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An entrance to the forgotten tomb.
A great number of mummified cats.
A big and close source of natural oil.

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These cats, revered in Ancient Egypt for their ability to control vermin and snakes, were shipped to England, where they were sold by the ton as fertilizer.

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A neon glowing mushroom.
Petrified lightning.
Food poisoning.
A kind of fungus bad for human feet.

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If lightning strikes sand, the high temperature of the stroke may fuse the sand and instantly convert it into a glass tube (the fulgurite), etching a permanent “petrified” record of its path into the ground.

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A green elf.
His home pet iguana.
His neighbor’s greed.
The failures of his ex-classmates.

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Despite his uncontested talent, Hale suffered from severe psychological troubles and used to take time off to spend a few months at a sanatorium in Maine.

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A woman became a president in Africa.
A lion and a tiger had a hybrid child.
Two satellites collided into each other.

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Three days later, witnesses in Kentucky began hearing sonic booms. The National Weather Service issued a statement alerting residents of “explosions and or earthquakes” because of the falling satellite debris.

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Their father was involved into mafia.
They owned a bicycle manufacturing company.
They owned a large textile factory.

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In 1901 they fitted a third bicycle wheel horizontally above the front wheel of their St. Claire bicycles and used the apparatus as a test platform to study airfoil design.

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They were the inventor, his wife and their child.
They were 3 prisoners sentenced to death.
They were a cockerel, a duck and a sheep.

He later flew himself, but died while attempting to cross the English Channel aboard his Montgolfier balloon. Thus he also became the first known victim of an air crash.

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It’s gold with a part of silver.
It’s pure silver.
It’s copper with a part of silver.

The last pure gold medals were given out long time ago, in 1912.

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“It’s a testing record. Can you hear me?”
“Mary had a little lamb”.
“I don’t believe this thing can record my voice”.

Thomas Edison himself is said to have been surprised when he first heard his words back.

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Mercury in thermometer is dangerous for aluminum planes.
Mercury can cause mass poisoning.
Mercury can be used for a bomb.

Some Allied commandos are believed to have sabotaged German planes that way during World War II.

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They break a bottle of holy water on them.
They pee on them.
They have a special church service before the launch.
They put crosses on the launch platform.

Nowadays, they stop and pee on a wheel of the bus taking them to the launch pad, far from the camera eyes.

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It’s a sun clock with minutes and seconds.
It’s a device to record voice with the help of sun energy.
It’s a wireless solar telegraph.

Initially developed by the British Army Signal Corps for use in India, it signals using Morse code flashes of sunlight reflected by a mirror. Heliographs were still in use by the Pakistani army in 1975.

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His scientific research was continued by Gabriel Fahrenheit.
Scientists reversed his temperature scale.
His family patented all of his inventions.

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Celsius devised his scale so that the 0 represented the boiling point of water and 100 represented its freezing point. Not wanting to offend him, scientists waited until his death to reverse his scale.

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The first printed restaurant menu.
The first book of sport records.
The first telephone book.

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There were no numbers on the page; an operator was providing all the connections required.

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A yo-yo of Pedro Flores.
Ernő Rubik’s Cube.
Tetris of Alexey Pajitnov

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With over 350 million copies sold, this toy has become the world’s best-selling puzzle and given rise to a new art form known as “Rubik’s Cubism”.

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have long arms.
have a photographic memory.
be able to work more than 12 hours a day.

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They needed long arms to establish all the possible connections quickly on the very large 200+ connections’ phone boards.

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the best protection.
to be credible.
to be expensive.
clever audience.

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And judging from Information Technology budgets worldwide, it is getting more expensive every year that goes by.

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The longest noodle.
The longest sushi roll.
The longest ice-cream cone.
The longest chewing gum.

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According to his own web site, “Thin and long one-string noodle implies the meaning of living a long life. The length of the noodle string made for a birthday meal can be as long as tens of meters”.

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Mc Donald’s
Lego
Starbucks
Harrod’s

These bricks are so popular that if all the Lego bricks ever produced were to be divided equally among a world population of six billion, each person would have over 60 Lego bricks!

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see animals on the Moon.
prove the existence of God.
find life on other planets.

The never-built device was designed to be 300 meters (1000 feet) long.

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People brought a million of wreaths in a shape of a telephone.
All telephone operators were informing about his death during all calls.
USA and Canada cut all phone communications for 1 minute.

Besides inventing the first practical telephone, Alexander Graham Bell was also one of the founding members of the National Geographic Society.

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A system for cataloguing medicines.
A system for organizing video archives.
A system for organizing books in libraries.

This system attempts to organize all knowledge into ten main classes.

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sex.com
abc.com
insure.com
money.com

It beat the previous record holder, sex.com, which sold for an estimated 12-14 million dollars.

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It’s the first popular brand of a toothpaste.
It’s a scientific term for a very strong jaw.
It’s a disease that makes jawbones glow.

In the late 1800s this disease was common among workers in match-making factories, because of their use of white phosphorus.

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“A turtle has finally overtaken Achilles”.
“QWERTYUIOP”.
“This is a small step for our research team, but a huge leap for all of the technology”.

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Not realizing the future implications of e-mail, the program’s developer, Ray Tomlinson, told a colleague “Don’t tell anyone! This isn’t what we’re supposed to be working on”.

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