All rivers flow into the ocean. And that’s the only thing they have in common with each other. Most rivers are relatively tame, even if they may have roaring rapids and massive waterfalls. Some, however, are just plain odd for various reasons. They may flow through extreme environments, change their course, or even be so …
Do you know all about these accidental inventions? Like silly putty or potato chips? Alexander Fleming – Discovered penicillin in 1928 after noticing that mold had accidentally contaminated a petri dish and killed nearby bacteria. The mistake helped create modern antibiotics. Percy Spencer – Discovered the idea behind the microwave oven when a candy bar …
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“What’s in a name?” asked Juliet. Quite a bit if you’re trying to do good business. Even if you have an amazing product, an unmarketable name can mean no one will ever buy it. How you arrive at the name of your company, however, can often be a story in itself. Many of the world’s …
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Did you read 19 Mostly Unsolved And Creepy Mysteries: Part One? Because this is part two. Ancient Tunnels and Underground Cities – Archaeologists have uncovered extensive underground structures beneath modern cities and remote regions. One of the most remarkable examples is Derinkuyu in Turkey, an underground city capable of sheltering thousands of people. Such discoveries …
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What is sold on the black market? Your immediate thoughts might jump to things like drugs, stolen luxury goods, or data from hacked websites, but the reality is often much stranger. Many seemingly nonsensical products are widely bought and sold through illegal channels. However, all that bizarre stuff is actually worth a fortune due to …
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It’s late at night, and you’re on your way home in an Uber. The following morning, you realize you left something in the car. That’s a common story, but sometimes people forget something more than phones or wallets. For a decade now, Uber has compiled annual lists of the weirdest things people have reported as …
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Multiplayer games can be a lot of fun, allowing you to work with or against other players to overcome challenges too big for one person. But they can also demonstrate surprising things about human cooperation. Sometimes, those things aren’t pretty. Player behavior in multiplayer games has (often unintentionally) helped advance our understanding of economics, psychology, …
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Do you know what’s in your attic? If you live in an older house that has had several previous owners, you might be in for a surprise. People can store precious, weird, or horrifying things in their attics and simply forget they’re there. Or perhaps they choose to forget, as they’d get in trouble if …
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Everybody loves a good story about con artists, as long as they don’t have to actively be a part of it. And admittedly, a tale of a thorough swindle can be entertaining. Some cons, however, are so out there that it’s hard to believe they’re true. They’re either so incredibly convoluted, strange, or just so …
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They say the eyes are the windows of the soul. But you can see a lot of other things in the eyes, too. To be perfectly honest, our eyes are a little freaky. In some ways, human eyes are some of the sharpest in nature, and there’s a lot that goes on in those balls …
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