The One Thing Elon Musk Is Most Terrified Of
There is one thing that keeps tech billionaire Elon Musk up at night, and it's not spiders or ghosts or dying in a fiery hyperloop accident. This is the one thing Elon Musk is most terrified of.
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The Truth About Elon Musk's Relationship With His Father
Elon Musk described his childhood as "miserable," claiming that his dad was capable of carrying out "evil" deeds.
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The Truth About Abraham Lincoln's Inventions
Lincoln is not just a good politician; he was also something of an inventor, dabbling in mechanical creativity. And he even managed a patent for one of his inventions, said Time Magazine, the first (and so far, only) president to hold a patent.
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This Is The Only Living Person Who Knows The Recipe For Campari
The unusual liqueur has been around since 1860, when Milan-based café owner Gaspare Campari bottled some of the stuff in his basement, as recounted by Saveur. Its candied vermilion hue, spiced yet bitter taste retains a refined, unique quality that beckons the drinker to challenge their senses.
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The Truth About Calvin Coolidge's Strange Obsession With Vaseline
Besides Vaseline in particular, Coolidge had some interesting ideas about health in general. The website Medicare Supplement ranks him as the 22nd healthiest president in history, earning a grade of C and receiving the dubious distinction of "pickiest eater of all presidents."
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Leopold And Loeb: The Truth About America's Original Evil Geniuses
Loeb wanted to make the newspapers with a crime so sensational that the press couldn't help but take notice. Although Leopold would later claim that he only went along with the plan "to please Dick" (via PBS), he had his own interest in committing the perfect crime.
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What You Didn't Know About The Religion Based On The Big Lebowski
Is it such a stretch for a movie like The Big Lebowski to inspire some sort of life credo? Think about it for a second. How bad could a religion be that brings the laid-back teachings of "The Dude" to life?
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The Strange Prediction Made About 21st Century Women
"The woman of the year 2000 will be an outsize Diana, anthropologists and beauty experts predict. She will be more than six feet tall, wear a size 11 shoe, have shoulders like a wrestler and muscles like a truck driver." According to Roe, women would have "Amazonian" proportions.
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The Incredible True Story Of The Texas Rangers
While a "day in the life of" may not be as glamorous as Chuck Norris delivering roundhouse kicks to the jaws of '90s TV ruffians, the small cadre of elite Texan police plays an actual, prominent role in the state's law enforcement and criminal investigation, kind of like a Texas-only FBI.
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The Reason Why Pythagoras Might Not Have Been Real
The majority of people who've never taken a philosophy class have a hard time naming -- or caring about, for that matter -- more than a handful of philosophers, but any middle school student could tell you who Pythagoras was. He was the guy with the triangles. All of the "a²+b²=c²" nonsense.
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What It Was Really Like On New Year's, 1000 AD
The beginning of a new year has always been cause for celebration, introspection, and superstition, but as we saw in 1999 when Y2K was a thing, it's also a time for fear, uncertainty, and doubt. It wasn't so different 1,000 years ago. Here's what it was really like on New Year's, 1000 AD.
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What Life Was Like For Doctors In The Wild West
Living in the Wild West wasn't easy, but doctors did their best to save their patients. Here's what life was like for doctors in the Wild West.
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Why It Took 138 Days To Decide The Winner Of The 1981 Indy 500
"Maybe I didn't deserve to win the race, but neither did he," Andretti told Motor Trend Magazine. "The rule was clear, and a rule is a rule. Bobby won the race, but he cheated winning it. There's an asterisk next to that one." But it wasn't that simple.
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The Truth About The Stonehenge Replica In Lake Michigan
ZME Science reported in 2017 that they used sonar technology to uncover sunken boats, cars, a Civil War-era pier and structures that looked like boulders arranged similarly to those found in England's Stonehenge -- where about 100 stones stand in a circle.
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The Details About Indonesia's Mysterious Stone Statues
They date back to about the 14th Century, but very little else is known about them and "the skill and genius of a civilization that we know ... nothing about."
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Sun Tzu May Never Have Existed. Here's Why.
If there was ever a book for both military leaders and businessmen alike, it's The Art of War by the Chinese philosopher and strategist Sun Tzu. His writings detailed the Chinese army's military strategies, including information on weapons and the importance of intelligence tactics.
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The Strange Prediction Made About 21st Century Men
Science fiction has been successfully and very unsuccessfully predicting the future since its conception. Futurism was once a wacky, fun thing to talk about. Will we have jetpacks and be kicking it with aliens while we travel the universe? Now, of course, the predictions are much darker. Or weirder.
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Why King Arthur Might Not Have Been Real
For many people, King Arthur is more than just a character in an epic poem, they believe he must be a real historical figure. After all, the Arthurian legend has been told over several generations.
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What It Was Really Like To Be A Vestal Virgin
Vestal Virgins in ancient Rome were typically upper-class women selected to serve the goddess of the hearth, Vesta. What it was really like to be a Vestal Virgin included keeping the sacred flame at the Temple of Vesta going, performing rituals, and taking a vow of chastity for 30 years.
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What It's Like To Work On The Floor Of The Stock Market
When you open the news and find out the stock market crashed, you often see photos of despondent stockbrokers on the floor of the stock exchange. The trading floor is one of the most iconic areas of finance, and not everyone understands what it's like to work there.
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The Messed Up History Of Cholera
Cholera is a bacterial infection that causes severe diarrhea, vomiting, and leg cramps and is transmitted through contaminated food and water.
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The Worst Vice Presidents In American History
Certain U.S. vice presidents would have done better staying away from Pennsylvania Avenue. And some of them found themselves promoted to the highest office in the world and failing just as much as they did as vice presidents. These are the worst vice presidents in American history.
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The Crazy True Story Of Lord Byron
Lord Byron was a Romantic poet, aristocrat, and British politician best known for the works of Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage in the 19th century. The crazy true story of Lord Byron includes fame, fortune, and a wild string of affairs across Europe until his death at age 36 in Greece.
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The Craziest Ways Dictators Protect Themselves
Many of those who study dictators as either political commentators or psychological investigators make the point that the reverse side of narcissism is paranoia. These two traits have emerged in an interweaved manner through the behavior of countless dictatorial figures throughout history.
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What It Was Really Like To Be A Medieval Knight
Thanks to Hollywood, modern people think being a medieval knight would be cool. But we are wrong, oh so very wrong. You may want to hold off on teleporting back through time to claim your title as Sir Whatever until after you've read about what it was really like to be a medieval knight.
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How Sinkholes Are Destroying The Dead Sea
The Dead Sea -- at 413 meters (1,414 feet) below sea level, already the lowest point on the Earth's surface, according to CNN -- has been consistently sinking further into the ground over the last 50 years. Its water level fell six meters in each of the first two decades after 1976.
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Here's What King Tut May Have Eaten When He Was Alive
According to National Geographic, the tombs of Ancient Egyptian pharaohs typically were stocked with "everything they might need or want in the afterlife" -- and that included preserved food.
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