10 Inventors Who Lived to Regret Their Inventions
You know their creations, but these inventors aren't proud of their handiwork.
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10 Notable Women of History in Science
Let’s be honest: we take science and technology for granted. Just be glad that these women didn’t, because they changed our world forever with their efforts.
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The Fascinating Origins of Idioms
So you’ve found yourself enjoying a morning bowl of your favourite bran-based breakfast cereal and you have a sudden urge to find out exactly what an idiom is. You Google it, and now here you are.
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8 Worst Jobs Kids Used to do
Most adults today have a story about a horrible job they held as a kid, but as bad as they thought it might have been the odds are overwhelming it wasn't nearly as awful (or lethal) as what children were expected to do in the past.
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Albert Einstein’s Neutron Star Collision Roadmap
Today’s scientists just witnessed two stars collide 130 million years in the past. We have Albert Einstein to thank for showing us where to look.
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Bug Your Friends About The Importance Of Insects
We all hate it when bugs crash a good picnic, but actually insects are vital to our survival, and we should stop wiping them out. German researchers just released some shocking bug news.
Since 1989 they have tracked insect growth in nature reserves. Recent data shows that flying insect populations are down by 80%. This is the latest statistic to prove that insects are in danger. Since 1990, the butterfly population in Europe has fallen by 50%. Honeybees in North America have dropped by 59% since WWII, and moth populations in the UK fell 30% each decade.
<a href="https://rumble.com/v30rex-11-most-terrifying-bugs.html" target="_blank">Humans may not always love bugs</a>, but we can’t live without them. We rely on insects to pollinate 80% of the world’s plants, including most of the fruits and vegetables we eat daily. Bugs maintain the balance of nature by eating destructive crops, and they make our world cleaner by breaking down all sorts of waste.
<a href="https://rumble.com/v3iqof-unique-and-mysterious-breed-of-bug-spotted-in-texas.html" target="_blank">A bug’s life</a> is quite connected to our own, but their numbers are dropping and we need to know why. Pollutants and pesticides are the usual suspects. Scientists agree that ecosystems are resilient, but nature won’t hold out forever. We have to act now.
Share this and bug your friends about the importance of insects.
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This Is What Dancing till You Drop Looks Like. Literally.
In an era when food was a luxury for most Americans, dance marathons could mean the difference between a decent meal or going to bed hungry.
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Why Animals No Longer Need to Die for Our Leather Shoes
An American company has invented an industry-changing, fashion-friendly leather product that will definitely have cows breathing easier.
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The Skinny Pig That Makes Low-Fat Bacon!
Scientists have discovered a way to make the piggies that go to market skinnier but will this new, low-fat bacon ever reach your table?
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Meet the Hunters After the Greatest Theft in History
Amongst the many nasty things the Nazis did during WWII was steal a lot of art. Billions of dollar's worth, in fact. Thankfully, someone is on the trail.
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You Would Never Expect These Things To Be Made In China
In the '90s China wanted to bring the Western world to its home shores, beginning a building spree that mimicked entire European cities. China is well-known for its pirated DVDs and fake iPhones, but this "copycat culture" extends to architecture too, with entire towns replicated. Copycat architecture is blooming in China!
If these places look like Europe to you, we have some bad news. They are all fakes! These are all landmarks that China copied from the rest of the world. There’s more behind this architectural mimicry than you might think. It is a matter of Western hardware with Chinese software!
In the 1990’s, China’s economy took off. People no longer wanted to live in dull concrete cubes. They adopted Western styles, associated with wealth and power. Along with replicating single buildings and cultural icons, China has outdone itself by copying entire cities. So, now you can ride a gondola in <a href="https://rumble.com/v3o1ot-fake-sellers-dupe-one-million-amazon-customers.html" target="_blank">fake</a> Venice, or make a call from a red phone booth in a fake London. But even though this copycat cities are Western-designed, replicas often contain Chinese tearooms and follow feng-shui principles.
It's hard not to be curious about the <a href="https://rumble.com/v3ik4b-chinese-robots-taken-down-after-rogue-outburst.html" target="_blank">Chinese</a> fondness for copycat architecture. As the country's economy skyrockets faster than any other's, China's suburbs are sprouting up replicas of iconic landmarks from mostly European cities.
