_works.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_William_McKinley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Craig_%28Secret_Service%29

2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

2017x30 Why is it Impossible to Tickle Yourself?

2017-02-04T05:00:00Z — 5m

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It’s very hard to tickle yourself because your brain anticipates things going on around you in order to help speed up response times. More technically, the cerebellum monitors body movements and can also distinguish between expected sensations and unexpected ones, generally resulting in diminishing or completely discarding expected sensations, while paying much more attention to unexpected ones.

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http://www.livescience.com/health/050628_brain_tickle.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickling
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3077386/
http://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/other-emotions/question511.htm
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Why-Do-We-Laugh-28974.shtml
http://oreilly.com/pub/h/2832
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/funny.html

2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

2017x31 Do Athletes Actually Go to Disney World After They Say "I'm Going to Disney World"?

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2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

2017x32 Who was Miranda of the Miranda Warning?

2017-02-06T05:00:00Z — 5m

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→How "Dic–’t afford it. This warning, routinely given by local, state and federal law enforcement, as well as those who portray them in shows and movies, is today known simply as Miranda. But who was Miranda and what did he do?

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http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/06/story-behind-miranda-rights/58140898
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Miranda
http://www.nndb.com/people/596/000125221/
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Ernesto_A._Miranda
http://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/facts-and-case-summary-miranda-v-arizona
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/401/222/case.html
http://www.mirandawarning.org/historyofmirandawarning.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_v._Arizona#Subsequent_developments
http://web.archive.org/web/20080704141306/http://www.americanheritage.com/events/articles/web/20060613-ernesto-miranda-rights-supreme-court-fifth-amendment-arizona-constitution-scottsboro.shtml
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-miranda-rights-are-established
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/446/291/
http://web.archive.org/web/20090206174116/http://americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2006/4/2006_4_48.shtml

2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

2017x33 What Ever Happened to Confederate President Jefferson Davis?

2017-02-07T05:00:00Z — 5m

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Jefferson Davis was attending a Sunday church service in the capital of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia, when he heard the news. Union General Ulysses S. Grant had broken General Robert E. Lee’s defenses in Petersburg, less than twenty five miles from Richmond. By nightfall, the evacuation of Richmond needed to be completed. At approximately midnight, Confederate cabinet members, officials, their families, and the entire treasury (the mythical “Confederate gold”) were finally making their way south to Danville, Virginia on the only railroad still open. This was April 2, 1865. One week later, on April 9th, General Grant and General Lee met at the Appomattox Court House to sign the Confederacy’s official surrender. America’s Civil War was finally over.

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http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jefferson-davis-captured
http://encyclopediavirginia.org/Jefferson_Davis_s_Imprisonment#start_entry
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/jefferson-davis.html
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/capture-jefferson-davis
http://clevelandcivilwarroundtable.com/articles/society/confederate_gold.htm
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/petersburg/maps/petersburgbreakthroughmap.html
http://www.georgiaencyclop

2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

2017x34 What is an "Amok" as in "Run Amok"?

2017-02-08T05:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.shutterstock.com/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC181064/
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=amok
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/run-amok.html
http://www.theharvardadvocate.com/content/running-amok
http://www.word-detective.com/2008/01/run-amuck/
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/running-amok-or-running-amuck/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_amok
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amok_%28dish%29
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=muck

2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

2017x35 Why is The Toilet Commonly Known as the Crapper (or John)?

2017-02-10T05:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.toiletology.com/crapper.shtml
http://www.nowpublic.com/health/thomas-crapper-day-celebrating-invention-ballcock-2564473.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper

2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

2017x36 Why Does Swiss Cheese Have Holes?

2017-02-11T05:00:00Z — 5m

2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

2017x37 Why Does Your Stomach Growl When You're Hungry?

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2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

2017x38 Why Drawn Hearts Don't Look Like Real Hearts

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2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

2017x39 Why a Geckos Feet Can Stick to Almost Anything

2017-02-14T05:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20030707gecko0707p2.asp
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-scientists-gecko-footprint-clue.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC544316/?tool=pmcentrez
http://goldbook.iupac.org/V06597.html
http://goldbook.iupac.org/E01990.html
http://startswithabang.com/?p=1459
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/gecko.aspx
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/geckos/
http://www.wildherps.com/species/P.madagascariensis.html
http://www.geico.com/about/corporate/word-from-sponsor/

2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

2017x40 Why Lead Used to Be Added to Gasoline

2017-02-15T05:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.thenation.com/article/secret-history-lead?page=full
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/lead-poisoning/FL00068
http://science.howstuffworks.com/gasoline1.htm
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h2j0TzmQV86Pjh8gpDk11BQzT_Zg?docId=fa60a04afec342729f7a64020bda6325
http://www.chemcases.com/tel/
http://www.imperialclub.com/Repair/Lit/Master/291/page13.htm
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/bal/development.html
http://www.myessentia.com/blog/blog/2011/10/30/united-nations-doing-away-with-leaded-gasoline/

2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

2017x41 Why are Certain American Football Games Called Bowls?

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2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

2017x42 Who is McDonald in McDonald's Restaurant?

2017-02-17T05:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

2017x43 Who Invented the Bloody Mary Drink? (and Who is it Really Named After)

2017-02-18T05:00:00Z — 5m

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For many, Sundays mean brunch and a delicious morning cocktail. Quite often, that early alcoholic beverage is the odd combination of tomato juice, celery, hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce (see: The Stomach Turning Thing Worcestershire Sauce is Made Of), vodka and other spices that’s known as a “Bloody Mary.” While admittedly it’s pretty tasty, the recipe isn’t exactly intuitively good. So, who and how was this smorgasbord of a beverage ever concocted? And was it actually named after a 16th century queen who had the habit of burning people at the stake?

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http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/bloody_mary/
http://www.history.com/topics/british-history/mary-i
http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon42.html
http://www.biography.com/people/mary-tudor-9401296#accession-and-reign
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/prolactinoma/basics/definition/con-20028094
https://books.google.com/books?id=DOJMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA177&lpg=PA177&dq=1939+Smirnoff+jessel+bloody+mary&source=bl&ots=eIuqIwp5ST&sig=I5CB93ZRM4tlevpT0qKypxdGPlc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjw8Pv49czNAhVG92MKHVhjCZwQ6AEISDAI#v=onepage&q=1939%20Smirnoff%20jessel%20bloody%20mary&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=DOJMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA177&lpg=PA177&dq=1939+Smirnoff+jessel+bloody+mary&source=bl&ots=eIuqIwp

2017-02-20T05:00:00Z

2017x44 Why Does Hair Only Grow to a Certain Length?

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I very briefly mentioned this in an article about two years ago that you might also be interested in (There is No Difference Between Fur and Hair), but I’ll go into more detail here. Hair length is completely controlled by the length of the anagen phase of your hair follicle. How long this period lasts is generally determined mostly by genetics, but can also be affected by hormones, and even extreme stress. More specifically, there is a chemical signal that ultimately controls the exact growth cycle.

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http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/02/there-is-no-difference-between-fur-and-hair/
http://www.hairfactz.com/
http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/style/question100.htm
http://dermatology.about.com/od/hairanatomy/l/bldefanagen.htm
http://dermatology.about.com/library/bldefcatagen.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_follicle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidermal_growth_factor

2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

2017x45 The Origin of the Male and Female Symbols

2017-02-21T05:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

2017x46 How January 1st Became the New Year in Many Parts of the World

2017-02-22T05:00:00Z — 5m

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Why We Say "O'Clock"
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Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?
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Since long before Caesar’s time, date keeping was dicey. In fact, the 355-day Roman calendar that immediately preceded Caesar’s Julian, worked on a four year cycle where every other year, an additional month was inserted between February (Februarius), the last month of that calendar year, and March (Martius), the first month of the year; this was done in order to catch the calendar up with the Earth’s orbit of the Sun. That additional month, called the Mensis intercalaris, brought in the missing 22 or 23 days, and to even things up, took another five days from February in the years it was present.

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http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/5-ancient-new-years-celebrations
http://books.google.com/books?id=gR09AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&dq=mensis+intercalaris&source=bl&ots=KEvnVcJ5cU&sig=9AfeiiJMj4qdQ2XGnyeN6m2N14E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YwrpUobNMNLKsQTrh4LgBw&ved=0CGAQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=mensis%20intercalaris&f=false
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/12/having-a-ball-the-history-behind-american-new-years-eve-celebrations.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_calendars#Roman_calendar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/new-years-day
http://books.google.com/books?id=xRTuAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA92

2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

2017x47 Did NASA Spend Millions Developing a Pen When the Russians Used Pencils?

2017-02-23T05:00:00Z — 5m

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How Do Astronauts Scratch an Itch When in Their Space Suits
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The humble ballpoint pen is an item so ubiquitous the chances of you not having one near you right now are so low E.T could probably give you the percentage on his right hand. Few people realize just how much technology, craftsmanship and effort goes into creating a single pen- probably because you can buy 30 of them for a few dollars, only to mysteriously have them all disappear within a week.

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fact-or-fiction-nasa-spen
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BoepCeyiSlQC&pg=PT64&dq=ballpoint+pen+John+J.+Loud&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tlr2UdLpEcaXPZmzgBA&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=ballpoint%20pen%20John%20J.%20Loud&f=false
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6eVgC-bOlQQC&pg=PA20&dq=ballpoint+pen+John+J.+Loud+leather&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TVv2UdN6xPDhBKWpgOAB&ved=0CFAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=ballpoint%20pen%20John%20J.%20Loud%20leather&f=false
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1j9_Y8hwRI
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/01/obituaries/marcel-bich-79-dies-cheap-pens-yielded-riches.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-baron-marcel-bich-1419867.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2134528/Biro

2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

2017x48 Where the Expression "Sleep Tight and Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite" Came From

2017-02-24T05:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

2017x49 A 60 Hour Race So Intense That Only 14 of Over 1000 Ultra-marathoners Have Ever Completed It

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The Brushy Mountain Penitentiary, where they used to house some of the worst of the worst criminals, is located on the eastern side of Frozen Head State Park in the Tennessee mountains. Although escape attempts were rare, the prison’s ideal location reduced the chances of prisoners safely making it back to civilization. Beyond being a maximum security prison, if an inmate did happen to evade the guards and get over the two exterior walls of the penitentiary, the Tennessee mountains might as well have been a gigantic third wall.

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http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/24/us/james-earl-ray-70-killer-of-dr-king-dies-in-nashville.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.outsideonline.com/1924491/60-hours-hell-story-barkley-marathons
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-30/all-40-runners-fail-to-complete-100-mile-tennessee-mountain-race
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/sports/the-barkley-marathons-few-know-how-to-enter-fewer-finish.html
http://running.competitor.com/2014/04/news/finishing-americas-quriky-race_98447
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=39275931&nid=1288
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_Head_State_Park
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkley_Marathons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lighting_the_cigarette_

2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

2017x50 The Remarkable Bass Reeves

2017-02-27T05:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2406
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Badge-Deputy-United-Marshal/dp/097596545X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1479843378&sr=8-1&keywords=Paul+L.+Brady&linkCode=ll1&tag=vicastingcom-20&linkId=2483be373f8f7e86509cad2eae1babeb
https://books.google.com/books?id=t_idf86ZSkUC&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&dq=William+Steele+Reeves&source=bl&ots=Tv6g3LdIc3&sig=zO2aDvldWm0WGNUK9WsUDC9EijQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd2dL5hr3QAhUU1mMKHdqABxEQ6AEIQTAG#v=onepage&q=William%20Steele%20Reeves&f=false
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042303/1908-01-02/ed-1/seq-5/#date1=1789&index=5&rows=20&words=BASS+REEVES&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1922&proxtext=Bass+Reeves&y=17&x=14&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024827/1906-02-22/ed-1/seq-8/#date1=1789&index=6&rows=20&words=Bass+Reeves&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1922&proxtext=Bass+Reeves&y=17&x=14&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1Bll
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025010/1884-09-04/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1789&index=14&rows=20&words=Bass+Reeves&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1922&proxtext=Bass+Reeves&y=17&x=14&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042303/1910-01-18/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=1789&index=9&rows=20&words=BASS+REEVES&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1922&proxtext=Bass+Reeves&y=17&x=14&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025010/1886-02-04/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1789&index=19&rows=20&words=Bass+Reeves&search

2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

2017x51 The Surprisingly Interesting Story Behind the Filet-O-Fish Sandwich

2017-02-28T05:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/McDonalds_Corp.aspx
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2016/02/26/facts-filet-o-fish-sandwich-mcdonalds-sandwich/80808494/
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-02-26/news/0702260163_1_sandwich-fish-recipe-halibut
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/BIG+COMEBACK+FOR+FILET-O-FISH.-a083813620
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8512721/Catholics-told-to-abstain-from-eating-meat-on-Fridays..html
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/lifestyle/ask-mcardle-what-do-nutcrackers-have-to-do-with-christmas-anyway/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-fishy-history-of-the-mcdonalds-filet-o-fish-sandwich-2912/?no-ist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting_and_abstinence_in_the_Roman_Catholic_Church
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/cincinnati/obituary.aspx?n=louis-m-groen&pid=151437969
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Groen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filet-O-Fish
http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2006/03/06/story3.html

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2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

2017x52 Who Invented Spoons, Forks, and Knives?

2017-03-01T05:00:00Z — 5m

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Spoons are one of the oldest eating utensils on the planet. This isn’t particularly surprising if one considers that nearly as long as humans have needed food, they’ve required something to scoop it up with. Unlike knives and forks, that for the most part needed to be fashioned, natural spoons could be utilized by employing such things as seashells or conveniently shaped stones. Sure, the earliest known instances of these didn’t have handles yet, but from these humble beginnings, the spoon was born.

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http://www.eatingutensils.net/history-of-cutlery/spoon-history/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodora_Anna_Doukaina_Selvo
http://leitesculinaria.com/1157/writings-the-uncommon-origins-of-the-common-fork.html
http://www.history.com/news/hungry-history/of-knives-and-forks
http://mentalfloss.com/article/20287/history-utensils-spork-included
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_I_of_England
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostle_Spoon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_de_Medici
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_of_France
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Bourbon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_Samuel

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2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

2017x53 The Truth About the Origin of the Name of the Baby Ruth Candy Bar

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2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

2017x54 The Slave Who Helped Assemble the Freedom Statue in Washington DC

2017-03-04T05:00:00Z — 5m

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From Slave to Bestselling Author and Advisor to Presidents- The Great Frederick Douglass
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The Statue of Freedom sitting atop the dome of the U.S. Capitol building in Washing D.C. has more alternate names than the obscure half of the Wu Tang Clan. Over the years, the names attributed to it have ranged from things like “Freedom Triumphant in War and Peace” to the far simpler, “Armed Freedom“. However, the one, common thread is that the statue is supposed to represent the very spirit of freedom itself. Ironically enough, it was a slave who was integral in assembling it.

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http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-08-14-freedom-slaves_N.htm
http://www.aoc.gov/philip-reid-and-statue-freedom
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uscapitol/8393038282/
http://www.aoc.gov/capitol-hill/other-statues/statue-freedom
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eest66wNX2UC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=the+former+slave,+is+now+in+business+for+himself,+and+highly+esteemed+by+all+who+know+him.&source=bl&ots=9NokHGiAmA&sig=SjkGK9GU3Ip8X3SUa9wD5d_1FX8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zcVSUo_4GeSo0QX7xIDgAg&ved=0CE0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=the%20former%20slave%2C%20is%20now%20in%20business%20for%20himself%2C%20and%20highly%20esteemed%20by%20all%20who%20know%20him.&f=false
http://www.aoc.gov/architect-of-the-capitol/tho

2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

2017x55 Jack Daniel's Refreshingly Nice Team of Attorneys

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Generally speaking, attorneys, and particularly high-priced litigators, are not known for being “nice” or polite in their interactions with those on the opposite side of the table of their clients. Rather, the stereotype (not without basis) is of a profession filled with aggressive and sometimes even nasty people, who will stop at nothing to see their clients prevail- it’s their job after all.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/09/22/donald-trumps-cease-and-desist-letter-annotated/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/us/politics/donald-trump-lawsuit-threat.html
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/marty-singer-cease-and-desist-letter-350612
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/jack_daniels_cease-and-desist_letter_goes_viral_for_being_exceeedingly_poli/
http://pressroom.jackdaniels.com/jack-daniels-named-one-of-100-best-global-brands-of-2015/
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/marty-singer-brett-ratner-new-york-magazine-letter-350616
http://www.tmz.com/2011/09/14/scarlett-johansson-legal-threats-nude-photos-marty-singer-letter-cease-and-desist/
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2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

2017x56 A Violinist and the Devil

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At the height of his fame and fortune, Niccolò Paganini, arguably the greatest violinist ever to live, was both the toast, and the bane, of Europe. Considered by most a musical genius, by some a musical god and by others, the Devil’s minion, Paganini’s virtuosity, appearance and bearing had some believing his skill could only come after he had made a pact with the Devil.

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http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/16/robert-johnson-sells-soul-devil
http://www.violinstudent.com/biographies/paganini.html
http://www.biography.com/people/niccol%C3%B2-paganini-21196451
http://www.thehumanmarvels.com/niccolo-paganini-the-devils-violinist/
http://www.guitarramagazine.com/NicocoloPaganini
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/16/robert-johnson-sells-soul-devil
http://www.vagablogging.net/robert-johnson-sold-his-soul-to-the-devil-in-rosedale-mississippi.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/779
http://music.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/0010_halloween/violin.shtml

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2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

2017x57 Why Do Cans of Diet Coke Float and Coke Don't?

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In any event, initially, this floating problem seems like something that breaks physics because both cans are the exact same size and contain exactly the same amount of liquid. Of course, anyone who’s ever taken a physics class at some point probably knows what makes a given object float in the first place, in the simplest possible sense, is that an object will float provided it displaces an amount of liquid (or sufficiently dense gas) that weighs more than itself.

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http://www.livestrong.com/article/316876-why-does-coke-sink-diet-coke-float-in-water/
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/sinking-soda-surprise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR0b4QRhfU0
http://www.seaperch.org/how_things_float
http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/question254.htm
http://www.visionlearning.com/en/library/General-Science/3/Density/37
http://www.itsnotmagicitsscience.com/science.asp?newsid=381
http://www.math.utk.edu/~freire/m400su06/Floating%20Bodies,%20Sand%20Reckoner.pdf
http://www.physics.upenn.edu/demolab/manumech/ms9.html

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2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

2017x58 That Time a Band Made Over $20K on a Totally Silent Album on Spotify

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2017x59 Why Cheddar is Orange When Milk is White

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2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

2017x60 Where Do "Gypsies" Originally Come From?

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They do not have a shared homeland or national identity. They are a people who are scattered across the globe and whose origins have always been shrouded in myth and mystery (among other reasons because they have kept no written records of their early history). Many saw them (and continue to do so in many cases) as dirty, thieving and undesirable, others as artistic, romantic and carefree. In France, they are referred to as gitanes, in Spain they are called gitanos, and in Germany, zigeuner.

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http://www.scottishgypsies.co.uk/early.html
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Where-Do-Gypsies-Come-From-72231.shtml
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/07/gypsies-arrived-europe-1500-genetic
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/american-gypsies/articles/a-history-of-the-romani-people/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_society_and_culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Romani_people
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2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

2017x61 Hoover's £50 Million Mistake

2017-03-13T04:00:00Z — 5m

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That Time a Passenger Loaded Boeing 767 Ran Out of Fuel Mid Flight
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Giving away free stuff with a purchase is a good way to bolster sales and can result in a tidy increase in profits, provided you follow the general rule of making sure the long term projected profit from the promotion is greater than the cost of the giveaway. Appliance giant Hoover learned this seemingly obvious lesson first hand in 1992 when they inexplicably decided to give away free flights worth several times more than most of the products they were selling as part of what has become known as Hoovergate- one of the most disastrous marketing campaigns of all time, today taught in marketing text books the world over.

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http://articles.latimes.com/1993-04-09/news/vw-21102_1_two-free-airline-tickets
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3704669.stm
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/inspectors-will-examine-files-on-free-flights-deal-trading-standards-officers-to-investigate-1452560.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/great-financial-disasters-of-our-time-the-hoover-fiasco-1171711.html
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2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

2017x62 Why is there an Area of New York Called the Bronx?

2017-03-14T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

2017x63 Why Does Moist Baled and Stacked Hay Spontaneously Catch Fire?

2017-03-15T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Plant reactions and bacterial growth combine to raise temperatures in even the driest hay bales, although most never catch fire on their own. However, when hay is packed tightly, and enough moisture gets in, the conditions may be right for spontaneous hay combustion.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7919/
http://www.depi.vic.gov.au/agriculture-and-food/dairy/pastures-management/hay-preservatives
http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/news/newsreleases/2011/july-25-2011/don2019t-risk-hay-fires/view
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2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

2017x64 How Do Deaf People Think?

2017-03-16T04:00:00Z — 5m

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The Blind Man Who Invented Cruise Control
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Those who were born completely deaf and only learned sign language will, not surprisingly, think in sign language. What is surprising is those who were born completely deaf but learn to speak through vocal training will occasionally think not only in the particular sign language that they know, but also will sometimes think in the vocal language they learned, with their brains coming up with how the vocal language sounds. Primarily though, most completely deaf people think in sign language. Similar to how an “inner voice” of a hearing person is experienced in one’s own voice, a completely deaf person sees or, more aptly, feels themselves signing in their head as they “talk” in their heads.

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http://www.dichotomistic.com/mind_readings_deaf%20speech.html
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/latest-questi

2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

2017x65 Why is Greenland an Island and Australia a Continent?

2017-03-18T04:00:00Z — 5m

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There are several different ways of thinking about how many continents there are, with models ranging from 4 to 7 continents. However, in most English speaking countries, as well as other nations around the world, the 7-continent model is taught. Using this model, the continents of the world in order of size (descending) are: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_and_fauna_of_Greenland
http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/images/new_map.jpg
http://denmark.dk/en/society/greenland-and-the-faroes/
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/08/26/two-continents/

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2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

2017x66 Why Do Some English Speaking Countries Pronounce Z as "Zed" and Others as "Zee"?

2017-03-19T04:00:00Z — 5m

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It’s not just the British that pronounce “z” as “zed”. The vast majority of the English speaking world does this. The primary exception, of course, is in the United States where “z” is pronounced “zee”.

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2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

2017x67 The Fish That Talk with Farts

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2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

2017x68 Why Did People Stick One Hand in Their Jackets in Old Photographs?

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2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

2017x69 When Did People First Start Clapping to Show Appreciation?

2017-03-22T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Why Do People Seem To Get More Colds In The Winter?
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Clapping is the near-ubiquitous way we show our appreciation of something, particularly when we’re in large groups. But have you ever wondered why slapping our hands together has come to be so closely associated with approval and where the practise originated from?

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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/a-brief-history-of-applause-the-big-data-of-the-ancient-world/274014/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/ask-smithsonian/ask-smithsonian-what-is-the-origin-of-appla/
http://libguides.gallaudet.edu/content.php?pid=351741
http://www.cpr.org/classical/story/clapping-question-should-classical-audiences-applaud-between-movements
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-06-20/news/9906200402_1_applause-clapping-elizabethan
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2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

2017x70 The Story Behind the Famous Saigon Execution Photo

2017-03-23T04:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.gotweird.com/2009/06/renditions-of-the-famous-saigon-execution-photo/
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0410/faas.html

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2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

2017x71 Who was the Woman in the Famous Great Depression Photograph?

2017-03-25T04:00:00Z — 5m

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The Great Depression, the worst economic downturn in the history of the United States and the Western world, began on October 24, 1929, a day that has gone down in the history books as Black Thursday. The economy went into a tailspin with businesses laying off workers and wages for those still employed plummeting. Between 13 million and 15 million Americans were unemployed (about 11%-13% of the population) and couldn’t find work at the peak of the Great Depression in 1933.

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http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Daughter-of-Migrant-Mother-proud-of-story-3221049.php
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/fts/kansascity_201307F03.html
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/dustbowl-mass-exodus-plains/
http://www.today.com/id/51067427/ns/today-today_books/t/american-story-mona-lisa-dust-bo

2017-03-26T04:00:00Z

2017x72 Can Color Blind People See More Colors When They Take Hallucinogenic Drugs?

