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If you are looking for a great place to work you might want to fill out a

aplication too work for google. Fortune.com releases an article each

year called the 100 best companys too work for and google has made the

list every year! Some of the free perks include three prepared organic

meals a day unlimitted snacks free personal-fitness classes and even on-

site oil-changes! Need to do you’re laundry or get your hare done. No

problem! They also have free laundry services and hair stylists on the

compound. Google also beleives that a rested employie is a happy won

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Did you no that the first call made with a cellular telephone was

a prank. In 1973 martin cooper was heading up a team of

engineers at motorola that was working to build the worlds first

cell phone. Once it was ready to be tested he decided to ring a

competiter. He called Joel Engel who was also trying to build

the first portable phone at AT&T. Cooper said that when the call

connected, he told engel he was talking too him on a portable

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There is nothing worse then hearing the beeping of your alarm

clock in the morning when you are not ready to get up. If you

are adicted to your snooze button, theres a perfect product for

you. There is an alarm clock that runs away and hides if you

don’t get out of bed on time. When ever you hit the snooze

button, clocky jumps off your night stand and wheeling

around the room looking for a place to hide. If you want the

beeping too stop, you’ll have to get out of bed catch clocky

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When St. Patrick’s day roles around, people traditionally

adorn green, but did you know that green has absolutly

nothing to do with St. Patrick. St. Patrick actually often

wore blue, a color that was tide to ireland during Henry

vii’s rain. The tradition of associating green with Ireland

came around later in the 1800’s. During this time, the

Irish wanted independance from the British and chose

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Did you know that the telegraph was invented out of greif? In

1825, Samuel Morse was hired to travel too paint a portrit.

While he was away his wife suddenly fell ill. It took days for the

news of her illness to reach him, and she was already dead and

buried by the time he arrived home. He was so upset that he quit

his art career and focusing on developing a faster weigh to

comunicate. His passion led him to create a single-wire machine

that transmited text information as a series of on-off tones lights

or clicks that could be understood by a skilled listener or

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The titanic reckage is disapearing. Sunk in 1912 the ship

has survived over one-hundred years, but a newly-

discovered speecies of rust-eating bacteria is slowly

consumming the 50,000 tons of Iron that make up the

sunken liner. Scientists estimate that the great ship might

only have until aproximately 2030 before the tiny

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If you are worryed about a zombie apocalipse, you might want to

head to the Northern rockies. Using the same methods that

epidemiologist would for the spread of real diseses researchers

has predicted that if a actual zombie out break we’re to happen in

new york city, every one in the city would be infected with in

twenty-four hours. On the other hand they found that people

who live further away from big cities would have a whole month

too prepare, with the safest place being in the Rockies!

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If your thinking about asking a friend to make a

pinky swear promise you might want to think again.

The pinky swear first originated in japan and it was

serious bussiness! Known as yubikiri, witch

translates to ‘finger cut-off,’ it means that if you

decide too make a pinky promise and dont keep it,

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Its true what they say love actually does have

the power too heel. Studys shows that when

you have positive loving relationships in

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Toyama a city in japan gets so much snow fall in the

Winter that the high ways became snow tunnels when a

paths finally cleared in march. The walls of the snow

tunnels are as high as sixty-six feet! The roots we’re first

cleared to get supplys to a hotel atop mt. tateyama but the

snow tunnels are so unique that they have now become a

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Fresh air now comes at a price a company in

Switzerland called mountain air from Switzerland

is selling bottled air from the alps for $167 a liter.

Each jar come with a certificate of authentisity and

the gps coordinates of where it was bottled. The

company recommends inhaleing the bottled air

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For most of history women have been trying to cover up

imperfections, to have the appearance of a perfect complexion,

the latest beauty fad goes against this trend as it involves

adding marks to you’re skin! Freckling is a new practise

where in a tatoo artist speckles a smattering of freckles acrost

the tops of the cheeks and nose using a semi-permanant

tattooing technique. One hour-long session costs around $250,

and gives you freckles that can last up to 3 years.

