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TIL in 1945 Soviets presented America a gift of the Great Seal of the US at the end of WWII, in 1952 the US finally realized it contained a listening bug

Body type: Form vs function

On this day 146 years ago, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis died in an insane asylum. He was there for claiming that doctors washing hands between autopsies and births would save thousands of lives. They insisted that "a gentleman's hands are always clean" and didn't relent for 21 years. Hats off to this guy.

TIL Chinese Pizza Huts removed all salad bars as patrons would exploit the 'one bowl' rule by constructing massive vegetable towers.

The ever-expanding definition of corporate personhood: "[W]hen a corporation can claim it is a person with constitutional rights, it means their lawyers can go into court and overturn democratically enacted laws."

"As the Perseid meteor shower begins to subside, there is one observer who was perfectly positioned to take a photograph where the skies are guaranteed to be clear from cloud. NASA astronaut Ron Garan — who is currently living aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as part of Expedition 27 — captured this stunning photograph of a Perseid out of the ISS window."

 

Warren Buffet in NYT op-ed: "We mega-rich should not continue to get extraordinary tax breaks while most Americans struggle to make ends meet." "My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It's time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice."

 

Tokyo teenager takes hundreds of pictures of herself jumping, looks like she's levitating...

 

Soldier welcomed home from deployment by MASSIVE dog.

 

TIL Russia and the USA are 2.5 miles apart at their closest point. And that point is inhabited by people. In the middle of the Bering Strait.

 

Julian Assange: "The looters and rioters who torched Britain’s neighbourhoods are “doing Big Brother” a favour by giving the government more latitude to destroy citizens’ rights and freedoms."

 

This video destroyed my whole world view

 

Teenage girl blazes Jimi Hendrix 'Red House'

http://www.google.com/search?q=Jimi+Hendrix+%27Red+House%27

 

Michele Bachmann claims unemployment benefits are unaffordable, but she and her husband have taken $1,100,000 from taxpayers for her clinic, farm, and salary since she has been in the US Congress for the past 4 years

 

They Never Told Us These Things --- Much of the uranium for the Manhattan Project came from a mine in north-west Canada. The indigenous people who worked there had no idea what use the material would be put to, or how their own health would suffer

 

News from Fukushima: "The equivalent of 29.6 times of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, or in terms of uranium about 20 atomic bombs, were released by the accident, [...]"

 

Hello World: Israel is Out-Classing You in Civil Disobedience

 

Israel protests spread to 18 cities: More than 100,000 take to Israel's streets as protests show no sign of slowing down.

 

Just lost my innocence