There's a miniature Paris, complete with Eiffel Tower, in the outskirts of Hangzhou. There's a British-inspired "Thames Town" outside of Shanghai. The White House is one of the most copied buildings throughout the country, and people love to live and work inside these structures. China's passion for derivative architecture might seem bizarre.
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Can Dancing Underwater Help Save the Ocean?
Artist Christine Ren is combining dance with amazing underwater imagery to send an important message about how humans impact the environment.
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The Biggest Mass Shooting In U.S. History Happened 100 Years Ago
The largest mass shooting in the U.S. took place in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which was encouraged in part by the police.
Greenwood, a segregated area of Tulsa was thriving thanks to a local oil boom and the district earned itself the nickname “Black Wall Street”. The white population was resentful of the success of the African-Americans.
Tensions boiled over when a black man was suspected of assaulting a white woman. An angry mob gathered at the courthouse where the man was detained. <a href="https://rumble.com/v3rhg3-surviving-a-mass-shooting.html" target="_blank">Gunshots were fired</a> between blacks and whites.
The next day, a white mob descended on Greenwood and burned it to the ground. Police deputized 500 whites as Special Deputies. Up to 300 black people were murdered, mostly by gunfire. Some of them by the deputized whites who were also torching the neighborhood. More than 1,200 homes were looted and burned, 9,000 people were left homeless. <a href="https://rumble.com/v3rnw1-las-vegas-mass-shooting-deadliest-in-us-history.html" target="_blank">Lest we forget</a>!
The phrase "Lest we forget" is commonly used in war remembrance services and commemorative occasions in English speaking countries, in particular Remembrance Day and ANZAC Day. Before the term was used in reference to soldiers and war, it was first used in a 1897 Christian poem written by Rudyard Kipling called "Recessional".
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The Men Who Dress in Designer Clothes on a Dollar a Day
The Republic of Congo has very stylin' individuals who wear outlandish outfits worth more than the homes they live in.
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The Rescue Agency Flying Dogs Cross-Country
Sometimes life for man's best friend can get 'ruff', so Pilots N Paws looks skyward to get stray dogs to loving, forever homes.
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Baby Farms Once Existed in Sri Lanka
This is not a plotline from The Handmaid's Tale, but the very real story of Sri Lankan babies being farmed for international adoption.
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The Crazy German Theater With a 19-Mile-Long Stage
Bewegtes Land offers live-action snippets of entertainingly simple theater for train passengers on a real-life 19-mile-long moving stage.
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The New Silent Killer That Never Quits
Yes, you can work yourself into an early grave. Nowhere is that more evident than in Japan, where extreme overwork is proving to be deadly.
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The Secret Underground World of the Hang Son Doong Cave
Vietnam's Hang Son Doong is more than just a cave - it's a massively majestic world unto itself filled with jungles and a river.
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10 Hero Animals From The Past And Present
A hero can come in many shapes and sizes, and as we like to point out sometimes they might also bark and play fetch.
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Why We Need To Stop Telling Women To Smile
Is society placing an unreasonable expectation on women to always have a smile on their face?
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The High-Diving Horses That Risked Death Every Day to Entertain People
Making a horse jump 60 feet into a pool of water used to be considered fun. For the people watching, not necessarily the horse.
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Who Was The First Woman to Run For President? Not Hillary Clinton.
The first woman to run for president wasn't applauded for her efforts, she became a maligned social outcast branded a 'witch.'
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The Vegetative Human Brain
Researchers can now communicate with vegetative patients once thought lost causes. What those patients are telling us is startling.
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Photographer Visits Buran, Russia's Mothballed Space Shuttle
Here we have quite the adventure where couple of guys form Interesting Shit group have decided to visit a long forgotten Soviet Shuttle Station that is located somewhere in the middle of the dessert.
They have quite the journey that takes them travelling by plane, a car and on foot to reach their destination. These guys travel over 1600 kilometers in the hope to discover a long abandoned space station.
On their travel they face a couple of minor barriers which ends up making the trip double the fun.
Once they reach their destination it proves to be quite the mysterious sort of place. Its a huge garage looking place with massively giant iron doors. The kind of security you would invest in if you wanted to be isolated basically from everything and everyone else.
The story takes a even more interesting turn once they get inside. Their jaws drops once they feast their eyes on all the wonders inside this massive building. Must see and find out the whats and whose is waiting for these guys on the inside.
Quite the story we have on our hands here!
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