2017-03-26T04:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1357672/
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2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

2017x73 The Disgusting Contents of Worcestershire Sauce (and Why It s Called That)

2017-03-27T04:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/worcesterorworcestershiresauce.htm
http://www.cookthink.com/reference/765/Why_is_it_called_Worcestershire_sauce
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/05/st_whatsinside_worcestershire/
http://seattletimes.com/pacificnw/2001/0128/taste.html
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EUAZo-zCkQ0C&pg=PA10&dq=The+Secret+Sauce:+a+History+of+Lea+%26+Perrins&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7iUvUuWGCI6X0AWuvoD4BQ&ved=0CEsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=The%20Secret%20Sauce%3A%20a%20History%20of%20Lea%20%26%20Perrins&f=false

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2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

2017x74 The Invention of Scotch Tape (and Why It's Called That)

2017-03-28T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Who Invented Spoons, Forks, and Knives?
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Despite the name, Scotch tape wasn’t invented by the Scottish. It was invented by a college dropout named Richard Drew from Minnesota who worked for a small sandpaper company founded in 1902 called Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, later known as 3M. The name “Scotch” itself has an origin story almost as interesting as the invention of Scotch tape.

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http://www.mnopedia.org/thing/invention-scotch-tape-1930
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/magazine/who-made-that-scotch-tape.html?_r=1
http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/scotchtape.html
http://www.livescience.com/32432-who-invented-scotch-tape.html
http://www.scotchbrand.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/ScotchBrand/Scotch/Resources/History/Timeline/
http://www.minnesotainventors.org/inductees/richard-g-drew.html
http://www.rampantscotland.com/know/blknow_scotchtape.htm
http://www.msthalloffame.org/richard_drew.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3043098.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scotch_Tape.jpg

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2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

2017x75 Why is There an R in "Mrs" When It's Pronounced "Misses"?

2017-03-29T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Why “Colonel” is Pronounced “Kernel”
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You may have wondered, if you’ve ever thought about it, why there is an “r” in “Mrs.” when it’s generally spoken as “missus” (also sometimes spelled “missis”). “Mrs.” first popped up as an abbreviation for “mistress” in the late 16th century. At the time, “mistress” didn’t popularly have the negative connotation it often does today, namely referring to a woman other than a man’s wife who he has an affair with. Instead, back then “mistress”, deriving from the Old French “maistresse” (female master), was just the feminine form of “mister/master”. “Mistress” itself first popped up in English around the 14th century, originally meaning “female teacher, governess”.

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http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Mrs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms.
http://www.takeourword.com/TOW147/page2.html
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=mistress&allowed_in_frame=0
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=mister
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=master&allowed_in_frame=0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1525/what-does-mrs-stand-for
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gloria_Steinem_at_news_conference,_Women%27s_Action_Alliance,_January_12,_1972.jpg

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2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

2017x76 Why You Used to Have to Use Number 2 Pencils on Scantrons (and Why Pencil "Lead" is Called Lead)

2017-03-30T04:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.pencils.com/unleaded-pencil
http://www.pencils.com/pencil-history
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2004/09/09/1195234.htm
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=lead
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/10/why-you-used-to-have-to-use-2-pencils-with-scantron-forms/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/57276
http://www.objectlessons.org/index.php?mod=PageMod.showComponent&section_id=5&category_id=19&component_id=146&component_type=feature
http://www.penciltalk.org/images/penciltalk.org.leads.4.jpg

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2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

2017x77 Did Fidel Castro Really Almost Pitch in the Major Leagues?

2017-04-01T04:00:00Z — 5m

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That Time Justin Verlander Traded a Percentage of His Major League Signing Bonus for a Milk
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There’s a long history of rulers bragging about their athletic talents. Ancient Egyptian kings sometimes used sporting prowess to show off masculinity and inspire fear. The Roman Emperor Commodus liked to step into the gladiator ring, often asking for already wounded or weakened opponents so he could look superior. (Yes, he was the partial inspiration for the movie Gladiator. Also like in the movie, his sister attempted to have him overthrown after he went off his rocker a bit.) In the 16th century, King Henry VIII jousted to show off to a woman; it also nearly killed him. Even in modern times, Kim Jong-il (real name Yuri Irsenovich Kim) insisted that he had 11 hole-in-ones in a single round of golf and Vladimir Putin intimidates with a judo black belt (not to mention the whole-shirtless-on-horseback thing).

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/post/kim-jong-il-golf-bowling-and-basketball-interests-some-of-which-were-real/2011/12/19/gIQAmWSV4O_blog.html
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/golf/2006-07-16-hole-in-one_x.htm
http://washingtonsenators.com/castro.html
http://www.snopes.com/sports/baseball/castro.asp
http://sabr.org/bioproj/topic/fidel-castro-and-baseball
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-jousting-accident-that-turned-henry-viii-into-a-tyrant-1670421.html
https://books.google.com/books?id=192V884VTWIC&pg=PA307&lpg=PA307&dq=egyptian+kings+athletics&source=bl&ots=agcK6ATv3u&sig=h98IaNVMwIm2p3OFHN9IqkGtW7s&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwix-baD_arOAhXIGh4KHcWJC1gQ6AEINTAE#v=onepage&

2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

2017x78 Why Don't Hot Dogs and Hot Dog Buns Come in Packs of Equal Number?

2017-04-03T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Yes, finally today we are going to answer perhaps the most oft asked question we get in our inbox, a question that has been perplexing mothers, stoned teenagers and lazy comedians for decades: why do hot dog buns come in packs of eight, when hot dogs are (usually) sold in packs of ten?

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http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/560/why-do-hot-dogs-come-10-to-a-pack-while-buns-are-8-to-a-pack
https://www.bauer.uh.edu/jhess/documents/Why%20Do%20Hotdogs.pdf
http://www.theholidayspot.com/hotdog/abouthotdog.htm
http://www.nutritionwerks.com/atd/atdfood.asp
http://www.hot-dog.org/media/consumption-stats
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3081008/Bread-rules-abandoned-after-750-years.html
http://www.hot-dog.org/culture/hot-dog-fast-facts

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2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

2017x79 From Basement to Shelves the World Over: The Story of Reeses Peanut Butter Cups

2017-04-04T04:00:00Z — 5m

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A popular chocolate cup filled with delicious peanut butter, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups were created by a man named Harry Burnett (H.B.) Reese. Reese was born May 24, 1879 in Pennsylvania to a farming family. He married in 1900 and went on to have sixteen children. (Yes, 16!) By 1903, not surprisingly, he was struggling to support his growing family, so took on all manner of jobs from butcher to factory worker.

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http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/reese.html.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJLDF6qZUX0
http://www.nndb.com/people/764/000163275/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reese's_Peanut_Butter_Cups
http://www.hersheys.com/reeses/experience/facts.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._B._Reese
http://www.thenibble.com/reviews/MAIN/candy/old/history-of-peanut-butter.asp
http://www.examiner.com/list/top-5-recipes-for-i-love-reese-s-day-on-may-18

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2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

2017x80 The Founding of a Chewing Gum Empire: Wrigley and His Freebies

2017-04-05T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Gum is everywhere. It could be in someone’s pocket, in a woman’s purse, underneath a classroom’s desk or lining the checkout lines at the local grocery store. Or it could be in a person’s mouth- teeth chomping away on a stick that rapidly loses its flavor. Gum is one of the most ubiquitous confectioneries in our culture, yet few know its origins. So who invented gum and how did it become popular?

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http://www.history.com/news/hungry-history/chew-on-this-the-history-of-gum
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-brief-history-of-chewing-gum-61020195/?no-ist
https://books.google.com/books?id=C-mb5wUcFVEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ChicleThe+Chewing+Gum+of+the+Americas,+From+the+Ancient+Maya+to+William+Wrigley&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiIg_-1jsnPAhUKkh4KHWQ0C4sQ6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=ChicleThe%20Chewing%20Gum%20of%20the%20Americas%2C%20From%20the%20Ancient%20Maya%20to%20William%20Wrigley&f=false
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/10/scouring-soap-chewing-gum-william-wrigley-jr-freebies/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106439600
https://www.britannica.com/topic/chicle
http://www.history.com/topics/aztecs
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13325a.htm
http://www.chewinggumfacts.com/chewing-gum-facts/john-b-curtis/

2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

2017x81 How Did Judge Judy Get Her Gig?

2017-04-06T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

2017x82 The Truth About the Origin of the Potato Chip

2017-04-07T04:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.saratoga.com/news/saratoga-chips.cfm
http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/Potato.htm
http://www.jstmoon.com/histories/Moon's%20Restaurant%20NY.pdf
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1499968?uid=3739560&uid=2134&uid=2483512557&uid=2&uid=70&uid=3&uid=2483512547&uid=3739256&uid=60&purchase-type=both&accessType=none&sid=21104602199797&showMyJstorPss=false&seq=1&showAccess=false
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Crum
http://www.sfa.org/sfa/news.php?id=60
http://chipscrumsandspecksofsaratogacountyhistory.com/tag/cary-moon/
http://books.google.com/books?id=QYoXAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Cook%E2%80%99s+Oracle;+Containing+Receipts+for+Plain+Cookery,+on+the+Most+Economical+Plan+for+Private+Families:+Also+the+Art+of+Composing+the+Most+Simple+and+Most+Highly+Finished+Broths,+Gravies,+Soups,+Sauces,+Store+Sauces,+and+Flavouring+Essences;+the+Quantity+of+each+Article+is+Accurately+Stated+by+Weight+and+Measure;+the+Whole+Being+the+Result+of+Actual+Experiments+Instituted+in+the+Kitchen+of+a+Physician&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GnQOVMD9J4qvogTivILYDQ&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=potato&f=false
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Scudder

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2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

2017x83 Why are Bibles Printed With the Text in Two Columns Instead of One?

2017-04-08T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

2017x84 The Rubber Band: Holding It Together Since 1820

2017-04-09T04:00:00Z — 5m

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/06/100628-science-ancient-maya-aztec-rubber-balls-beheaded/
http://enquirer.com/editions/2003/03/07/loc_ohiodate0307.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Perry_(inventor)
http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/hot-springs-alliance-rubber-company-is-the-worlds-biggest-rubber-band-manufacturer/Content?oid=3043357
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015016043740;view=1up;seq=18
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hancock_%28inventor%29
http://www.dminev.com/2008/10/charles-marie-de-la-condamine-first.html
https://books.google.com/books?id=6J9EAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA371&lpg=PA371&dq=Charles+de+la+Condamine+rubber&source=bl&ots=IXR2Qpmo7e&sig=Gu9Frjs1Nlkr1aerokafGOuAWEI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=33u5VNq_HI37sATK74HQCw&ved=0CFMQ6AEwDA#v=onepage&q=Charles%20de%20la%20Condamine%20rubber&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=qLNjoTn4wWwC&pg=PT3&lpg=PT3&dq=The+Hancocks+of+Marlborough:+Rubber,+Art+and+the+Industrial+Revolution+-+A+Family+of+Inventive+Genius&source=bl&ots=gXSJz311xX&sig=IHI2yWFIO0RaUHJUYDCWMLl-qbk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_mS5VPncLc21sQTx6oGIDA&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_band
http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2010/mayaball-0524
http://www.versteegde.nl/History_of_Elastic_and_Rubber_Bands.html
http://sciencelens.co.nz/2013/03/17/rubber-band/
http://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-1443,00.html
http://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2010/03/rubber-bands/
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d005793457;view=1up;seq=342

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2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

2017x85 The Invention Nobody Wanted That Became One of the Top Selling Office Products of All Time

2017-04-10T04:00:00Z — 5m

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There were actually two accidents that lead to the invention of the Post-It note. The first was by Spencer Silver. According to the former Vice President of Technical Operations for 3M Geoff Nicholson (now retired), in 1968, Silver was working at 3M trying to create super strong adhesives for use in the aerospace industry in building planes. Instead of a super strong adhesive, though, he accidentally managed to create an incredibly weak, pressure sensitive adhesive agent called Acrylate Copolymer Microspheres.

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http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/post-it.asp
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/frysilver.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/galleries/2010/11/16/how-post-it-notes-have-stuck-to-our-history-and-culture.html
http://www.thejanuarist.com/why-are-post-it-notes-yellow/
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http://www.inventsai.com/blog.php?id=15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-it_note
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http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/post_it_note.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure-sensitive_adhesive
http://www.specialchem4adhesives.com/home/editorial.aspx?id=2171
http://www.google.com/patents?id=tPIrAAAAEB

2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

2017x86 The Invention of the Cardboard Box

2017-04-11T04:00:00Z — 5m

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardboard_box
https://books.google.com/books?id=5RoaBgAAQBAJ&pg=PR2&dq=Cartons,+Crates+and+Corrugated+Board&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CcTTVN7YBaTfsASfkYHoCA&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Robert%20Gair&f=false
https://www.google.com/patents/US122023?dq=Albert+Jones+1871&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3IPTVPvDBrXIsASbyYGgAQ&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O25924/the-game-of-besieging-das-board-game-unknown/
http://books.google.com/books?id=yQkLAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA7&dq=%22cardboard+box%22+1817&hl=en&sa=X&ei=924ZUrLDHomEjALuuYHICw&ved=0CFwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22cardboard%20box%22%201817&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=jkRFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA407&dq=cardboard+OR+card-board&hl=en&ei=3clATcXTFYGClAfF8PH9Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CEYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=cardboard%20&f=false
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_paper
http://ohioline.osu.edu/cd-fact/0133.html
http://www.toyhalloffame.org/toys/cardboard-box
http://sciencelens.co.nz/2012/12/19/corrugated-cardboard/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gair
http://www.ipst.gatech.edu/amp/collection/museum_invention_paper.htm

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2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

2017x87 Why is Area 51 Called That?

2017-04-12T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

2017x88 Why are Ambulances Called Ambulances?

2017-04-13T04:00:00Z — 5m

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The word “ambulance” ultimately derives from the Latin “ambulare,” meaning “to walk.” This gave rise to the French “hôpital ambulant,” essentially meaning “mobile hospital.” In the beginning, this didn’t mean as we think of it today, but was generally just used to refer to a temporary medical structure that could be easily moved, particularly early on referring to movable army medical hospitals.

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2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

2017x89 The Interesting Story Behind Lincoln's Beard

2017-04-15T04:00:00Z — 5m

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In the video today we look at the surprisingly interesting story about why Lincoln decided to grow his beard suddenly after getting elected president.

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https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/lincoln/candidate-lincoln.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/abraham-lincolns-beard-history-2013-10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Bedell
http://theweek.com/article/index/236943/the-girl-who-grew-lincolns-beard
http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2013/06/25/in-the-magazine/trends-and-opinions/lincoln-jokes.html
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/lincoln-a-beard-is-born/?_r=0
http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gracebedell.htm
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0026.207?rgn=main;view=fulltext
http://www.americanheritage.com/content/%E2%80%9Cif-i-had-another-face-do-you-think-id-wear-one%E2%80%9D
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2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

2017x90 Why are There Bibles in Hotel Rooms

2017-04-15T04:00:00Z — 5m

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“Hotel Bibles” are also called “Gideon Bibles” after Gideon International, a group of male missionaries and Christian businessmen who took it upon themselves to provide this work to hotels across the nation.

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http://www.gideons.org/AboutUs/OurHistory.aspx
http://www.gideons.org/FAQ/FAQ.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideons_International
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon
http://mentalfloss.com/article/30241/why-are-there-gideon-bibles-hotel-rooms

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2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

2017x91 The Surprisingly Diverse Pre-Hollywood Career of Jason Statham

2017-04-16T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Steve Jobs' Illegal First Business
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Jason Statham, the stunningly handsome man you occasionally see glistening on the cover of Men’s Health or kicking The Rock in the face in the latest Fast and the Furious movie, is primarily known for two kinds of roles- action movies, where he uses his formidable athleticism to beat up dozens of nameless thugs, and comedy films, where he usually plays a wise-cracking hustler. These are two roles he’s basically trained for his entire life, seeing as before he was an actor, he was, amongst other things, a street hustler and a professional diver who came just one position away from making the Olympics not once, but three consecutive Olympiads.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/to-baldly-go-where-no-manes-grown-before-1584820.html
http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/all-action/2008/07/12/1215658193266.html?page=2
http://www.sportskeeda.com/athletics/jason-statham-international-diver-before-hollywood-star
http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/interviews/a35122/jason-statham-cover-story-0615/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/28292980
http://jstatham.com/
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WqP2eH-eB30C&pg=PT17&lpg=PT17&dq=jason+statham+french+connection+ad&source=bl&ots=MaOZsjZ3HJ&sig=ZEdHCnL45fwKnzHWT8IKZ18Ql7Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEw

2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

2017x92 Why Do We Have Grass Lawns

2017-04-17T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Maintaining the perfect lawn takes a lot of work. There’s mowing, fertilizing, aerating, and watering. Having a trimmed green field leading up to your front door is something of a status symbol, and in some cases having a messy front lawn can get you into trouble with your more obsessive neighbours.

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http://www.planetnatural.com/organic-lawn-care-101/history/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/16/249342738/in-florida-a-turf-war-blooms-over-front-yard-vegetable-gardening
http://theweek.com/article/index/216592/blades-of-glory-americas-love-affair-with-lawns
http://tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown.html
http://home.howstuffworks.com/grass.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown,_New_York

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2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

2017x93 The Last Public Hanging in the United States

2017-04-18T04:00:00Z — 5m

2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

2017x94 The Surprisingly Mysterious Life of Famed Artist Bob Ross

2017-04-19T04:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.bobross.com/aboutus.asp#
http://www.avclub.com/article/study-happy-little-numbers-statistical-analysis-bo-203519
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LvwaBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT22&lpg=PT22&dq=&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://airforcelive.dodlive.mil/2015/01/before-they-were-famous-airman-edition/
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/13/obituaries/bob-ross-52-dies-was-painter-on-tv.html
http://mentalfloss.com/article/31206/what-happened-bob-ross-paintings
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/22/arts/television-bob-ross-the-frugal-gourmet-of-painting.html
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1990-07-07/lifestyle/9007060122_1_bob-ross-joy-of-painting-pbs/2
http://www.aptonline.org/catalog.nsf/vLinkTitle/BOB+ROSS+THE+HAPPY+PAINTER
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2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

2017x95 The Timely Death of Kodak Founder George Eastman

2017-04-20T04:00:00Z — 5m

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It was March 14, 1932 when George Eastman, famed inventor, philanthropist, and founder of Eastman Kodak, invited a few loyal friends over to witness the rewriting of his will. He had made the decision to give a good portion of his money and prized possessions, including his enormous mansion, to the city he called home for his whole life- Rochester. To this end, he bequeathed his house and a $2 million endowment (about $34 million today) to the University of Rochester. Eastman also donated a large sum of money to dental dispensaries across the city, attempting to ensure that no child in Rochester would go without proper dental work. Finally, he left $200,000 (about $3.4 million today) to his beloved niece, Ellen.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eastman
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eastman/sfeature/finalshot.html
http://www.kodak.com/ek/US/en/Our_Company/History_of_Kodak/George_Eastman.htm
http://books.google.com/books?id=HJdn-qdFlCUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=George+Eastman:+A+Biography&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NDIrVNeAH4mvogSj9oG4DQ&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=snippet&q=1932&f=false
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2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

2017x96 Why Beans Give You Gas

2017-04-21T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-04-22T04:00:00Z

2017x97 The Great Stink of 1858

2017-04-22T04:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.choleraandthethames.co.uk/cholera-in-london/the-great-stink/
http://www.choleraandthethames.co.uk/cholera-in-london/the-big-thames-clean-up/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/social_conditions/victorian_urban_planning_03.shtml
http://publichealth.artsci.wustl.edu/great_stink
http://www.thameswater.co.uk/about-us/850_2611.htm
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/thames1.html
http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-london/sir-joseph-bazalgette-and-londons-sewers
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2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

2017x98 Why is Poindexter Slang for Nerd? (and Where the Words Nerd and Geek Come From)

2017-04-23T04:00:00Z — 5m

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“Poindexter” as a slang name for a nerdy person comes from a particularly memorable stereotypically nerdy character in the cartoon Felix the Cat. The character in question is the nephew of Felix’s archenemy, the Professor, who is, of course, named Poindexter.

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2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

2017x99 Why are Some Pages “Intentionally Left Blank” and Why Do They Say This?

2017-04-24T04:00:00Z — 5m

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In the video today, we're looking at why some pages in books and other written works say they are intentionally left blank and why they put those blank pages in.

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http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/d01179sp.pdf
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collectionCfr.action?collectionCode=CFR
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Code_of_Federal_Regulations_of_the_U.html?id=bfg4AAAAIAAJ
http://www.this-page-intentionally-left-blank.org/whythat.html
http://www.academiaobscura.com/intentionally-blank/
https://www.designersinsights.com/designer-resources/understanding-and-working-with-print/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recto_and_verso
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http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1c235c/why_do_they_leave_the_page_before_a_story_blank/
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2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

2017x100 The Great Emu War of 1932

2017-04-25T04:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/longstoryshort/the-emu-wars/4681232
http://www.strangehistory.net/2011/07/18/the-emu-war-of-1932/
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2952/did-the-australian-army-once-wage-war-on-emus
http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2013/04/01/missed-in-history-the-great-emu-war/
http://www.emufacts.com/the-emu-egg.shtm

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2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

2017x101 That Time When you Could Save Yourself From Being Executed by Beating the Executioner in a Foot Race

2017-04-26T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Like many historical nations, the Ottoman Empire was no stranger to doling out deadly justice to criminals and those the rulers disliked. Unlike most, for several decades, starting sometime in the late 18th century, they did offer some of the condemned a chance to avoid being executed. How? They simply had to beat the palace’ head gardener in what amounted to about a 300 metre dash.

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http://www.todayszaman.com/national_forgotten-lives-of-ottoman-executioners_348009.html
https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=81YLQOY_rZkC&pg=PA239&dq=souflikar+ottoman&hl=en&sa=X&ei=V3DjVNuzDoaHyATUoIHwAg&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=souflikar%20ottoman&f=false
http://lostislamichistory.com/non-muslim-rights-in-the-ottoman-empire/
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7FQRrbUMojcC&pg=PA48&dq=ottoman+empire+execution&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwja65uA58fKAhVF6xQKHc65D0UQ6AEITzAI#v=onepage&q=ottoman%20empire%20execution&f=false
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2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

2017x102 You're Probably Saying the "Ye" as in "Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe" Wrong

2017-04-27T04:00:00Z — 5m

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The “Ye” here is not the “ye” as in “Judge not, that ye (you) be not judged”, but is rather a remnant of the letter “thorn” or “þorn” (Þ, þ). The letter thorn was used in Old Norse, Old English-Middle English, Gothic, and Icelandic alphabets and is pronounced more or less like the digraph “th”. As such, this letter gradually died out in most areas (all but Iceland), being replaced by “th”.

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http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/ye-olde
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVVTk7yy4kU
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_%28letter%29
http://linguistlist.org/issues/7/7-1473.html
http://www.takeourword.com/TOW142/page1.html
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ye
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/how-to-pronounce-the.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle_-_Curiosity_Shop_03.jpg

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2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

2017x103 That Time the Inventor of the Whac-A-Mole Accidentally Blew Up His Warehouse

2017-04-28T04:00:00Z — 5m

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It was lunch time on a muggy late September day in 2013 when an explosion shook downtown Orlando, Florida. A warehouse on west Jefferson street was the casualty. Police cars, ambulances, and fire trucks were already on their way by the time Tim Roth, a good Samaritan, was on the scene. As he searched through the rubble and debris for injured humans, what he found was something else entirely.

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http://gizmodo.com/the-inventor-of-whac-a-mole-accidentally-blew-up-his-wa-1422080256
http://gizmodo.com/the-inventor-of-whac-a-mole-accidentally-blew-up-his-wa-1422080256
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-09-26/news/os-possible-explosion-orlando-20130926_1_green-fuel-warehouse-tim-roth
http://www.robotsandgames.com/page2.html
http://kotaku.com/whac-a-moles-inventor-linked-to-weird-experimental-fue-1417466107
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/whac-a-mole-inventor-florida-warehouse-explodes-blows-broken-gaming-equipment-street-article-1.1469484
http://mentalfloss.com/article/24435/origins-whac-mole
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-10-05/business/os-fechter-downtown-explosion-20131005_1_downtown-warehouse-blast
http://www.poprewind.com/interview-with-rock-afir

2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

2017x104 From a Life of Crime to One of the Most Prolific Actors of All Time Danny Trejo's Prison Break

2017-04-30T04:00:00Z — 5m

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https://www.youtube.→’s certainly one of the more recongisable faces in Hollywood. Unlike most, however, Danny’s trail to becoming one of the hardest working actors in Hollywood began in prison while facing “three gas-chamber [worthy] offences”.

