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Connect Four might be a game that triggers childhood flashbacks, but it's not simple stuff. In fact, Numberphile reports that there are more than 4 trillion unique ways to fill a standard board. But there's only one way to guarantee a win every time.

Tonic immobility is a reflex that causes a temporary state of inactivity in an animal. Similar to hypnosis. It occurs in a variety of different species, including many sharks and rays...

American poker player (1953-1998)

The most precise mirrors, most powerful pulsed industrial laser for semiconductor technology: EUV lithography makes the mikrochips of the future possible.

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oldest known worked wooden implement

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Looking back at the legendary super-group's second show ever, which just so happened to be at the tail end of Woodstock.

Click image to enlarge Drs William Hawes and Thom­as Cogan, who practised medicine in London, England, around 1774, formed The Institution for affording immediate Relief to Persons apparently dead, from drowning. This group later became the Royal Hu­mane…

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Each month Mash Direct will feature a vegetable of the month based on its “in season in Ireland” credentials.  This months’ star vegetable is Broccoli.
Enjoying vegetables in season makes sense, it ensures it’s freshness and it means that you are more than…

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If the legendary gospel vocalist Mahalia Jackson had been somewhere other than the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963, her place in history would still have been assured purely on the basis of her musical legacy. But it is almost impossible…

Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas

treaty that forms the legal basis of, and is implemented by, the NATO

Master Sergeant Raul Perez "Roy" Benavidez (August 5, 1935 – November 29, 1998) was a United States Army soldier who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his valorous actions in combat near Lộc Ninh, South Vietnam on May 2, 1968, while serving as a member of…

Mayhem are one of the most controversial metal bands of the last few decades, today we look at the insane life of their equally controversial co-founder, Euronymous.

The Mayhem Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zVGbhvyxEKfX0HV2R04BnHCzgVUBX-…

People who tend livestock are among those who face the most danger. How does your profession rank for workplace death rates?