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“These Diagrams Show The Paths Traced By Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter And Saturn As Seen From Earth”

“How Different Piano Notes Reverberate Through A Bowl Of Water”

“U.S. Flag But Each Star Is Scaled Proportionally To Their State’s Population, In Roughly It’s Geographical Position”

“European Roads To Rome”

“Long Exposure Of A Roomba Vacuum With A Color Changing Light On Top”

“Paths Of 800 Unmanned Bicycles Being Pushed Until They Fall Over”

“All These Countries Fit Inside Africa”

“This Map Is Drawn Entirely From Shipping Logs From 1945”

“My Wife Made This Blanket That Indicates A Certain Temperature For Every Day Of The Year. 2016 Pennsylvania”

“I Rendered Every Single Road In Tokyo Area On One Map. Love The Results”

“Anatomy Of The Human Body, In The Style Of The London Underground Map”

“Smarties Colour Distribution”

“Every Lighthouse In Ireland, With Accurate Timings, Flash Patterns And Colours”

“Words For “Mother” Descended From A Common Proto-Indo-European Root”

“This World Map Is Made Of Only Air Currents. If You Look Closely, You’ll See Country Outlines”

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Time Travel and Daily Logic

First, let us examine the totally crazy logic of our daily human routines. You never actually wash your hands perfectly clean. Furthermore, you just watch the soap wash itself while holding your dirty fingers together. Next, you will see how time travel technically exists in our modern world. Therefore, looking at the distant stars means you are literally seeing the deep past. Moreover, these specific shower thoughts highlight a massive global glitch in our perception. For example, your stomach thinks all potatoes are completely mashed before digesting them. Consequently, a perfectly ordinary meal suddenly feels like a weird biological science experiment. Also, your future self is watching you through your daily memories right now.

Money and Weird Society

In addition to biology, human society makes absolutely no logical sense whatsoever. You are basically a giant brain flying a heavy meat spaceship. As a result, you must constantly feed the flesh vehicle just to stay alive. Then, we must discuss the absolute insanity of modern paper money and banking. Additionally, buying a larger bed gives you much more bedroom but less floor space. Therefore, this extreme philosophical lifestyle requires a very strong and highly resilient mind. They completely refuse to accept traditional capitalist rules without asking funny questions. Finally, you should absolutely scroll down right now to explore this crazy text gallery. You will certainly never take a boring morning shower the exact same way again!

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“Octopuses have three hearts – Two pump blood to the gills, while one pumps it to the rest of the body. When an octopus swims, the heart that delivers blood to the body stops beating.”

“Sharks have been around for over 400 million years, while trees appeared around 350 million years ago.”

“Lightning can reach temperatures up to 30,000 Kelvin (53,540°F or 30,000°C).”

“Charles Osborne of the U.S. had hiccups continuously from 1922 to 1990.”

“Dolphins have names for each other – They use unique whistles to identify each other, much like humans use names.”

“There’s enough gold in Earth’s oceans to coat the planet – It’s estimated that there are around 20 million tons of gold dissolved in Earth’s oceans.”

“Sloths can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes, while dolphins can only hold their breath for about 10 minutes.”

“The moon is drifting away from Earth ! It moves about 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) farther from our planet each year.”

“The long spiral tusk of a narwhal is an elongated tooth that can grow up to 10 feet (3 meters) long.”

“Otters hold hands so that they don’t drift apart when they fall asleep in the water!”

“Some species of worms, like the planarian, can regrow their heads and other body parts if they’re cut off.”

“A group of owls is called a “parliament” – The term reflects their solemn, wise reputation in various cultures.”

“A blue whale’s tongue weighs as much as an elephant.”

“A day on Earth is not exactly 24 hours… It’s actually 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds, known as a sidereal day.”

“Known as the “Elk Cloner,” it was a harmless prank, but it marked the beginning of the digital virus era.”

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The word “goodbye” comes from an Old English phrase meaning “God be with you”.

