Reading Time: 2 minutes The Eiffel Tower was almost demolished in 1909. But why would the centerpiece of French culture and architectural innovation face the wrecking ball, and what saved it? Well, it was only designed for one purpose, and one of the most ordinary of devices prevented its ultimate destruction. When construction work on the Eiffel Tower commenced in …
Reading Time: 2 minutes It always pays to throw caution to the wind, something that the creators of a game released in 1988 should have done. Why? A NES game of Who Framed Roger Rabbit contained a phone number. That’s harmless enough, right? And it was, at least it was 25 years ago that is. Fast forward 25 years …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes When it comes to big things even small things have big versions of themselves. Sometimes the big version of the small thing can be mind boggling massive. Take for instance the earth worm. Normally only a relatively small subterranean animal, they can often grow to considerable length. In fact, there’s a species of worm from …
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have a question that I wish to pose, but I’m a little hesitant as it could come across as being rather sexist. Do you know which sex talks more? Do men talk the most or is it women? You can now see my trepidation is asking this difficult question. I could really land myself into …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Human cell replacement is relatively common, and far more common than you’d think. In fact, some human cells replace themselves every minute. With cells dying and being replaced with new ones, it allows for people to remain healthy. How many human cells are replaced every minute? Did you know that about three hundred million cells …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Circulating online for about the last decade is a news story about a Chinese man that divorces his ugly wife and is awarded $120,000 compensation. Weird, right? But is it true? There are after all so many stories that get made up that it becomes difficult to determine fact from fiction.Don’t get me wrong, there …
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Who would have ever thought that the lyrics to Girls Just Wanna Have Fun was originally written for men? Even the title suggests that it is a feminine song. But you’d be absolutely gob smacked to learn that it was originally written by Robert Hazard in 1979, and he intended for a man to sing it. …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The Victoria Cross is the highest medal for gallantry that a military serviceman or servicewoman in the British or Commonwealth armed forces can earn. It was established in 1856 when it was realized that many acts of bravery were going unrecognized during the Crimean War. The metal used to make every Victoria Cross medal has …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The youngest mother on record, Lina Medina, was only 5 years, seven months and 17 days old when she gave birth to a son weighing 6 pounds. This is by far one of the most disturbing facts that we have encountered, and I was initially skeptical. But it turns out that this was a true event. A disturbing …
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Did you know that Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark? This was a man who was and is regarded by most people as a genius, one of the greatest inventors the world has ever know. He is most notably known for two of his most used inventions. One was the forerunner of vinyl records, the phonograph, which …
