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F1 driver Ayrton Senna once claimed he crashed because a wall moved. A team engineer humored him and checked the location of the crash and discovered Senna was telling the truth. Tire marks showed that someone had hit the wall block, causing it to tilt and protrude enough for Senna to hit it.
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Constant interruptions from your smartphone can change your brain’s chemistry to make you feel anxious and distracted. Notifications can trigger the release of a hormone called cortisol. This tenses muscles, increases heart rate and causes palms to become sweaty.
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Kay Antonelli‘s official civil service title, as printed on her employment documentation, was “computer”. During her work as a computer, she invented the subroutine (a sequence of computer instructions which can be used repeatedly). Today, the subroutine is essential programming for all.
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F1 driver Kimi “Iceman” Räikkönen once had his car break down during the Monaco Grand Prix. After this, live TV showed him walking along the sidewalks with helmet still on, straight to the harbour, where he climbed aboard his yacht.
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The “n” in 7-ELEVEn is lowercase because the President’s wife thought the all-caps was too harsh and, with a lowercase letter, the logo looked more graceful.
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A Japanese company sold Adult Milk – for adults living in a stressful society. The milk cost ¥5000 ($47) per bottle, and was taken from cows once a week at the break of dawn, as they discharge a lot of melatonin, a stress-relieving hormone. It contained 3-4 times more melatonin than regular milk
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Robocop’s suit was so cumbersome, it would not fit into his police car. Every time you see Robocop driving, he doesn’t have his Robo pants on.
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There is a valley in Antarctica called the ‘Dry Valleys’ which scientists consider to be the closest of any terrestrial environment to Mars, and which hasn’t received any rain in almost 2 million years.
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Here’s a story about the founding of our country that they don’t (but should) teach you in high school – beer (or lack thereof) played a role in the choice to make Plymouth Rock the first landing place for English settlers in the New World.
First, let me dispel the notion that the proper Separatists were getting sloshed as they made their way across the Atlantic, though. In order to make long ocean crossings, people and shipping companies had to figure out how to store water. People can’t live without it, of course, but as we all know, water that sits, stagnant and without modern ways to seal and store it, quickly grew stagnant and prone to water-borne bacteria.
Not good.
People had realized for quite some time, though, that alcohol eats bacteria, and so weak beer, known as ship’s beer, kept everyone hydrated on long crossings. It had a much lower alcohol content than what we drink today, and there was also “small beer,” which had almost no alcohol in it. The latter was handed out to every passenger – even children – a quart per day.
Fun Fact: Ship’s crossings also led to the invention of IPA’s – India Pale Ale’s were born from the need to make beer that would be good after the LONG journey from England to India, and brewmasters found the answer in extra hops.
When people came home from service in India, they didn’t want that weak-a$s pale ale served ’round the local pub – they wanted that good INDIA pale ale.
Back in 1620, though, the Mayflower’s crossing was not without trouble. There were originally two ships, but when one began taking on water early in the journey, all of the passengers (and presumably their rations) were transferred to the sturdy Mayflower.
By the time they mitigated that trouble, storm season was upon them, and rough seas delayed their trip by about two months. November is obviously not the ideal time to arrive in New England. The cold weather meant that planting crops would have to wait, and rations from the ship would have to last.
The captain and others aboard did realize that the bit of land in Plymouth wasn’t even the one the colonists had been authorized to populate, but….the beer.
Stores were running low, and so the captain decided to dock the ship and canvas the new land. He sent the passengers and their servants aground to find drinkable water (so they could make more beer) and the crew remained on the vessel, keeping the remaining beer stores for themselves.
One passenger, William Bradford, complained that the passengers “were hastened ashore and made to drink water, that the seamen might have the more beer.”
Another early colonist reported that no one liked the water in the New World, writing “I dare not prefere it before good beere.”
So, there you have it. The fact that beer played a role in the choice of Plymouth Rock as a landing port is not a tall tale, and honestly, I think we could make the case that beer is this country’s founding beverage.
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Christmas usually corners the market on gaudy, oversized, slightly (or more than slightly) ridiculous decorations for your home. Inside, outside, both – the more, the bigger, the brighter, the better.
Halloween, though, is an up-and-coming holiday that’s getting tons more love than she used to – it’s fall, the weather is nice, the pumpkin spice is flowing, so is the candy, and almost everyone loves to feel the slightest bit spooked.
Enter… the 12-foot skeleton!
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There are many lawn decorations to choose from, that range from kitschy to scary to inflatable to lit up, but listen – a skeleton that’s twice as tall as the average man sounds like a way to make a real statement to the neighbors, if you ask me.
Really throw down the Halloween gauntlet.
Home Depot is offering the 12-Foot Giant-Sized Skeleton with LifeEyes, and yeah, that last part is the real spooky kicker.
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His bones are off-white, which contrast nicely with his creepy, light-up, animated eyeballs that blink and follow people -or at least, seem to follow people – as they cross your yard and make their way to your front door.
The moving parts come with a convenient timer, and the whole thing comes with a base piece that makes it easy to stand him up wherever you’d like.
You can order this delightfully large monstrosity for a cool $299, but it’s built to last and will surely delight and terrify trick-or-treaters for years to come.
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Pro-tip: this thing is tall, so you’re going to need some help putting it together.
And while you’ve got a crew assembled, go ahead and implement the fog-and-spotlight scenario, too.
You can thank me later.
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HOLZFASS. Es gab Zeiten in denen mangels Alternativen jedes Bier im Holzfass gelagert wurde. Mittlerweile ist es etwas Besonderes, da deutlich teurer als Lagerung im Edelstahltank. Es gibt aber Stile wie z. B. das belgische Sauerbier Geuze, für die es unerlässlich ist. Eine besonders beeindruckende Sammlung kann man bei @brouwerij_boon bewundern. 
. . . WOODEN BARREL. There's been times in which every beer got conditioned in wooden barrels. Simply because there weren't any alternatives. Nowadays barrel aged beers are something special, because stainless steel is much cheaper and easier to handle. Some styles like the Belgian sour beer Geuze, though, require wooden barrels. @brouwerij_boon has an impressive collection.