The word “nerd” was invented by Dr. Seuss. 

 “Go!” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

“Typewriter” is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.

Sleeping through summer is called “estivation”.

About 1,000 words are added to the dictionary each year. 

 A group of hippos is referred to as a “bloat”. Other terms for a group of hippos are a herd, thunder or sea. 

The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.

“Schoolmaster” is an anagram of “the classroom”.

Remnants of liquor left in the bottom of a glass are referred to as the “heeltap.” When a toast is ended with “and no heel-taps!” it means to drain every last drop. 

The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.

There are over 150 different dialects of English spoken throughout the world, 30 in the U.S. alone. 

“Lol” was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2011. 

“White meat” originally referred to dairy products such as milk, butter and cheese. 

The world record for most T-shirts worn at once is 260. 

The lighter was invented three years before the match.

A “jiffy” is about one trillionth of a second.

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Basenji dogs are the only breed that doesn’t bark… they sort of yodel.

The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head allows them to see all four feet at all times.

Animals that lay eggs don’t have belly buttons.

Due to a genetic defect, cats can’t taste sweet things.

An average of 3.6 cans of SPAM are consumed each second.

In the 1830s, ketchup was used as medicine to treat such ailments as diarrhea, indigestion and jaundice.

A banana is considered a berry.

The combined work of the entire lives of 12 bees accumulates to one single teaspoon of honey.

The largest scrambled eggs ever made weighed 6,860.8 pounds.

In 2021,Morgan Niquet, François Robin and Julien Serri, set the record for the most varieties of cheeses on a pizza. They used 834 cheeses!

Pistachios, cashews and almonds are closer to fruits than nuts. They are classified as “drupes” which are fruits that are fleshy on the outside and contain a shell covering a seed on the inside.

Sandwiches were created because the Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu, did not want to put his cards down while gambling to eat.

The average person has four to six dreams a night.

Your fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand.

The opposite sides of a die will always add up to seven.

A cubic inch of human bone can bear the weight of five standard pickup trucks.

Etch-a-Sketch sales increased after the Toy Story movie.

Women blink almost twice as much as men.

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Scallops have teeth and eyes up to 200.

Due to ocean tides and earthquakes days get longer by 1.7 milliseconds each century.

It takes between 813 and 982 rubber bands to crush a human skull.

The position your tongue sits in in your mouth usually depends on what your first language is.

The longest English word is 189,819 letters long and it would take three and a half hours to say out loud.

If you lose the little cup to a Nyquil or Zzzquil bottle, to achieve a 30 mL dose you require 4 capfuls filled to the inside rim.

The largest piece of fossilised dinosaur poo discovered is over 30cm long and over two litres in volume.

There’s no such thing as zero-calorie foods. Even low-calorie foods, such as celery and watercress, contain more energy than the body needs to process them. 

All the world’s bacteria stacked on top of each other would stretch for 10 billion light-years. 

The world’s oldest dog lived to 29.5 years old.

The world’s oldest cat lived to 38 years and three days old.

Wind turbines kill between 10,000 and 100,000 birds each year in the UK.

Snails have teeth. Between 1,000 and 12,000 teeth, to be precise.

A study in 2016 purports that among men, a larger signature correlates with higher social bravado and, among women, a bigger signature correlates with narcissistic traits.

One in 18 people have a third nipple. 

Deaf people are known to use sign language in their sleep.

Hippos don’t swim, they sink to the bottom of the riverbed and gallop in slow motion.

In 2013, a woman required surgery to remove feces build up as she was constipated for 45 days.

Studies have shown that even in emergencies, fish form orderly queues in order to not clog things up.

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Salvador Dalí would often get out of paying for drinks and meals by drawing on the checks, making them priceless works of art.

In 2013, Chinese scientists were able to grow a human tooth from scratch using stem cells taken from urine.

Spiked and studded dog collars come from the days of the Ancient Greeks, who gave their sheep-dogs sharply spiked collars to protect their necks from wolves.

