TurnToIslam If you want to know@tti/2nd Edition.

[Abu Juwairiya]

In 2011, a 71 year old man cared for and nursed a beached penguin back to health and now the bird consistently travels 2,000+ miles every few months to revisit his caregiver.

 

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In the USA, Dogs have are now able to watch TV, with the advent of HDTV with their higher framerates.

Before that, with CRT’s, it was like watching a strobe light.

 

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Despite having DNA evidence of the suspect, German police could not prosecute a $6.8M jewel heist because the DNA belonged to identical twins, and there was no evidence to prove which one of them was the culprit

 

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Some languages have a distinct style of speech that is only used when the speaker is in the presence of their mother in law, called “avoidance speech”.

 

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There is an area in the middle of the Pacific Ocean where no longer needed spacecraft are and have been routinely deposited.

It is known as the “Spacecraft cemetery”, and notably it is also the place where the defunct Mir space station rests.

 

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There’s a strong correlation between people who buy bird seed and people who usually pay their debts. Inversely, people who buy chrome accessories for their car tend to not pay their debts in full.

 

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A researcher in the 1970s blindfolded participants and told them they were going to play tug-of-war against another team.

When they were told they had 3 others pulling with them, they pulled 18% less strenuously than when they were told they were alone.

The effect is now known as social loafing.

 

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Tetris Syndrome is when you play a game too long and you start to dream about it, and hallucinate about it on the edges of your vision.

 

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White supremacist and racist Craig Cobb said he would take a genetic test, and receive the results on live television.

He was found to be 14% Sub-Saharan African.

 

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There’s a 37% chance that the Cascadia fault will produce an earthquake within in the next 50 years powerful enough to destroy the Pacific NW.

 

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Leo Szilard conceived the nuclear chain reaction,the nuclear reactor, and wrote the letter suggesting the Manhattan Project, which Einstein signed.

After being diagnosed with bladder cancer, he designed his own radiation therapy which led to a full recovery.

 

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There is an inscription at the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository meant to last 10,000 years, warning future civilizations of the danger lurking below the mountain.

 

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American actor John Wayne died of stomach cancer, which is highly suggested to have been caused by filming downwind of a nuclear weapons test.

Wayne refused to believe the fallout caused his cancer and instead attributed it to his smoking.

However, 90 others from the movie also developed cancer after.

 

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In 1914 Daniel Hess refused to sell the last bit of his property to the city of New York after the rest his property had been seized via eminent domain, and today it remains on the sidewalk with a tile that reads “Property of the Hess Estate Which Has Never Been Dedicated For Public Purposes”.

 

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Bill Haast, known as “Snake Man,” was bitten by venomous snakes more than 170 times.

By injecting himself with snake venom daily for over 60 years, he saved countless lives with his antibody rich blood.

He lived to be 100.

 

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The inventor of the office cubicle grew to believe “The cubicle-izing of people in modern corporations is monolithic insanity.”

 

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NASA intoxicated spiders with different drugs to see if they could still build an effective web.

All of the drugs reduced web regularity except for small doses of LSD, which actually increased it.

 

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When Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet during its 1910 approach, there was public fear that a gas discovered in the tail, cyanogen, would destroy all life on the planet, leading to people buying gas masks and “Anti-Comet Pills.”

 

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Dubai has a weight-loss contest called ‘Your Child in Gold’ where individual participants win one gram of gold for every one kilogram (~2.2lbs) lost, and double reward for families.

The contest is aimed at combating early obesity and raise awareness on the disease.

 

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Luxembourg’s gold medal at the 1952 Olympics was so unexpected that the organizers had neglected to give the band a score for their national anthem.

The musicians “hurriedly improvised a tune which bore little resemblance to the Luxembourg anthem”.