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Three doctors measured the amount of nicotine in plants of the nightshade family: comprising tobacco, they also include aubergines, but also tomatoes and potatoes, all species containing nicotine. A sample result: ten kilogrammes of eggplants, or aubergines, provide as much nicotine as one cigarette.
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"Scientists can grow teeth out of the stem cells found in urineExtracting stem cells from urine samples, researchers at the Guangzhou institute of biomedicine then proceeded to grow artificial teeth from there. As the teeth were not as hard as natural teeth, and the cells not in their best state, urine might not be the best source: further research is needed."
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"Norway hires shepherds from Nepal to build paths in the Norwegian mountains. They have completed over 300 projects, and their pay for one summer equals 30 years of work in Nepal."
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"Slinky, the toy, was originally designed during WW2 to help sensitive instruments remain steady on ships… to counter the effects of pitch, roll, and yaw. The engineer working on them knocked one off his desk accidentally, saw the way it moved from the table to the chair, to the floor, and a new purpose was born.
On a side note… during the Vietnam War, when the Slinkys were metal, radio operators would carry them through the deep jungles. If they couldn’t get a good signal in the jungle mountains, they’d sling a Slinky high into the tree limbs while holding onto one end. It created an instant antenna extension that they would attach to the radio."
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"Richard Norris Williams was a Titanic Survivor who spent over 6 hours waist-deep in freezing water – after rescue doctors wanted to amputate both his legs – he refused and went on to win the Wimbledon Men’s Doubles in 1920."
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In the original ending of the Inca-inspired animated film “The Emperor’s New Groove”, the titular Emperor demolishes a rainforest to create a theme park. Sting – who spent 20 years defending the rights of indigenous people – threatened to leave the project unless the ending was changed.
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"Children have more energy than endurance athletes. They have fatigue-resistant muscles and they recover faster than adults. Much of this stems from their ability to uptake and distribute oxygen, as well as synergize energy faster."
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During WWII, Germany carried out only one land operation in north America, the installation of a secret weather station in Newfoundland. They scattered American cigarette packets and planted a sign saying “Canadian Meteor Service” in case anyone found it, and the site wasn’t rediscovered until 1977.
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During WWII the only time the German battleship Tirpitz fired her main guns at the enemy was at a weather station on the arctic island of Spitsbergen.
Accompanied by another battleship and nine destroyers.
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This is a page from the Klencke Atlas, made in 1660 by the Dutch, as a gift to King Charles II. The writing at the bottom looks small, too small to read.
Except it isn't small writing....
... instead it's just a very, very, very big book. All the better to see the 41 maps that are in it. At the time it was made it contained maps of all of the earth that was known to Europeans. It was the largest book ever made until 2012. It actually has wheels at the bottom to move it around and it requires 6 people to life it.
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Tag brothers are a group of 10 men who had been playing the game of tag since 1990, chasing each other around the country, traveling by plane, car etc. As of 2018, the game was still ongoing.
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To put that into perspective; the fastest speed humans have travelled in a vehicle was 25,000 MPH in Apollo 10 when it was returning from orbiting the moon. Though all the Apollo missions were within one percent of that speed. By comparison the Space Shuttle topped out at 17,500 MPH. Even if you filled its cargo bay with fuel tanks it wouldn't have enough to reach the moon. Well I suppose it would eventually. But then it would have to come back and if it came back at 25,000 MPH it would burn up like a match.
For Apollo to get to the moon from Earth orbit it needed this third stage of the Saturn V rocket assembly.
Basically a tube of fuel containing quarter of a million litres of liquid hydrogen firing through a nozzle for a couple of minutes to get them up to 25,000 MPH. At launch the Saturn V's engines guzzled 20 tonnes of fuel per second.
Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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