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http://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/dec/06/danny-trejo-hole-gas-chamber
http://grantland.com/features/the-life-career-machete-kills-star-danny-trejo/
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/interview-danny-trejo-on-his-new-film-machete-1-479108
http://www.mensfitness.com/life/entertainment/danny-trejo?page=2
http://www.latinomagazine.com/summer11/features/superhero.htm
http://www.npr.org/2014/08/03/337134637/danny-trejo-from-the-big-house-to-the-big-screen

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2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

2017x105 The Curious Case of the Claque

2017-05-01T04:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.bartleby.com/81/3634.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/arts/dance/designated-cheering-spectators-thrive-at-the-bolshoi-theater.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SxeuAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=roman+abramov+claque&source=bl&ots=dCAlAk7OjP&sig=Vn6qIaPg0Mec6yAWj6FRnehSRW0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FUE1VdP3A82s7AberIDIBg&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=roman%20abramov%20claque&f=false
http://psychology.about.com/od/classicpsychologystudies/p/conformity.htm
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6146/647.abstract
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1902/09/09/page/12/article/laughter-and-tears-to-order
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=E1Z_wqOE3m0C&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=M.+Sauton+claque&source=bl&ots=_6iK0cKy5d&sig=NtDuETLt5Kuq1lSNRmADSjKK67I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zi41VeHWO4LW7Qav5YD4Ag&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=M.%20Sauton%20claque&f=false
http://www.theatrehistory.com/french/claque001.html
http://h2g2.com/entry/A53440391
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=claque

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2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

2017x106 The Famous "Crying Indian" Who Wasn't

2017-05-02T04:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.imdb.com/list/ls002124326/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Eyes_Cody
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002014/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_America_Beautiful
http://priceonomics.com/the-true-story-of-the-crying-indian/
http://www.latimes.com/tn-gnp-verdugo-views-the-true-story-of-iron-eyes-cody-20140828-story.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Parker_Pallan
http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/ironeyes.asp
http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jan/05/local/me-60544/2

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2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

2017x107 Charles Dickens and His Stalker

2017-05-03T04:00:00Z — 5m

2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

2017x108 From Longtime Dramatic Actor to Total Goofball The Story of Leslie Nielsen

2017-05-04T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Despite spending the first 30 years of his career almost exclusively a prolific dramatic actor, today Leslie Nielsen is generally remembered as one of the greatest comedic actors of all time for his roles in films like Airplane! and The Naked Gun series. As it turns out, these two factors are more closely linked than you might think and Nielsen’s career as the “the Olivier of spoofs” would likely have never taken off if he’d not spent the first half of his career primarily only taking serious character roles.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Nielsen
http://www.webcitation.org/5ufWUN5CO
http://www.webcitation.org/5ue1sETG0
http://www.avclub.com/article/surely-you-cant-be-serious-oral-history-airplane-218043
http://boingboing.net/2014/07/04/police-squad-was-cancelled-be.html
http://www.webcitation.org/5ue0qJ8Jw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Hersholt

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2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

2017x109 The Unwilling Soldier of Three Armies

2017-05-05T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

2017x110 The Soldier Who Continued Fighting WWII 29 Years After It Ended, Because He Didn't Know

2017-05-06T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Hiroo Onoda is a Japanese citizen that originally worked at a Chinese trading company. When he was 20 years old, he was called to join the Japanese army. He promptly quit his job and headed off to training in Japan. At a certain point in his training, he was chosen to be trained at Nakano School as an Imperial Army Intelligence Officer. In this specialized military intelligence training, he was specifically taught methods of gathering intelligence and how to conduct guerrilla warfare. He was being groomed to go in behind enemy lines and be left with small pockets of soldiers to make life miserable for Japan’s enemies and gather intelligence in the process.

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2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

2017x111 A Knight's Tale- The Real Life Ulrich Von Liechtenstein

2017-05-08T04:00:00Z — 5m

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https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=POxGEBD37moC&pg=PA7&dq=Ulrich+von+Liechtenstein+venus&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VjJ6Upq2CsSa0QWXlYHgAw&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Ulrich%20von%20Liechtenstein%20venus&f=false
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2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

2017x112 The Amazing Story of Douglas Mawson's 300 Mile Antarctic Trek

2017-05-09T04:00:00Z — 5m

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http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/125-mawson-trek/roberts-text
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25682462
http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/history/people/douglas-mawson
http://www.south-pole.com/p0000099.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Mawson

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2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

2017x113 Erased from History: Hatshepsut, The Bearded Female King of Egypt

2017-05-10T04:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.pbs.org/empires/egypt/newkingdom/hatshepsut.html
http://www.guardians.net/hawass/articles/quest_for_the_mummy_of_hatshepsut.htm
http://www.drhawass.com/wp/bio/
http://www.guardians.net/hawass/hatshepsut/search_for_hatshepsut.htm
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http://www.livescience.com/7336-mummy-reveals-egyptian-queen-fat-balding-bearded.html
http://discoveringegypt.com/ancient-egyptian-kings-queens/hatshepsut/
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2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

2017x114 What Happened to Huey, Dewey, and Louie's Parents?

2017-05-11T04:00:00Z — 5m

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http://mentalfloss.com/article/64770/10-fun-facts-about-donald-duck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_family(Disney)#Della_Duck
http://thefw.com/things-you-didnt-know-about-ducktales/
http://www.sullivanet.com/duckburg/phooey.htm
http://www.toonopedia.com/nephews.htm
http://users.cwnet.com/xephyr/rich/dzone/hoozoo/hdnl.html
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2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

2017x115 The Black Babe Ruth

2017-05-13T04:00:00Z — 5m

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It is undisputed that Josh Gibson was the greatest position player in Negro League history. He could field, throw, catch, and most of all, he could hit. His power was legendary. It was claimed by Chicago American Giants infielder Jack Marshall that Gibson hit a ball out of Yankee Stadium in 1934, in the history of the stadium the only player to ever do that, if true. Though his statistics were often not officially kept, it is also thought that he hit more home runs than Barry Bonds, baseball’s current home run king, in far fewer at-bats. He did all of this hitting while fielding the most physically demanding position on the diamond – catcher, which has been proven to diminish a hitter’s offensive output due to extra wear and tear on their bodies over other positions.

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http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/04/jackie-robinson-was-not-the-first-african-american-to-play-major-league-baseball/
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/01/forgotten-hero-larry-doby/
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2017x116 How Do They Decide the Age When You Become an Adult?

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People continue to mature and grow as individuals throughout our lifetimes (at least ideally). So the 45 year old you would probably not only be better equipped to make decisions than the 25 year old version, but also in all likelihood be a very different person, both literally (in the replacing of your body’s physical makeup in that gap) and mentally. Nevertheless, the 45 year old version of you and the much less mature and less accomplished 25 year old version are, in most societies, living under the exact same set of rules and restrictions. So why is some arbitrary number like 18 or 21 considered the cutoff point when society says everyone should be operating on a level playing field, legally speaking?

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2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

2017x117 The Truth About Your Flammable Flatulence

2017-05-15T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

2017x118 Was Sherlock Holmes Based on a Real Person?

2017-05-16T04:00:00Z — 5m

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In 1887, Doyle published the novel “A Study in Scarlet.” It was the first work to star Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. It was also the first record of a magnifying glass being used as a tool of investigation. “A Study in Scarlet” didn’t attract much attention (and neither did its sequel, “The Sign of Four.”) but in the July 1891 issue of “The Strand Magazine”, Doyle published the first short story starring Holmes. That’s when the detective began to take off in popularity. Even early on, readers wanted to know who was the basis for this new type of crime fighter. Doyle couldn’t have just conceived this eccentric, brilliant, logical character out of thin air, right? After more than a century since Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance on paper, evidence points to Holmes being based on primarily two individuals, as well as, perhaps, the author himself.

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http://www.absolutecrime.com/the-real-life-sherlock-holmes-a-biography-of-joseph-bell-the-true-inspiration-of-sherlock-holmes-and-the-pioneer-of-forensic-science.html#.UxEl9PRdUYc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle
https://blog.oup.com/2010/01/sherlock-holm

2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

2017x119 Why are Movie Theater Concessions So Expensive? (The US v Paramount)

2017-05-17T04:00:00Z — 5m

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In 1948, the Supreme Court ended the stranglehold Hollywood studios and distributors had on the U.S. movie market. Declaring the big eight a monopoly and ordering them to divest of their ownership of movie theaters and cease other non-competitive practices, with U.S. v. Paramount Pictures, et al., the Court opened the movie industry to independent producers and theaters, and indelibly changed the way we see films (and the films we see).

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http://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/paramountdoc_1946equity.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-supreme-court-decides-paramount-antitrust-case
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc.
http://aclu.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=363
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2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

2017x120 Who Invented the Shopping Cart?

2017-05-18T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Who Invented the Bloody Mary Drink? (and Who is it Really Named After)
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With the emergence of the automobile, home refrigeration, and the supermarket in the early 20th century, retailers soon realized they had a problem – people now were willing to purchase large quantities of food at once, but had no effective means of comfortably carrying everything they wanted around the store. In the early 1930s, the general solution was to have people carry around baskets… Needless to say, something needed to be done. While today the solution to the problem seems obvious, in the 1930s, it wasn’t and it would take about two decades of iterations before the modern shopping cart would finally emerge.

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https://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/great-depression.cfm
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2014/10/03/why-supermarkets-are-in-trouble/
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/12/invention-shopping-cart/#_ednref1
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/12/invention-shopping-cart/#_ednref2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvan_Goldman
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/27/obituaries/sylvan-n-goldman-86-dies-inventor-of-the-

2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

2017x121 Why aren't Human Fingers All the Same Length

2017-05-19T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

2017x122 The First Email and the Origin of the @ Symbol

2017-05-20T04:00:00Z — 5m

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In the video today, we're looking at the origin of the @ symbol and who invented email as we know it.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-ZPZf1A6F4
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2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

2017x123 What is a Tarnation

2017-05-21T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Why is There an R in "Mrs" When It's Pronounced "Misses"?
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We have the word “tarnation” thanks to societal taboos against saying certain words- instead substituting in other words that often mean the exact same thing, but for some reason we find it acceptable to say the one rather than the other… Humans…

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http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=profanus&la=la

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2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

2017x124 How the Phrase Red Herring Came to Mean Something That is Misleading

2017-05-22T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Meaning a distraction or false trail, the expression “red herring” has been relatively commonly used for the last two centuries, and its origins do, in fact, begin with a rust-colored fish. However, until quite recently, the accepted origins of red herring were themselves a false trail.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=red+herring
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/herring.htm
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/red-herring.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring#History_of_the_idiom
http://www.culinarylore.com/food-history:origin-of-red-herring-expression
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/30239/where-does-the-phrase-red-herring-come-from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cobbett
http://www.oed.com/

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2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

2017x125 What's a MacGuffin in Films and Why is It Called That

2017-05-23T04:00:00Z — 5m

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In the last scene of the 1941 film classic, The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade (played by Humphrey Bogart) hands over a murderer (played by Mary Astor) and a black falcon statuette to authorities. When asked what the statuette was exactly, Spade looks off in the distance and rather unsatisfactorily explains, “It’s stuff that dreams are made of.”

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https://web.archive.org/web/20140218224045/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4e85e2047df93
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Alfred-Hitchcock-Motion-Pictures/dp/0385418132/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1491079215&sr=8-1&keywords=the+art+of+hitchcock&linkCode=ll1&tag=vicastingcom-20&linkId=54ca0ed03488f8edd31c7ffd32c4ea4c
http://www.openculture.com/2013/07/alfred-hitchcock-explains-the-plot-device-he-called-the-macguffin.html
https://books.google.com/books?id=eSEWBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA221&lpg=PA221&dq=angus+macphail+macguffin&source=bl&ots=87A_7isPZ4&sig=BzguQZ6k2vc2B2aeGuBQzd_nsWA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVr6bXz_fSAhXs64MKHenOCkY4ChDoAQgvMAc#v=onepage&q=angus%20macphail%20macguffin&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=9oIkYvZQr0MC&pg=PA145&lpg=PA145&dq=Angus+MacPhail+macguffin&source=bl&ots=RnvM_1i76x&sig=Pm2LLG5sOkEfH9wFRZoUpHDb39k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi3pozEzvfSAhVM44MKHfs7BMsQ6AEIUDAJ#v=onepage&q=Angus%20MacPhail%20macguffin&f=false
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2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

2017x126 Why Does Coffee Make You Poop?

2017-05-24T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

2017x127 That Time Dick Van Dyke was Saved by Porpoises While Lost at Sea

2017-05-25T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

2017x128 What Time Zones are the Poles In?

2017-05-26T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

2017x129 What Do the Buttons on Darth Vaders Suit Do?

2017-05-28T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Why are Harley Davidson Motorcycles So Loud?
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It’s said that the best villains are the ones where you know almost nothing about them. However, thanks to the Star Wars Expanded Universe, we know almost everything about Darth Vader, even how he poops, and he’s still consistently voted to be one of the greatest cinema villains of all time. As proof of the “no stone left unturned” mentality of Expanded Universe content, we even know what all the buttons on Vader’s suit do.

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https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AeD170-NasIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Dark+Lord:+The+Rise+of+Darth+Vader&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-8s62tePJAhWCyxoKHdIsB4wQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=beeped&f=false
http://web.archive.org/web/20090602013752/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=starwars/article/sw20050804jc71
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jt9iMThzDGQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Darth+Vader:+A+3-D+Reconstruction+Log&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwji7cHQseTJAhUBrhQKHSxYDlUQ6AEIIjAA#v=onepage&q=DD-13&f=false
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tFyUQQAACAAJ&dq=The+Dark+Side+Sourcebook&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0

2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

2017x130 Does the President's Dog Get Its Own Secret Service Agents?

2017-05-29T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Even before the U.S. president is elected such, if they’re considered a “major candidate” for the job, they get offered Secret Service protection. Whether they accept that protection or not, once elected until the day they die (unless they opt out after leaving office), they will be shadowed by an elite team of Secret Service agents. These individuals, while not actually sworn to do so (contrary to popular belief), are generally expected to, if necessary, give their lives to keep the president safe. While in office, this protection extends to a president’s immediate family. But does this ever include their family pet? Technically no.

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https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-108/pdf/STATUTE-108-Pg2382.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_Presidents_Act
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QEoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=president+dog+bodyguard&source=bl&ots=PZdrt8-hPX&sig=i4CGXQbykkoxQSuXeQ4MYOXSz8w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJlqqK9b_TAhXKAcAKHU_KCYoQ6AEIUzAK#v=onepage&q=president%20dog%20bodyguard&f=false
http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2009/04/14/presidential-pets-past-and-present/
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/01/lifetime-secret-service-protection-restored-

2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

2017x131 From Drug Dealer Charged with Attempted Murder to Successfull Actor- Mark Whalberg's Turnaround

2017-05-30T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

2017x132 Picasso's Doodles

2017-05-31T04:00:00Z — 5m

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The Surprisingly Mysterious Life of Famed Artist Bob Ross
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Why Did People Stick One Hand in Their Jackets in Old Photographs?
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With the possible exception of the mysterious, enigmatic figure known only as Bob Ross (see: The Surprisingly Mysterious Life of Famed Artist Bob Ross), Pablo Picasso is perhaps the most well-known artist from modern times. (Although, I think most are probably unaware that his actual name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso… Yep…)

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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/picassos-lost-scraps-1180582.html
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WGM4sOJu9JgC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=picasso+doodles+napkin+restaurant&source=bl&ots=BwsREHay8V&sig=Iagole84UgahUOQHRiUwg21gKhE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwixio6414jTAhWaOsAKHbAYBZo4ChDoAQg3MAY#v=onepage&q=picasso%20doodles%20napkin%20restaurant&f=false
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/magazine/19food-t.html
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/sep/24/pablo-picasso-horse-doodle-auction
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/may/19/picasso-peace-freedom-tate-liverpool
https://www.theguardian.com/

2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

2017x133 A Tax on the Poor- The Lotto and the Surprisingly Common Sad Aftermath of Winning

2017-06-01T04:00:00Z — 5m

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It’s been called a voluntary tax on the poor and under educated, with people spending a whopping $60 billion a year in the United States alone on lottery tickets, most of which are purchased by low income individuals. (All total, about 20% of Americans play the lotto). Despite the high number of lotto tickets purchased annually, when playing the lottery (in all its forms), you’ll win an average of just 53 cents for every $1 you spend, making it one of the lowest return rates of any form of commercial gambling, and thus extremely profitable for the various government bodies who run the lotteries.

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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?%20%20abstract_id=1324845##
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11166-008-9041-1
http://wws.princeton.edu/news/Income_Happiness/Happiness_Money_Report.pdf
http://www.smartmoney.com/invest/stocks/why-lottery-winners-go-bankrupt-1301002181742/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/financialfinesse/2012/04/05/three-ways-not-winning-the-lottery-may-make-you-wealthy/

2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

2017x134 The Story Behind the Morton's Salt Girl

2017-06-02T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out our Patreon page →“Morton”s Salt girl“. With her bright yellow dress, oversized umbrella, and leaking container of table salt, she’s an iconic figure in American grocery stores. But who is the Morton’s girl, and where did she come from?

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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000073/?ref_=sr_1
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/
http://www.mortonsalt.com/our-history/mortons-history
http://www.mortonsalt.com/our-history/history-of-the-umbrella-girl
http://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/why-salt-clumps/
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem07/chem07292.htm
http://www.realfoodtraveler.com/2012/11/salt-and-trees-the-surprising-history-of-morton-salt/
http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/edible-innovations/salt.htm
http://www.saltinstitute.org/
http://www.saltinstitute.org/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074887/
http://www.saltworks.us/salt_info/si_HistoryOfSalt.asp
http://www.mortonsalt.com/salt-facts/salt-history
http://www.anb.org/articles/10/10-02297.html

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morton_Salt.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeepersmedia/14096626706
https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-165619247/stock-photo-salt-pan-or-salt-field-with-blue-sky-background
https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-133232138/stock-photo-hand-adding-salt-to-vegetable-salad-bowl-of-fresh-green-salad%2C-tomatoes%2C-cucumber-on-wood-table-against-dark-background-on-rustic-kitchen-glass-with-salt%2C-olive%2C-sunflower-oil%2C-pepper-on-table
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2017-06-04T04:00:00Z

2017x135 Roger Courtney and a Watery Gamble - The Establishing of the SBS

2017-06-04T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Described by the BBC as the “Shadowy sister of the SAS”, The Special Boat Service (more commonly known as the SBS) is likely one of the most well-trained and elite special forces units around today that few in the world have ever heard of, despite performing countless harrowing missions, dozens of hostage rescues and more than its fair share of daring night time raids going all the way back to WWII when an officer by the name of Roger “Jumbo” Courtney risked a court-martial to demonstrate to his superiors just how valuable a unit like the SBS could be.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/special-boat-service-a-force-never-far-from-the-front-line-of-controversy-7547451.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/9132444/British-hostage-murder-SBS-moved-quickly-b

2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

2017x136 That Time Someone Gave a Homeless Person $100,000 Just to See What Would Happen

2017-06-05T04:00:00Z — 5m

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The Surprisingly Diverse Pre-Hollywood Career of Jason Statham
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In 2005 a homeless man called Ted Rodrigue stumbled upon a briefcase filled with crisp $20 and $50 bills totaling $100,000 (about $123,000 today). Ted was then told by screenwriter Wayne Powers that the money was his to keep and do with as he wished, so long as he would allow a film crew to document the result. Rodrigue, understandably, jumped at the opportunity, leading to a somewhat controversial documentary- Reversal of Fortune.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0838195/
http://www.al6400.com/blog/a-homeless-man-loses-one-hundred-thousand-dollars-in-six-months-reversal-of-fortune/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAJcDBxYc_E&index=1&list=PLJ0HiJvVrq6q0NmEk2dcM8Dcy0mjRhFe2
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=r081zAPaTXQC&pg=PA124&dq=reversal+of+fortune+documentary&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiL0PvDtM7PAhUsDcAKHSbCAFwQ6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=reversal%20of%20fortune%20documentary&f=false
http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Rags-to-Riches
http://fortune.com/2016/01/15/powerball-lottery-winners/
http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/article/Wh

2017x137 The Female Pirate Whose Armada Took on the Chinese, British, and Portuguese Navies and Won

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June 6, 2017

Uncommon off the coast of Asia in the 18th and 19th centuries, one woman stood above them all. Her birth name isn’t known, but this Cantonese pirate went by the name Ching Shih (also, by Zhèng Yi Sao, “wife of Zhèng”, and Zhèng Shì, “widow of Zhèng”. For the purpose of this article, I’ll just refer to her as Ching Shih to avoid any confusion.)

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2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

2017x138 The Soldier Who Voluntarily Became a Prisoner in Auschwitz

2017-06-07T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Nazi troops invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, despite the best efforts of Captain Witold Pilecki and his fellow Polish soldiers. On November 9th of that same year, Witold and Major Wlodarkiewicz founded the Tajna Armia Polska (TAP or Polish Secret Army), an underground organization that eventually became consolidated with other resistance forces into The Home Army.

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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/world-war-two-declaration-anniversary-witold-pilecki-spy-who-volunteered-auschwitz-1463685
http://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-features/special-focus/international-holocaust-remembrance-day/the-auschwitz-volunteer-pilecki
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/27/auschwitz-short-history-liberation-concentration-camp-holocaust
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005189
http://www.jhc.org.au/news-and-events/calendar-of-events/item/369-witold-pilecki.html
http://auschwitz.org/en/museum/news/67th-anniversary-of-the-death-of-cavalry-captain-witold-pilecki,1154.html
http://www.npr.org/template

2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

2017x139 The Woman Who is the Mother of Us All

2017-06-08T04:00:00Z — 5m

Discover details about your unique family history. Go to http://www.ancestry.com→“mother” of all humans alive today. Seems like a big claim for scientists to make. So how do they know this? The simple explanation is that when an egg is fertilized by a sperm, the DNA from the father and mother join together in a process known as recombination. Certain DNA is only passed down from the mother or father. All mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) come exclusively from the mother, as an exact copy. Over time however, there will occur predictable mutations to mtDNA. Biologists can compare samples from individuals to determine how closely they are related- the fewer these predictable mutations, the closer the relationship. The predictability of these mutations also allows biologists to estimate the time at which a certain mutation (i.e. ancestor) lived. Beginning in 1987, several studies have been conducted that show all humans alive today have the same female ancestor and she lived approximately 200,000 years ago.

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100817122405.htm
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/evolution/female-ancestor5.htm
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/09/g912/haplogroupA.pdf
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090604124023.htm
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/245/new_molecular_clock_aids_dating_of_human_migration_history
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/neanderthals/mtdna.html
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2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

2017x140 The Man Who Fought in WWII With a Sword and Bow

2017-06-09T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our effo→’ War or fending off some orcs on Middle Earth. But when it comes to World War II, such medieval weaponry looks like child’s play next to the technology of the time. A sword isn’t the most likely of defences against rifles and tanks. However, for John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, nicknamed “Mad Jack,” there was nothing he’d rather arm himself with than a trusty sword and bow.

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2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

2017x141 The Tragic Family Life of Kelsey Grammer

2017-06-11T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

2017x142 The Truth About Prepositions and the End of Sentences

2017-06-12T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

2017x143 The Man Who Saved the World

2017-06-13T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

2017x144 The Forgotten Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, Norton I

2017-06-14T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to suppo→’s likely that the latter date is the correct one. His family immigrated to South Africa when he was quite young, where his father headed a small Jewish community. As a young man, he initially attempted to run his own business in Cape Town but quickly went bankrupt and started working at his father’s ship chandlery instead.

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2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

2017x145 Did English Speakers Really Not Use Contractions in the 19th Century as Depicted in True Grit?

2017-06-15T04:00:00Z — 5m

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A Man Once Tried to Raise His Son as a Native Speaker in Klingon
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Won’t, don’t, wouldn’t, isn’t and even ain’t- where would we be without our contractions? Prevalent in spoken English and increasingly accepted in written pieces, contractions enable brevity and make written works more accessible and friendly.

