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McDonald’s introduced its first drive-thru in 1975 for soldiers on an Arizona military base, because they weren’t allowed to be seen in their uniforms in public, so had to stay in their cars.
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Museum of Failure features such products as the Harley-Davidson cologne; the spray-on condom (‘simply insert penis into an apparatus to coat with melted latex. Then wait 3 minutes for latex to dry’); and a $200 handheld device that only supports Twitter.
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Word of the Day: BARKITECTURE — the art of designing the exterior and interior of a house based on the needs of your dog.
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Nematode worms can pass genetic memories through at least 14 generations.
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Yuma High School in Arizona call their football team ‘The Yuma Criminals’ (the school was housed in an abandoned prison in its early years). Their website describes them as “Proud Home of the Criminals”.
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A serious drought 150,000 years ago reduced the global human population to 600. They survived by moving to the coast and eating oysters.
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The world’s deserts receive enough solar energy in six hours to power the world for a year.
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Fresh water is home to half the world’s fish species despite only being 3% of the world’s water supply.
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Sunlight takes 8 minutes to travel from the surface of the Sun to Earth, but anywhere from 5,000 to 100,000 years to get from the Sun’s core to its surface.
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The world’s largest beaver dam is twice as long as the Hoover dam.
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Rod Stewart, Freddie Mercury and Elton John considered forming a supergroup called "NOSE, TEETH & HAIR".
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In 1895 Marvin R. Clark wrote a translation of cat-speak called ‘Pussy and Her Language’.
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APROSEXIA is the inability to concentrate.
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"An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience." MITCH HEDBERG
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A woman named Krystal Ball ran for US Congress in 2010.
She lost.
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Scientist Richard Feynman's wife said in her divorce complaint that:
"He begins working calculus problems in his head as soon as he awakens. He did calculus while driving in his car, while sitting in the living room, and while lying in bed at night."
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The Icelandic word for "echo" - BERGMÁL - literally translates as "rock language".
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In 1971, Rep. Tom Moore introduced a resolution in the Texas House to honour Albert de Salvo for "his techniques [of] population control". De Salvo was also known as the Boston Stranger.
Moore was mocking his colleagues' apparent disinclination to read the bills they voted for.
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The town of Coober Pedy in Australia is so hot that most people live underground.
(Image: Kerry Raymond; CC BY.)
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"The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head." TERRY PRATCHETT
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Wearing socks increases your chance of reaching orgasm during sex.
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The cloudiest city in the US gets more sunlight than the sunniest city in England.
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"Are we living a life that is safe from harm?
Of course not. We never are. But that’s not the right question. The question is are we living a life that is worth the harm?" JOSEPH FINK and JEFFREY CRANOR
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Hot dogs were once called "dachshund sausages".
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Word of the day: ABULIA - the pathological inability to make decisions.
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I speak two languages. English and Body. MAE WEST
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Nebraska is the only US state that is triple-landlocked — it is separated from an ocean by three other states. The state's highest civic honour of the state is the title of the Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska.
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Although only 836 people live in the French village of Montolieu, it has one bookshop for every 56 residents as well several workshops and museums dedicated to the craft of making books.
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During a period in the fossil record from approximately 25 million to 18.5 million years ago, there are few fossils of cats and cat-like species found in North America. This period is known as ‘The Cat Gap’.
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A building that is at least 300 metres high is a supertall and a building that is at least 600 metres high is a megatall. Currently, there are 173 supertalls and four megatalls in the world. [📷: Donaldytong. GNU]
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The mission of The Traffic Cone Preservation Society, established in the late 1990s, is to study these ‘Helpers of Humanity’ and ‘to allow future generations the opportunity to enjoy these magnificent creatures in their natural habitats’. [📷: TriviaKing. CCA SA 3.0]
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Because the video for Janet Jackson’s song ‘Rhythm Nation’ contained a natural resonant frequency for a certain model of laptop hard drive, it would crash laptops playing the video. It could even crash laptops within earshot which weren’t playing it.
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