14 Facts about our world that are truly incredible
Nathan Johnson
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02/01/2018
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People are building their own huge batteries for home energy storage from hundreds of salvaged laptop batteries. -
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Swintec is a company in New Jersey that sells up to 5,000 typewriters a year to prisoners in the US. Their typewriters have clear plastic covers so inmates can’t hide anything inside. -
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A cryptocurrency mining company called Genesis Mining is growing so fast that they rent Boeing 747s to ship graphics cards to their Bitcoin mines in Iceland. -
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“There are more chickens in America than people on the planet.” -
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In only a five-block stretch of St. Charles Avenue, which is the yearly Mardi Gras parade route in downtown New Orleans, cleanup crews unearthed 93,000 pounds of beads. -
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The National Health Service in the UK uses more than a tenth of the global stock of pagers. -
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“It took humanity approximately 4 times longer to switch from copper swords to steel swords than it took to switch from steel swords to nuclear bombs.” -
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Taco Bell spent ten years trying to develop a cheese-stuffed taco shell, helped by a cheese promotion group called Dairy Management Inc, known as ‘the Illuminati of cheese’. After a successful trial, they’re “figuring out how to get robots to pick up cheese and put it on tortillas” for a full-scale launch. -
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“Artificial intelligence systems pretending to be female are often subjected to the same sorts of online harassment as women.” -
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“The Holy Roman Empire existed until 30 years after the United States was founded (1776-1806).” -
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Dana Lewis from Alabama built herself an artificial pancreas from off-the-shelf parts. -
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In the UK, marriages between couples over 65 have risen 46% over the last decade. -
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“There was a period of time where four distinct species of human lived concurrently.” -
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Vice Media is worth more than the New York Times, Washington Post and Financial Times combined.
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