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In 1984, astronaut Bruce McCandless floated in space completely unattached to anything, 320 feet away from the space-shuttle with only a nitrogen jetpack back.
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In 1987, several French taxi cabs were installed with a device that would shock unruly passengers in the backseat. The then new product was called “the blazing seat,” and it was being marketed as a way of making taxi drivers’ jobs safer.
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James Harrison, an Australian blood plasma donor, is known as “The Man with the Golden Arm”. His unusual plasma composition has been used to cure Rhesus disease. He has made over 1,100 donations throughout his lifetime, and these donations are estimated to have saved over 2.5 million babies.
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Japan has an almost forgotten indigenous people, the Ainu and they were only legally recognised as an indigenous people of Japan in 2019.
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In 1918, Iowa Governor William F. Harding signed a proclamation banning all languages other than English for public conversation, education, speeches, or church services. Some churches had to close and people were fined for speaking German on the phone.
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In 2009, a 14 year old boy in Essen, Germany was heading to school when he saw a “ball of light” in the sky heading towards him. A small rock then hit his hand, glanced off and caused a foot wide crater in the ground. He is one of the few recorded humans to be […]
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Vin Diesel founded a game studio which has a focus on creating games featuring Vin Diesel.
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Cruise control on cars was invented in 1948 by the blind inventor and mechanical engineer Ralph Teetor. He came up with the idea due to being frustrated by his driver’s habit of speeding up and slowing down as he talked.
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Every year on Good Friday, Filipino Catholic devotees are voluntarily, non-lethally crucified. Sterilized nails are driven through their hands and feet. One especially devoted man has been crucified 33 times.
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The 9/11 Memorial’s brass panels – on which victims’ names are inscribed – have their own heating and cooling systems so that they are never too hot or cold to touch.
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