One study has shown that a male zebra finch is less likely to try and court a female zebra finch if he didn’t form any social friendships with female zebra finches when younger.

The only state flag with the Union Jack on it? Hawaii!

Studies have shown that Surgeons who play video games for at least 3 hours a week perform 27% faster and make 37% fewer errors.

The word “quarantine” comes from the Venetian dialect of Italian and the words “quaranta giorni,” meaning “forty days.” Why? Because when it was discovered that ships were infested with plagued rats, they were made to sit at anchor outside Venice’s city walls for forty days before coming ashore.

Approximately 1,000,000 dogs in the U.S. are named as the heirs of their owners’ wills. This makes me happy.

When written down, the word ‘almost’ is the longest word in the English language to have all of its letters in alphabetical order.

A study was conducted that showed customers in a bookstore were 3.48 times more likely to peruse romantic books if the store smelt like chocolate and 5.93 times more likely to buy them! That’d work on me, anyway.

Sonic the Hedgehog is in the Guinness Book of Records for being the fasted video game character ever.

In 1908, Thomas Sullivan invented the tea bag by accident. He put them in silk bags to divide the teas for sampling. People were confused and so they dipped them in hot water. Thomas was immediately swamped with orders for these bags.

The word “oxymoron” is itself an oxymoron. This is because it derives from Ancient Greek, where “oxy” means “sharp” and “moros” means “stupid.”

Bruno Mars’s birth name is Peter Gene Bayot Hernandez.

2013 was the first year since 1987 to feature four different numbers.

The term ‘deadline’ comes from the American Civil War. Prisoners would have lines drawn around them in the dirt, and if they crossed this line, then they would be executed by their guards.

The term ‘deadline’ comes from the American Civil War. Prisoners would have lines drawn around them in the dirt, and if they crossed this line, then they would be executed by their guards.

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Speaking of brains. The brain is our fattiest organ and is composed of nearly 60% fat.

Your nose is always visible to you, but your brain ignores it thanks to a process called. Unconscious Selective Attention.’

Sudan has nearly twice as many pyramids as Egypt.

The word Jurassic comes from the Celtic word for “forest.”

Guy Fawkes is the reason guys are called “guys.”

February, at one point, was the last month of the year.

In September 2007, Kevin Shelley broke 46 wooden toilet seats with his head in one minute. It’s a world record.

The Japanese have a work philosophy that they call “kaizen,” where people constantly seek ways to improve methods rather than just doing it the same way.

Tyromancy is the practice of predicting the future with cheese.

Before the risks of X-ray technology was fully understood, some shoe shops used to use X-rays to measure for shoe sizes.

Iguanas have three eyes. Two normal eyes and a third eye on top of their head that only perceives brightness.

Big Ben is starting to lean. If untouched, then in 4,000 years it will be at the same angle as the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Australia has over 10,000 beaches. You could visit a new beach every day for 27 years!

Nicolas Cage is the one who convinced Johnny Depp to pursue a career in acting in the 80s.

Viagra, when dissolved in water, can make cut flowers stay erect for up to a week longer than they usually would.

There is an uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as Pig Beach, which is populated entirely by swimming pigs.

Catnip is ten times more effective at repelling mosquitoes than DEET, the main substance used in insect repellents.

If eaten in one meal, 30 to 90 grams of polar bear liver is enough to kill a human being.

In the early 1900s, Lobster was considered the “cockroach of the ocean” and was synonymous with the poor.

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Bluetooth is named after a 10th century king, Harald Bluetooth, who united Norway and Denmark.

The world record for the longest human chain is 652.4 miles, and it consisted of 5 million people in Bangladesh!

Rowan Atkinson. aka Mr. Bean, is the voice of Zazu in The Lion King.

By a large margin, bananas are the most sold item at Walmart.

Sunsets on Mars are blue.
BLUE SUNSETS!!!

“lbs” comes from the Latin word “libra,” which means “pound.”

The small indents you see on the bottom of frozen pizzas are there to prevent air bubbles from forming inside the dough.

