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American computer developer

A documentary on the growing gap between America's rich and poor has inadvertently cast a spotlight on the relationship between the country's second wealthiest man, Warren Buffett, and his son's adopted daughter.

American actor and film director

legal defence where one attempts to deliberately confuse the jury by making use of the red herring fallacy

When the Sears and Roebuck catalog was first printed on glossy paper, people wrote in to complain because they could no longer use the catalog as toilet paper.

American psychologist, lawyer, inventor and comic book writer

type of train

Why do we bestow people’s names on volatile storms in the first place?

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Kobe Bryant: Grandma inspired me to 81-point game. Secret recipe to score 81? Pepperoni Pizza!

sensationalistic news

very large factory explosion in China in 1626 killing thousands of people

Elzie Segar, the creator of the comic, knew a man in Illinois named Frank “Rocky” Fiegel who inspired the character Popeye. Frank “Rocky” Fiegel  was born January 27,…

When a 40-year-old British woman set off a metal detector alarm at Athens airport, bemused security staff found that it was caused by a chastity belt she was wearing.

For one month a year, a foreign man on a green bicycle can be seen carrying two large bags of dog treats through the small alleys of Rama IV Road and the Lumpini Park area. Those who don't know him and happen to zoom by on the way to work may think that he…

A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ- "bad" and τόπος "place"; alternatively cacotopia or simply anti-utopia) is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. It is an antonym of utopia, a term that was coined by Sir Thomas More and figures as…

Machine-washing a good pair of jeans can actually cause damage to the material

Reports of crewmen screaming and being taken underwater, with blood would rise to the surface along with any lifejacket they had on, were not uncommon.

So if you catch them singing "We Didn't Start the Fire," know that they are lying.

State funeral in 1901