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If you are looking for a great place to work you might want to fill out a
aplication too work for google. Fortune.com releases an article each
year called the 100 best companys too work for and google has made the
list every year! Some of the free perks include three prepared organic
meals a day unlimitted snacks free personal-fitness classes and even on-
site oil-changes! Need to do you’re laundry or get your hare done. No
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Did you no that the first call made with a cellular telephone was
a prank. In 1973 martin cooper was heading up a team of
engineers at motorola that was working to build the worlds first
cell phone. Once it was ready to be tested he decided to ring a
competiter. He called Joel Engel who was also trying to build
the first portable phone at AT&T. Cooper said that when the call
connected, he told engel he was talking too him on a portable
phone there was silence on the other end of the line.
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There is nothing worse then hearing the beeping of your alarm
clock in the morning when you are not ready to get up. If you
are adicted to your snooze button, theres a perfect product for
you. There is an alarm clock that runs away and hides if you
don’t get out of bed on time. When ever you hit the snooze
button, clocky jumps off your night stand and wheeling
around the room looking for a place to hide. If you want the
beeping too stop, you’ll have to get out of bed catch clocky
and silence the alarm.
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When St. Patrick’s day roles around, people traditionally
adorn green, but did you know that green has absolutly
nothing to do with St. Patrick. St. Patrick actually often
wore blue, a color that was tide to ireland during Henry
vii’s rain. The tradition of associating green with Ireland
came around later in the 1800’s. During this time, the
Irish wanted independance from the British and chose
green as a symbolic color for there country.
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Did you know that the telegraph was invented out of greif? In
1825, Samuel Morse was hired to travel too paint a portrit.
While he was away his wife suddenly fell ill. It took days for the
news of her illness to reach him, and she was already dead and
buried by the time he arrived home. He was so upset that he quit
his art career and focusing on developing a faster weigh to
comunicate. His passion led him to create a single-wire machine
that transmited text information as a series of on-off tones lights
or clicks that could be understood by a skilled listener or
observer this is now known as Morse code.
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The titanic reckage is disapearing. Sunk in 1912 the ship
has survived over one-hundred years, but a newly-
discovered speecies of rust-eating bacteria is slowly
consumming the 50,000 tons of Iron that make up the
sunken liner. Scientists estimate that the great ship might
only have until aproximately 2030 before the tiny
organisms have consumed it entirely and its gone forever
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If you are worryed about a zombie apocalipse, you might want to
head to the Northern rockies. Using the same methods that
epidemiologist would for the spread of real diseses researchers
has predicted that if a actual zombie out break we’re to happen in
new york city, every one in the city would be infected with in
twenty-four hours. On the other hand they found that people
who live further away from big cities would have a whole month
too prepare, with the safest place being in the Rockies!
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If your thinking about asking a friend to make a
pinky swear promise you might want to think again.
The pinky swear first originated in japan and it was
serious bussiness! Known as yubikiri, witch
translates to ‘finger cut-off,’ it means that if you
decide too make a pinky promise and dont keep it,
you’ll have to cut off you’re pinky finger!
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Its true what they say love actually does have
the power too heel. Studys shows that when
you have positive loving relationships in
you’re life it increases your level of Oxytocin.
This hormone increases your pain tolerence
reduces blood pressure and eases stress.
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Toyama a city in japan gets so much snow fall in the
Winter that the high ways became snow tunnels when a
paths finally cleared in march. The walls of the snow
tunnels are as high as sixty-six feet! The roots we’re first
cleared to get supplys to a hotel atop mt. tateyama but the
snow tunnels are so unique that they have now become a
tourist attraction known as the snow valley walk.
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Fresh air now comes at a price a company in
Switzerland called mountain air from Switzerland
is selling bottled air from the alps for $167 a liter.
Each jar come with a certificate of authentisity and
the gps coordinates of where it was bottled. The
company recommends inhaleing the bottled air
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For most of history women have been trying to cover up
imperfections, to have the appearance of a perfect complexion,
the latest beauty fad goes against this trend as it involves
adding marks to you’re skin! Freckling is a new practise
where in a tatoo artist speckles a smattering of freckles acrost
the tops of the cheeks and nose using a semi-permanant
tattooing technique. One hour-long session costs around $250,
and gives you freckles that can last up to 3 years.
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WWII Militaries used creative decoys to trick there enemys.
