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ASMRion
The 1st Asmr sound generator for positive feelings and pleasant relaxation.
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Timeless Tips for 'Simple Sabotage' — CIA
Many of the sabotage instructions guide ordinary citizens, who may not have agree with their country’s policies, to destabilize their governments by taking disruptive actions. Some of the instructions seem outdated; others remain surprisingly relevant. Together they are a reminder of how easily productivity and order can be undermined.
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Map of the world's countries rearranged by population.
What if the world were rearranged so that the inhabitants of the country with the largest population would move to the country with the largest area? And the second-largest population would migrate to the second-largest country, and so on? The result would be this disconcerting, disorienting map.
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5 times Crayola retired its crayons.
Some names were deemed no longer suitable. The Civil Rights movement had a direct impact on Crayola’s core stable of shades. In 1962, Crayola voluntarily changed “Flesh” to “Peach” in an attempt to preempt any potential legal issues—and to encourage coloring enthusiasts the world over to diversify their stick figures.
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Best countries to live in Europe, 2016 map
It is becoming more and more clear that GDP (gross domestic product) alone is not a good indicator of a country's performance.
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Number of Nobel laureates per capita in Europe
The following map shows the number of Nobel laureates per 10 million inhabitants in European countries (the smaller caption shows the actual number of Nobel laureates). It is based on a Wikipedia article that lists all Nobel laureates by country (there are a few cases where the map differs from the Wikipedia article, listed at the end of this article).
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Expired Picked Red Cabbage as a Coffee Creamer?
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Put One Foot Wrong in This Town and You’ve Left the Country
At De Biergrens beer shop, you can walk in from the Netherlands through one door and walk out into Belgium through another.
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Man behind Boaty McBoatface apologises for social media 'storm'
The man behind the popular campaign to name a British polar research ship Boaty McBoatface apologises for the storm it has created.
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Why passports only come in four standard colours
They're a fact of life for travellers, and only considered at the airport or when they're lost, but have you ever considered why passports look the way they do?
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The 5 Most Delightful Sci-Fi and Fantasy Authors, Off-Book
J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, Maggie Stiefvater, Rainbow Rowell. You might like their work, but would you have a beer with them?
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Historical Statue Becomes Darth Vader When it Snows
After a 2015 snowfall, the people of Wejherowo, Poland, were shocked to see that one of their statues had transformed into a tribute to Star Wars villain extraordinaire Darth Vader.
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Sheep Thinks it's a Dog
Meteorologist Danielle Banks shares a fun video of a sheep who's just one of the dogs.
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Here's How Long it Would Take for Vampires to Annihilate Humanity
To vanquish a vampire, one generally employs a stake, a cross, a string of garlic, or a combination of all three. But there's one highly effective anti-vampire weapon that few think to use: math. A surprisingly large number of academic studies—as in, more than one—have applied mathematical modeling to the concept of human-vampire co-existence. Using the depiction of bloodsuckers in various forms of media, from Bram Stoker's Dracula to True Blood...
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Parrot-obsessed man gets ears cut to look like his favourite bird
Ted Richards from UK, who had his face and eyeballs tattooed to look like his pet parrots, has gone a step further by cutting off his ears in order to look more like his pet parrots.
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Random Facts ← FACTSlides → Amazing FACTS you didn't know!
Random Facts. Updated daily. FACTSlides is an endless stream of amazing facts presented as colorful and animated slides. All facts are well verified and sourced (see the bottom, leftmost part of the screen), and illustrations are used with permission from their authors (you can buy them as art prints following the link provided at the bottom, leftmost part of the screen).
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Nets for lying in become a unique attraction at this waterfront walkway
When RS+ designed a new walkway on the edge of Paprocany Lake in Poland, they included a section with nets for people to lay in. The nets, which are set into the wooden promenade and hang over the water, allow people to experience a different perception of the area.
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Worldometers - real time world statistics
Live world statistics on population, government and economics, society and media, environment, food, water, energy and health.
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Baked Yams with Dill - You Suck at Cooking (episode 19)
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Adam Savage makes a bigger, better duck bomb
A couple of weeks ago Adam Savage made a screaming rubber bird bomb. Now he has made an even bigger, more awesome, screaming rubber bird bomb.
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