The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a 50,000 word book titled 'Gadsby' which did not use the letter "e".
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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In 2012, redditor laporkenstein forged his own wedding ring out of a Gibeon meteorite.
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In 2013, the Netherlands scheduled 19 prisons to be closed due to a lack of criminals.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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