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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2873
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/words-you-didnt-realise-william-shakespeare-invented
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http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2011/01/true-grit.html
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http://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/history_early_modern.html
http://www.plainlanguage.gov/howto/guidelines/FederalPLGuidelines/writeContract.cfm
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2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

2017x146 What Makes a Vowel a Vowel and a Consonant a Consonant

2017-06-16T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

2017x147 The One Man Riot Squad

2017-06-17T04:00:00Z — 5m

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The Man Who Personally Executed Over 7000 People in 28 Days, One at a Time
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The Unwilling Soldier of Three Armies
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Serving with the NYPD between 1923 and 1947, for over two decades John “Johnny” Broderick struck fear into the hearts of New York’s deadliest criminals working as a no-nonsense detective who wasn’t afraid to throw hands and kick bad guys through windows (literally). Over his long and controversial career, Broderick earned over half a dozen medals for valor, a nod from the president of the United States and the begrudging respect of the criminal underworld who, when they weren’t referring to him by various expletives, referred to him as “the one man riot squad”.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/johnny-broderick-true-detective-article-1.836073
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842400,00.html
http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/1930s_NYPD_police_stories_famous_New_York_Police_detective_Johnny_Broderick#.VpUSQfmLTIW
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2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

2017x148 How Do Dry Cleaners Clean Clothing

2017-06-20T04:00:00Z — 5m

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What happens to clothes after being dropped off at the dry cleaners is a mystery to most. We know that our clothes come back a whole lot cleaner than when we dropped them off, but how? And who first got the bright idea to clean clothing without water?

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2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

2017x149 The Black Comedian Who Was Almost One of the Three Stooges

2017-06-21T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out our Pa→’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Mantan Moreland. But, if you are lucky enough to have seen him in a film—any film—you’ll definitely remember him. Moreland’s comic timing manages to transcend the decades in films like King of the Zombies (1941), where he steals the show, saving what would otherwise be a completely forgettable (and by now, probably long-forgotten) comedy-horror flick. While changing attitudes about black roles in film may have hastened Moreland’s fall from popularity, he’s finally being rediscovered as the talented character actor and comedy genius that he was.

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2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

2017x150 The Curious Practice of Execution By Golden Shower

2017-06-22T04:00:00Z — 5m

If anyone is interested in checking out the book that was the primary source material for this video and→’s not surprising that war-time executions can occasionally be among the most bizarre and cruel. On that note, I was recently reading the first volume of John Masters’ autobiography, Bugles and a Tiger, and came across one of the more bizarre execution methods, death by drowning a person in urine.

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2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

2017x151 Using a Charge Card to Buy $170 Million Painting

2017-06-23T04:00:00Z — 5m

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If→’t until 1999 when American Express decided to make the card a reality. To quote a director for the company, Doug Smith, “There had been rumors going around that we had this ultra-exclusive black card for elite customers. It wasn’t true, but we decided to capitalize on the idea anyway.”

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2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

2017x152 Can Sharks Really Grow an Unlimited Number of Teeth

2017-06-25T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Do Sharks Really Not Like How Humans Taste?
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Why Crocodiles Shed Tears When They Eat
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While sharks aren’t exactly the ruthless predators most Hollywood features make them out to be (see: Do Sharks Really Not Like How Humans Taste?), they do possess a number of frighteningly efficient mechanisms to assist with aquatic hunting, including ultra-streamlined bodies, high intelligence, the ability to detect electrical fields and minute changes in water pressure, great hearing, incredibly sharp vision, amazing sense of smell (Lemon sharks can even detect tuna oil at a concentration of just one part per 25 million), and the topic of today- many rows of razor sharp teeth, including the ability to rapidly replace them. But are sharks actually able to grow an unlimited number of teeth throughout their lives?

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http://www.pnas.org/content/110/22/E2009.abstract
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https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/shark-teeth-human-tooth-loss-study-1.548598
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/science-news/2016/february/shark-genes-could-grow-new-human-teet

2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

2017x153 The Curious Case of Captain Robert Campbell

2017-06-26T04:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-23957605
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http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/
http://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/prisoners-of-war
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http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/inside-story/articles/2014/8/5/world-war-i-fouryearsthatchangedtheglobeforever.html
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2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

2017x154 Does the UK Really Experience Massive Power Surges When Soap Operas Finish from People Making Tea

2017-06-28T04:00:00Z — 5m

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The Slave Who Helped Assemble the Freedom Statue in Washington DC
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At first glance the idea of the UK being simultaneously addicted to both trashy soaps and tea to such an extent that the country’s national power grid experiences a massive surge of usage every time one ends seems like it must be a gross exaggeration stemming from a pair of stereotypes. As it turns out, though, this is not only a readily observable phenomenon in the UK, but it’s such a normal part of daily life for the National Grid operators that they have to keep track of what’s going on in the plot of upcoming popular soaps and other shows to help predict ratings. They also keep TVs in office to watch said shows so they can see precisely when a given episode ends. This is all necessary in order to keep the power grid fully operational during the very brief surges.

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http://www.darvill.clara.net/altenerg/pumped.htm
http://www.energyscience.org.au/BP16%20BaseLoad.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX0G9F42puY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6981356.stm
https://www.britishgas.co.uk/the-source/our-world-of-energy/surprising-world-of-energy/power-surge
https://www.geek.com/geek-cetera/tea-time-in-britain-causes-predictable-massive-surge-in-electricity-demand-1535023/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/03/no-more-electricity-surges-as-the-nation-switches-on-the-kettle/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_following_power_plant
https://www.drax.com/technology/7-of-the-biggest-tv-moments-in-uk-electricity-history/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/20/strictly-come-dancing-bbc-national-grid
https:/

2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

2017x155 Does Hand and Foot Size Really Correlate with Penile Length?

2017-06-29T04:00:00Z — 5m

Karl Smallwood's channel, Fact Fiend https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaR-e8ComPih10DqPi3sdWg

If→’re wondering, see: When Did Humans Start Wearing Clothes?), people have long tried to come up with other potential indicators to determine the size of a guy’s manhood without actually seeing it. A seemingly tried and true method for doing just this is to look at the size of the man’s hands and/or feet. But does hand and foot size really correlate to the length of the penis?

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http://www.asiaandro.com/news/upload/20130913-aja201175a.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27695583
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2007.06806.x/full
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28119871
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3182741/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25487360
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28275522
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12230622
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/11935365/What-does-your-shoe-size-say-about-you.html
http://ccf.org/reproductiveresearchcenter/docs/agradoc391.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9890060
https://www.buzzfeed.com/caseygueren/hard-facts-about-penis-size?utm_term=.hsKV451Wy#.eagrYz0AM
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/25/what-does-your-digit-ratio-say-about-you
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21865749
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-scientists-finger-size-matter-article-1.2552694

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2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

2017x156 Talking Tough - Martin Luther's Potty Mouth

2017-06-30T04:00:00Z — 5m

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The Black Comedian Who Was Almost One of the Three Stooges
https://youtu.be/r46KDLzczJg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR

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On the last day of October in 1517, a scholar and priest named Martin Luther did as priests commonly did at the time when they had something to discuss amongst the clergy- he nailed a piece of paper to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenburg, Germany. Unlike many other such documents nailed to the doors of churches, this one sparked a religious and social revolution, and established Luther as a hero (to some) and father of the Protestant Reformation. Interestingly, some argue that to solidify his claim to leadership, Luther also felt he had to do something else – talk tough; and in 16th century Germany, that meant having a potty mouth. Regardless of his motivations, Luther could turn a filthy phrase with the best of them, as you’ll soon see.

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http://www.academia.edu/1016951/German_Hercules_The_Impact_of_Scatology_on_the_Image_of_Martin_Luther_as_a_Man_1483-1546
http://www.openculture.com/2014/02/leck-mich-im-arsch-kiss-my-ass-listen-to-mozarts-scatological-canon-in-b-flat-1782.html
http://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-17-1-c-luther-sparks-the-protestant-reformation
http://www.history.com/topics/martin-luther-and-the-95-theses
http://

2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

2017x157 The Origins of 5 Secret Groups

2017-07-01T04:00:00Z — 5m

Check out our video on AllTimeConspiracies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr243dc1_6U
Check out AllTimeConspiracies: →’s attempt to remove an interview with its famous member, Tom Cruise, from the internet.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group
http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/index.php
http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/multilingual/romani.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societ%C3%A0_Generale_Immobiliare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuza
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Chanology
http://definitions.uslegal.com/c/computer-hacking/
http://anoninsiders.net/the-mask-46/index.html
http://www.vertigocomics.com/graphic-novels/v-for-vendetta-new-edition
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/08/bilderberg-group-alex-jones_n_3408567.html

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2017x158 Why Yankee Doodle Called the Feather in His Hat Macaroni

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July 1, 2017

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2017-07-02T04:00:00Z

2017x159 How Long Would It Take to Count to a Billion and What’s the Highest Anyone Has Counted?

2017-07-02T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare→’s most basic skills and something most humans are quite adept at. Despite most of us being experts on the subject, theoretically capable of counting infinitely high with the ceiling bounded only by available time and how good we are at staving off psychosis, few can accurately guess how long it would take to count to a million, let alone a billion. This is largely owing to the fact that our brains have an amazing amount of difficulty conceptualizing such large numbers. This all brings us to the question of the hour- just how long would it take to count to a million or a billion?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCTqlKLsYEs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aqCC2PVNcA
http://www.npr.org/sections/bryantpark/2007/09/jeremy_harper_counts_to_a_mill_1.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16548170
http://appalachianmagazine.com/2017/01/19/you-could-probably-break-the-worlds-record-for-counting-to-highest-number-in-history/
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/67539-fastest-recital-of-hamlets-soliloquy
http://davidschwartz.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/MMAB-06-CountingToOneMillion.pdf
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_kVn7WSkSxEC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&dq=counting+to+a+million+23+days&source=bl&ots=ceM9gLIxDW&sig=Aliaa7c5R0mXoXLDTzARAn0Uaa0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi2qr-RhuTTAhVKEVAKHVk9BX0Q6AEIVDAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YSP_ydeC0VEC&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=counting+to+a+million+23+days&source=bl&ots=oeuw9Rieyk&sig=AmGURJQU7rRKzUWzVtoRNuYRoSo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi2qr-RhuTTAhVKEVAKHVk9BX0Q6AEITDAH#v=onepage&q=counting%20to%20a%20million%2023%20days&f=false
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2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

2017x160 Al Jolson - Misunderstood Hero or Villain?

2017-07-03T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check →“sort of” correct answer, but not really. The earliest “sound” movies were made by synchronizing motion pictures to phonograph records. In 1926, (a year before “The Jazz Singer”) Warner Brothers re-released the previously silent film “Don Juan” with a soundtrack recording done by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

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2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

2017x161 The Many Myths Surrounding Charles Darwin

2017-07-04T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out our Patreon→“survival of the fittest.” Darwin was the first person to theorize evolution as the origin of species. Darwin did not believe in God. Darwin played shortstop for the New York Yankees. These are just few of the common myths that are associated with Charles Darwin. (Well, maybe not playing for the Yankees.) But, as with the Yankees myth we just created, the rest are also all false. Here is the truth about a few of the Darwin myths so prevalently repeated.

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Sources:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/feb/09/darwin.myths
http://anthropology.si.edu/outreach/Teaching_Activities/pdf/Human%20Evolution%20and%20Darwin.pdf
http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-5145#mark-5145.f3
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1228/1228-h/1228-h.htm
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20556/20556-h/20556-h.htm
https://archive.org/details/vestigesofnatura00unse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestiges_of_the_Natural_History_of_Creation
http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/what-did-darwin-believe-article
https://books.google.com/books?id=KWpFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA775&lpg=PA775&dq=When+we+say+that+the+conclusions+announced+by+Mr.+Darwin+are+such+as,+if+established,+would+cause+a+complete+revolution+in+the+fundamental+doctrines+of+natural+history&source=bl&ots=IF8ZsiFbdO&sig=LsUzVPToEo5UjiTIeMU_vWYB8pk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NXrfVLrYMsqkgwT62YBg&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=When%20we%20say%20that%20the%20conclusions%20announced%20by%20Mr.%20Darwin%20are%20such%20as%2C%20if%20established%2C%20would%20cause%20a%20complete%20revolution%20in%20the%20fundamental%20doctrines%20of%20natural%20history&f=false
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin#Early_life_and_education
http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=A19&viewtype=text&pageseq=1
https://archive.org/stream/princip

2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

2017x162 That Time Jordan Anderson Sent His Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master

2017-07-05T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our →’s rights, but also championed women’s rights, particularly playing an important part in the fight for the right for women to vote. Not everyone can be so accomplished as the great Frederick Douglas, but that doesn’t mean they don’t at times do noteworthy things. This brings us to the subject of today- one Jordan Anderson, a former slave who received a letter from his former master requesting he come back to work. Jordan’s reply was a deliciously satirical letter in which, when reading between the lines, he essentially told him in the most polite and eloquent way possible to kiss his derriere. Widely published throughout the United States and parts of Europe, the response made Jordan a media darling overnight.

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http://archive.boston.com/news/education/articles/2012/07/14/how_did_ex_slaves_letter_to_master_come_to_be/
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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=84366613
http://www.toledoblade.com/State/2012/07/15/Story-behind-letter-taunting-former-master-pieced-together.html
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=93697963
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wGmD0Zl27GIC&pg=PA6&dq=jourdan+anderson&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjI_5DC_bvNAhVMDMAKHcmsAlsQ6AEIKDAB#v=onepage&q=jourdan%20anderson&f=false
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Anderson

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2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

2017x163 Does Drinking Gasoline Cause You to Go Blind

2017-07-06T04:00:00Z — 5m

2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

2017x164 Marie Curie's Affair... and the Duels That Followed

2017-07-07T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out our →“in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel”. Their relationship was a happy one, with each of them being on an even intellectual footing with the other. They celebrated their Nobel Prize and continued their work. But after a few years, tragedy struck.

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http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1903/marie-curie-bio.html
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2010/12/14/132031977/don-t-come-to-stockholm-madame-curie-s-nobel-scandal
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30816FD355517738DDDAD0A94D9415B818DF1D3
http://www.aip.org/history/curie/brief/06_quotes/quotes_11.html
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/physics/brau/H182/HonorandDishonor.pdf
http://www.aip.org/history/curie/scandal1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haijby_affair

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2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

2017x165 Where Did the Expression Piss Like a Racehorse Come From?

2017-07-09T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check ou→“river” of urine that seems to have impressed some wordsmith sufficiently to coin the phrase, “piss like a (race)horse” – today denoting a full human bladder that needs emptied yesterday. Although authoritative sources for the expression’s origins are non-existent, luckily, the tools of the modern world are at our fingertips to try to track down the origin and progression of this rather uncouth phrase.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/06/us/belmont-stakes-american-pharoah/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curlin
http://etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=&searchmode=none
http://www.uctc.net/access/30/Access%2030%20-%2002%20-%20Horse%20Power.pdf
http://thomasthoughts.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-have-to-pee-like-racehorse-where-does.html
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http://therail.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/origins-of-triple-crown/
http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/forums/viewthread/1383/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furosemide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Dancer
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2007/06/does_a_racehorse_pee_like_a_racehorse.html
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2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

2017x166 Millionaire Charles Vance Millar and His Practical Jokes from Beyond the Grave

2017-07-11T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

2017x167 Is Inhaling Alcohol Bad for You?

2017-07-12T04:00:00Z — 5m

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If you happen to like our videos and ha→’s now gained popularity as a way to quickly become intoxicated. Proponents of this process-to-become-plastered, tout several benefits compared to drinking it. Many claim you get drunk without any calorie intake. Some state, because you bypass the liver, you can eliminate the alcohol quickly and avoid the dreaded alcohol hangover.

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Sources:

http://alcalc.oxfordjournals.org/content/46/4/424.full
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0041008X79903946
http://science.howstuffworks.com/alcohol4.htm
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertglatter/2013/06/21/the-dangers-of-smoking-alcohol/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/inhaling-alcohol-vapor-puts-you-at-risk-of-overdose/
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2013/06/smoking_alcohol_can_you_inhale_calories.html
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=290579

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2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

2017x168 The Greatest Scientist of the 20th Century You've Probably Never H

2017-07-13T04:00:00Z — 5m

There’s a perception that religion and science go together about as well as mayonnaise and marshmallows. In some instances, this is, perhaps, true. But on a typically warm Southern California January in 1933 at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California (the same place and same time that Jack Parsons of rocket science fame was doing his experiments — history intersecting!), religion and science proved that these two ideals didn’t have to be enemies.

2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

2017x169 The Curious Tale of Turnspit Dogs (Re-Issue)

2017-07-14T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out our Patreo→’s often easy to forget that the vast majority of our furry friends up until very recently were bred for a specific purpose. Perhaps no dog was bred for a more specific purpose than the now extinct, turnspit.

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/13/311127237/turnspit-dogs-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-vernepator-cur
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http://education.gtj.org.uk/en/item1/7809
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http://gizmodo.com/medieval-kitchens-used-a-specially-bred-dog-to-turn-roa-1575976436

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2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

2017x170 What Happens When a Town Votes For a Dog or Cat to Be Mayor

2017-07-16T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out →’ve talked before about animals who’ve gone above and beyond what you’d normally expect animals to be capable of like that cat that works for the British government and a baboon who worked as a (surprisingly good) signalman for a railway company. In each case special accommodations were made for the animals to better help them do their duties; but what accommodations are made when an animal has, shall we say, higher aspirations and enters the world of politics? As it turns out, not all that many.

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https://www.adn.com/commentary/article/silly-stubbs-saga-spotlights-how-easily-media-can-be-scammed/2013/09/12/
http://www.npr.org/2012/07/18/156961189/following-up-on-feline-mayor-story-from-tuesday
http://abcnews.go.com/US/mayor-gracious-losing-dog/story?id=24961792
https://web.archive.org/web/20150702234046/http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/17/us/alaska-cat-mayor
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/weird/The-Bosco-Ramos-Story-to-be-Immortalized.html
https://www.canidae.com/blog/2016/03/bosco-the-dog-mayor-who-became-a-symbol-of-democracy/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mayor_Stubbs.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bosco_the_Dog_Mayor_of_Sunol.jpg

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2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

2017x171 That Time the Citizens of Prague Literally Threw Their Politicians Out of Office

2017-07-17T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have→“throw the bums out of office,” twice, first in 1419 and again in 1618, frustrated citizens of Prague (today in the Czech Republic) literally threw their leaders out of the upper story windows of their public buildings.

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http://www.usccb.org/bible/2kings/9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague
https://www.britannica.com/event/Defenestration-of-Prague-1618
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Augsburg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War

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2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

2017x172 Should we Put Hydrogen Peroxide on our Cuts?

2017-07-18T04:00:00Z — 5m

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As a child, did you ever skin your knee and fear telling your parents, afraid of your mom breaking out the brown bottle of pain containing hydrogen peroxide to “help heal” your wound? Given the agony it caused, you might have wondered whether the fizzing liquid was actually helping, and why hydrogen peroxide bubbles when it comes in contact with your skin. If you’re still wondering today, well, wonder no more.

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https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/hydrogen_peroxide#section=Top
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https://en.wikipe

2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

2017x173 Who Invented Tequila and What's the Deal with the Worm?

2017-07-19T04:00:00Z — 5m

$20 off your first order: http://shakerandspoon.com→“century plant”) were an invaluable source of fiber for those living in the arid, rocky highlands.

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http://books.google.com/books?id=9Hln0nEBZsoC&pg=PA122&dq=cenobio+sauza#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://www.ianchadwick.com/tequila/pulque.htm
http://archive.archaeology.org/0209/abstracts/mexico.html
http://tequilasource.com/mezcal/index.html
http://eatyourworld.com/blog/the_miracle_of_maguey
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tequila#History
http://mezcal.com/pulque/

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2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

2017x174 Why is Alcohol Content Referred to as Proof?

2017-07-20T04:00:00Z — 5m

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The process began in England around the 16th century. Its original purpose was not consumer protection, but rather to ensure that the state (read: the King) collected the proper amount of taxes on the sale of the product (alcohol, called proof spirits, was taxed at a higher rate).

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140109-absinthe-a-literary-muse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_by_volume
http://www.andygreenlaw.com/posts/alcohol-volume-popular-whiskeys-vodka-gin-rum/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_proof
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https://www.quora.com/Why-is-ethanol-less-dense-than-water
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2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

2017x175 What Powers Does the Queen of England Actually Have?

2017-07-21T04:00:00Z — 5m

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http://bmsf.org.uk/about-the-monarchy/the-queen/duties-rights-and-powers-of-h-m-the-queen/
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/oct/21/uk.freedomofinformation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_prerogative_in_the_United_Kingdom
http://www.businessinsider.com/weirdest-powers-queen-elizabeth-ii-british-sovereign-prerogative-swans-dolphins-2015-5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_the_United_Kingdom
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https://www.royal.uk/role-monarchy
https://www.royal.uk/21st-birthday-speech-21-april-1947
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Consent

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2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

2017x176 Why Can't People Smell Themselves

2017-07-21T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, che→… If so, you might wonder, what causes a person to become blind to their own smell?

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http://www.pnas.org/content/92/21/9677
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/294/5549/2176?variant=full-text&sso=1&sso_redirect_count=1&oauth-code=09036924-9a30-4231-bdcd-1573cb5a6b0a
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2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

2017x177 Izzy Einstein, the Littlest Prohibition Agent

2017-07-24T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to su→“Izzy” Einstein. A man who a 1922 edition of The Literary Digest noted was the “master hooch-hound, alongside whom all the rest of the pack are but pups.” This hooch-hound was a Prohibition agent with a 95% conviction rate and over 4000 arrests, a record made all the more impressive when you realise Einstein was a 5 feet 5 inch tall 225 pound Austro-Hungarian immigrant with no previous background in law enforcement.

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https://www.atf.gov/our-history/isador-izzy-einstein
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2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

2017x178 Renting Pandas

2017-07-25T04:00:00Z — 5m

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http://web.mit.edu/mherdeg/Public/smithsonian-panda-agreement-2011.pdf
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/mar/21/world/fg-pandas21
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pandas-birth-national-zoo-20150825-story.html
https://www.quora.com/Does-China-legally-own-every-giant-panda-in-the-world-including-those-born-in-zoos-outside-China
http://www.livescience.com/27335-giant-pandas.html
http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/712/0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_giant_pandas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_diplomacy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/13/edinburgh-zoo-pandas-tian-tian-china-pandanomics-birth-cub

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2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

2017x179 Is There Any Difference Between Men's and Women's Razors and Shaving Cream?

2017-07-26T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our effor→’s and women’s version of each of their products, with the women’s version generally costing quite a bit more. But is there actually any difference between the so-called “gendered razors” and shaving cream or is it all just clever marketing?

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http://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/beauty/hair-removal/men-women-shave-differently.htm%20
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http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/02/the-difference-between-mens-and-womens-razors/%20
http://www.rd.com/health/men%E2%80%99s-and-women%E2%80%99s-razors-whats-the-difference/
http://www.marieclaire.com/world-reports/news/why-do-women-pay-more
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/blog/2013/08/09/why-are-razors-so-expensive/
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/priceless/200912/the-gender-surcharge

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2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

2017x180 What Happens to Undeliverable Mail with No Return Address?

2017-07-27T04:00:00Z — 5m

FREE 15 day trial with→“undeliverable” due to a number of factors ranging from insufficient postage to the person it’s addressed to refusing to accept it. Regardless of the reason the mail cannot be delivered, the USPS states that: “All nonmailable pieces are returned to the sender.”

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http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070422/news_7m22postal.html
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http://www.ajc.com/news/news/post-office-moving-atlanta-unclaimed-mail-auction-/nWkQs/
http://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2012/pb22351/html/info_005.htm
http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&cmd=1&mode=&tid=2032238
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/no-return-address-29982057/?page=1
http://www.royalmail.com/personal/help-and-support/what-happens-if-you-cant-deliver-something
http://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pg/manual/PGundeliv-e.asp

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2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

2017x181 The Surprisingly Lucrative Pre-Fame Career of Arnold Schwarzenegger

2017-07-28T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our effort→’s mostly famous for playing a “more brawn than brains”, emotionless robot who speaks in fractured English (both in politics and on the big screen…), Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t exactly thought of by the general public as a very shrewd, intelligent, and calculating businessman. But, it turns out, Arnold was (and is) just that; through a heck of a lot of hard work and savvy business dealings becoming a self-made millionaire long before he ever made it big in Hollywood, and doing this at an age when most of us still center our lives around binge drinking with our friends and generally trying not to think about all the student loans we’re presently accumulating.

