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One of the cofounders of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill W., asked for whiskey on his death bed, but was denied and died 36 years sober.
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Operation Alaska, Finalaska or New Finland was a proposed plan to evacuate entire Finnish population (3.8 million) to Alaska during the WW2.
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In 1987 Fisher Price released the PXL2000 toy, ultra low tech, video camera that recorded monochromatic, low quality, video on audio cassettes. A commercial flop at the time, its now highly prized by film makers and artists for the uniquely grainy, antique, mysterious look it creates on film.
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PhD students display twice as many symptoms of psychiatric disorders such as depression than other people.
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The surname “Esposito” and its variants comes from children who were abandoned (“exposed”) in Italy (before the XVII century, when the law forbade it). Every person with that surname today descends from an exposed child that kept the surname the orphanage once gave them.
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Superman had an alternative story where Superman’s rocket ship lands on a Ukrainian collective farm rather than in Kansas.
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NASA only uses 15 digits of pi for calculating interplanetary travel. At 40 digits, you could calculate the circumference of a circle the size of the visible universe to an accuracy equal to the diameter of a hydrogen atom.
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“Born in the U.S.A” by Bruce Springsteen reached higher on the charts in Ireland, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands than it did in the U.S.A.
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In 1961, J.R.R Tolkien was rejected for a Nobel Prize, on the grounds of his poor storytelling.
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A Japanese man has been sending identical handwritten letters weekly to a hotel in the Netherlands for the last 40 years. He just sent the letters because the hotel was in Volendam and his birthday was on the 22nd of the month. After a long interview, Mr. Kaor explained that V is the 22nd letter […]
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