Melanistic animals are all black, and are the opposite of albinos.

After leaving a pineapple in an Art Museum for two days in 2016, a Scottish student returned to find that it was put into a glass case as part of an exhibit.

True Lies was the first ever movie to be given a 100 million dollar budget.

If you started digging in Argentina, it is possible to dig a hole’ to Chinain theory.

Researchers found fossils of a Mega Penguin’ that would have been 6 feet tall and weighed in at over 250 pounds.

The word Brah’ comes from Hawaii. It is short for Braddah’ which is surf slang for brother.

At one point, the offical state slogan of Nebraska was: “Nebraska: Honestly, it’s not for everyone.”

“Puppy Cats” are cats that are bred specifically to exhibit dog-like behavior.

In Slovakia, they have Christmas Carp that live in the family bathtub for a few days before they are eaten.

The Flintstones was the most profitable network cartoon franchise for 30 years & then came The Simpsons.

The University of Minnesota is older than Minnesota, the state itself unbelievable!

In 2019, MySpace was still getting 8 million visitors a month.

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Comets smell like rotten eggs. 

Ketchup was once sold as medicine. 

Only male toads make loud croaking sounds.

A woman in the United Kingdom once called the police when her ice cream didn’t have enough sprinkles.

The American white pelican can hold up to three gallons of water in its mouth.

Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest.

Cap’n Crunch’s full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch.

Giraffe tongues can be 20 inches long.

Peanuts aren’t a type of nut. (They are actually legumes.)

The national animal of Scotland is a unicorn.

Your nose and ears never stop growing.

Cats can’t taste anything sweet.

Male deer shed their antlers every year.

Approximately one quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

There are more than one million different species of insects on the planet.

Around 80 percent of orange cats are male.

The world’s largest butterfly, Queen Alexandra’s birdwing, has a wingspan of around 10 inches.

M&M’s were the first candy that eaten in space.

Lions can sleep up to 21 hours in a day.

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The only planet in our solar system to spin clockwise? Venus.

Trypophobia is the fear of closely-packed holes.

Australia is wider than the moon. 

The term Mellifluous’ describes a sound that is pleasingly smooth and musical to hear.

The Spice Girls’ were originally called Touch.

The only part of the human body that can’t heal itself? Teeth!

In Switzerland, it is considered animal abuse to only own one guinea pig. This is because they are social creatures who get lonely without a partner.

Why do we raise a toast?’ Apparently this stems from an old practice where Ancient Romans would drop a piece of toasted bread into their wine for good health.

Amy Poehler plays a Cool Mom’ in Mean Girls. At the time, she was 32, and Rachel McAdams was 25.

Baby rabbits are called kits. That is adorable.

In 2014, two people matched on Tinder while they were both in Antarctica. The man was at the United States Antarctic McMurdo Station, and the lady was camping a 45-minute helicopter ride away.

The Spanish National Anthem is one of 4 in the world that has no words. The other three? Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and San Marino

This bizarre looking fruit native to Central and South America is called black sapote, and apparently tastes like chocolate custard.

M&Ms are named after the last names of the gentlemen who created them: Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie.

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There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire solar system.

“Sylvester Stallone wrote Rocky in three days after watching a boxing match because the only acting jobs he could get were bit parts and po*n, and he was homeless for a while. The producers wanted Burt Reynolds to play the lead but Stallone refused, and accepted huge budget cuts to star in his own film.”

Armadillos almost always have identical quadruplets. One fertilized egg splits into four embryos.

All tennis rackets are strung manually. There are no machines that use automation to string rackets.

Octopuses have 1 central brain, then a smaller brain in each tentacle.

A B2 stealth bomber has retractable cup holders and a mini microwave in the cockpit.

Whale milk is the same consistency as toothpaste.

Australia is wider than the moon.

The Michelin Man’s real name is Bibendum.

There are 32 muscles in a cat’s ear.

Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.