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Sources:

http://www.therichest.com/celebnetworth/celeb/actors/arnold-schwarzenegger-net-worth/
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http://articles.latimes.com/2003/aug/22/entertainment/et-bates22/2

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2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

2017x182 Why Do Americans Write Dates: Month-Day-Year?

2017-07-29T04:00:00Z — 5m

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In the United States, the date format begins with the month and ends with the year (MM/DD/YYYY), and this arrangement is relatively unique. In most of the rest of the world, the day is written first and the year last (DD/MM/YYYY), although in some places like China, Korea and Iran, this order is flipped (YYYY/MM/DD).

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Sources:

http://arttattler.com/archivemarktwain.html
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=39
http://books.google.com/books?id=ixdaiXoY9ckC&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114&dq=date+format+endian+most+important+is+the+day&source=bl&ots=ejoAOAx26V&sig=i4izAtOe5GvCD47HhDAY2kgrefY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DLw3VLfpOcKtyASpqIK4Bg&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=date%20format%20endian%20most%20important%20is%20the%20day&f=false
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/dunlap.htm
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=bdsdcc&fileName=02101//bdsdcc02101.db&recNum=0&

2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

2017x183 Do Trees Poop and Pee?

2017-08-01T04:00:00Z — 5m

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A wise man once said, “Everybody poops.” Well that should probably be changed to everything poops, because all living things excrete waste. This brings us to a brilliant question posed by a reader whose head we’d love to crack open and see what’s going on inside- do trees poop? As it so happens, yes they do, though there is a bit of a semantic argument to be had over what one might consider “tree poop.”

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Sources:

http://www.donnallong.com/why-trees-shed-leaves-in-the-fall/
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2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

2017x184 WWII and the Creator of Captain America

2017-08-02T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out our Patreon pa→’s feat of punching Hitler in the face.

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2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

2017x185 How the Maximum Occupancy of a Building is Calculated

2017-08-03T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check→’s, for instance, a restaurant with tables and chairs or a more open event space.

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Sources:

http://www.ohio.edu/facilities/planning-space/documents/definitions.pdf
http://www.humbersidefire.gov.uk/uploads/files/OCCUPANCY_CALCULATIONS.pdf
http://www.merseyfire.gov.uk/aspx/pages/protection/pdf/Calculating_Occupancy_assembly_buildings_GT.pdf
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2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

2017x186 What Happens if You Leave Your House to a Pet in Your Will

2017-08-04T04:00:00Z — 5m

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To a lot of people the idea of a person leaving money in their will to a pet instead of a charity or, you know, their own family or friends, seems something only an eccentric wealthy person would do. In reality, a pet trust is not only a surprisingly common arrangement, but one most legal experts recommend for any pet owner who cares for their animal. But how do you go about accomplishing this and how do you make sure your wishes are followed?

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http://www.professorbeyer.com/Articles/Animals.html
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/12/woman-leaves-13m-fortune-to-pet-cat/
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2017-08-05T04:00:00Z

2017x187 The Truth About Clothes Moths

2017-08-05T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out our Patreon page where we've got →“clothes moth”, “clothing moth” or to give its street name, Tineola bisselliella, doesn’t actually eat clothes. In fact, clothing moths don’t even possess the ability to eat- they don’t have a mouth. Once they become a moth, rather than waste their time eating, they simply mate, the female lays her eggs, and then they die at some point. Meaning the most damage to your clothes you could realistically expect from an adult clothing moth is a stain if you go postal on one with a newspaper.

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Sources:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/9209062/Arm-yourself-moths-are-coming-to-attack-your-wardrobe.html
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http://watoxics.org/healthy-living/healthy-homes-gardens-1/factsheets/clothingmoths
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tineola_bisselliella

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2017-08-06T04:00:00Z

2017x188 That Time Mozart Pirated a Forbidden Piece of Music from the Catholic Church from Memory

2017-08-06T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare→’t know, like that the alphabet song was based on a tune by Mozart, or covering his extremely adult themed works that included a bit of an obsession with all things scatological, and the significantly more family friendly subject of today- that time Mozart pirated a cherished choral arrangement from the Vatican, reportedly all from memory.

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/vatican-reveals-wolfgang-mozarts-papal-honour/news-story/1143accbd2f2cfe1730fa814590180ad?nk=7c2ff08058e89987f419d82edd8f0c76-1483914757
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Burney
http://ancientgroove.co.uk/essays/theories.html
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sistina-interno.jpg
http://nowiknow.com/mozart-versus-the-pope/
http://music.stackexchange.com/questions/32486/truth-behind-mozart-memorizing-miserere-and-then-writing-it-down-later-in-full
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2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

2017x189 Mozart's Much Less Family Friendly Works

2017-08-07T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is famously known for being a child prodigy and one of the greatest musical composers of all time. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik is one of the most famous of his compositions, while Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber is a much lesser known work of his (though he isn’t thought to have written the music, just the lyrics). For those who do not speak German, let me translate to English: “Lick me in the ass right well and clean,” with the “lick my ass” sentiment being somewhat equivalent to the modern English “kiss my ass/arse.”

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Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_and_scatology
http://www.last.fm/music/Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart/_/Eine+kleine+Nachtmusik
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mir_den_Arsch_fein_recht_sch%C3%B6n_sauber
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mich_im_Arsch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzel_Trnka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constanze_Mozart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart
http://s2.imslp.org/images/thumb/pdfs/1f/9e1546752f66f10231cc2ec0fe2e5ce6a26cb926.png
http://www.academia.edu/1016951/Germa

2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

2017x190 That Time a Teen Funded His College Education by Asking People for Pennies

2017-08-08T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

2017x191 The Trials and Tribulations of 1904 Olympic Marathon Runners

2017-08-09T04:00:00Z — 5m

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When the United States hosted the Olympics for the first time in 1904, the games had yet to reach the high level of competition and popularity we know today. Although athletes from countries around the world were invited to participate, the games were less about the world’s best athletes competing for medals and more about (actual) amateur athletes competing against each other.

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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0880119691/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0880119691&linkCode=as2&tag=vicastingcom-20&linkId=UVFBU7KDPJTFRMED
https://books.google.com/books?id=WKRUmep515oC&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=America%E2%80%99s+First+Olympics+and+Felix&source=bl&ots=SbRcJDkCFu&sig=Ef9k_o5gPDOScPJj3zQ1XypnA30&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwix8bLy_LfLAhUP0WMKHV2LDhwQ6AEINjAE#v=onepage&q=America%E2%80%99s%20First%20Olympics%20and%20Felix&f=false
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/sports/sportsspecial/03marathon.html?_r=0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andar%C3%ADn_Carvajal
http://www.distilledhistory.com/tag/felix-carvajal/
http://blogs.britannica.com/2008/08/olympic-moments-felix-carvajals-long-road-to-st-louis-1904/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-1904-olympic-marathon-may-have-been-the-strangest-ever-14910747/?no-ist
http://marathonandbeyond.com/choices/duggan.html
https://drsatyakamphukan.wordpress.com/felix-carvajal-and-the-saint-louis-olympics/
http://uselessinformation.org/st_louis_olympics/index.html
http://mentalfloss.com/article/25939/wacky-tales-olympics-past
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/strychnine/basics/facts.asp
http://www.history.com/news/8-unusual-fact

2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

2017x192 The Mysterious Black Goo of Venezuela - La Mancha Negra

2017-08-10T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

2017x193 How Did the "Slipping on a Banana Peel" Comedy Gag Start?

2017-08-11T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Sources:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00703/hrc-00703.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=je4lAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=History+of+Slipping+on+a+Banana+Peel+Gag&source=bl&ots=FLg2fRBDco&sig=1hgPLHuJSXOHMczIA83F0Z6bjoU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VtuTUqHoBYPwoASj6ILwCQ&ved=0CIcBEOgBMA4#v=onepage&q=History%20of%20Slipping%20on%20a%20Banana%20Peel%20Gag&f=false
http://mentalfloss.com/article/31135/how-did-slipping-banana-peel-become-comedy-staple
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/about-this-show/banana-peel-slip.htm
http://books.google.com/books?id=cdUUSVU47TYC&pg=PA99#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://www.lastnightsgarbage.com/?p=208
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/06/woman-slips-on-banana-peel-sues/#!oAM6d
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2011/04/the-funniest-fruit-a-brief-history-of-banana-humor/
http://community.tasteofhome.com/community_forums/f/29/p/815895/6962819.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_comedy
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-physical-comedy.htm
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/548077/slapstick
http://laceiba.honduras.com/banana-trade/
http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/4744463/Woman-sues-after-slipping-on-banana-peel
http://www.threemoviebuffs.com/review/by-the-sea
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BananaPeel
http://travsd.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/stars-of-vaudeville-346-billy-beef-trust-watson/

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2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

2017x194 Why Fruits Change Color and Flavor as They Ripen

2017-08-14T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Sources:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC549760/
https://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/n/nwheelwr/pdf/ColorsofFruit.pdf
https://books.google.com/books?id=FWc3zDq9P10C&pg=PA365&lpg=PA365&dq=fruits+change+color+ripe+to+disperse+seeds&source=bl&ots=Yw6ihfxduo&sig=NBnlX0ZlESoxudZj0d3NMUX2KhI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BLaeVKijFIHsgwSfrYDADg&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=fruits%20change%20color%20ripe%20to%20disperse%20seeds&f=false
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frugivore
http://www.biokids.umich.edu/guides/tracks_and_sign/leavebehind/scat/
http://www.mbgnet.net/bioplants/seed.html
http://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/40428/1/Herrera.2002.Herrera.&.Pellmyr.pdf
http://www.rc.unesp.br/ib/ecologia/labic2012/Mauro%20pdf/Galetti%20papers%20pdf/Galetti_chapt.12_2002.pdf
http://imedea.uib-csic.es/bc/ecol_terr/all%20pdfs/2008_Traveset_et_al_Ecology.pdf
http://intobiology.org.uk/colour-changes-during-ripening/
http://www.rosincerate.com/2015/07/colour-changing-fruits-and-veggies.html
http://www.edathlon.com/science_projects/cooking_with_color.htm
https://www.stem.org.uk/elibrary/resource/31548
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/origin-of-fruit-ripening/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrolase
http://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2012/03/08/fruit-and-veges-change-skin-colour-experts-respond/
http://humantouchofchemistry.com/why-does-red-cabbage-change-colour-when-cooked.htm
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/09/why-leaves-change-color-in-the-fall/
http://postharvest.tfrec.wsu.edu/pages/

2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

2017x195 WWII Files - Pigeon Guided Missiles and Literal Bat Bombs

2017-08-15T04:00:00Z — 5m

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The man behind Project Pigeon was famed American behaviorist and Harvard professor B.F. Skinner, who teamed with the U.S. Army to develop such a system. Pigeons were trained using operant conditioning, a type of learning pioneered by Skinner in 1937 where behavior is modified by its consequences. In operant conditioning, the initial behavior is spontaneous, but when it is either rewarded or punished, that behavior is either reinforced or inhibited. In this case, Skinner rewarded pigeons for pecking an image on a screen to get them conditioned to do it.

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http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Operant_conditioning
http://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/second-world-war/project-orcon-pidgeon-guided-missile/897399315001/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
http://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/second-world-war/project-orcon-pidgeon-guided-missile/897399315001/
http://www.history.com/news/war-animals-from-horses-to-glowworms-7-incredible-facts
http://nowiknow.com/project-pigeon/
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2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

2017x196 Why Do We Call Parents Mom and Dad Instead of Their Names?

2017-08-16T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Calling our parents anything other than mom, dad or one of the many variations thereof is an almost alien concept to many (and in some cultures is considered downright rude). So why is it we refer to our parents in this way? Where did it come from and perhaps, more curiously, is there any culture that forgoes this seemingly universal nickname custom for parental figures?

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Sources:

http://www.indobase.com/holidays/mothers-day/facts/mother-in-different-languages.html
http://www.loveyoufather.com/father-in-different-languages.html
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1446/whats-the-origin-of-the-word-dad
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=father
http://mentalfloss.com/article/49986/where-do-words-%E2%80%9Cmom%E2%80%9D-and-%E2%80%9Cdad%E2%80%9D-come
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XxGbsjKjPZsC&pg=PA76&dq=etymology+of+%22dada%22+baby+talk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ctZPVOOTNfTY7AaPyYHwDA&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=etymology%20of%20%22dada%22%20baby%20talk&f=false
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=L7aWuj5CFNkC&pg=PA10&dq=baby+babbling+plosive+sounds&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gQZRVIvaOY-P7AbJv4HADA&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=baby%20babbling%20plosive%20sounds&f=false
http://www.utexas.edu/features/archive/2005/babble.html
http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/languagedevelopment.htm
http://www.livescience.com/32191-why-are-mama-and-dada-a-babys-first-words.html
http://www.word-detective.com/2013/02/mommy-mama-mom-daddy-dada-dad-papa-pappy-et-alia/
http://archive.org/stream/selectedwritings01jako#page/538/mode/2up
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paternal_bonding_between_father_and_newborn_daughter.jpg
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/

2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

2017x197 Why Determining Easter’s Date is So Confusing

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2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

2017x198 Does Ear Candle Earwax Removal Actually Work

2017-08-19T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Described by medical professionals as bogus, “a solution in search of a problem,” and “a triumph of ignorance over science,” the method of removing earwax that employs heated beeswax, known as ear candling, is a staple treatment for many when their ears get clogged up. But does ear candling actually work?

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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-laryngology-and-otology/article/ear-candles-a-triumph-of-ignorance-over-science/CECFD65315BB519D8F4AD491FC2CDDDA
http://www.aafp.org/afp/2007/0515/p1523.html
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278239197901506
http://www.webmd.com/women/features/5-home-remedy-no-nos#1
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/11/earwax-facts-didnt-know_n_4849245.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_candling
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14979962
http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/features/lowdown-on-ear-candling#1
http://www.livescience.com/26351-no-smell-gene-wear-deod

2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

2017x199 That Time an Elephant was Condemned to Execution by Hanging

2017-08-20T04:00:00Z — 5m

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“Murderous” Mary was a 5 ton Asian Elephant in the Sparks World Famous Shows Circus. Her downfall began with the hiring of an assistant elephant trainer who had no experience working with elephants and possibly no professional experience even working with animals. This worker was Red Eldridge, who before getting the gig generally was a drifter and most immediately before being hired as an assistant elephant trainer worked at the Riverside Hotel in St. Paul as a janitor.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_%28elephant%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyke_%20%20%28elephant%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggy_%28elephant%29
http://blueridgecountry.com/articles/mary%20%20-the-elephant/
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnunico%20%20i/mary.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florenz_Zieg%20%20feld

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2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

2017x200 Eclipse Timelapse (August 21, 2017) + Fascinating Eclipse Facts

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2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

2017x201 Where Did the Expression The Big Cheese Come From?

2017-08-22T04:00:00Z — 5m

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How the Word SPAM came to mean Junk Message

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It’s amazing how many English idioms contain food references and cheese has proven to be immensely popular when it comes to the English language. For example, one may be “cheesed off”, meaning that they are miserable, annoyed, or angered. One may also refer to something as being “cheesy” in order to label it as cheap, overly sentimental, unsubtle, or blatantly inauthentic.

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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062700847/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0062700847&linkCode=as2&tag=vicastingcom-20
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-big1.htm
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/origin-of-term-big-cheese.html
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/23/12-food-phrases-explained/
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cheese
http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/big-cheese
http://idioms.yourdictionary.com/big-cheese
http://www.etymonl

2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

2017x202 From Billions to Zero in 50 Years - The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon

2017-08-23T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Martha was a very lonely bird. She had once been part of a pair, with her male counterpart George, but he had died several years before. So, for the final years of her life, Martha sat in her one-bird cage alone. The Cincinnati Zoo offered a thousand dollar reward (about $23,000 today) to anyone who could track down a mate for Martha. Unfortunately, there were no mates left for her.

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Sources:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2014/01/06/140106crbo_books_rosen?currentPage=all
http://www.si.edu/encyclopedia_Si/nmnh/passpig.htm
http://www.si.edu/encyclopedia_Si/nmnh/passpig.htm
http://www.eco-action.org/dt/pigeon.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/scientists-aim-to-bring-the-passenger-pigeon-back-from-extinction-a-893744.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=TfDVAQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=A+Feathered+River+Across+the+Sky:+The+Passenger+Pigeons+Flight+to+Extinction&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3e__Uqm8

2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

2017x203 Do Mounted Police Officers Have to Clean Up Their Horse's Poop

2017-08-24T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017x204 Playing with a Broken Neck - The Remarkable Story of Bert Trautmann

2017-08-25T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Bert Trautmann was born October 22, 1923 in Bremen, Germany. Blue-eyed and blond haired, Trautmann was the product of a tumultuous political climate within the post-World War I country. He grew up surrounded by Nazi-ideology, including blaming the Jews for the country’s economic problems and believing certain Germans, such as himself, were members of the “master race.”

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http://www.theguardian.com/football/2010/apr/11/bert-trautmann-nazis-manchester-city
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/bert-trautmann-germany-should-never-again-go-to-war-over-race-or-ideology-2302390.html
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2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

2017x205 That Time When the Elite of the Western World Rented Pineapples by the Hour

2017-08-27T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

2017x206 The Ridiculously Oversized Punt Gun

2017-08-28T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

2017x207 Who Invented the Slurpee?

2017-08-29T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Born in 1915 and having grown up relatively poor, after WWII Knedlik used his pay from his time serving in the war to open a small ice cream shop. After rinsing and repeating with various business ventures (some successful, some not), by the late 1950s, he’d scraped enough money together to purchase a Dairy Queen franchise.

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http://www.kansas.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-story-of-kansas/article1090360.html
http://www.rd.com/culture/slurpee-7-eleven-facts/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/brain-freezing-science-slurpee-180959750/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_Queen
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/11/16/mf.cool.history.slurpee/index.html
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2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

2017x208 Why is it Called "Going Dutch" When You Pay for Yourself?

2017-08-30T04:00:00Z — 5m

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The idea of paying for yourself when out with friends being referred to as some expression including the word “Dutch,” seemingly incorrectly is often connected to the fact that for several centuries beginning in the 17th, the word Dutch had a negative connotation in English, variously meaning cheap, duplicitous, alcoholic, poor, treacherous, selfish or just plain wrong.

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http://mentalfloss.com/article/66871/why-do-we-refer-splitting-bill-going-dutch
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-goi3.htm
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2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

2017x209 Can the Queen's Guard Really Not React to People While on Duty?

2017-08-31T04:00:00Z — 5m

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“The Queen’s Guard” comprise of various soldiers tasked with guarding the residences of the Queen and, by extension, the Queen herself. Consisting of soldiers (mostly) hand picked from five elite regiments within the British military, the Queen’s Guard are internationally renowned for their stoic dedication to duty. However, contrary to popular belief, these soldiers are permitted to move (and do so regularly, even when just on guard duty and not on parade) and in certain circumstances do react to hecklers or the like.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/the-moment-a-queens-guard-soldier-lost-it-and-drew-his-gun-at-annoying-tourist-10347240.html
http://projectbritain.com/royal/queensguards.html
http://changing-guard.com/changing-guard-buckingham-palace.html#ceremony
http://www.army.mod.uk/events/ceremonial/23242.aspx
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http://changing-guard.com/changing-guard-buckingham-palace.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Guard
http://royalcentral.co

2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

2017x210 When the Beatles Were Pelted with Jelly Beans

2017-09-01T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

2017x211 Glowing in the Dark - The Radium Girls

2017-09-03T04:00:00Z — 5m

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On December 21, 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the radioactive element radium (in the form of radium chloride), extracting it from uraninite. They first removed the uranium from the uraninite sample and then found that the remaining matter was still radioactive, so investigated further. Along with the barium in the remaining substance, they also detected spectral lines that were crimson carmine, which no one had yet documented or, apparently, observed. These spectral lines were being given off by radium chloride, which they managed to separate from the barium. Five days later, they presented their findings to the French Academy of Sciences.

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http://www.waterburyobserver.org/node/586
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/nyregion/mae-keane-who-painted

2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

2017x212 That Time a 17 Year Old Girl Struck Out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Back to Back

2017-09-05T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and→’s even more impressive about that was neither Ruth nor Gehrig managed to even get the bat on the ball when they swung. Ruth swung and missed twice before taking a called third strike. Gehrig swung and missed three times, striking out on just three pitches. Unfortunately for her, what she got for her efforts was to be promptly banned from Major and Minor league baseball by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis.

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2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

2017x213 Paul McCartney's Scrambled Eggs which Evolved Into One of the Most Recorded Songs of All Time

2017-09-06T04:00:00Z — 5m

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“I reckon ‘Yesterday’ is probably my best song. I like it not only because it was a big success, but because it was one of the most instinctive songs I’ve ever written. I was so proud of it. I felt it was an original tune- the most complete thing I’ve ever written. It’s very catchy without being sickly”- Paul McCartney.

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2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

2017x214 Is Warming Up Before Exercising Actually Beneficial?

2017-09-07T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

2017x215 Who Invented the Computer Mouse and Its Surprisingly Long Journey to Your Desk

2017-09-08T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

2017x216 Why the Chicago Cubs are Named After a Baby Bear and The Long, Weird History of Their Mascot

2017-09-10T04:00:00Z — 5m

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It was a weak ground ball to third base that ended over a century’s worth of baseball futility. On November 3, 2016, the Chicago Cubs won their first World Series in 108 years. Much like the Red Sox win in 2004 that also put the brakes on a similar streak, it propelled the Cubs into another stratosphere in terms of popularity. The following April, according to the Los Angeles Times, four of the top five player jersey sales were Cubs. Players appeared on talk shows and late night comedy sketches. Even the backup catcher had his moment in the sun, with a second-place finish on Dancing with the Stars.

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http://sabr.org/research/1906-10-chicago-cubs-best-team-national-league-history
https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2014/01/15/cubs-mascots-a-dark-and-tragic-history
http://www.latimes.com/sports/mlb/la-sp-mlb-jersey-cubs-kershaw-seager-trout-20170421-story.html
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2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

2017x217 That Time the World's Most Popular Spectator Sport was Walking

2017-09-11T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

2017x218 The Men Who Dropped the Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

2017-09-12T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

2017x219 The Curious Tail, errr, Tale of F D C Willard

2017-09-14T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

2017x220 Why are Some Ice Cubes Clear and Others Cloudy?

2017-09-15T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Who Really Invented the TV Dinner
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Unless you happen to have a specialized ice machine in your home, it is practically guaranteed that the ice your freezer makes is of the cloudy variety. A popular and well known trick to making clear(er) ice is to either boil the water first or use distilled water. However, even doing this won’t guarantee the kind of perfectly clear ice you’d find in a high-end bar or restaurant. This is because how clear ice is, is only partially dependent on the purity of the water you use, meaning even if you managed to procure the tears of a Saint and pass them through the world’s best water filter, you’d still likely end up with ice that was a little cloudy.

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2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

2017x221 Where Did the Saying I'll Eat My Hat Come From?

2017-09-17T04:00:00Z — 5m

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How Dick Came to be Short for Richard
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Why Do We Call Scammers "Con Men"?
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“I’ll eat my hat” is an utterance commonly used when a person is absolutely certain that something will not happen. But where did this unusual phrase first originate and have there ever been any recorded instances of people actually eating their hats after being proven wrong?

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http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/eat-my-hat.html
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2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

2017x222 To Boldly Go Where No Fecal Matter Has Gone Before

2017-09-18T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

2017x223 What's the Difference Between BCE/CE and BC/AD and Who Came Up with These Systems?

2017-09-19T04:00:00Z — 5m

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BCE (Before Common Era) and BC (Before Christ) mean the same thing- previous to year 1 CE (Common Era). This is the same as the year AD 1 (Anno Domini); the latter means “in the year of the lord,” often translated as “in the year of our lord.” (It was thought when the AD dating system was created that its year 1 was the year Jesus of Nazareth was born.)

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2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

2017x224 Why the French-Founded Notre Dame School's Athletic Teams are the Fighting Irish

2017-09-20T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks →“Fighting Irish.” Represented by a small green leprechaun- hat tilted with his fists up, ready to fight- the athletic teams of this South Bend, Indiana Catholic school have been playing under this moniker for, officially, 87 years. But here’s the thing: the school was actually founded by French Catholic priests, not Irish Catholics. So, how did Notre Dame become the “Fighting Irish?” Shouldn’t they be called the “Fighting French?”