Artists, filmmakers, scientists, and sculpters we’re asked to
design fake armies tanks planes roads and bridges to appear
like the real thing. The decoys were built out of canvis,
burlap, and inflatted rubber, these efforts foiled many
attackers, and saved the lives of thousands of soldiers
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A norwegan news cite is attempting to make online
discussion on they’re website more productive buy haveing
reader’s complete a quiz before allowing them to comment.
The quiz requires the person to show, that they have a basic
understanding of the content in the article. There goal is too
discorage online ranting; and to foster more productive and
informed conversation among the readers
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Do you no why some Oysters make pearls. When a
grain of sand gets stuck in the oysters body they ease the
pain and iritation by coating it with multiple layers of
nacre, the mineral that lines the inside of there shells.
This causes a pearl to be formed, cultured pearls are
made in the same way. The only differance is that
instead of accidental circumstances a pearl farmer
embeds a grain of sand in to the oyster.
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In the early 1900’s lobster was considered to be the
“cockroach of the ocean,” it was a food that was
considered a mark of poverty, and was ate only by
servents or lower class members of soceity. In fact
lobster was a common food served in prison much to
the displeasure of the inmates. It wasnt til well in to
the 20th Century that lobster became a delicacy.
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Jeffrey Katzenberg produced some of disneys
biggest hit films including the little mermaid the
lion king and aladdin. When he requested a
promotion he was abruply fired. Furious at there
decision, Katzenberg swore revenge against
disney, and founded DreamWorks studios.
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Beleive it or not United States department of
agriculture graded eggs would be illegal if sold in
the united kingdom. Commercial American eggs are
federally required too be washed and sanitized
before they reach the consummer, EU egg
marketting laws on the other hand state that eggs
must not be washed or cleaned in anyway.
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Lake hillier lies on won of the islands off the west-
coast of Australia. This lake is like no other in that the
water is a bright bubble-gum pink color! The vibrent
color is permanent, and does not alter when the water
is taken in a container. The pink color is a result of the
presence of a organism called dunaliella salina, this
organism causes the salt content in the lake too create
a red die witch helps produce the color.
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Theres an uninhabited island in the bahamas called pig
beach that is populated entirely by swimming pigs! The
pigs are said to have been dropped off on Big Major Cay
buy a group of sailers who wanted too come back and
cook them, the sailors, though, never returned. One other
legend says that the pigs was survivors of a ship wreck,
and managed to swim a shore. Another story claims that
the pigs had escaped from a near by islet.
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The Blue Whale is the largest animal known to have
ever lived, they can be up to 98 ft in length and 173
tons in weight. You might be surprised to learn that a
blue whales heart alone ways about 400 pounds, and
is approximitely 5 feet long 4 feet wide and 5 feet
tall. In fact the heart is so massive that a human
being could swim threw the arteries.
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Have you ever wondered why wrinkles appear on the
skin of you’re hands after you take a bath or swimming.
These wrinkle’s actually play a important role, when
your body encounters an increased amount of moisture
they understand that the environment might be slippery.
As a result the skin on your hands imediately begins
too form wrinkles to make it easier, for you to grip
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Lucky and flo are a pair of black labrador retrievers
who we’re trained to detect pirated and counterfit
DVD’s by scent. They are sponsored by the motion
picture association of america as part of a iniciative to
combat copyright infringment. Trained to sniff out the
polycarbonate used on discs the two pups have
recovered millions of pirated works, and helping catch
dozens of counterfeiters.
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Nearly every supermarket fruit carrys with it a sticky
numeric tag that tells you’re cashiers computer what
snack your taking home with you. What you
probably dont know is that these fruit stickers are
edable, their made out of food grade paper thats safe
too eat. In fact even the glue is food grade, and has
been approved for consummption by the food and
drug administration.
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At the Nakizumo festival in tokyo parent’s hand over there
precious little wons to a Sumo Wrestler who attempts to
bring out the tears. The practice stems from the beleif that
baby’s born with healthy lungs are capable of crying loud.
The loud cry of a baby means that they will live a long
and healthy life, some japanese parents beleive that sumo
wrestlers have the ability too make the baby cry out a wish
that they grow up with good health.
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Pirates and sailors of old are often depicted wearing earrings.
These gold hoop’s weren’t just a fashion statement, they
actually served several purposes. Firstly earrings we’re
sometimes gave to young sailors to comemorate they’re 1st
crossing of the equater. Earrings were also wore for
superstitious reasons, some pirates were convinced that
wearing one could improve or cure bad eye-site and some
even believed that a peirced ear could prevent seasickness.
