Abu Juwairiya
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The Australian minimum wage is about $15.66 American dollars.
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In the 1920s, Philadelphia Mayor J. Hampton Moore created a “smelling squad” to patrol the banks of the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers and hunt down the sources of the most obnoxious odors.
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A bank robber in the USA escaped the scene of a crime by arranging (via Craigslist) for a dozen identically dressed and unwitting civilians to be standing at the exact place and time of the arrival of the armoured car he intended to hijack.
Abu Juwairiya
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“Bonus Army” was a group of great war veterans who led a protest in Washington D.C. The police and army killed two and injured over 1,000.
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Drinking ice water burns about 1 calorie per ounce.
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A turtles heart continues to beat even after separating it from the body.
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Pigeons never forget a face. If you chase one away, it will remember you and avoid you in later encounters.
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Goats have been used as torture devices.
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The most expensive photograph ever sold ($4.3 million) is of a river
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Listerine was once sold as a floor cleaner.
Abu Juwairiya
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Alan Turing the father of computer science, artificial intelligence & who helped break German WW2 cyphers, committed suicide after being forced to undergo hormonal treatment for homosexuality & barred from continuing his cryptographic work.
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Caffeine does not directly give you “energy”, it stops your body from breaking “energy” down, resulting in a surplus.
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Chinese gold miners in the 1849 gold rush would often melt down the gold they found into common household items, like pots, and cover them in soot to protect the gold from bandits
Bm.amina
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One of his greatest achievement in computer science theory is Turing-Machine which is used to know if a given program is "déterministe" -there is one and only one choice at every transaction- or not.
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Abu Juwairiya
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Forgetting something when you enter a room is not just due to random memory lapse, but because doorways trigger ‘event boundaries’ in your mind. Walking through them can make it 2-3 times more likely you will forget what you were thinking of.
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Calorie restriction has been shown to slow the metabolic rate in rats and mice, hence extending their maximum lifespan by up to 50%.
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They built a ship almost as big as the Titanic with a double hull fifty years earlier. It hit some rocks. They didn’t even have to tell the passengers.
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Jazakallah Khayrun. Always a pleasure to receive additional input.
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The police/army didn’t invent the bulletproof vest…A pizza guy from Detroit did, after he was shot twice on a delivery.
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You can make tea from banana peels. It contains a chemical precursor to Seratonin that can help curb depression, promotes healthy sleep, and reduces cravings for sweets/fats.