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2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

2017x225 Babe Ruth - The Ladies Man

2017-09-21T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Did Fidel Castro Really Almost Pitch in the Major Leagues?
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A former teammate of Babe Ruth’s once recalled the Bambino by saying, “You’ve got to remember, this guy wasn’t born. He fell out of a tree.” Ruth grabbed life by the throat (or maybe it was another part of life’s anatomy) and shook it up… frequently.

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2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

2017x226 How a Wife Beating, Serial Killer Puppet Gave us the Expression "Pleased as Punch"

2017-09-25T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support→“punch” refers to the character in Punch and Judy, a puppet show that has its roots in Italy’s 16th-century commedia dell’arte.

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http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/as-pleased-as-punch.html
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ple1.htm
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http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1662/05/
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1666/08/
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2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

2017x227 The Truth About Columbus and the Round Earth

2017-09-26T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out our Patreon page wher→… with a whole lot of maps and information about the very round Earth. Contrary to popular belief, not only did Columbus realize the world was round, so did his contemporaries. In fact, it was so well accepted that daring seafarers had been exploring the Atlantic for hundreds of years before Columbus’ time. Without a doubt, men of the early Renaissance knew the world was round, and that the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria were in no danger of sailing over the edge.

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2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

2017x228 The Real First Black Man to Play Major League Baseball

2017-09-27T04:00:00Z — 5m

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The great Jackie Robinson accomplished an amazing amount in his lifetime both on and off the field. Despite all the adversity and pressure he experienced, he somehow managed to put up legitimate Hall of Fame numbers doing what is often described as the hardest thing in all of sports- hitting a round ball with a thin round stick. One thing that he didn’t do, something that’s often credited to him, was become the first African American person to play in the Major Leagues. That was something that had been done at least three times before Robinson made his historic Major League debut on April 15, 1947.

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2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

2017x229 Who was the Real Man in the Iron Mask?

2017-09-29T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-09-30T04:00:00Z

2017x230 A Lesson in Failure - The Story of Pixar

2017-09-30T04:00:00Z — 5m

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If you happen to like our videos and have a →’t exactly full of superheroes, adorable robots, or talking bugs. The tale of the most profitable and critically adored animation studio in the history of the world (yes, by sheer gross numbers, more so than Disney) is one filled with financial difficulties, fired Apple employees, digital printers, and an animated left hand. And it all started with a Mormon graduate student at the University of Utah.

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2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

2017x231 Why are Kinder Eggs Illegal in the USA?

2017-10-02T04:00:00Z — 5m

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For the uninitiated, Kinder Eggs are a chocolate treat widely available throughout Europe, Mexico and Canada, with the company that makes them, Ferrero (perhaps better known in the U.S. for being the makers of Nutella), selling a whopping 1.5 billion of the eggs per year. Where they don’t sell any is the United States, where the eggs are indeed illegal (though something of a blackmarket does exist for them). So why is a beloved candy the world over explicitly banned in the land of the free?

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2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

2017x232 The Story of the US National Anthem (and How it Became Part of the National Pastime)

2017-10-05T04:00:00Z — 5m

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As Francis Scott Key sat aboard a ship, now officially a prisoner of war, he could only watch as the British bombarded American forces at Fort McHenry. He had been sent to the British ship HMS Tonnant, along with John Stuart Skinner, by President James Madison himself to negotiate the release of prisoners of war.

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2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

2017x233 When Did Teen Girls Stop Commonly Getting Married?

2017-10-06T04:00:00Z — 5m

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In the Western world (and generally speaking) before imperial Rome, girls were deemed sufficiently mature for marriage and sex when they first started menstruation (and boys, by the way, when they developed pubic hair). Marriage was relatively unregulated by the state then, and instead was seen as a private family matter, so it is presumed these boundaries were flexible.

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http://books.google.com/books?id=mHscM7ofx_AC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=hostiensis+sexual+capa

2017-10-07T04:00:00Z

2017x234 Why Does the Sun Make You Sneeze?

2017-10-07T04:00:00Z — 5m

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If you happen to like our videos and hav→’t help that big achoo? If you answered yes, then you are part of the twenty to thirty five percent of the human population that are “victims” of this not highly understood phenomenon, known as the “photic sneeze reflex” or a “solar sneeze.” Why do certain people have solar sneezes? How does it work? Only in the past few years have scientists begun to understand this rather odd trait.

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/looking-at-the-sun-can-trigger-a-sneeze/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex
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http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%252F10.1371%252Fjournal.pone.0009208
http://bodyodd.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/06/05/12052942-does-the-sun-make-you-sneeze-its-not-just-you?lite
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2017-10-08T04:00:00Z

2017x235 That Time When Men, Not Women, Wore High Heels

2017-10-08T04:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/sex-power-and-high-heels-an-interview-with-shoe-curator-elizabeth-semmelhack/
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2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

2017x236 That Time Canada Tried to Make a Literal "Gaydar"

2017-10-10T04:00:00Z — 5m

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We are all familiar with the colloquialism “gaydar” which refers to a person’s intuitive, and often wildly inaccurate, ability to assess the sexual orientation of another person. In the 1960s, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) attempted to use a slightly more scientific, though equally flawed, approach- a machine to detect if a person was gay or not. This was in an attempt to eliminate homosexuals from the Canadian military, police and civil service. The specific machine, dubbed the “Fruit Machine”, was invented by Dr. Robert Wake, a Carelton University Psychology professor.

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http://facts.randomhistory.com/facts-about-lgbt.html
http://www.damninteresting.com/the-gay-detecting-fruit-machine/
http://canadianhistorycomesout.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/1962-the-fruit-machine/
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/society/crime-justice/mounties-on-duty-a-history-of-the-rcmp/rcmps-fruit-machine-to-detect-gays.html
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http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/czech-officials-erotic-lie-detector-gay-asylum-seekers/story?id=12415658#.UbfYoJz7Am

2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

2017x237 How the Sun Burns Your Skin (and How Sunscreen Prevents This)

2017-10-11T04:00:00Z — 5m

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http://www.skincancer.org/skin-cancer-information/skin-cancer-facts
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2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

2017x238 Why Do “Mac” and “Mc” Surnames Often Contain a Second Capital Letter?

2017-10-12T04:00:00Z — 5m

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The short story is that “Mc” and “Mac” are prefixes that mean “son of.” Early inconsistencies in records are what led to having both Mc and Mac prefixes. Mc is just an abbreviation of Mac, and both can actually be abbreviated further to the much less common M’.

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http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/Content/Help/index.aspx?r=551&560
http://www.rampantscotland.com/features/faq.htm
http://www.houseofnames.com/wiki/mac-prefix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_surnames
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_name
http://www.crests.com/surname_history.htm

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2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

2017x239 Where Do Baby Carrots Come From?

2017-10-13T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out our Patreon pag→“true” baby carrots to be naturally small, or other times they are simply carrots harvested before they get a chance to completely mature. “True” baby carrots bear the same cone shape as a normal sized carrot while only being a fraction of the size. A number of farmers produce these type of baby carrots when they thin their crops during the growing season by removing a certain percentage of immature carrots. However, other farmers purposefully harvest entire crops of carrots young in order to sell the baby carrots with their green stems attached. That little detail allows growers to prove that their baby carrots are “true” baby carrots rather than carrots cut to look miniature.

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http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/babycarrot.html
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/01/07/truth-behind-baby-carrots/
http://www.thekitchn.com/where-do-baby-carrots-come-from-a-field-to-table-baby-carrot-harvest-with-grimmway-farms-180386
http://www.insideedition.com/consumer/6273-are-baby-carrots-actually-dangerous
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/2004-08-11-baby-carrot_x.htm
http://www.grimmway.com/carrots/our-process/ask-the-farmer/
http://naturalsociety.com/how-are-baby-carrots-made/
http://www.livestrong.com/article/441869-safety-of-baby-carrots/
http://www.nysun.com/obituaries/mike-yurosek-82-farmer-who-invented-baby-carrots/16046/
http://www.waterandhealth.org/white-film-baby-carrots-myth-fact/
http://truthaboutbabycarrots.com/

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2017-10-15T04:00:00Z

2017x240 Why are Continental Breakfasts Called That?

2017-10-15T04:00:00Z — 5m

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out our →’s continental breakfasts reflect the West’s transition from a mostly agrarian culture to an industrial (and today, service) society. Luckily, however, some of us have not forgotten our culinary past.

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http://www.esquire.com/features/food-drink/best-breakfasts-0309#slide-1
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=continental
http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodfaq7.html#breakfast
http://www.hamburginn.com/~hamburg/menu-specials/eggs-and-breakfast-sides
http://www.techques.com/question/32-37939/Origin-of-continental-breakfast
http://www.courtesydiner.com/#!about-us/cx0g
http://www.theusaonline.com/people/urbanization.htm
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/11/03/key_peele_continental_breakfast_sketch_what_s_european_about_a_hotel_breakfast.html
http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/08/guide-to-a-fry-up-full-british-breakfast-what-is-in-ingredients.html

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2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

2017x241 Edgar Allan Poe and His Quest to be Court Martialed

2017-10-16T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Edgar Allan Poe is probably best known for his raven that squawks “Nevermore,” but he’s also one of the first American short story writers and is often credited with being the “inventor” of detective fiction. He also contributed heavily to the genre of science fiction. Not only that, but he was one of the first American writers to earn a living from his writing alone.

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2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

2017x242 Why Penguins' Feet Don't Freeze

2017-10-17T04:00:00Z — 5m

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There are many different species of penguin, and while our minds might take us to those living in the Antarctic tundras, freezing feet isn’t something every penguin has to contend with. In fact, there are some species of penguin living on the equator that need their feet to be cool to help them battle the heat.

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http://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/bare-feet/
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/03/how-emperor-penguins-survive-antarcticas-subzero-cold/
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2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

2017x243 The Curious Case of Self Mummification

2017-10-18T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

2017x244 Why is Seaweed Used in Making Ice Cream?

2017-10-19T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Seaweed didn’t exactly come into play during those “make your own ice cream” science experiments you probably did in elementary school, but it is sometimes used in the making of commercial ice cream. No, it isn’t just in seaweed-flavoured ice cream, either. Seaweed is actually used as a type of thickening agent for ice cream.

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2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

2017x245 The Surprisingly Short History of the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich

2017-10-20T04:00:00Z — 5m

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The peanut butter and jelly sandwich is such a staple of American childhood these days that it seems like it’s been around, well, forever. In fact, it took a surprisingly long time after all the necessary ingredients were invented for someone to put them together, and several decades more before doing this became popular. In fact, there are people alive today in America who grew up in a world where the PB&J sandwich simply wasn’t well-known at all. gasp

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2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

2017x246 What Makes Peanut Butter Stick to the Top of Your Mouth?

2017-10-22T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

2017x247 Why Don't Snakes and Many Other Animals Get Sunburned?

2017-10-23T04:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

2017x248 That Time a 26 Year Old Edgar Allan Poe Married His 13 Year Old Cousin

2017-10-24T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Poe met his bride-to-be, Virginia Clemm, when she was 7 years old, and he was 20, shortly after his mother’s death in 1829. Their parents, his natural father (David Poe) and her mother (Maria Clemm), were siblings, and Poe had moved into the Clemm home briefly before his time at West Point was to begin. Being so close in time to the death of his mother, some authors have opined that he transferred his feelings for his mother to his Aunt Maria, and later to his cousin.

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2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

2017x249 Why Don't Spiders Stick to Their Webs?

2017-10-26T04:00:00Z — 5m

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When a spider makes an orb web, each line is actually comprised of at least two or more threads, and in fact, the supporting threads, radiating spokes and hub are all made from silk that is not sticky.

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2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

2017x250 The One Man Invasion of Sark

2017-10-29T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Andre Gardes was an unemployed nuclear physicist from France. Mr. Gardes believed himself the rightful heir and “Seigneur” of the small formerly feudal state of Sark. In August of 1990, Gardes decided to stage an invasion to forcefully set himself up as the ruler of Sark’s 610 inhabitants. Apparently unable to get anyone to follow him, he decided only a one man force was necessary. Gardes, being a civilized man, arrived the night before the invasion and posted notices of his impending takeover the following day at noon.

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2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

2017x251 Why are Buffalo Wings Called That?

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Unsurprisingly, neither the origin of the name nor the food item itself have anything to do with actual buffalo, nor American Bison which many people call buffalo even though they are not. Rather, this tasty item originated in Buffalo, New York, with most foodstorians indicating buffalo wings probably were first served in the Anchor Bar there.

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2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

2017x252 Hobbs and His Locks: The Great Lock Controversy of 1851

2017-10-31T04:00:00Z — 5m

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In April 1851, Alfred C. Hobbs boarded the steamship Washington bound for Southampton, England. His official duty was to sell the New York City-based company Day and Newell’s newest product – the parautopic lock – at a trade show – London’s Great Exhibition. But Hobbs had something a bit more nefarious up his sleeve, or rather in the small trunk that accompanied him on the ship. In it sat a large assortment of picks, wrenches, rakes, and other slender tools. You see, Hobbs wasn’t just trying to sell his locks. He was trying to prove that his competitors’ locks were, quite simply, not good enough. He had the tools, skills, and charisma to do just that. Alfred Hobbs was about to launch the Great Lock Controversy of 1851.

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2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

2017x253 Are There Any Animals Other than Humans That Commit Suicide?

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Animal suicide is a hugely controversial issue in the world of animal research and psychology, because although there are numerous documented instances of animals seemingly intentionally ending their own lives, no one is exactly sure whether these cases can technically be classified as suicide.

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http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1973486,00.html
http://www.livescience.com/33805-animals-commit-suicide.html
http://www.problempets.co.uk/media/overtounbridge.asp
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4320
http://www.todayifoundout.com/Users/karl/Downloads/Wilson_Ramsden_The+nature+of+suicide.pdf
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02022.x/full
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_suicide

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2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

2017x254 What Really Happened to the Library of Alexandria?

2017-11-02T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Great question! For those not familiar, I’ll start with a little background on the subject. The Library of Alexandria was founded by either Ptolemy I or his son, Ptolemy II, sometime in the third century B.C. Libraries were nothing new to ancient civilizations, though places to keep etched clay tablets might not be what we would consider a proper library today. The initial goal of the Library of Alexandria was most likely to flaunt Egypt’s enormous wealth rather than provide a place for study and research, but of course the library transformed into something much more.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/14417/Library-of-Alexandria
http://news.nationalgeographic.com.au/news/2002/10/1016_021016_alexandria.html
http://www.serageldin.com/ancient_Library.htm
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2233/what-happened-to-the-great-library-of-alexandria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CW_BibliotechaAlexandrina_Front.jpg
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2010/06/the-perniciously-persistent-myths-of-hypatia-and-the-great-library

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2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

2017x255 Why Do Nails on Your Fingers and Toes Grow at Different Rates?

2017-11-03T04:00:00Z — 5m

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The short answer is that there is no 100% definitive known reason as to why nails grow at different rates. However, there is a really good theory (which also covers why fingernails and toenails grow at drastically different rates) that is backed up by an awful lot of ancillary evidence. To fully grasp what’s going on here, it’s important to understand exactly how your fingernails grow.

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http://www.jci.org/articles/view/37762
http://www.aad.org/media-resources/stats-and-facts/prevention-and-care/nails/nails
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/science/why-do-toenails-thicken-as-we-age.html?_r=0
http://derm101.com/content/13529
http://www.els.net/WileyCDA/ElsArticle/refId-a0021583.html
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/discovering-when-cells-divide-0806.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19744178
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/longest-fingernails-%28male%29-ever/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29170772/#.UP9K4GdT3Ww

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2017-11-04T04:00:00Z

2017x256 Why is Friday the 13th Considered Unlucky?

2017-11-04T04:00:00Z — 5m

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Being wary of Friday the 13th is much more than a quaint superstition observed by a few uneducated people in distant, unreachable towns and hamlets. In the United States alone, it is estimated that between 17 and 21 million people dread that date to the extent that it can be officially classified as a phobia.

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/02/0212_040212_friday13.html
http://www.snopes.com/luck/friday13.asp
http://www.livescience.com/19666-13-freaky-facts-friday-13th.html
http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/friday_the_13th.htm
http://www.history.com/news/friday-the-13th-history-of-a-phobia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyja

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2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

2017x257 Is There Any Cheese in Cheez Whiz? (And the Story of Kraft)

2017-11-05T04:00:00Z — 5m

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As America gets ready for their upcoming Super Bowl parties (or Royal Rumble party, if that’s your thing), Cheez Whiz – the yellowish-orange, gooey, bland tasting “cheese” product – will surely make an appearance at some of them. But what is Cheez Whiz? Why did get it invented? And is there really cheese in Cheez Whiz?

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http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blog.html?b=fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/03/09/michael-moss-the-day-they-took-the-cheese-out-of-cheez-whiz
http://www.kraftrecipes.com/products/productinfodisplay.aspx?siteid=1&product=2100062679
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/us/09traisman.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheez_Whiz
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff/7806sci2.html
http://www.google.com/patents/US1186524
http://flashbak.com/cheese-whizz-a-potted-history-of-the-food-that-gets-america-glowing-9128/
https://books.google.com/books?id=Wq3tvL_uIHcC&pg=PA112&dq=cheez+whiz&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uorBVI

2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

2017x258 Not Guided by Policy: Hunter S. Thompson and the Birth of Gonzo Journalism

2017-11-06T05:00:00Z — 5m

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“We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.” This is the opening line from the highly acclaimed roman à clef Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream written by Hunter S. Thompson, one of America’s most countercultural and anti-authoritarian writers. The untamed master of his own self-titled genre, “gonzo journalism,” Thompson set ablaze the American standards for journalism during the 1960s and 70s with a cornucopia of drugs, alcohol, gun toting, and most notably, his exemplary writing.

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http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1993/Hunter-Thompson-s-Day-Chivas-Dunhills-Cocaine-Acid-Dove-Bars-With-PM-AP-Arts-Hunter-Thompson/id-e78eb7ca4f76989af19f64732cc81038
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/619/the-art-of-journalism-no-1-hunter-s-thompson
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/05/airman-thompson.html
https://books.google.com/books?id=27

2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

2017x259 The Truth About "Elementary, My Dear Watson"

2017-11-07T05:00:00Z — 5m

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“Elementary, my dear Watson“, sometimes quoted as, “Elementary, dear Watson“, is one of those phrases that everybody knows the character of Sherlock Holmes said. You know, just like everyone knows that Kirk said “Beam me up Scotty” and Darth Vader said, “Luke, I am your father”. The thing is, none of those characters ever said any of those things. They said things that were similar, sure, but they never actually said those exact words, despite the fact most think that they did.

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http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zOORa51tl9EC&pg=PA153&dq=1909+Psmith+Journalist&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Y0wSUtL9D6Wd0wXbiYDQAg&ved=0CF8Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=1909%20Psmith%20Journalist&f=false
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2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

2017x260 A $25 Bonus: The Remarkable Story of H Tracy Hall and the Invention of the Synthetic Diamond

2017-11-10T05:00:00Z — 5m

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As you may know, naturally created diamonds are formed from carbon subjected to extreme pressure (725,000 pounds per square inch or so) and heat (1,650 to 2,370 °F) some 90-120 miles down. The world’s natural diamond supply (that has come to the surface) was formed in this way some 1-3 billion years ago.

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http://www.deseretnews.com/article/729485/The-making-of-a-diamond.html?pg=all
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/diamonds-on-demand-48545144/?all
http://www.historychannel.com.au/classroom/day-in-history/436/first-synthetic-diamond
http://www.nysun.com/obituaries/h-tracy-hall-88-created-man-made-diamonds/82789/
http://www.manmadediamondinfo.com/history.shtml
http://www.gia.edu/gia-news-research-synthetic-diamonds-dark-industrials-bright-gems
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/31/local/me-hall31
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/h-tracy-hall-diamond-pioneer-180940899/?no-ist
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072902196.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/02/us/02hall.html?_r=0
http://thehigherlearning.com/2014/07/06/the-story-of-the-man-who-only-made-10-for-figuring-out-how-t

2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

2017x261 What Happens if You Accidentally Damage or Destroy a Priceless Work of Art in a Museum

2017-11-10T05:00:00Z — 5m

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If you’ve ever walked through a museum or an art gallery you may have noticed that a lot of the art and historical treasure on display is completely exposed. In fact, with the exception of some of the world’s more famous pieces of art, you could easily fall over and damage much of the artwork on display worldwide, right now. So, what would happen if you did trip and accidentally damage an irreplaceable priceless piece of art? As it turns out, not all that much.

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https://creators.vice.com/en_uk/article/6-priceless-pieces-of-art-idiots-destroyed-in-2016
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/vase-breaker-banned-from-museum/
https://web.archive.org/web/20100724025343/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/pound100000-freud-painting-put-in-crusher-by-sothebys-man-721312.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20100724025343/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/pound100000-freud-painting-put-in-crusher-by-sothebys-man-721312.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/25/boy-trips-in-museum-and-punches-hole-through-million-dollar-painting
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39126777/pumpkin-artwork-valued-up-to-600000-smashed-by-selfie-taker
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/selfie-taker-smashes-126-year-old-statue-in-lisbon-portugal/
https://web.archive.org/web/20100128094101/http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100125/ts_alt_afp/usartaccidentpicasso
http://gawker.com/cleaning-lady-throws-away-expensive-modern-art-she-mist-1527595660
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/oct/19/arts.highereducation1
http://theconversation.com/what-museums-must-do-

2017-11-11T05:00:00Z

2017x262 An Endless Cycle: Taxing Blank Cassettes and Killing Music

2017-11-11T05:00:00Z — 5m

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In today’s era of streaming and YouTube where we as consumers have the power to pick and choose the songs we listen to and curate our own playlists, the idea of a homemade mixtape is either quaint or completely alien depending on how old you are. Go back just a few decades in the UK though and you’d find heavy-handed warnings in almost every cassette tape sleeve telling you, quite matter of factly, that “Home Taping Is Killing Music” with the qualifier, “And it’s illegal”.

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https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3iQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT71&lpg=PT71&dq=bpi+home+taping+is+killing+music+tax+on+blank+tapes&source=bl&ots=BQZ8hBTHt5&sig=wSeHepwP7pOx4pVB8rabTVXF-rM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwig9smmkbHWAhWhI8AKHa4jCX4Q6AEIOjAD#v=onepage&q=island&f=false
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hM0xCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT173&lpg=PT173&dq=home+taping+is+killing+music+bpi&source=bl&ots=8VxdSfrBgA&sig=IxhNJheTkbUiWl1gTBbnCEsp2Xs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjr9_rM_bDWAhXFKcAKHekADPcQ6AEIWTAL

2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

2017x263 From the Tech Wild West: The Fascinating Saga of Bob.com

2017-11-13T05:00:00Z — 5m

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In the video today, we look at the fascinating saga of Bob.com, as well as some interesting stories from the Wild West Days of the Internet.

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http://jacobfedosky.com/2014/07/17/meet-man-traded-windows2000-com-microsoft-exchange-bob-com/
http://www.bob.com/bob.htm
http://www.scripophilynews.com/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/11/11/windows2000_com_owner_sells_domain/
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/cs181/projects/domain-names/problems/grabbing.html
http://www.wired.com/1994/10/mcdonalds/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Microsoft-Bob-screenshot.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Sans
http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/Issues/2009/Sep/20091902.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System#History

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2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

2017x264 Are More People Really Killed by Vending Machines Than Sharks

2017-11-14T05:00:00Z — 5m

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As we’ve discussed at length in another article, sharks, contrary to their fearsome reputation, rarely attack, let alone kill, humans; it would seem that they don’t deem us to be suitable prey, though it seemingly has little to do with taste, as is commonly stated. (See: Do Sharks Really Not Like the Taste of Humans?) But is nature’s supposed “perfect” killing machine really outclassed by humble vending machines when it comes to the number of humans these respective things kill per year?

