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Remora or the Sucker Fish were used in the Indian ocean to catch turtles. A rope was tied to the remora's tail and the fish was dropped into the water when a turtle is sighted. The remora would then swim towards the turtle to attach itself to it, the fi...
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The summit of Mount St Helens, when it erupted in 1980, was actually private property owned by the Burlington Northern railroad. Subsequently, they donated the 650 acres of land (now a vast crater) to the US Forest Service.
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There was a tractor built in the 1950’s that had the capability to idle at 0 RPM. Because the engine is two-stroke, it could switch directions before it made a full rotation.
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"Van Der Beek" translates to "From the creek" in Dutch. James Van Der Beek starred in "Dawson's Creek" in the late 90s and early oughts.
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About Andrzej Bargiel, a Polish ski mountaineer who became the first person to ski down from the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain. He climbed without supplementary oxygen and skied down in about 7 hours.
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That Matt Bissonnette, the former DEVGRU operator who, under the pseudonym Mark Owen, wrote the first book about the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was forced to turn over the almost $7 million he made from the book because he failed to get the book a...
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About William Smith O'Brien, a Protestant Irish member of the UK Parliament, who was convicted of treason in 1848 for leading the Young Irelander Rebellion during the Irish Famine. He was sentenced to death, but eventually transported to Tasmania instead
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A police officer saves a three-week-old baby from choking as distraught family watch on.
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Thomas Jefferson's grandson was a Confederate general during the Civil War
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A true survivor. (Translation: My name is Irina. I’m 98 years old. I survived the Holodomor (Great Famine caused by Stalin), Hitler and the Nazis. I will survive Putin and his locusts. Slava Ukraini)
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Elephants have been known to mimic human speech
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The FICO credit score was started in 1989 and people used to be able to get approved for a mortgage with a letter of recommendation from their priest
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The creators of Shrek took mud showers to study “fluid dynamic simulation” for the movie. The art director also took a trip to a magnolia plantation to learn how to properly render Shrek’s swamp. He was chased by an alligator.
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Charles “Black Bart” Boles was an American outlaw who committed 28 successful stage coach robberies entirely on foot between 1875 and 1883, as he was afraid of horses. He also reportedly never once fired a weapon during his years as an outlaw.
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Killer whales can imitate human speech. They are able to copy words such as ‘hello’ and ‘bye bye’ as well as sounds from other orcas.
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About Nimblewill Nomad who, starting at age 61, walked 34,000 miles, including walking from the Florida Keys to Quebec. At age 83, he became the oldest person to have hiked the entire 2,200 mile Appalachian Trail.
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Fruit ASMR: Tortoise Eating Grape
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Farmer, Ben Jackson from Guyra in NSW, found a special way to pay tribute to his Aunty Deb Cowdery. He wasn’t able to go to the funeral because of border closures. “I feel a bit hopeless here on the farm, but I wanted to show my love somehow,”
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Woooott
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Director Stanley Kubrick was once chased off the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey by one of his own stuntmen
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