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India broke a Guinness World Record, planted 66 million trees in just 12 hours!!

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India breaks Guinness World Record, plants 66 million trees in just 12 hours Madhya Pradesh is setting a great example that all other states should take note of. In a historical record, the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh created new Guinness World Record after 1.5 million volunteers planted more than 66 million tree saplings […]

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One evening, while rushing for dinner after a long day at the lab, Constantin Fahlberg, a chemist at Johns Hopkins, forgot to wash his hands that had traces of benzoic sulfimide. This compound made his dinner taste sweet, and that’s how he discovered the artificial sweetener Saccharin.

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Constantin Fahlberg A representative of the American Analyst called on Dr. Constantine Fahlberg, the inventor or discoverer of saccharin, the new coal tar sugar, and had a long talk with him about his new discovery. The doctor is a tall, well built, handsome German-American of about thirty-eight years of age. He speaks the modern languages

One evening, while rushing for dinner after a long day at the lab, Constantin Fahlberg, a chemist at Johns Hopkins, forgot to wash his hands that had traces of benzoic sulfimide. This compound made his dinner taste sweet, and that’s how he discovered the artificial sweetener Saccharin. Read More »

When he was a child, Stephen King witnessed one of his friends being killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event. His family told him that after leaving to go play with the boy, King returned, speechless and in shock. Only later did the family learn of the friend’s death.

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How Stephen King’s Childhood Inspired Stand by Me Author Stephen King was born in September, 1947 in Portland, Maine. His father deserted the family when he was two, leaving his mother to raise him and his older brother David by herself, sometimes under great financial difficulties. Though for several years she kept the family on

When he was a child, Stephen King witnessed one of his friends being killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event. His family told him that after leaving to go play with the boy, King returned, speechless and in shock. Only later did the family learn of the friend’s death. Read More »

In 2016, an octopus named Inky mysteriously disappeared from New Zealand’s National Aquarium. A wet trail later revealed he escaped his tank through a small hole, slid across the floor at night and squeezed his body through a pipe leading to the ocean.

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Inky’s Daring Escape Shows How Smart Octopuses Are An octopus at New Zealand’s National Aquarium made a break for freedom by slipping out of its tank, slithering down a drainpipe and escaping into the ocean earlier this year. Inky, a male common New Zealand octopus, escaped his enclosure through a small opening. He slid across

In 2016, an octopus named Inky mysteriously disappeared from New Zealand’s National Aquarium. A wet trail later revealed he escaped his tank through a small hole, slid across the floor at night and squeezed his body through a pipe leading to the ocean. Read More »

A Spanish double agent, Juan Pujol Garcia got medals for spying from both Nazi Germany and the British Empire. He ran a fake spy network in London for Germany and recruited 27 fictitious agents all on German dime to provided them with fake intelligence during WW2.

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The WWII Spy Who Faked His Death for 36 Years After World War II, a critical MI5 spy named Juan Pujol Garcia faked his own death, and kept it secret for almost four decades. And that’s not even the most interesting thing about him. Pujol was a veteran of the Spanish Civil War who had

A Spanish double agent, Juan Pujol Garcia got medals for spying from both Nazi Germany and the British Empire. He ran a fake spy network in London for Germany and recruited 27 fictitious agents all on German dime to provided them with fake intelligence during WW2. Read More »

The scene in Fight Club where Tyler is explaining the cost of a recall when “A car built by my company crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside” is based on ACTUAL leaked memos from GM and Ford.

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GM Recall: Defective Ignition Switch Saved Company $1 There’s just something about a dollar. A buck. Greenback. Ace. Single. One-Spot. It’s both a symbol of frugality and a symbol of power. On the one hand, you’ve got the Dollar Menu, Family Dollar, Dollar General, Everything’s A Dollar. And on the other hand, you have just

The scene in Fight Club where Tyler is explaining the cost of a recall when “A car built by my company crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside” is based on ACTUAL leaked memos from GM and Ford. Read More »

Charles Darwin ate many of the animals he discovered. Seeking out “birds and beasts which were unknown to human palate.”

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Dining Like Darwin: When Scientists Swallow Their Subjects Scientists who eat the plants and animals they study are following in the tradition of Charles Darwin. During the voyage of The Beagle, he ate puma (“remarkably like veal in taste”), iguanas, giant tortoises, armadillos. He even accidentally ate part of a bird called a lesser rhea,

Charles Darwin ate many of the animals he discovered. Seeking out “birds and beasts which were unknown to human palate.” Read More »

Legendary director/actor/pilot John Huston once flew over a celebrity golf tournament and dropped 5,000 ping pong balls on it.

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John Huston – MovieActors.com About John Huston (1906 – 1987) John Huston was born on August 5, 1906 in Nevada, Missouri. Huston passed away on August 28, 1987 in Middletown, Rhode Island, from emphysema. Huston was the only son of Walter Huston and Rhea Gore. Rhea was a sports reporter working for the newspaper and

Legendary director/actor/pilot John Huston once flew over a celebrity golf tournament and dropped 5,000 ping pong balls on it. Read More »

Meet Edmond Albius. As a 12 year old slave boy in 1841, he invented the technique for pollinating vanilla orchids profitably. Without this technique, it’s unlikely that vanilla would be nearly as well known as it is today.

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The Little Boy Who Should’ve Vanished, but Didn’t He was 12 years old. He was a slave. He’d had no schooling. He was too young, too unlettered, too un-European; he couldn’t have done this on his own. That’s what people said. Edmond (he had no last name—slaves weren’t allowed them) had just solved a botanical

Meet Edmond Albius. As a 12 year old slave boy in 1841, he invented the technique for pollinating vanilla orchids profitably. Without this technique, it’s unlikely that vanilla would be nearly as well known as it is today. Read More »

In 2016, more than half of all Americans forfeited vacation days, amounting to 206 million unused vacation days worth some $66.4 billion, and those employees who forfeit their vacation days do not perform as well as the ones who use all their time

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Here’s how much money you forfeit when you don’t take your vacation days When you don’t use your paid time off, it ends up costing you. Not only are you more likely to be stressed and feel overworked, you lose out on the monetary value of those forfeited days — the ones that can’t be

In 2016, more than half of all Americans forfeited vacation days, amounting to 206 million unused vacation days worth some $66.4 billion, and those employees who forfeit their vacation days do not perform as well as the ones who use all their time Read More »

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