Nikola Tesla openly expressed disgust for overweight people. Once, he fired his secretary solely because of her weight.
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Tuesday, 28 October 2014
Although “Madison” was the second most popular…
Although “Madison” was the second most popular girl’s name in 2001, it was virtually unheard of before the 1984 movie Splash, where a mermaid adopts it as her human name after seeing a street sign for Madison Avenue. To this Tom Hanks’s character initially protests: “But Madison isn’t a name!”
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Humans almost became extinct about 70,000 yeas ago…
Humans almost became extinct about 70,000 yeas ago when the total population dropped below 2,000.
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An employee of the company hired to organize McDonald…
An employee of the company hired to organize McDonald’s Monopoly game rigged it for 5 years. He also admitted to anonymously sending a $1 million game piece to St. Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis.
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Manhattan Project mathematician Richard Hamming…
Manhattan Project mathematician Richard Hamming was asked to check some arithmetic by a fellow researcher. Hamming planned to give it to a subordinate until he realized it was a set of calculations to see if the nuclear detonation would ignite the entire Earth’s atmosphere.
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In Russia many doctors “treat” alcoholism by surgically…
In Russia many doctors “treat” alcoholism by surgically implanting a small capsule into their patients. The capsules react so severely with alcohol that once the patient touches a single drop, they instantly acquire an excruciating illness of similar intensity to acute heroin withdrawal.
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Google has found GPA’s and test scores to be “worthless…
Google has found GPA’s and test scores to be “worthless as a criteria for hiring”; they have teams where 14% of their employees haven’t gone to college.
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