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“Burro” Schmidt a gold miner in the Mojave Desert started digging a tunnel through the mountains to safely transport his ore to the smelter. He completed the tunnel in 38 years, moving 5,800 tons of granite with a pick. In the meantime a road was built so he never used the tunnel.
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In the late 1800s they used to put fake horse heads on the front of automobiles as to not spook the actual horses in traffic.
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If you feed canaries red peppers, they will change color. Similarly, flamingos are born grey, but turn pink from eating pink brine shrimp (which provides them with a natural pink dye called canthaxanthin).
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Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack are widely credited with helping end segregation in Las Vegas, by refusing to perform in venues that wouldn’t allow blacks.
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Charles Ramsey, a Cleveland man, was key in the rescue of 3 women and a child from over a decade of captivity in a neighbor’s home. When word got out he was eating a Big Mac when he heard a woman’s cries for help, over a dozen Ohio restaurants pledged to offer him a free […]
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James “Honest Dick” Tate was a Kentucky State Treasurer, so-called due to his good reputation. In reality, he had quietly misappropriated over $250,000 ($7 million in present value) from the treasury. In 1888, he fled the state with a sack of gold and silver coins and was never seen again.
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There is a McDonald’s in LA that serves no food. It is strictly for filming when the set needs to be McDonald’s.
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When a girl from India lost both her arms, she received big, dark and hairy arm transplants from a man. However after a few years, her new arms became more slender and also changed colour to match her skin tone.
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The word “museum” is derived from the word “musaeum” which translates to Institution Of The Muses, the Muses being the nine goddesses of the arts.
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The lottery is against the law in Nevada because the gaming industry in the state does not want the competition.
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