The youngest picture of yourself is also the oldest picture of yourself.

Seattle is further north than all of Maine and most of the population of Canada.

There’s a formula to determine the air temperature based on how frequently a cricket crickets.

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“During the Vietnam War, one unconventional technique used by the United States against the Viet Cong was replacing their ammunition with decoy explosive ammunition, which destroyed their weapons when fired.”

“In 1986, an electronics store chain made good on its offer to sell stereos for “299 bananas” when customers turned up with the fruit as payment.”

“In 1984, Robert Patrick (actor who played T-1000 in Terminator 2) was involved in a boating accident and he swam for three hours to get help for others.”

“Google is planning to implement ‘sea view’ into Google Maps by using a 360º underwater camera.”

“When Steve Jobs accused Bill Gates of stealing ideas from Apple, Gates said, “Well, Steve, I think there’s more than one way of looking at it. I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.””

“A team of developers are taking the glow in the dark enzyme that is found in species of jellyfish and fireflies and are creating bioluminescent trees. These trees can potentially light up public streets while being energy-neutral.”

“Taxonomically, modern-day birds aren’t just descended from dinosaurs, but are considered to be dinosaurs.”

“Malawi president Bingu wa Mutharika vacated his home, a 300-bedroom mansion, in 2005 because he believed it to be haunted.”

“The creator of BUMFIGHTS showed up to a Dr Phil interview dressed up like Dr Phil and called him out for exploiting people saying they were the same.”

“The blinking light atop the Capitol Records Tower spells out the word “Hollywood” in Morse code, and has done so since the building’s opening in 1956.”

“Catholic and Protestant areas in Northern Ireland are still separated by walls up to 25 feet tall called “peace lines.””

“Back in the 1980’s people were able to download Video Games from a radio broadcast by recording the sounds onto a cassette tape that they could then play on their computers.”

“In 1994 a Russian pilot let his 15 yo son and 12 yo daughter try to fly an aircraft. The kids unknowingly disabled the autopilot: the plane crashed into a hillside in Siberia killing all 63 passengers and 12 crew members. ““Due to severe overcrowding and high real estate in Hong Kong, burials in public cemeteries are exhumed after 6 years. The remains are either collected privately for cremation or reburied in an urn. Unclaimed burials are exhumed and cremated by the government. “

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“Lighters were invented before matches.”

“A kind of moth is found in Madagascar that almost entirely subsists on the tears of sleeping birds.”

“Salamanders are commonly associated with being summoned by fire in folklore. This is because they like to hide in decaying wood. And when people would burn the wood the salamander wouldn’t notice right away until it was fully engulfed in flames and then come out of the wood and crawl out from the coals.”

“80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII.”

“Sharks are older than both trees and the rings of Saturn.”

“Canned food was invented about 100 years before can openers.”

“Bats help pollinate the agave plant. So if you like tequila, give props to the bats.”

“Tsutomo Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip and on the day he was supposed to leave, the atomic bomb dropped. Tsutomo survived with minor injuries and returned to his home in Nagasaki where he went to work 3 days later. As he was describing his experience to his supervisor, the second bomb was dropped and he survived without any injuries. He ended up living into his 90s.”

““Häagen-Dazs” has no meaning in any language, it was meant to sound “European”. It was started by Reuben Mattus, a Polish immigrant to New York who sold fruit ice and ice cream from a horse-drawn cart.”

“Koalas have smooth brains.”

“Koalas have smooth brains.”

“The Phantom Menace is older now than Star Wars was when The Phantom Menace was released.”

“Johannes Gutenberg, the man credited with creating arguably the most important invention in history, only had an operating printing press for a few years. He went bankrupt after his financier successfully sued him for not paying his loans. His then former financier came into possession of the printing press and any unfinished books.”

“Jimmy Carter left nuclear codes in his jacket, which he had sent to the cleaners.”

“The timespan between the use of copper swords and then steel swords is longer then the timespan between the use of steel swords and the nuclear bomb.”

