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There is an insect that can perform photosynthesis! 27 Aug 2013 | 10:14 am
There is an insect that can perform photosynthesis! This plant-bug freak is called the pea aphid; dismissed by farmers as pests, but a fascinating work of nature. Alain Robichon of the Sophia Agrobio...
A woman committed suicide via lion! 27 Aug 2013 | 09:13 am
A woman committed suicide via lion! In 1909, a play running at the Theatre Moncy featured Abyssinian lions in one of the scenes. The lion tamer was living with an unidentified woman and sources say t...
Gold is edible! 27 Aug 2013 | 08:14 am
Gold is edible! Though it was no nutritional value or taste for that matter, I guess some people just feel powerful digesting it. Edible gold leaves are generally used to decorate food. In candy maki...
There is about 0.2 mg of gold in our bodies! 27 Aug 2013 | 07:13 am
There is about 0.2 mg of gold in our bodies! Everyone comes into the world with a bit of gold to their name. Our bodies contain about 0.2 mg of gold. Most of that gold is diffused with our blood. How...
The father of realism's last words were 'quite the contrary,' in response to a nurse saying he was doing better. He died the next day! 27 Aug 2013 | 06:16 am
The father of realism’s last words were ‘quite the contrary,’ in response to a nurse saying he was doing better. He died the next day! Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major 19th century Norwegian playwright...
Every year, about 6000 US patients have surgical tools left inside them! 27 Aug 2013 | 05:14 am
Every year, about 6000 US patients have surgical tools left inside them! Yay health care system. Thousands patients every year in America take a little souvenir home from their surgery. Occasionally,...
The main benefactor for The Smithsonian never set foot in America! 27 Aug 2013 | 04:13 am
The main benefactor for The Smithsonian never set foot in America! The Smithsonian is the world’s great and arguably grandest museum and research complex, consisting of 19 museums and galleries, the ...
When the first shopping cart was introduced, the store had to hire actors to push them around because people hated them! 27 Aug 2013 | 02:13 am
When the first shopping cart was introduced, the store had to hire actors to push them around because people hated them! Sylvan Goldman first introduced the shopping cart on June 4th, 1937, in the Hu...
The Beatles refused to come on stage in Florida until the crowd was desegregated! 27 Aug 2013 | 12:14 am
The Beatles refused to come on stage in Florida until the crowd was desegregated! Few groups are more synonymous with free love and social rights than the Beatles. For anyone wondering, their actions...
A radical Islamic sect lived underground for over ten years! 26 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
A radical Islamic sect lived underground for over ten years! In Russia, a radical Islamic sect was recently discovered living in an underground bunker without heat or sunlight for nearly a decade! Th...
