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2024-04-27 21:16:36 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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2024-04-26 22:40:23 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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2024-04-23 12:05:13 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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2024-04-22 15:50:39 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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2024-04-21 17:24:19 It is not uncommon for successful people to underestimate and devalue their own achievements, and even believe that their own success/competence/intelligence is fraudulent. This mindset is known as Impostor Syndrome.

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2024-04-21 12:30:42 "I Am" is the shortest complete sentence in English. In English, a full sentence requires both a subject and a predicate. The statement 'I am' has both the subject- I and the predicate- am. It also conveys a comprehensive thought. So, 'I am' is the shortest sentence.

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2024-04-21 09:16:49 There is a parasitic barnacle that will infect a crab, castrate the males, make them think they’re female, and force them to carry around the barnacle’s brood as if it is their own.

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2024-04-20 13:26:31 Adolf Hitler, the infamous German dictator, was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary, near the border with the German Empire. He was the fourth of six children born to Alois Hitler and his third wife, Klara Pölzl.

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2024-04-19 16:51:17 2015 is 11111011111 in binary, making the year 2015 a palindrome year. We won’t have another one of these until 2047.

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2024-04-19 09:12:52 Pepsi used a chimpanzee to roll dice in order to determine the grand prize number for their Billion Dollar Sweepstakes.

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