Traditional cheese makers were so threatened by artificial cheese production that they tried to name it “Embalmed Cheese” to decrease sales. The US government had to step in, and the name was formally made “Processed Cheese” which we still use today.
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Weirdo
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Weirdo
Scientists have created a scientific version of marijuana called ‘Dimethylheptylpyran’. When smoked, it’ll keep you high for at least 2 days
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Ray
A woman eats 33,000 calories a day.
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Axe
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Voltaire consumed at least 30 cups of coffee a day.
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Weirdo
Last year the Star Princess, a Princess cruises ship passed by 3 men drifting in a small boat with no motor in the open sea. The captain confirmed he saw the men through his telescope and then did nothing to help. The boat was later found by the Ecuadorean coast guard with only one survivor. The only survivor is suing the Princess Cruises.
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Weirdo
MIT is making wallets that will vibrate when your bank account makes a transaction, will make it harder to open when money is tight, and will expand and shrink when you have more and less money respectively.
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Weirdo
11 of the 12 men who have walked on the moon were Boy Scouts.
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Weirdo
Armadillos can inflate their stomachs and intestines with air and float across the water.
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Weirdo
Ants can sense earthquakes a day in advance, either by picking up changing gas emissions or noting tiny changes in the Earth’s magnetic field.
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Weirdo
Never mind aliens in outer space. Some scientists believe we may be sharing the planet with ‘weird’ lifeforms that are so different from our own they’re invisible to us: Prof Cleland calls this ethereal dimension the shadow biosphere.
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Weirdo
Ticketmaster was investigated by the DOJ for anti competitive business practices. The investigation abruptly ended when Ticketmaster hired a firm whose former partners occupied top posts in the DOJ’s Antitrust Division.
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Weirdo
When you crumple up gift wrapping it makes a shape so complex that it will defeat even the most sophisticated computers.
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Weirdo
The US Army secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the ocean, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets.
I dont believe you.