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Did you know ...

 

... there is a very famous sports program in german TV, existing since 1963, and it's a long tradition that at the end of the show all the famous (or not so famous) special guests gather together and they do a shootout on the goal wall.

In 2014 they had a very special guest - Andy Holzer - a blind mountaineer from Austria who made all seven summits. TV editors were unshure how to deal with this - to force a blind person to participate in a goal wall shooting or to exclude him from the event, both didn't seem to be right. But instead he insisted on doing it.

What happend then - might be best to watch in the video (starting ~01:06):

 

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Did you know, when lovers kissing and musicians making music together what happens on the human body is the same? Scientists of the Max-Planck Institute of Human Development discovered the bodies of lovers and musicians synchronize in an amazing way. Not only heart rate synchronizes on all aspects of the electrocardiogram but also brain waves proceed identical. How this is triggered is still a mystery but it seems some kind of smallest 'micro gestures', observable only with high speed cameras, giving the synchronizing pulse.

So basically you can dance together without moving on a floor ... you can dance just inside your body with each other.

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Did you know that in 2011, the state of Texas abolished the act of granting prisoners who were condemned to die a last meal before their execution?  This stemmed from an incident in which Lawrence Russell Brewer, a convicted white supremacist, ordered an enormous meal and refused to eat it - the meal included a triple bacon burger,  two chicken-fried steaks, an omelet, a pound of BBG with half a loaf of bread, three fajitas, a meat-lovers' pizza, a pint of Blue Bell ice cream, a slab of peanut- butter fudge, and three root beers.

 

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Did you know the F-14 is credited with downing three aircraft using one shot? It happened over the course of the Iran-Iraq war. It was against three MiG-23's flying a tight-ship formation. The pilots of the F-14 locked onto the lead aircraft and fired an AiM-54 Phoenix, resulting in a hit. Being that the Phoenix is an anti-bomber ordinance, the explosion hit the escorts, taking them out too.

The Iranian air force produced the only aces for the type and are the only country still flying them.

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Did you know - the booksellers along the river banks of the Seine in Paris are a UNESCO world heritage but not the Tour Eiffel.

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Did you know, with 2000 dead persons each year the R573 - also known as Moloto Road or sometimes 'road of death' - from north of Pretoria towards Marble Hall in South Africa is probably the most dangerous road of the world to travel on.

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Did you know ...  fine feathers make fine birds - or maybe to fool customers with a nice packaging about the content - this wasn't invented  by modern marketing but by christian art?

During 14. century it was a big business in central europe to create woodcarvings like this from holy people:

 

which is a bust of Saint Sebastian for example. You may notice you can open his head. So inside those wooden sculptures there were stored body parts, bones taken from graves, some skull of a poor soul f.e. 

So basically - with the convenient packaging - they made believe that no-name-bones are proprietary bones, holy bones. This way they created as much reliquaries as the market demanded.

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Did you known ...

air pollution causes mental disorder and brain damage?

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Did you know...

Phytoplankton produce half of the world's oxygen and are part of a biological pump moving CO2 from atmosphere to ocean, and that, research indicates as much as a 40% decline in oceanic phytoplankton in about the last 60 years?

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Did you know,

beginning of february 1989 Chris Gueffroy heared about rumors in the GDR army firing order on the border was suspendend. On february 5. he tried to cross the border towards western germany in the believe soldiers wouldn't shoot at him. When he reached the last barrier and tried to climb it, instead they did. One of the bullets went straight into his heart and he was immediatly dead.

In may 1989 all four border soldier who had shot Gueffroy was paid the usual reward of 150 Mark and they got a a badge of honor.

On november 9 GDR opened all borders for free passage to everyone.

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According to International Business Times

"Global warming will induce volcanic eruptions, confirms study"  And sure enough another one just sparked up.

Interesting.  So the global human domestic livestock and slave trade is pretty much over, and all further investment in the stock market of hell is futile.

Good. Engineers.  Sledgehammer your quantum toys and 3D cartoon printers.  Prepare for the actualization of human technological civilization.

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Did you know that despite having an exhibit in Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, the notorious murderer Jack the Ripper is merely indicated as a shadow, and not actually as a waxworks figure?  This depiction is in keeping with the company's policy of not portraying or modeling someone whose likeness or identity is not known.

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Did you know that Hollywood movies used to facilitate development of human mental health before it became a cash cow for the artistically challenged? 

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Did you know ... if you sum up the national balance of all EU member it is 6400 billion euros. The separated balance of the union itself instead is 144 billion euro. This means the EU balance is much smaller than the balance of most single members, f.e. Belgum (~220 billion), Portugal (~90 Billion) . Each citizen living in a members state of the EU has to spent 283 euro each year for EU business. So if I look at my bills and be true and say that I have to pay 480 euro each year for current and I spent ~600 euro each year for tobacco - this means at least to me EU is a far less expensive vice than f.e. smoking.

 

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Did you know that prominent defense attorney F. Lee Bailey was one of the founding publishers of the men's skin magazine (and Playboy copycat) Gallery?

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Did you know, when people loose one of their sense, they become blind or deaf, the part of the brain processing the data from those sense doesn't stop to work?  Instead it tries to cover lost information by taking it from other senses?

Scientists found that on blind people brain area responsible for visualization is quite active, depending on sounds and smells etc. it still tries to create pictures from all available information. Therefore man has basically the same ability for orientation like bats.

 

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Is more like Daredevil than Batman, but I put the blame on the original comic writers for not making Batman blind from the beginning.

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Did you know that not a single frame of footage from the actual movie is used in the trailer promoting John Waters' transgressive underground black comedy film Pink Flamingos?

 

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Did you know that scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California believe that an "anomaly" in the software for NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft was causing the vehicle's computers to be stuck continuously rebooting, and most likely causing it to cease communications?

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Did you know that in addition to compiling collections of folk and faerie tales, the Brothers Grimm were the first authors of the most comprehensive dictionary in the German language - though they only made it as far as the entry for "fruit" before their deaths?

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Did you know that the largest sum paid at auction for a movie poster was $478,000.00? 

The movie was the Lon Chaney silent film London After Midnight; the poster was the only known surviving contemporary copy and originally purchased in 2014 by an anonymous bidder who was later revealed to be Metallica guitarist Kurt Hammett, who displays it as part of his collection on view at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.

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Did you know that people susceptible to rashes from poison ivy may also experience the same effect from contact with mangoes? 

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Did you know that the wicker chair, which has left a marked impression on mankind, was invented at least 6000 years ago?

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Did you know that only a single person has served both as an actor in and a director of different episodes of the classic TV show The Twilight Zone?
Ida Lupino was featured in the first season episode entitled "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine," as well as directing the fifth season episode entitled "The Masks."
Lupino also has the distinction of being the only woman to have directed an episode of the original show.

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Did you know that the pallbearers at the funeral for Lee Harvey Oswald were all reporters there to cover the story?

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Did you know...that in 1887, United States tariff laws established a duty on vegetables (but not fruits), causing the classification of the tomato to become a national legal matter?

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Did you know the dictionary of the Brothers Grimm (mentioned above) was completed in 1961, so 123 years after the release of the first book.