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https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jan/20/improbable-research-vending-machine-injuries-and-deaths
http://journals.lww.com/jorthotrauma/Abstract/1992/06000/Soda_Pop_Vending_Machine_Injuries_An_Update.9.aspx
https://www.thoughtco.com/are-vending-machines-more-deadly-than-sharks-3970604
https://www.cpsc.gov/cgibin/NEISSQuery/PerformEstimates.aspx
https://www.cpsc.gov/newsroom/news-releases/1996/cpsc-soda-vending-machine-industry-labeling-campaign-warns-of-deaths-and-injuries/
http://freakonomics.com/2011/09/08/how-are-sharks-less-dangerous-than-vending-machines-an-exercise-in-conditional-risk/
https://www.cpsc.gov/cgibin/neiss/webestimates.html#hist
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/isaf/worldwide-summary/
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/11/28/166061960/winning-powerball-its-more-likely-a-vending-machine-will-kill-you
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-09-13/news/9809130280_1_vending-machines-soda-dear-ann-landers
http://www.nsc.org/learn/safety-knowledge/Pages/injury-facts.aspx
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2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

2017x265 Fire Hydrant Colors Actually Mean Something

2017-11-15T05:00:00Z — 5m

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What Causes Hiccups
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One of the first challenges that firefighters face when they arrive at a fire is finding a suitable water source that provides enough water for the type of fire they are fighting. Common sense tells us a car on fire will require much less water than a burning apartment building. There are formulas used by firefighters that will tell them approximately how much water is needed to fight a given fire (see bonus facts below). Fire hydrants are commonly color coded to indicate how much water a particular hydrant will provide. This allows for quick decision making when they are deciding which hydrant to access.

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2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

2017x266 Can You Really Avoid an Airline Baggage Fee by Wearing All Your Clothes?

2017-11-16T05:00:00Z — 5m

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The Man Who Saved the World
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A 1908 Explosion Over 1,000 Times More Powerful Than the Little Boy Nuclear Bomb
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Now the first thing we should point out is that there are a handful of documented cases of people doing just this. Consider the story of James McElvar, a member of a Scottish boyband called Rewind, who successfully managed to board a plane wearing: “Four jumpers, six T-shirts, three pairs of jeans, two pairs of jogging bottoms, two jackets and two hats”.

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https://www.cheapair.com/blog/travel-tips/airline-policies-for-overweight-passengers-traveling-this-summer/
http://www.smartertravel.com/travel-advice/there-weight-size-limit.html?id=15819
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/11799490/Uzbekistan-Airways-to-weigh-passengers-before-boarding.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/9964127/Samoa-Air-defends-policy-to-charge-passengers-by-weight.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-33492512
http://time.com/3755915/college-student-kicked-off-plane-broad-city-shirt/
http://www.cracked.com/article_16849_the-7-dumbest-things-ever-done-by-airport-security_p2.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/rights-lose-board-plane/story?id=29957711
http://www.odditycentral.com/news/guy-throws-up-passes-out-on-plane-after-wearing-12-layers-of-clothing-to-avoid-paying-excess-baggage-tax.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/smartertravel/dont-wear-p

2017-11-17T05:00:00Z

2017x267 How Do They Get Teflon to Stick to Pans?

2017-11-17T05:00:00Z — 5m

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How Much Caffeine Would it Take to Kill You
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Saving us from soaking, scraping and scrubbing, Teflon has been a lifesaver (or at least a hand-saver) for home cooks for the last 50 years. Comprised of a unique polymer that actually repels nearly every other material (the only known thing a gecko’s feet can’t stick to), the processes used to get this substance to adhere so well to a pan relies on sand, heat, a vacuum and sometimes even another chemical.

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http://www2.dupont.com/Teflon/en_US/products/history.html
http://www.crp.co.uk/technical.aspx
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/if-nothing-sticks-to-tefl/
http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae242.cfm
http://www.chemguide.co.uk/qandc/ptfe.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8272977
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8272977
http://www.ewg.org/research/healthy-home-tips/tip-6-skip-non-stick-avoid-dangers-teflon
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1148/if-teflon-is-nonsticky-how-do-they-get-it-to-stick-to-the-pan
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1148/if-teflon-is-nonsticky-how-do-they-get-it-to-stick-to-the-pan

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2017-11-18T05:00:00Z

2017x268 Why are Bull and Bear Markets Called That?

2017-11-18T05:00:00Z — 5m

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For those who don’t know, a “bear” market, or when someone is being “bearish” in this context, is marked by investors being very conservative and pessimistic, resulting in a declining market generally marked by the mass selling off of stock. A “bull” market is simply the opposite of that, with investors being aggressive and positive, with stock prices rising as a result of this optimism. This “bull” and “bear” terminology first popped up in the 18th century in England.

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https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-189790588/stock-vector-bull-market-concept-presents-stock-market-with-bull-in-front-of-green-uptrend-graph-on-brown-paper
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2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

2017x269 What is the Largest Raindrop Possible?

2017-11-21T05:00:00Z — 5m

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In the video today, we're looking at how rain forms, the truth about its shape while it falls, and what the largest raindrop possible is

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Host: Daven Hiskey
Authors: Melissa Blevins and Daven Hiskey
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Producers: Daven Hiskey and Simon Whistler
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Sources:

https://pmm.nasa.gov/education/videos/anatomy-raindrop
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/09/travel/extreme-weather-records/
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-raindrops/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3898305.stm
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-12-07/news/0280040218_1_rain-scientists-beard
https://pmm.nasa.gov/education/articles/shape-of-a-raindrop
http://www.washington.edu/news/2004/07/13/some-of-the-biggest-raindrops-on-record-found-in-both-clean-and-dirty-air/
https://mdmetric.com/tech/coinmeasure.htm
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/raindropsizes.html
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/raindropshape.html
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/graphics/wcprecipitationrainshapes.gif
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/el-nino-could-hurt-monsoon-sea/25347851
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/surten.html

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marshall_Islands_on_the_globe_(small_islands_magnified)_(Polynesia_centered).svg

https://water.usgs.gov/edu/graphics/wcprecipitationrainshapes.gif

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2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

2017x270 PK Ep 1: How to Increase the Life of a Shaving Razor, Remove Stripped Screws, Supertasting & More

2017-11-22T05:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

2017x271 Why Do Screws Tighten Clockwise?

2017-11-23T05:00:00Z — 5m

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Why Is It Illegal to Remove Your Mattress and Pillow Tags?
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Why is Aluminum Foil Shiny on One Side But Not the Other?
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One of the six simple machines, a screw is nothing more than an inclined plane wrapped around a center pole. While today screws come in standard sizes, and typically are tightened by turning clockwise (and loosened by turning counterclockwise), this is a recent invention. A great example of how things that seem simple can be really hard to do right, the development of the predicable system we enjoy today took 2,000 years to invent.

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http://www.learninginfo.org/simonides-history-mnemonics.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Standard_Whitworth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clockwise
http://www.boltscience.com/pages/screw2.htm
http://www.boulonsplus.net/informations-techniques/history-of-screw-threads/
http://idiomation.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/lefty-loosey-righty-tighty/
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=screw&searchmode=none
http://www.mikids.com/Smachines.htm
http://www.threadcheck.com/technical-documents/thread-systems.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Thread_Standard
http://www.whitworthsociety.org/history.php?page=2
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-are-more-people-right/

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2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

2017x272 10 Medical Myths Debunked

2017-11-24T05:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-11-25T05:00:00Z

2017x273 How Did Lunar Landers Re-Launch When There's No Oxygen?

2017-11-25T05:00:00Z — 5m

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How the Moon was Formed
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Whether it’s two-strokes or four, one cylinder or eight, most of the engines we use today are powered by the internal combustion of fuel and air; however, mixing gasoline and oxygen isn’t the only way to generate the energy needed to propel a craft, and in fact, sometimes it’s the least efficacious choice.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%E2%80%93fuel_ratio
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/#.VMtvicaWTwJ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascent_Propulsion_System
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/engine2.htm
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/SP-4205/ch6-5.html
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergolic_propellant
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/engine1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid-propellant_rocket
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/lmalsion.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_engine#Cylinders_and_configuration
http://history.nasa.gov/conghand/propelnt.htm
http://history.nasa.gov/conghand/propulsn.htm
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2017-11-26T05:00:00Z

2017x274 Driving Over Anti Tank Guns: The Remarkable Russian KV Tanks

2017-11-26T05:00:00Z — 5m

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The US Plan to Invade Canadа
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What Does the "D" in "D-Day" Stand For?
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The KV-1 and KV-2 are recognised as being amongst the most heavily armoured tanks deployed during WW2. At least initially largely impervious to anything less than a direct, point-blank hit from a dedicated anti-tank weapon, the KV series was so formidable that the first time the Wehrmacht encountered them, Soviet soldiers destroyed dozens of anti-tank guns by simply driving towards them in a straight line and running them over.

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http://www.allworldwars.com/Peculiarities-of-Russian-Warfare-by-Erhard-Raus.html
http://www.militaryfactory.com/armor/detail.asp?armor_id=313
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RLjQDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA7&dq=battle+of+Raseiniai+kv&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjS1vjK7LDSAhUqIcAKHVQBA9QQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=battle%20of%20Raseiniai%20kv&f=false
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KV-1S_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_Museum_5-jun-2014_Front.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

2017x275 Badass Week: The General Who Had His Skin Turned Into a Drum

2017-11-27T05:00:00Z — 5m

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The Siberian Family Who Didnt See Other Humans For Over 40 Years
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Adolf Hitler's British Nephew Who Joined the U.S. Navy
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Before we get to his death, though, we want to discuss Zizka’s life, because well, frankly it was remarkable. For starters, Zizka, born in 1360, is generally considered to have never lost a battle. What makes this feat even more impressive is that, whereas the few other generals in history who’ve done this had powerful armies at their command, Zizka was in command of only peasants and rebels.

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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000A0GYGE/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000A0GYGE&linkCode=as2&tag=vicastingcom-20
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/zizka.html
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=h5_tSnygvbIC&pg=PA329&dq=Battle+of+Kutn%C3%A1+Hora+Jan+Zizka&hl=cs&sa=X&ei=s5AxU6SEFMSmhAfImICYCQ&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Battle%20of%20Kutn%C3%A1%20Hora%20Jan%20Zizka&f=false
http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/jan-zizka-at-grunwald-from-mercenary-to-czech-national-hero
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9ntLB8W-cVQC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=Jan+Zizka+Drum&source=bl&ots=haygCBvwNT&sig=_n1nVsZHbrljdkFEBZOCro3CD3I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=f44xU8ipM9PQ7AbWmICwBg&ved=0CHYQ6AEwDg#v=onepage&q=Jan%20Zizka%20Drum&f=false
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ojyuV9ohkDkC&pg=PA1624&lpg=PA1624&dq=Jan+Zizka:+The+General+Who+Had+His+Skin+Turne

2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

2017x276 Does Shaking Polaroid Pictures Actually Do Anything?

2017-11-27T05:00:00Z — 5m

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The Pass That Allows People to Fly for Free Forever
https://youtu.be/cF2Gdv6oGMQ?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0pKsFCF23nHSpFkH-MPwSM

Penthouse and Stephen King
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For anyone unfamiliar with the 2003 hip-hop hit, Hey Ya! by OutKast, the line “shake it like a Polaroid picture” is repeated over a dozen times. The accompanying music video released alongside the single saw the line punctuated by a bunch of attractive women shaking recently taken Polaroid photos, along with their various wobbly bits, with dangerous levels of enthusiasm.

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https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Story-Polaroid-Christopher-Bonanos/dp/1616890851/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1485342875&sr=8-1&keywords=instant+the+story+of+polaroid&linkCode=ll1&tag=vicastingcom-20&linkId=0fa5875e144c526a45a9302fd6bee15f
https://www.amazon.com/Camera-Does-Rest-Polaroid-Photography/dp/022617638X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1485342914&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Camera+Does+the+Rest:+How+Polaroid+Changed+Photography&linkCode=ll1&tag=vicastingcom-20&linkId=d8c6dc3bcd5fc61854dda9bf12f1144c
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2004/02/18/dont-shake-it-like-polaroid-picture.html?refresh=true
http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/06/28/374369/index.htm
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/02/17/polaroid.warns.reut/index.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/12/hey-ya-history_n_3682470.html
http://fortune.com/2012/10/05/polaroids-instant-

2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

2017x277 Badass Week: The One Legged Woman Who Was the Most Dangerous Of All Allied Spies

2017-11-28T05:00:00Z — 5m

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Her name was Virginia Hall, an American spy born in Baltimore in 1906. She attended both Barnard College and Radcliffe College—two prestigious all-women’s higher education facilities—and continued her studies at schools in France, Germany, and Austria. She had dreams of a career in foreign service. At just twenty-five years old, she was appointed to the position of Consular Service clerk at the American Embassy in Warsaw, Poland and seemed to be well on her way to accomplishing her goals.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Hall
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2012-featured-story-archive/virginia-hall.html
http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/virginia-hall/
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/030127/27heyday.hall.htm
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/hall.html

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2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

2017x278 McRefugees and the Cyber-Homeless

2017-11-28T05:00:00Z — 5m

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Steve Jobs' Illegal First Business
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Miss Unsinkable
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With rents for even the smallest quarters exceeding the equivalent of $1000 monthly, a relatively large number of working class people in Asia’s largest cities have become, essentially, homeless. Rather than being completely destitute, as many homeless are, a not inconsiderable number of these individuals earn enough to otherwise support themselves outside of being able to afford housing. To solve the problem of lack of funds for more traditional accommodations, many have turned to 24-hour establishments for a place to spend the night and catch a few Zs, including, in particular, McDonald’s and Manga cafes.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/13-pictures-of-chinas-mcrefugees-the-homeless-people-who-live-in-mcdonalds-2015-11/#images-like-this-have-become-too-common-in-hong-kong-china-and-japan-thanks-to-soaring-property-and-rental-prices-scores-of-newly-homeless-people-are-being-forced-to-find-sanctuary-in-mcdonalds-1
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/11/homelessness-hungerreportmayors.html
https://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2017/mar/21/homelessness-housing-problems-crisis-point-all-eu-countries-except-finland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_population
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McRefugee
http://nypost.com/2015/11/12/mcrefugees-are-dying-at-

2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

2017x279 Badass Week - The Heroic Death of Chariots of Fire's Eric Liddell

2017-11-29T05:00:00Z — 5m

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Imagine you dedicated your adult life to helping those less fortunate than yourself -that you spent your entire adult life trying to make the world a better place, and when you died (after sacrificing your own life for someone else’s) all most people remembered about you was that you once ran really fast… You’d be pretty annoyed right? Well that’s what happened to Eric Liddell. Although, as you’ll see, he probably wouldn’t have minded.

2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

2017x280 Why Can't You Put Pineapple in Jello?

2017-11-29T05:00:00Z — 5m

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The Jiggly Origins of Jell-O
https://youtu.be/6BFFcaTKj9I?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0HjtNM-IuWjliZeLoLVNan

Why the Inside of Apples Turn Brown When Exposed to Air
https://youtu.be/5GR4gNn0Qrc?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0HjtNM-IuWjliZeLoLVNan

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Unless you’ve managed to make it this far in life without setting foot in a store, you’re probably aware that jello, popularly known as jelly by my British compatriots, is a genericization of the brand Jell-O which itself was derived from the word “gelatin”. (See: The Jiggly History of Jell-O) Gelatin is a protein derived from collagen via a process called hydrolysis, which breaks apart the bonds of this protein with water.

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Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protease
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteolysis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromelain
http://chemistry.about.com/od/foodcookingchemistry/f/pineapple-jello.htm
http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=1968
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bring-science-home-fruit-gelatin/
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yQYuK_qVv-oC&pg=PA103&dq=calf%27s+foot+jelly+victorian&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi29JXQh6rMAhXEWBoKHS8SDDwQ6AEIKjAC#v=onepage&q=calf's%20foot%20jelly%20victorian&f=false
http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Jell-0-history.htm
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ySCpBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT16&dq=Denis+Papin+gelatin&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQjdu7iarMAhUB5xoKHXIsAukQ6AEINzAF#v=onepage&q=Denis%20Papin%20gelatin&f=false
http://chemistry.about.com/od/foodcookingchemistry/a/foods-that-ruin-jell-

2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

2017x281 Badass Week: A Memory of Solferino, The Life of Henry Dunant

2017-11-30T05:00:00Z — 5m

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Miss Unsinkable
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On May 8, 1828, the man who founded The International Committee of the Red Cross, Henry Dunant, was born. In 1922, almost a century after his birth, the eighth of May was declared a day dedicated to the International Red Cross, in this way honoring its founder. Dunant’s dream was to prevent and alleviate human suffering, without discrimination. Despite being born to wealth, he died in poverty partially due to his dedication to charitable work. He remains one of the greatest humanitarians in history, but few today know much about him. So who was Henry Dunant really?

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http://www.faqs.org/health/bios/1/Jean-Henri-Dunant.html
http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/hbs/
http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/misc/57jnvr.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/EUmoynier.htm
http://www.icrc.org/eng/who-we-are/history/index.jsp
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1901/dunant-bio.html
http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/misc/57jnvq.htm
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_pri

2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

2017x282 Does Tapping a Shaken Can of Soda Actually Reduce Foam?

2017-11-30T05:00:00Z — 5m

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In the video today we experimentally prove whether tapping a shaken can of soda actually reduces foam.

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Host: Daven Hiskey (and yes Alissa's friends, I am her uncle ;-))
Authors: Karl Smallwood and Daven Hiskey
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Audio Editor: Joel North
Video Editor: Nathan Nielsen

Sources:

http://www.livescience.com/34159-tap-soda-can-carbonation.html
http://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=623
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/SeemaMeraj.shtml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_drink#History
http://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/9067/what-is-the-carbon-dioxide-content-of-a-soda-can-or-bottle
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/Science-Notebook/2015/0414/The-surprising-science-behind-the-aluminum-soda-can
http://www.livescience.com/32492-why-does-soda-fizz.html
http://www.chowhound.com/food-news/54193/does-tapping-a-soda-can-stop-the-foaming/
http://blogs.cornell.edu/siebert/
http://www.snopes.com/science/sodacan.asp
http://chemistry.about.com/od/howthingsworkfaqs/f/cantapping.htm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140514165249.htm
http://www.livescience.com/33128-why-does-beer-foam-.html
http://education.seattlepi.com/much-pressure-can-two-liter-bottle-handle-6313.html
http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/question602.htm
http://theconversation.com/does-tapping-a-can-of-fizzy-drink-really-stop-it-foaming-over-60659
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/does-tapping-drink-can-stop-it-exploding-work
http://www.livescience.com/32461-why-do-soft-drink

2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

2017x283 Badass Week: Leo Major and His Balls of Solid Steel

2017-12-01T05:00:00Z — 5m

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The Siberian Family Who Didnt See Other Humans For Over 40 Years
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Adolf Hitler's British Nephew Who Joined the U.S. Navy
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Leo Major was a French Canadian man born in 1921. He probably didn’t think he was going to be more of a hero than the average soldier when he joined up with the Canadian Army at the start of World War II—supposedly he simply joined up because he wanted to show his father, with whom he had a shaky relationship, that he could do something to be proud of.

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Sources:

http://www.kvacanada.com/stories_trfleo.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Major
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jcY6AAAAIBAJ&sjid=SyoMAAAAIBAJ&dq=leo-major%20canada&pg=1366%2C13119661
http://www.godutch.com/newspaper/index.php?id=1297
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=fbcc446c-231f-4781-940a-3ebc3dee9f94
http://www.theherocc.com/an-interview-with-leo-major/
http://www.thegalleryofheroes.com/leo-major/

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https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-167377628/stock-photo-zwolle%2C-vintage-stamp-on-paper-background
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2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

2017x284 The Surprising Number of Survivors Aboard the Hindenburg

2017-12-01T05:00:00Z — 5m

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Adolf Hitler's British Nephew Who Joined the U.S. Navy
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The Hindenburg disaster will probably always be remembered as the singular event that killed airship travel. In truth, there were other events that occurred which also contributed, but none stand out in the public consciousness more than the demise of the Hindenburg. The image of that huge ship falling from the sky and erupting into flames before burning to nothing in seconds was too jarring for the public to ever put their trust in these giants of sky again.

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http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=G6lp-N7kDwwC&pg=PA118&dq=Hindenburg+7:25+p.m.&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cPAEUvTkPMr50gXGt4HoBw&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Hindenburg%207%3A25%20p.m.&f=false
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Mo1zTI6Zbu8C&pg=PA12&dq=Hindenburg+seconds&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DfIEUrnzLaTs0gXq9IGwBw&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Hindenburg%20seconds&f=false
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=U_EtquHdHksC&pg=PA12&dq=Hindenburg+40+seconds&hl=en&sa=X&ei=O_IEUsn3N8T70gWBg4DgAg&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Hindenburg%2040%20seconds&f=false
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iMr92TldWigC&pg=PA39&dq=hindenburg+sabotage&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6fMEUuq8Msq20QWNyIGgBg&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=hindenburg%20sabotage&f=false
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fXMSfDixWlgC&pg=PT61&dq=hindenburg+s

2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

2017x285 Badass Week: That Time an Army Dentist Killed 98 Attacking Enemy Soldiers Single-Handedly

2017-12-02T05:00:00Z — 5m

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The Soldier Who Continued Fighting WWII 29 Years After It Ended, Because He Didn't Know
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The Unwilling Soldier of Three Armies
https://youtu.be/zhl-nIK1kV4?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR

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On the morning of July 7, 1944, Captain Ben L. Salomon of the U.S. Army’s 105th Infantry, commissioned as a dentist, single-handedly held off a fierce attack of an overwhelming force of Japanese soldiers in order to allow sufficient time for approximately 30 of his comrades to safely retreat. After 15 hours of terrible fighting, when relief finally arrived, Salomon was found dead upon a machine gun, riddled with bullet and bayonet holes and surrounded by 98 dead enemy soldiers; and yet despite his selfless heroism, it still took 57 years for Salomon to receive the Medal of Honor – due to a misread of the rules of war.

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http://articles.latimes.com/2002/may/05/local/me-medal5
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423904/astonishing-heroism-ben-salomon-josh-gelernter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_L._

2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

2017x286 The US Navy and Their Hilariously Inept Search for Dorothy and Her Friends

2017-12-02T05:00:00Z — 5m

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While the Ancient Greeks had their celebrated Sacred Band of Thebes, a legendarily successful fighting force made up of all male lovers, in more modern times the various branches of the United States military have not been so accepting of such individuals, which brings us to the topic of today- that time in the 1980s when the Naval Intelligence Service invested significant resources into trying to locate a mysterious woman identified only as “Dorothy” who seemed to have links to countless gay seamen. The plan was to find her and then “convince” her to finger these individuals so the military could give them the boot.

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https://www.amazon.com/Conduct-Unbecoming-Gays-Lesbians-Military/dp/0449909174/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1484902599&sr=8-1&keywords=conduct+unbecoming&linkCode=ll1&tag=vicastingcom-20&linkId=5bdf1f25b7e4f0e60f419991cf54079a
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-friend-of-dorothy.htm
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-03-29/news/vw-16447_1_conduct-unbecoming/2
http://www.gaytimes.co.uk/culture/8905/camp-sites-wizard-oz/
http://www.cruisecritic.co.uk/articles.cfm?ID=188
http://www.cruisedork.com/ask-the-cruise-dork/bill-dorothy-friends/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Garland_

2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

2017x287 Who Invented Hawaiian Pizza?

2017-12-04T05:00:00Z — 5m

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On June 8, 2017, Greek-born, Canadian-bred pizza maker Sam Panopoulos died. His career slinging pies was rather unremarkable save for one notable thing – he was the inventor of the popular, yet infamous pineapple-topped “Hawaiian Pizza,” named as such because of the brand of canned fruit he used. Loved by some and hated by others, the sweet and salty pizza is so controversial that it once triggered an argument between friendly nations. While such arguments rage on both sides of it being a delicacy or an abomination, the fact is that the Hawaiian pizza is actually not Hawaiian- it’s Canadian. Here now is the story of pizza and the man who decided to add pineapples to it.

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2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

2017x288 The Man Who Controls TV

2017-12-05T05:00:00Z — 5m

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Adolf Hitler's British Nephew Who Joined the U.S. Navy
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While it’s an incredibly convoluted system, the entire television industry is still basically controlled by Nielsen ratings. To this day, they have an immense impact on advertising dollars and the overall financial health of the companies that own television networks. From which TV shows are produced to how local news cover certain stories, the goal of everyone involved in television is to get viewers, which in theory, translates to ratings.