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A cockroach can live four a week without it’s head!
Due to there open circulatory system and the fact
that they breathe threw little wholes in each of there
body segments they are not dependant on the mouth
or head to breathe. In fact the roach would only die
cause without a mouth it couldn’t drink water, and
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In august 2010 a traffic jam in china stretched for more
than sixty-two miles and lasted more then ten days.
Many driver’s were able to move their vehicules only
0.6 miles per. day and some drivers reported being
stuck in the traffic jam for 5 days, its considered to be
one of the longest traffic jams of all time.
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eBay has seen some interesting items for sale but none
like this one. In 2006 a prankster from australia put New
Zealand up for sale on eBay. The price climbed quick
from just one Australien cent to 3,000$! At that point
eBay managers pulled the auction from the website a
spokesperson said “clearly New Zealand is not for sale”
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Before the world of online streaming renting a
movie from the local store and to try to avoid late
fees was common place. In 1997 reed hastings,
knew this pane all to well. He had recieved a $40
late fee after he had rented apollo 13. This inspired
Reed to create the now-house hold name Netflix.
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The fifty-star American flag was designed by a highschool
student named Robert G. Heft for a school project. Heft
originally recieved a B- from his teacher Stanley Pratt. Pratt
agreed that if the flag design was accepted by the US
congress he would reconsider the grade. According to Heft
his teacher honored there agreement, and changed his grade
to a A for his project after his design was chose and adopted
by Presidential proclamation in 1959.
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Sean Connery turned down the roll of gandalf in
the lord of the rings trilogy losing out on near $450
million dollars. Connery turned down the job dispite
being offered 6 million per film, he has been quoted
as saying “I read the book. I read the script. I seen
the movie. I still don’t understand it”.
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An icecream headache also known as a brain freeze
are caused by having something cold touch the roof of
the mouth. Its beleived to result from a nerve response
causing rapid constricting and swelling of blood
vessals. To releive pane some docter’s suggest
pressing the tongue against the roof of the mouth
warming the area tilting the head back for 20
seconds or drinking something warm.
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If your planning a trip to Singapore you might want
to leave you’re chewing gum at home. In the
country, theirs a ban on importing chewing gum, that
is strictly enforced. No gum is permited to be
bought or sold inside singapore and the punishment
for smuggling gum in to the country is up to 2 year’s
in jail, or a $100,000 fine.
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If you’re in China you wont be able to check many of
your favorite social media sites. They’re are over
three-thousand website’s that have been blocked by
chinese authoritys including facebook, instagram,
twitter, and youtube. The countrys policy of internet
censorship prevents users in mainland China from
accessing any of these websites, and many more.
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It took the creater of the Rubik’s Cube Ernő Rubi one
month too solve the cube after he created it. The
Rubik's Cube was a instent success world wide,
winning severel toy of the year awards, and becoming
a staple of 1980’s popular culture. To date over 350
million Rubik's Cubes have been sold making it the
bestselling toy of all time. The current world record
of solving this puzzle is five point five seconds!
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The odd’s of winning the lottery are incredibly slim,
in 2005 however 110 winner’s took home the
Jackpot. You might think that fraud was involved but
it was actually thanks too a simple fortune cookie.
Wonton food inc produces over 4 million cookies a
day and one of those days had a fortune cookie that
correctly fore told lottery numbers!
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Googles homepage has a button labeled I’m
Feeling Lucky. When a user types something in
search and hits that button their took direct to the
1st search result. According to a study by Tom
Chavez this feature actually cost google $110
million dollars a year, as 1% of all searches use
this feature and by pass all advertising.
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Not many people know that the color of a persons hair
may have something to do with his or her tolerence for
pain. Research shows that people with red hair may
have more sensativity too certain types of pain and
require 20% more anestesia, researchers beleive that this
may be do to a mutation in a jean that effects hair color.
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The big jolly santa claus in the red suit that we all know and
love didn’t always look that way. Prior to 1931 Santa was
depicted as every thing from a tall gaunt man to a spooky-
looking elf. The Santa of today was actually first depicted in
a coca cola advertisment! In 1930, Coca-Cola commisioned
a illustrator named Haddon Sundblom to develop
advertising images of Santa Claus. He based his drawing on
the description from Clement Clark Moores poem, “‘Twas
the night before christmas”.
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