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1. Urea, a chemical compound that is a major component in urine, is used to add “flavor” to cigarettes.
2. The United States is the only major cigarette market in…
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10 Things You Never Knew About Cigarettes
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3 Comments »Money that glows in the dark
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Have you ever handed someone the wrong currency note in a dark place like a cab?
These are paper Notes that emit a soft glow, just enough to help ensure you hand out the correct bill. Check them out after the jump…
Posted in Amazing Photos Tags: cab, currency, currency note, dark, note, place, soft glow, someone No Comments »These Antenna Installation Instructions Are Surprisingly Specific
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Doing the above, will make your antenna installation fail…
Posted in Funny Photos Tags: antenna, antenna installation, funny, installation, weird No Comments »Ice toilet
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Would you sit there? More ice toilets after the jump…
10 Amazing Tricks to Play with your Brain
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Mind is the aspect of intellect and consciousness experienced as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will and imagination, including all unconscious cognitive processes. Mind manifests itself subjectively as a stream of consciousness. Neuroanatomists usually consider the brain to be the pivotal unit of what we refer to as mind. The Human Brain tricks us whenever it [...]
Posted in Interesting Tags: bodily sensations, brain, Depth, England, eye, perception, ping pong balls, Pinocchio, sound, stream of consciousness, tuning a radio, wounded hands No Comments »Predictions that missed the mark
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In 1894, the president of the Royal Society, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, predicted that radio had no future. The first radio factory was opened five years later. Today, there are more than one billion radio sets in the world, tuned to more than 33 000 radio stations around the world. He also predicted that…
Posted in Interesting Tags: A.A. Michelson, alexander graham bell, century, Charles H. Duell, distance around the earth, E.W. Morley, Earth, Elvis Presley, future, greek astronomer, H.M. Warner, Henry Ford II, Ken, Lord Kelvin, Mark, President McKinley, radio, Rex Lambert, Thomas Watson, U.S., US, volkswagen beetle, William Thomson, william thomson lord kelvin, world, Wright Brother No Comments »Hand in Hand Clock creates a new relation between hours and minutes
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Developed as a university project while studying at Konstfack University College of Arts, Craft and Design in Stockholm, the “Hand in Hand Clock” by designer Yen-Wen Tseng is a unique timepiece that creates a new relation between hours and minutes, giving a new dimension to the portrayal of time. Connecting the hour and minute hand with…
Posted in Amazing Photos Tags: art forms, Clock, different art, Hand, Konstfack, new dimension, project, Stockholm, timepiece, tseng, university, Yen-Wen Tseng No Comments »
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