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September 7, 2013
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The inventor of Velcro took 20 years to take his idea from concept to production and even then the apparel industry wasn't sold on it. It wasn't until NASA came along asking about it for use in space that the fashion industry then went wild due to it now being space aged.

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Suzanne Somers was fired from 'Three’s Company' for asking for equal pay with her male co-star, John Ritter, who was earning five times her salary.

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Honeybees can recognize human faces. Whereas before it was thought that only large brained mammals could distinguish faces, but honeybees can do this as well! They see faces in a compilation of 5,000 individual images.

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The Library of Congress estimates 75% of all silent films are lost forever. The largest cause of silent film loss was intentional destruction, as before the era of television, films were viewed as having little future value when theatrical runs ended.

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A McDonald's burger doesn't rot, not because there are any mysterious chemicals in it, but because low moisture and dehydration basically turn it into jerky.

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As a kid, Ice-T had his bike stolen. He told his father about it; he simply shrugged and said: "Well, then, you ain't got no bike." Ice-T then stole parts from various bicycles and assembled "three or four weird-looking, brightly-painted bikes" from the parts. His father never even noticed.

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No matter what height a squirrel falls from, it will almost always survive due to its relatively low terminal velocity.

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A guy in 19th Century China managed to convince over 30 million people he was Jesus Christ's brother, and attempted to rebel against the Chinese Government, starting one of the bloodiest civil wars in human history.

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Alabama Governor George Wallace took the oath of office standing on a gold star, which marked the very spot that The President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis stood when he took the oath in 1861.

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Air conditioning caused various shifts in demography, notably that of the USA starting from the 1970s. Until 1970, the birth rate in the spring was lower than during the other seasons, but the introduction of air conditioning leveled out this difference at the end of the 20th century.

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