February 2010
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Agent 3Z: Hungry. →
An unnamed customer on a Ryanair flight from Poland to the UK has reacted to winning 10,000 Euros ($13,616 or £8,765) on a scratchcard by eating his winning card. What could have inspired such an act? Was this a powerful and emotionally charged statement about the standard of airline food? Sadly,…
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“As bad as the surge of intolerance is for the foreigners who are its targets,...”
– Stefan Theil on Europe’s immigration problem
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Where the word "FUCK" originated from
In ancient England a person could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.U.C.K. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it.
Now you know where that word came from.
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“The third most powerful sound is just over 10 years old, and yet it had such a...”
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if yuo can raed tihs, you hvae a sgtrane mnid,...
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“You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for...”
– Gordon Hinckley
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“If you’re looking for sympathy you’ll find it between shit and syphilis in the...”
– David Sedaris
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Hair grows about half a millimeter a day, or about...
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think on this.: How Vacations Affect Your... →
The largest boost in happiness comes from the simple act of planning a vacation. In the study, the effect of vacation anticipation boosted happiness for eight weeks. After the vacation, happiness quickly dropped back to baseline levels for most people. How much stress or relaxation a traveler…
Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world...
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The mathematics of the Hollywood blockbuster →
Film-makers have got better and better at constructing shots so that their lengths grab our attention,” says James Cutting, a psychologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He analysed 150 Hollywood movies and found that the more recent they were, the more closely their shot lengths tended to follow a mathematical pattern that also describes human attention spans.
Mathematical...
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Lego is an abbreviation of the two Danish words...
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Why The Summer Games Are Better →
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There's snow on the ground in every single state...
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“There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can’t. What you’ve...”
– Layne Beachley
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Nirvana is as old today as the Beatles were when...
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Has Anyone Else noticed that Today's Date is:...
not that I watch the movie or tv series or whatever it is, if it even is a tv series… I just know that is a famous plastic surgeon somewhere in america…. unless I got that wrong as well…
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