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http://mentalfloss.com/article/27044/how-do-tv-sweeps-periods-work
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/business/media/ac-nielsen-jr-who-transformed-research-firm-dies-at-92.html?_r=1
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/06/local/la-me-ac-nielsen-20111006
https://www.tennisfame.com/hall-of-famers/inductees/arthur-nielsen/
http://bus.wisc.edu/centers/ac-nielsen-center-for-marketing-research
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2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

2017x289 Hilarious History: That Time Cadets at West Point Rioted Over Eggnog

2017-12-06T05:00:00Z — 5m

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From the beginning, heavy drinking was fairly commonplace among the cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point (founded in 1802). In an attempt to stem this in 1826, the academy’s strict superintendent and the “Father of West Point,” General Sylvanus Thayer, began a crackdown by prohibiting alcohol on campus. As Christmas approached and the cadets realized that the prohibition would put a damper on their traditional Christmas Eve festivities that included consumption of a fair amount of eggnog, a bold few began to plan away around the problem.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggnog_Riot
http://www.army.mil/article/49823/The_Eggnog_Riot/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/egg-nog-its-all-fun-and-games-until-someone-starts-a-holiday-riot-180949281/?no-ist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Military_Academy#Colonial_period.2C_founding.2C_and_early_years

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2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

2017x290 20 Interesting Facts About the Great Mister Rogers

2017-12-07T05:00:00Z — 5m

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45 years ago today on February 19, 1968, Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood made its national TV debut. The show’s purpose, as put forth by Mr. Rogers, was to promote: good self esteem, self control, imagination, creativity, curiosity, appreciation of diversity, cooperation, patience, and persistence.

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2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

2017x291 Is It Safe to Eat Moldy Bread or Moldy Cheese?

2017-12-08T05:00:00Z — 5m

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For the quick answer to your question: no and sometimes. While not all molds are bad for you to eat, many are, and unless you want to whip out a microscope and meticulously identify the mold present on your food (note: there are 300,000 known types and counting), as a general rule it’s better to avoid moldy foods.

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http://www.fsis.usda.gov/FactSheets/Molds_On_Food/
http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20392188,00.html
http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/08/17/life-advice-it-is-not-safe-to-eat-moldy-food-even-if-you-cut-off-the-mold/
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2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

2017x292 Does McDonald's or Burger King Really Hand Out Cards Granting You Free Food For Life?

2017-12-09T05:00:00Z — 5m

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Like the American Express Centurion Card – a hyper-exclusive charge card only gifted to the wealthiest of individuals – there exists equivalently exclusive cards issued by both McDonald’s and Burger King granting the bearer unlimited free food for life from any establishment of the respective chain that issued them. So who on Earth is lucky enough to own such a card and how would you possibly go about getting one yourself?

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https://www.gatesnotes.com/2017-Annual-Letter?WT.mc_id=02_14_2017_02_AL2017_BG-GW_&WT.tsrc=BGGW
http://uk.businessinsider.com/real-story-behind-mcdonalds-gold-card-2015-11?r=UK&IR=T
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/romneys-dad-had-a-free-mcdonalds-for-life-card/
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2015/nov/17/free-big-macs-for-life-billionaire-rob-lowe-mcdonalds-gold-card
http://www.cnbc.com/id/21528623
http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2008/06/celebrities-get-free-burgers-with-burger-king-crown-gold-card.html
http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/23/news/companies/mcdonalds-charles-ramsey/
http://adage.com/article/news/actor-sparks-bk-card-freakout/127924/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Castro_kidnappings
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2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

2017x293 Why Did Neil Armstrong Get to Be the First to Walk on the Moon?

2017-12-10T05:00:00Z — 5m

Thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring this video! First 200 people will get a 2 month tri“” Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. Since that date forty five years ago, the moon landing has been the subject of intense study and historical analysis. From what Armstrong actually said with his first step to if the American flags the astronauts planted are still there, mankind’s first rendezvous with the moon has captured the world’s attention in a way few other things have. Despite this, there are still several noteworthy facts that have remained obscure after all these years. Allow us to bring just a few to (moon) light:

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On July 20th, 1969, with “one small step,” Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. Since that date forty five years ago, the moon landing has been the subject of intense study and historical analysis. From what Armstrong actually said with his first step to if the American flags the astronauts planted are still there, mankind’s first rendezvous with the moon has captured the world’s attention in a way few other things have. Despite this, there are still several noteworthy facts that have remained obscure after all these years. Allow us to bring just a few to (moon) light:

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http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/gemini/gemini-goals.htm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2255346/Did-Neil-Armstrong-lie-origins-small-step-speech.html
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2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

2017x294 Stealing Einstein's Brain

2017-12-11T05:00:00Z — 5m

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On April 17, 1955, the greatest scientist of his generation checked himself into Princeton Hospital due to chest pains. By early the next morning, Albert Einstein had died from an abdominal aortic aneurysm – the rupture of the aorta, the heart vessel that’s the body’s main supplier of blood.

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2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

2017x295 How Do the Ghosts in Pac-Man Decide Where to Go?

2017-12-12T05:00:00Z — 5m

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enemies in video game history, thanks in part to their surprisingly difficult to predict movements which make the game a constant challenge for new and seasoned players alike. However, as it turns out, the ghost’s movements are defined by a deceptively simple set of algorithms thought up by the game’s designer, Toru Iwatani.

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http://www.destructoid.com/blinky-inky-pinky-and-clyde-a-small-onomastic-study-108669.phtml
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2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

2017x296 The Tragic Life of JFK's Sister

2017-12-14T05:00:00Z — 5m

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On January 20, 1961, the newly-elected President John F. Kennedy, at his inauguration in front of the Capital, told Americans to “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Over 800 miles away, in Jefferson, Wisconsin in an institution called “St. Coletta School for Exceptional Children” lived a 43 year old woman, who perhaps was listening to the address on the radio. Her name was Rosemary Kennedy and she was President Kennedy’s little sister.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy
http://www.livescience.com/42199-lobotomy-definition.html
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1949/index.html
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2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

2017x297 What Does Bill Gates Carry Around in His Wallet?

2017-12-15T05:00:00Z — 5m

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We’d bet that the vast majority of people reading this, regardless of gender, race or socioeconomic background, carry the same few basic items with them at all times; a phone, some keys, a few dollars, a debit card, and maybe some I.D are all items you’d reliably expect to find if you asked an average person on the street to turn out their pockets. But what would you find if you asked a millionaire, or even a billionaire, to do the same thing? As it turns out, it would appear you’d find they’d produce more or less the same or less from their pockets as the average Joe.

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http://people.com/archive/no-cash-but-does-she-carry/
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/06/cash-poor-is-the-new-rich
http://time.com/money/4275140/rich-celebrities-who-never-carried-cash/
http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/02/bill-gates-hosts-an-ama-on-reddit-today
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/queen-elizabeth-whats-inside-her-handbag/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/whats-in-your-wallet-for-us-presidents-its-180632276.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gobankingrates/what-donald-trump-and-jim_b_5864078.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/19/what-warren-buffett-always-carries-in-his-wallet.html
https://www.gobankingrates.com/net-worth/whats-warren-buffetts-wallet/

2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

2017x298 Margaret Thatcher and Her Frugal Ways

2017-12-16T05:00:00Z — 5m

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Over here in Blighty (the UK), Margaret Thatcher is an incredibly polarizing figure in British politics, which is why today instead of talking about any of that, I’m going to tell you about a somewhat lesser known facet of the “Iron Lady”.

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http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/12/30/the-frugal-lady-newly-released-files-show-margaret-thatchers-thrifty-side/
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2017-12-17T05:00:00Z

2017x299 That Time a 61 Year Old Farmer Won One of the World's Most Grueling Athletic Competitions

2017-12-17T05:00:00Z — 5m

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Adolf Hitler's British Nephew Who Joined the U.S. Navy
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The man was an Australian by the name of Albert Ernest Clifford “Cliff” Young, who decided to take up running as a sport at the age of 57. The competition was the Westfield run, which is an ultra-marathon that takes place in Australia. The race is 543.7 miles long (875 km) and is run from Sydney to Melbourne. What’s even more impressive than a 61 year old potato and sheep farmer even being able to complete such a race in the allotted time is that, he not only won, but shattered the world record for that distance, beating it by over two days.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_%28athlete%29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvjiubMJ72Q
http://www.coolrunning.com.au/ultra/westfieldbook-v2.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Marathon
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/03/1067708126175.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/07/1068013394824.html?from=storyrhs

2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

2017x300 Is the Happiest Man in China Photo Real or Fake?

2017-12-18T05:00:00Z — 5m

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For much of the early history of photography smiling in photographs was almost unheard of for various reasons. (See: When Did People Start Smiling in Photographs?) Despite this, a photo of a Chinese man, dubbed by the masses on the internet, “the happiest man in China”, occasionally makes the rounds purporting to be of a 19th century Chinese man who unabashedly displays a wide, toothy grin for the camera. This, in addition to the man’s remarkably photogenic appearance and near flawless smile, has naturally led many to dismiss the photo as fake- seemingly just a picture someone recently took and digitally touched up to appear like a photo from the 19th or early 20th centuries. So is the “happiest man in China” photo a fake and who is the smiling man?

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https://anthro.amnh.org/laufer_collection
https://www.umass.edu/wsp/resources/profiles/laufer.html
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/laufer-berthold.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_K._Jessup
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Boas
http://intlhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/the-happiest-man-in-1901-1904.html
http://lbry-web-007.amnh.org/digital/items/show/29058
http://lbry-web-007.amnh.org/digital/collections/show/14
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Laufer
https://books.google.c

2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

2017x301 That Time a Guy Won the Lotto a Second Time Reenacting His First Win for the Press

2017-12-19T05:00:00Z — 5m

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A Tax on the Poor- The Lotto and the Surprisingly Common Sad Aftermath of Winning
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In 1999, 37 year old Bill Morgan was a truck driver living in a travel trailer in Australia. That’s when disaster struck- while working, he got in a pretty bad accident that he nonetheless survived. However, medication he was given during his recovery resulted in him having an extreme allergic reaction that ultimately caused his heart to stop.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R5MqxcKdV8
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/man-survives-fatal-heart-attack-wins-lottery-live-tv/
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Rem2ZSuurAkJ:www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9905/27/fringe/australia.luckiest.man/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/12/on-average-people-who-earn-less-than-13000-a-year-in-the-u-s-spend-5-of-their-gross-earnings-on-lottery-tickets/

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2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

2017x302 Forgotten History: The Remarkable Walter Hunt and His World Changing Inventions

2017-12-20T05:00:00Z — 5m

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Walter Hunt is a man who is simultaneously considered to have possessed one of the finest inventive minds in all of American history while also being an individual almost no one has ever heard. This is despite the fact that it’s almost guaranteed that one of his inventions is currently lying somewhere in your home, the safety pin. This was something he sold the patent for for a few hundred dollars, reportedly as he needed the money to pay off a $15 debt. This was a theme throughout his life- inventing various items that otherwise should have made him extremely wealthy and famous, but which never did because of his proclivity to sell his patents immediately and move on to his next great invention.

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https://www.amazon.com/Necessitys-Child-Americas-Forgotten-Inventor/dp/0786402792/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1486687537&sr=8-1&keywords=Necessity%E2%80%99s+Child:+The+Story+of+Walter+Hunt,+America%E2%80%99s+Forgotten+Inventor&linkCode=ll1&tag=vicastingcom-20&linkId=66494f8330655c36fa258fd5bb5018ef
https://www.google.com/patents/US6281
http://museumofeverydaylife.org/exhibitions-collections/current-exhibitions/a-visual-history-of-the-safety-pin
http://www.anb.org/articles/20/20-91921.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-inventive-mind-of-walter-hunt-yankee-mechanical-genius-5331323/
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/2.790/inspiring-innovators-walter-hunt-1.585062
https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/news-updates/patent-safety-pin-issued-april-10-1849-new-yorker-invents-handy-device
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nma

2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

2017x303 The Truth About the Origin of the Candy Cane

2017-12-21T05:00:00Z — 5m

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The white base color of the candy cane symbolizes Jesus’ purity; the red stripes symbolize Jesus’ blood when he died on the cross; and the J shape was chosen to represent the J in Jesus.

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http://books.google.com/books?id=mo8vgZoROl8C&pg=PT38&dq=history+of+candy+cane+christian&hl=en&ei=W7TxTY6bLIXw0gGwvMTBBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=history%20of%20candy%20cane%20christian&f=false
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/news/2004/cane.html
http://books.google.ca/books?id=8TIEAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22complete%20confectioner%22%20stripes&pg=PA31#v=onepage&q=%22complete%20confectioner%22%20stripes&f=false
http://www.farleysandsathers.com/about/whoweare.asp?brandid=1
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0310730120/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0310730120&linkCode=as2&tag=vicastingcom-20
http://inventors.about.com/od/foodrelatedinventions/a/candy_canes.htm
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2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

2017x304 What Ever Happened to Everyone's Friend MySpace Tom?

2017-12-22T05:00:00Z — 5m

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Adolf Hitler's British Nephew Who Joined the U.S. Navy
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Tom Anderson, better known online as MySpace Tom, was, for a brief period in the early 2000s, arguably the most popular man on the internet. Boasting over 200 million friends at the apex of MySpace’s popularity, Tom was everybody who signed up to use the site’s first, but hopefully not only, friend. So what is he doing now and why was he everyone’s friend?

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/books/review/Agger-t.html
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/jun/23/myspace.tomanderson
https://techcrunch.com/2008/08/30/myspace-cofounder-tom-anderson-was-a-real-life-wargames-hacker-in-1980s/
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/myspace-tom-anderson-retirement-social-network-travel-photographer-instagram-a7720236.html
https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/17/14647596/tom-from-myspace-profile-picture-twitter-instagram
https://petapixel.com/2012/09/13/interview-with-tom-anderson-co-founder-of-myspace/
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1570728,00.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_DeWolfe
https://techcrunch.com/2009/01/24/myspacebook/
http://www.businessinsider.com/myspace-founder-tom-anderson-traveling-photos-2017-6
https://www.instagram.com/myspacetom/
https://web.archive.

2017-12-23T05:00:00Z

2017x305 Can Staying Awake Too Long Really Kill You?

2017-12-23T05:00:00Z — 5m

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Every college student knows the eye-stinging pain of a caffeine-induced all-nighter. It’s been well documented that prolonged sleep deprivation will lead to lower cognitive and motor function, as well as impaired memory; it might even give you the tired-giggles. No one has ever definitively shown why sleep is necessary for our survival, and no person has ever had sleep deprivation listed as their cause of death. As prominent sleep researcher John Allan Hobson states “The only known function of sleep is to cure sleepiness”. So, can sleep really kill you?

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2017-12-24T05:00:00Z

2017x306 Why is There 12 Days of Christmas in the Song Instead of 1?

2017-12-24T05:00:00Z — 5m

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Even the most ardent fans of Christmas will agree – the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas” does not make a whole lot of sense. What is a partridge doing in a pear tree? Partridges are ground-nesting birds! So where did perhaps the most earworm inducing Christmas song in history come from, and why are there twelve days in it, instead of just one?

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Sources:

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resources/advent/customs-and-traditions/the-history-of-the-twelve-days-of-christmas/
http://www.catholic.org/advent/advent.php?id=2
http://articles.latimes.com/1990-11-22/news/vw-6748_1_love-song
http://mentalfloss.com/article/32015/12-things-you-might-not-know-about-twelve-days-christmas
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/12/12-days-of-christmas/421425/
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Gray_Partridge/lifehistory
http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catechism/catechism-of-the-catholic-church/frequently-asked-questions-about-the-catechism-of-the-catholic-church.cfm
http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/2008/august/real-twelve-days-of-christmas.html
https://www.britannica.com/event/Penal-Laws
http://scua.library.umass.edu/umarmot/phinney-edward/
https://historymyths.wordpress.com/tag/mirth-without-mischief/
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/health-con

2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

2017x307 That Time People Put Frogs in Unrefrigerated Milk to Keep it From Spoiling

2017-12-25T05:00:00Z — 5m

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For centuries, before refrigeration, an old Russian practice was to drop a frog into a bucket of milk to keep the milk from spoiling. In modern times, many believed that this was nothing more than an old wives’ tale. But researchers at Moscow State University, led by organic chemist Dr. Albert Lebedev, have shown that there could be some benefit to doing this, though of course in the end you’ll be drinking milk that a frog was in.

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http://discovermagazine.com/2014/may/27-milking-frog-skin
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/pr300890m
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/12/12/Frogs-in-milk-could-lead-to-new-drugs/UPI-10691355343425/
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/12/17/167255929/scientists-look-for-new-drugs-in-skin-of-russian-frog
http://www.catholic.org/news/health/story.php?id=49169
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/08/30/frog-skin-secretions-could-yield-antibiotic-bonanza/#.U1a-luZdXIi
https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/manufacturing-processing/jacob-perkins
http://thephysicspolice.blogspot.com/2013/01/myth-russian-milk-frogging.html
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/33818/title/Is-Frog-Skin-a-Red-Herring-/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7598843
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/05/24/186451082/amphibians-

2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

2017x308 The White Mouse

2017-12-26T05:00:00Z — 5m

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Despite her future successes, Nancy Wake had humble beginnings. She was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1912, but her family moved to Sydney, Australia when she was almost two and she grew up there. A Maori midwife delivered her and, at the time of her birth, allegedly pointed at a fold of skin on her head and said, “’This is what we call a kahu, and it means your baby will always be lucky. Wherever she goes, whatever she does, the gods will look after her.”

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http://www.smh.com.au/world/the-white-mouse-who-roared-20110808-1ij2o.html
http://www.smh.com.au/national/white-mouse-nancy-wake-dies-20110808-1ii2u.html
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/nancy-wake-the-white-mouse-world-war-ii-heroine-dies.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-11/nancy-wakes-ashes-scattered-in-france/4564500
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/332.asp
http://www.news.com.au/national/nancy-wake-the-white-mouse-has-died/story-e6frfkvr-1226110714515

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2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

2017x309 A Rose for Carl - An Amazingly Horrific Love Story

2017-12-27T05:00:00Z — 5m

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Born in Dresden, Germany in 1877, Carl Tanzler claimed to have descended from aristocratic stock. Fanciful even as a child, in later years he recounted a story of being visited in his youth by a long-dead ancestor, Countess Anna Constantina von Cosel, who gave him a vision of a beautiful, dark-haired woman whom she said was his one, true love.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Tanzler
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-the-macabre-romance-of-a-man-and-a-mummy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rose_for_Emily
http://gizmodo.com/undying-love-carl-tanzlers-mummified-dream-girl-1710663454
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2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

2017x310 Hands On Awesome Tech: Making Solar Cells With a Particle Accelerator

2017-12-28T05:00:00Z — 5m

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2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

2017x311 The Day the Clown Cried

2017-12-29T05:00:00Z — 5m

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Comedian Jerry Lewis has been entertaining audiences and movie-goers around the world since he first took to the stage at the age of five in 1931, singing “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” in New York City. For a decade during the 1940s and 1950s, he teamed up with Dean Martin forming one of the greatest comedy duos in history. Later, he starred in hit films like The Nutty Professor and became an award-winning director. However, not everything Lewis touched turned out well. In fact, at least one major project turned out so badly that, despite the fact that Lewis directed and funded the film in question, The Day the Clown Cried, he has to date made sure almost no one has ever seen it.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Clown_Cried
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/a-glimpse-of-the-day-the-clown-cried
http://nypost.com/2015/08/10/youll-finally-be-able-to-see-jerry-lewis-holocaust-film-in-2024/
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/23/entertainment/la-et-mn-cannes-2013-jerry-lewis-max-rose-20130523
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/footage-surfaces-jerry-lewis-infamous-604227
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/07/jerry-lewis-day-clown-cried
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/10/lost-jerry-lewis-holocaust-movie-acquired-library
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2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

2017x312 Avenging His Dog - The Fascinating Story of Colorful Congressman "Good Time" Charlie Wilson

2017-12-30T05:00:00Z — 5m

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The Gruesome Tale of Lady Bluebeard
https://youtu.be/gxE5jtUaJL4?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR

Miss Unsinkable
https://youtu.be/8-798XH2RPE?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR

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As well-known for leading a flamboyant, playboy lifestyle as being the mastermind responsible for funneling $5 billion dollars (about $12 billion today) to Afghan rebels (when they were on our side) in their fight against the Soviet Union, Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson was a larger than life character who serves as a stark reminder of how different the political landscape was before social media and the 24 hour news cycle. So it should come as no surprise that his first introduction into politics was just as notable as his later exploits.

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Sources:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/10/AR2010021003848.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Wilson_(Texas_politician)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/us/politics/11wilson.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Wilson%27s_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/charliewilsonswar.php
http://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/the-rehabilitation-of-charlie-wilson/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17580376
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Charlie_Wilson_gravestone_IMG_6165.jpg

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2017-12-31T05:00:00Z

2017x313 Why are Crazy People Called Mad as a Hatter?

2017-12-31T05:00:00Z — 5m

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What Causes Hiccups
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Although the phrase “mad as a hatter” is, and will likely long be, associated with Charles Dodgson’s (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll’s) 1865 novel, Alice in Wonderland, contrary to popular belief, Carroll neither coined the phrase nor did he use it in his works. (The Hatter is referred to as “mad”, along with his little tea party, but he is never explicitly called “Mad Hatter” in Carroll’s works nor is the phrase “mad as a hatter” used.) So where did the phrase “mad as a hatter” actually come from?

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http://oem.bmj.com/content/50/2/97.2
https://www.cas.org/news/insights/science-connections/mad-hatter
http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/hatter.asp
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/mad-as-a-hatter.html
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1175560-clinical
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nCKxSwUlX-AC&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&dq=Adolph+Kussmaul+mercury+poisoning&source=bl&ots=amR2bYNmM1&sig=tV70RnEjO38tjh4rnYo9kFWJOcc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwit4_yx5PrKAhXGnnIKHbskBjEQ6AEIKjAC#v=onepage&q=Adolph%20Kussmaul%20mercury%20poisoning&f=false
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Season 2017 2017

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Season Premiere

2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

2017x01 Why Do Cats Like Catnip?

Season Premiere

2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

2017x02 Can You Change Your Legal Name to Just Have a First or Last Name if You Wanted To?

2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

2017x03 Why is a Dollar Called a "Buck"?

2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

2017x04 Why Does Toothpaste Make Things Like Orange Juice Taste So Awful?

2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

2017x05 25 Amazing Facts (Collaboration with List25!)

2017-01-07T05:00:00Z

2017x06 Why Does Stepping on Legos Hurt So Much?

2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

2017x07 Who Really Invented Monopoly?

2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

2017x08 The Boy Who was Executed Twice

2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

2017x09 62, Broke, and Living In His Car: Colonel Sanders and the Founding of the KFC Empire

2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

2017x10 French Connection UK and Their Infamous FCUK Fashion Campaign

2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

2017x11 The Story of the Troll Doll

2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

2017x12 The Story of How SpongeBob SquarePants Made It to Air

2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

2017x13 Buttockmail and the Origin of the Word Blackmail

2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

2017x14 Why Does James Bond Like His Martinis Shaken Not Stirred?

2017x15 That Time Coca-Cola Spent $100 Million Intentionally Filling Cans With Water That Smelled Like Farts

2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

2017x16 Is There Really a Fish That Swims Up Your Urine and Into Your Bladder in the Amazon?

2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

2017x17 Why is New York City Called the Big Apple?

2017x18 Is the Recipe for Coca-Cola Really Only Known By Two People?

2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

2017x19 Why Your Nose Runs When It is Cold Outside

2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

2017x20 The Business That Would Evolve Into Taco Bell Started Out Selling Hot Dogs

2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

2017x21 How the Gun on the Original Duck Hunt Worked

2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

2017x22 That Time Saying 'Ahoy hoy' was the Preferred Way to Answer the Phone

2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

2017x23 What Started the Cops Eating Doughnuts Stereotype?

2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

2017x24 Why Coupons Sometimes Say They are Worth a Fraction of a Penny

2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

2017x25 How the Crop Circle Phenomenon Got Started

2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

2017x26 Why is Someone Who is Lazy Called a Couch Potato?

2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

2017x27 Why Does Red Meat Turn Brown When Cooked?

2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

2017x28 The King of the Dudes

2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

2017x29 Where was Lincoln's Bodyguard on the Night He was Assassinated?

2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

2017x30 Why is it Impossible to Tickle Yourself?

2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

2017x31 Do Athletes Actually Go to Disney World After They Say "I'm Going to Disney World"?

2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

2017x32 Who was Miranda of the Miranda Warning?

2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

2017x33 What Ever Happened to Confederate President Jefferson Davis?

2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

2017x34 What is an "Amok" as in "Run Amok"?

2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

2017x35 Why is The Toilet Commonly Known as the Crapper (or John)?

2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

2017x36 Why Does Swiss Cheese Have Holes?

2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

2017x37 Why Does Your Stomach Growl When You're Hungry?

2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

2017x38 Why Drawn Hearts Don't Look Like Real Hearts

2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

2017x39 Why a Geckos Feet Can Stick to Almost Anything

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