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A ‘gömböc’ is a 3-d shape that will always end up settling in the same position regardless of how it was originally placed. The mathematics of these shapes has helped explain why tortoises can roll back over onto their legs when they’re placed with their shell to the ground.
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Eva Mae Bradbury was the only member of her graduating class at the public school in Ada, Kansas. The school nevertheless put on a full commencement program for her, attended by 150 people, which was about the entire population of Ada.
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David Duchovny is permanently banned from a Vancouver strip club for insulting the city’s weather while filming The X-Files.
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A German man reported his car stolen in 1997 and found it 20 years later. It was in the same spot where he left it, but was so old by that point that he could no longer drive it.
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Christmas Cards in Victorian England were bizarre to put it mildly. Featuring dead birds, frogs murdering one another, sinister snowmen and others.
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The Azerbaijani Carpet Museum in Baku is shaped like a carpet. See more unusual buildings, museums and houses.
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Turns out the colors of windsocks indicate wind speed in actual units of measurement rather than vague “lots of wind” or “just a little wind”.
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The world’s largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island is in Canada. It doesn’t have a name.
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In 1951 a 66 year old man wasn’t allowed to enter a 1800km (1118 miles) long bicykle race due to being to old. He showed up anyways and won the race by biking for days without sleep. He got the nickname ”Grandpa Steel”.
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Julia Child was an American cooking teacher, author, and television personality. She is recognized for bringing French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her subsequent television programs. Little known fact is that she did not have a natural talent for cooking. In fact, she was […]
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