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WWII Militaries used creative decoys to trick there enemys.

Artists, filmmakers, scientists, and sculpters we’re asked to

design fake armies tanks planes roads and bridges to appear

like the real thing. The decoys were built out of canvis,

burlap, and inflatted rubber, these efforts foiled many

attackers, and saved the lives of thousands of soldiers

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A norwegan news cite is attempting to make online

discussion on they’re website more productive buy haveing

reader’s complete a quiz before allowing them to comment.

The quiz requires the person to show, that they have a basic

understanding of the content in the article. There goal is too

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Do you no why some Oysters make pearls. When a

grain of sand gets stuck in the oysters body they ease the

pain and iritation by coating it with multiple layers of

nacre, the mineral that lines the inside of there shells.

This causes a pearl to be formed, cultured pearls are

made in the same way. The only differance is that

instead of accidental circumstances a pearl farmer

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In the early 1900’s lobster was considered to be the

“cockroach of the ocean,” it was a food that was

considered a mark of poverty, and was ate only by

servents or lower class members of soceity. In fact

lobster was a common food served in prison much to

the displeasure of the inmates. It wasnt til well in to

the 20th Century that lobster became a delicacy.

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Jeffrey Katzenberg produced some of disneys

biggest hit films including the little mermaid the

lion king and aladdin. When he requested a

promotion he was abruply fired. Furious at there

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Beleive it or not United States department of

agriculture graded eggs would be illegal if sold in

the united kingdom. Commercial American eggs are

federally required too be washed and sanitized

before they reach the consummer, EU egg

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Lake hillier lies on won of the islands off the west-

coast of Australia. This lake is like no other in that the

water is a bright bubble-gum pink color! The vibrent

color is permanent, and does not alter when the water

is taken in a container. The pink color is a result of the

presence of a organism called dunaliella salina, this

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Theres an uninhabited island in the bahamas called pig

beach that is populated entirely by swimming pigs! The

pigs are said to have been dropped off on Big Major Cay

buy a group of sailers who wanted too come back and

cook them, the sailors, though, never returned. One other

legend says that the pigs was survivors of a ship wreck,

and managed to swim a shore. Another story claims that

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The Blue Whale is the largest animal known to have

ever lived, they can be up to 98 ft in length and 173

tons in weight. You might be surprised to learn that a

blue whales heart alone ways about 400 pounds, and

is approximitely 5 feet long 4 feet wide and 5 feet

tall. In fact the heart is so massive that a human

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Have you ever wondered why wrinkles appear on the

skin of you’re hands after you take a bath or swimming.

These wrinkle’s actually play a important role, when

your body encounters an increased amount of moisture

they understand that the environment might be slippery.

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Lucky and flo are a pair of black labrador retrievers

who we’re trained to detect pirated and counterfit

DVD’s by scent. They are sponsored by the motion

picture association of america as part of a iniciative to

combat copyright infringment. Trained to sniff out the

polycarbonate used on discs the two pups have

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Nearly every supermarket fruit carrys with it a sticky

numeric tag that tells you’re cashiers computer what

snack your taking home with you. What you

probably dont know is that these fruit stickers are

edable, their made out of food grade paper thats safe

too eat. In fact even the glue is food grade, and has

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At the Nakizumo festival in tokyo parent’s hand over there

precious little wons to a Sumo Wrestler who attempts to

bring out the tears. The practice stems from the beleif that

baby’s born with healthy lungs are capable of crying loud.

The loud cry of a baby means that they will live a long

and healthy life, some japanese parents beleive that sumo

wrestlers have the ability too make the baby cry out a wish

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Pirates and sailors of old are often depicted wearing earrings.

These gold hoop’s weren’t just a fashion statement, they

actually served several purposes. Firstly earrings we’re

sometimes gave to young sailors to comemorate they’re 1st

crossing of the equater. Earrings were also wore for

superstitious reasons, some pirates were convinced that

wearing one could improve or cure bad eye-site and some

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A cockroach can live four a week without it’s head!