“Sloths only poop once a week and it’s called the poo dance.”

“Strawberries are not technically berries, but bananas are.”

“Did you know that Alaska is the northernmost, the westernmost, and the easternmost state in the United States? It’s practically playing its own game of hide and seek!”

“If you shuffle a deck of cards, it’s not only possible, but likely no deck has ever been in the same sequence in the history of humans.”

“Brazil is so big that the northernmost point in Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost point in Brazil.”

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“Whale milk is the same consistency as toothpaste.”

“Armadillos almost always have identical quadruplets.One fertilized egg splits into four embryos.”

“All tennis rackets are strung manually. There are no machines that use automation to string rackets.”

“Up 33% of hip fractures in the older population result in death within a year.”

“Octopuses have 1 central brain, then a smaller brain in each tentacle.”

“A B2 stealth bomber has retractable cup holders and a mini microwave in the cockpit.”

“The Michelin Man’s real name is Bibendum.”

“A giraffe’s horns are called ossicones which are mostly cartilage.”

“A peregrine falcon can dive at over 200mph.”

“The Giant Tortoise did not receive a scientific name for over 300 years due to the failure of delivery of specimens to Europe because they were so delicious that sailors invariably ate them during the voyage.”

“Lightning McQueen’s first name is Montgomery.”

“You have about 10lbs of bacteria in your gut. 10lbs of cells that bear no relation to you whatsoever except that they colonize your body.”

“The cry of a bald eagle you typically hear it’s from a red tailed hawk, while the cry of a real bald eagle sounds like a seagull.”

“All Venus flytraps come from a small area in North and South Carolina.”

“The human an*s can stretch up to 7 inches before taking damage.”

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“Pacman was designed to be a never-ending game. The variable that holds the level was only an 8 bit integer though, so at level 256, the game goes bonkers, and level 256 is impossible to beat. “

“Research has found that dye in blue M&M’s repairs rats’ spinal injuries when injected into them. It also turns them blue. “

“Before “Let It Go” was written, Elsa was the main villain in Frozen, however the song was so uplifting that her character was changed instead of the song. “

“Blu-Ray discs hold more data because the laser is actually blue, which has a shorter wavelength than red and can read more accurately, allowing for more storage.”

“The Apollo program had a massive effect on the atmosphere of the Moon, with each landing potentially doubling the Moon’s atmospheric mass. “

“The black-footed cat, Africa’s smallest feline predator, has been known to kill sheep by hanging on to their throats until they have bitten through the jugular. Their maximum size is roughly 5 lbs. “

“At least six air traffic controllers who dealt with two of the hijacked airliners on Sept. 11, made a tape recording that same day describing the events, but the tape was destroyed by a supervisor without anyone making a transcript or even listening to it. “

“The first cloned pet was a cat and it was named Copy Cat.”

“Professional ballet dancers can go through 4 pairs of pointe shoes in a week.”

“If we lose 10 kg (22 lbs) of fat, 8.4 kg (18.5 lbs) turns into carbon dioxide which is exhaled when we breathe out, while 1.6 kg (3.5lbs) turns into water that is excreted through urine, tears and sweat. “

“The Irish last name prefix “Mac” means “son of” and prefix “O” means “grandson of”.”

“The term “hipster” originated in the 1940s, and was used to describe jazz aficionados, characterized by their “dress, slang, use of cannabis and other drugs, relaxed attitude, sarcastic humor, self-imposed poverty and relaxed sexual codes.””

“During a visit to Boeing, Soviet scientists secretly applied adhesive to the bottom of their shoes in order to covertly collect metal samples from the floor. “

“The 1992 Radiohead song “Creep” uses a similar chord progression as “The Air That I Breathe” by The Hollies. Consequently, after winning a plagiarism lawsuit against Radiohead, Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood are credited as co-writers of “Creep.””

“The scars on the face of The Joker (The Dark Knight) is a wound called a Glasgow smile. It originated in Glasgow, Scotland but became popular with English street gangs. “

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