In 2013, a man bought a house next to his ex-wife just to install a giant middle finger statue for her to see every day.
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Man erects giant middle finger next door to ex-wife
So over her. Which is presumably why he bought the house next to hers and erected a $7000 statue of a hand with its middle finger raised in the backyard. The bronze statue, which is about 3.5 metres...
Internet trolls are likely to be sadists, narcissists, or psychopaths, studies show. One of the studies found that the link between sadism and Internet trolling is so strong that trolls could be described as “prototypical everyday sadists.”
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Internet Trolls Are Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Sadists
Trolls will lie, exaggerate, and offend to get a response.
In 1958, a white girl kissed two African American boys aged 9 and 7 on the cheeks. The two boys were arrested, detained for 6 days without access to their parents or legal counsel, and were severely beaten by the police. The boys were detained for a total of 3 months.
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Kissing Case
arrest, conviction and lengthy sentencing of two black boys in North Carolina after a white girl kissed them on the cheek
Going to the bathroom is one of the most dangerous things a sloth can do. Half of all sloth deaths occur while they are climbing to and from the forest floor, which is where they poop.
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Pope John Paul II once told Stephen Hawking to not study the beginning of the universe because it was the work of God.
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Swedish and Scandinavian children dress up as witches and go door-to-door asking for candy on Easter.
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Who are Sweden’s Easter witches?
Each year in Sweden and Finland, young children continue a centuries-old tradition marking the night that witches celebrated Sabbath with the devil before Jesus’s resurrection.
Through a series of mistranslated texts, the Christian Church unwittingly accepted the Buddha as a Christian saint in the Middle Ages
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Barlaam and Josaphat
two saints
The Dothraki language used in Game of Thrones was designed to sound like Arabic to the untrained ear, or a mix between Spanish and Arabic to anyone who knows Arabic.
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Intellectual property law doesn’t cover magic tricks. An original trick can be stolen from a magician and there’s nothing he can do about it.
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A suicide bomber with explosives in his laptop boarded the Somali owned Daallo Airlines in 2016 intending to blow the whole aircraft. Twenty minutes after takeoff, the bomb exploded, creating a hole in the plane, and the suicide bomber was sucked out of the plane. He was the only fatality.
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Source: ‘Sophisticated’ laptop bomb on Somali plane got through X-ray machine | CNN
The explosive device built into a laptop computer that detonated on a Somalia passenger jet got past X-ray machines at the Mogadishu airport, a source says.
There is more genetic variety within Africa than the rest of the world combined. In other words, Western Europeans and East Asians are potentially more genetically similar to each other than two Africans from the same village (assuming no family lineage).
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Larger genetic differences within africans than between Africans and Eurasians.
The worldwide pattern of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) variation is of great interest to human geneticists, population geneticists, and evolutionists, but remains incompletely understood. We studied the pattern in noncoding regions, because they ...
On average, the center of gravity is about three percent higher in blacks than whites. This partially explains why blacks are better sprinters and whites are better swimmers.
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For speediest athletes, it's all in the center of gravity
In the record books, the swiftest sprinters tend to be of West-African ancestry and the faster swimmers tend to be white. A study of the winning times by elite athletes over the past 100 years reveals two distinct trends: not only are these athletes getting…
Prisoners of war in Canada, during world war 2, were treated so nicely that they didn’t want to leave Canada when released.
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It was common in Ancient Greece to write a text bi-directionally, meaning that one line would be written from left to right and the following line, from right to left. Not only would the reading direction change, but the letters were also mirrored from one line to the other.
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Boustrophedon
form of writing, left-to-right and right-to-left in alternate lines
In South Korea, men who win Olympic medals do not have to participate in the two-year long mandatory military service.
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China tried to build a city that was a replica of Paris, right down to the replica of Eiffel Tower, but it’s now a ghost town
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China tried to build a city to replicate Paris ... Here's what it looks like now
A photo tour of Tianducheng, a Paris replica in China.
Since 1981, every Chinese citizen over 11 has been required to plant three to five trees per year.
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During WWII, the Japanese Bombed China with fleas and other insects with the Bubonic Plague (Black Death) creating massive epidemic outbreaks.
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Special care was taken while restoring Shakespeare’s grave to ensure that his bones remained untouched as the epitaph on his tombstone reads: “Good friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear, to dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, and cursed be he that moves my bones.”
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