In 2014, a college in upstate New York started offering classes on the sociology of Miley Cyrus.
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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Keanu Reeves gave $75 million of his matrix sequels paycheck to the film’s SFX team and bought the entire stunt crew Harley Davidson motorcycles.
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The Rain Man (Laurence Kim Peek) was the only savant known to science who could read two pages of a book simultaneously - one with each eye.
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Using a remote-controlled camera, biologists caught dolphins getting high by sucking on puffer fish. They were even caught passing the puffer fish around.
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In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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