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Chuck Yeager broke two of his ribs two nights before a test flight. Worried an injury would have him removed, he told almost no one and snuck a broom handle into the plane to help him seal the hatch. He then proceeded to become the first human being to break the sound barrier. 00
Ernest Hemingway had often complained the FBI was tracking him, but was dismissed by friends and family as paranoid. Years after his death released FBI files showed he had been on heavy surveillance, with the FBI following him and bugging his phones for nearly the final 20 years of his life. 00
Crows in urban Japan and the United States have innovated a technique to crack hard-shelled nuts by dropping them onto crosswalks and letting them be run over and cracked by cars. Then they retrieve the cracked nuts when the cars are stopped at the red light. 00
While directing his movie “City Lights”, Charlie Chaplin made actress Virginia Cherrill re-do a scene where she says “Flower Sir”? 342 times. The movie was a silent film. 00
Car makers employ sound engineers to give car doors that satisfying ‘thunk’ when closed. 00
The Ket people is an isolated population of 1200 in Siberia. Their language is strikingly similar in structure to the Native North American languages, and they are one of the last true hunter and gatherer societies on Earth. 00
The Who Paid 99¢? website reveals a list of people who paid 99 cents to see who else did. 10
Science Alert claims this illusions mimics time travel in the brain: In the Illusory Rabbit, the middle flash never happens, but most people still think they saw three flashes to match three beeps. In the Invisible Rabbit, it’s the middle beep that is missed – and the brain usually thinks there was no middle flash […]
Devin Gaines earned 5 bachelor degrees with honors simultaneously at the University of Connecticut, averaging 24 credits a semester and 3 hours of sleep a night. He drowned in 2007 because he didn’t know how to swim. 00
In 2013, a dockyard worker burned down a Nuclear Attack Submarine to go home from work early. 00