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Posted on September 11, 2015

If a billiard ball was the size of Earth it would have bigger…

If a billiard ball was the size of Earth it would have bigger canyons then the Grand Canyon and taller mountains then Mt. Everest. Conversely, if Earth was the size of a billiard ball its surface would be smoother then a billiard ball.

Posted on September 11, 2015

Up until the 1960’s, black Americans with cars could purchase…

Up until the 1960’s, black Americans with cars could purchase a “Green Book” that would tell them which towns across America had colored facilities, which towns didn’t accept black people out after dark, and which places to avoid visiting if they wanted to survive their trip.

Posted on September 11, 2015

A blind man was kicked off a US Airways flight after his…

A blind man was kicked off a US Airways flight after his service dog repositioned itself several times during a 2 hour delay. The passengers demanded that he be let back on and the flight attendant responsible be kick off instead. The flight was eventually canceled.

Posted on September 11, 2015

A televangelist called Oral Roberts once told his viewers…

A televangelist called Oral Roberts once told his viewers that if he didn’t receive 8 million dollars in 3 months God would kill him, and he received over 9 million dollars in that period of time.

Posted on September 11, 2015

In May 1997, an IBM supercomputer known as Deep Blue beat then chess…

In May 1997, an IBM supercomputer known as Deep Blue beat then chess world champion Garry Kasparov, who had once bragged he would never lose to a machine. After 15 years, it was discovered that the critical move made by Deep Blue was due to a bug in its software.

Posted on September 11, 2015

The average high school student today has the same stress…

The average high school student today has the same stress level as the average psychiatric patient did in the 1950s.

Posted on September 10, 2015

Men and women experience near equal levels of online…

Men and women experience near equal levels of online harassment, women are more likely to be upset by it.

Posted on September 9, 2015

Some Cuban cigar factories employed a “Lector” who would read newspapers….

Some Cuban cigar factories employed a “Lector” who would read newspapers, political treatises and classical literature aloud to help break the monotony of the cigar-rollers’ work, thus even illiterate cigar-rollers would be well-informed and familiar with great literature.

Posted on September 9, 2015

When Friends Debuted 20 Years Ago, People Magazine Gave It a D…

When Friends Debuted 20 Years Ago, People Magazine Gave It a D+ rating, and Time magazine called the cast “dysfunctional morons”.

Posted on September 9, 2015

Did you know there was actually a ‘Face-book’ in 1902?

Did you know there was actually a ‘Face-book’ in 1902? This newspaper article was originally published in a U.K. newspaper called the Western Times, describing a book in which ‘everyone who comes to stay has to draw a face in… however badly, and sign his name underneath’

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