Due to there open circulatory system and the fact

that they breathe threw little wholes in each of there

body segments they are not dependant on the mouth

or head to breathe. In fact the roach would only die

cause without a mouth it couldn’t drink water, and

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In august 2010 a traffic jam in china stretched for more

than sixty-two miles and lasted more then ten days.

Many driver’s were able to move their vehicules only

0.6 miles per. day and some drivers reported being

stuck in the traffic jam for 5 days, its considered to be

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eBay has seen some interesting items for sale but none

like this one. In 2006 a prankster from australia put New

Zealand up for sale on eBay. The price climbed quick

from just one Australien cent to 3,000$! At that point

eBay managers pulled the auction from the website a

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Before the world of online streaming renting a

movie from the local store and to try to avoid late

fees was common place. In 1997 reed hastings,

knew this pane all to well. He had recieved a $40

late fee after he had rented apollo 13. This inspired

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The fifty-star American flag was designed by a highschool

student named Robert G. Heft for a school project. Heft

originally recieved a B- from his teacher Stanley Pratt. Pratt

agreed that if the flag design was accepted by the US

congress he would reconsider the grade. According to Heft

his teacher honored there agreement, and changed his grade

to a A for his project after his design was chose and adopted

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Sean Connery turned down the roll of gandalf in

the lord of the rings trilogy losing out on near $450

million dollars. Connery turned down the job dispite

being offered 6 million per film, he has been quoted

as saying “I read the book. I read the script. I seen

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An icecream headache also known as a brain freeze

are caused by having something cold touch the roof of

the mouth. Its beleived to result from a nerve response

causing rapid constricting and swelling of blood

vessals. To releive pane some docter’s suggest

pressing the tongue against the roof of the mouth

warming the area tilting the head back for 20

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If your planning a trip to Singapore you might want

to leave you’re chewing gum at home. In the

country, theirs a ban on importing chewing gum, that

is strictly enforced. No gum is permited to be

bought or sold inside singapore and the punishment

for smuggling gum in to the country is up to 2 year’s

in jail, or a $100,000 fine.

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If you’re in China you wont be able to check many of

your favorite social media sites. They’re are over

three-thousand website’s that have been blocked by

chinese authoritys including facebook, instagram,

twitter, and youtube. The countrys policy of internet

censorship prevents users in mainland China from

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It took the creater of the Rubik’s Cube Ernő Rubi one

month too solve the cube after he created it. The

Rubik's Cube was a instent success world wide,

winning severel toy of the year awards, and becoming

a staple of 1980’s popular culture. To date over 350

million Rubik's Cubes have been sold making it the

bestselling toy of all time. The current world record

of solving this puzzle is five point five seconds!

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The odd’s of winning the lottery are incredibly slim,

in 2005 however 110 winner’s took home the

Jackpot. You might think that fraud was involved but

it was actually thanks too a simple fortune cookie.

Wonton food inc produces over 4 million cookies a

day and one of those days had a fortune cookie that

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Googles homepage has a button labeled I’m

Feeling Lucky. When a user types something in

search and hits that button their took direct to the

1st search result. According to a study by Tom

Chavez this feature actually cost google $110

million dollars a year, as 1% of all searches use

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Not many people know that the color of a persons hair

may have something to do with his or her tolerence for

pain. Research shows that people with red hair may

have more sensativity too certain types of pain and

require 20% more anestesia, researchers beleive that this

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The big jolly santa claus in the red suit that we all know and

love didn’t always look that way. Prior to 1931 Santa was

depicted as every thing from a tall gaunt man to a spooky-

looking elf. The Santa of today was actually first depicted in

a coca cola advertisment! In 1930, Coca-Cola commisioned

a illustrator named Haddon Sundblom to develop

advertising images of Santa Claus. He based his drawing on

the description from Clement Clark Moores poem, “‘Twas

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