What These Famous American Ninja Warrior Athletes Do For Work
American Ninja Warrior is full of colorful personalities. Here's what these famous American Ninja Warrior athletes do for work.
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The Real Reason You Have To Turn Off Your Phone On An Airplane
Have you ever sneaked in a little device time while on an international flight? It's hard not to. But beware. According to BBC, phones use radio waves that are at frequencies similar to the ones used by the plane's avionics, which can interfere with the plane's navigation equipment.
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The Surprising Truth About The Satanic Bible
Nobody associates Satan with good advice or good anything else unless you're somebody like Anton LaVey, who founded the Church of Satan, earning him the moniker "Black Pope." He also penned the Satanic Bible, a verbal melange of philosophy, rationalism, occult ideas, and anti-Christian criticisms.
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Why Did The Titanoboa Go Extinct?
The world's largest snake was a bus-sized boa that inhabited South America 60 million years ago, dubbed the Titanoboa. Don't worry, all you snake un-enthusiasts -- the Titanboa can only stalk you in your nightmares because it's extinct. Let's give you some details to scream about in your dreams.
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What Is The Fastest Car In The World?
At some point, we've all stared at the ceiling and thought to ourselves "I wonder how fast cars can go?" The answer, of course, depends on the car, and what your definition of "car" is. The point is, the world's fastest car is less of a car and more what you'd call a space shuttle on wheels.
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The Best Serial Killer Shows To Watch After You Finish Mindhunter Season 2
So you're done with the second season of Mindhunter and you need a little bit more of that sweet old fashioned television psychopathy in your life. Don't fret. The world of digital streaming is downright bubbling with freaks, monsters, and recreational cannibals for your viewing pleasure.
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The Truth About Jean-Claude Van Damme's Crotch Punch
In times of crisis, Jean-Claude Van Damme's hands famously gravitate towards the testicles of assailants like moths to flame. If it were lust, it would be blood lust; but it's sport... Bloodsport. You're probably thinking, "This guy's nuts." But there's logic behind Van Damme's banana split combo.
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The Messed Up Truth About The Borg
Like everything in the Star Trek universe, the Borg are complex and not nearly as black and white as they appear. Here's the messed up truth about the Borg.
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The Most Expensive Horse Breed In The World
As far as what you'll actually spend on simply obtaining a horse, that varies a lot depending on the horse's breed.
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How Much Does It Cost To Clone A Cat?
Cats: they're furry, occasionally cuddly, and not unlike your last few significant others, they show their affection by leaving dead animals on your porch. With the help of modern science and a heaping scoop of "why not" attitude, you can have your fur ball cloned in a lab like a stormtrooper.
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The Most Poisonous Fruit For Cats
Despite the fact that you can buy non-alcoholic wine made specifically for your kitty, grapes may be poisonous to cats. So if you heard it through the grapevine that your cat likes grape-based wine, just understand that not only is "in vino veritas" not true in this case; it's potentially deadly.
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What's Really Inside A Lava Lamp?
The trippy niftiness of a lava lamp is almost beyond description. In 2016, Gizmodo wrote, "You'd assume that dropping a GoPro inside a working lava lamp would be like diving into an active volcano." That was obviously a joke, but could you imagine if that's how "lava-themed" things worked?
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The Reason Jeff Bezos And Bill Gates' Suburb Is Going Broke
Amazon taskmaster Jeff Bezos and the man who puts the "bill" in "billionaire," Bill Gates, both call suburban Seattle home. Worth more than $100 billion apiece, the men live less than a mile from each other in Medina, Washington, but despite their wealth, the suburb where they reside is going broke.
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The Reason So Many People Fear Snakes
What do the Bible and Harry Potter have in common? A bearded guy capable of amazing feats? A story centered around "a Chosen One?" Perhaps. But the answer no one can deny is that neither story seems to think highly of snakes. So why all the snake hate? It's almost as if it's hardwired into us.
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What Life Was Like For Women During The American Revolution
In 1776, American colonists did something revolutionary by kicking England to the curb via the Declaration of Independence. But when Thomas Jefferson declared "that all men are created equal" with "inalienable rights" to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," he wasn't referring to women.
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What Life Is Like For Men In China's Kingdom Of Women
Female infanticide is so widespread in China that among some segments of the populace there are 140 men for every 100 women, prompting residents to abduct women from neighboring nations. Despite this unfortunate fact of life, the Middle Kingdom is home to a "kingdom of women."
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Messed Up Things You Didn't Realize About Star Trek
Star Trek has seen bad stuff. What upsetting stuff was going on in one of history's best shows? Here's some messed up things you didn't realize about Star Trek.
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What We Still Don't Know About Tupac's Death
Tupac Shakur is widely considered to be one of the greatest voices in rap history. And yet, despite this, the circumstances of his murder are still foggy.
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The Dirtiest Players In Baseball History
The history of Major League Baseball is littered with dirty players.
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MMA Fighters Who Died During A Fight
Modern MMA is a far cry from the lethal martial arts tournaments we saw in 1980s sports movies. But it's still two people pounding each other. That makes MMA a dangerous game where, sometimes, people even die in the ring. Here are the tragic stories of MMA fighters who died during a fight.
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The Real Reason Doomsday Preppers Stockpile So Many Condoms
Benjamin Franklin said, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." As such, doomsday preppers are packing on the prevention pounds with strange supplies in advance of the end of the world. But if you're looking to get the best bang for your survival buck, condoms are hard to beat.
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How Much Milk Does A Cow Produce In Its Lifetime?
Each cow has a limited supply of milk it can produce in its lifetime, and you're about to learn exactly how many squeezes it takes to deplete an udder.
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The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Meat Loaf
Meat Loaf flew onto the music scene like a bat out of hell in the 70s. Here are the ups, downs, and all-around madness of Meat Loaf's tragic real-life story.
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How Much Does It Cost To Clone A Dog?
We already know you can clone a sheep. So can cloning be used to duplicate your iddle biddle puppy dog? The answer is yes. But with any time that scientific morality gets thrown to the wind, there's really only one question left: how much is this technological affront to God going to cost you?
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The True Story Of How Google Got Its Name
Google isn't so much a search engine as it is a panopticon that you opt into. So why don't people freak out about Google's mass data collection like they did when Edward Snowden exposed mass surveillance by the NSA? We're guessing that the company's name has something to do with it.
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A NASA Astronaut's Salary Is Less Than You Might Think
You don't really consider it when you're a kid, but all those astronauts you looked up to were depositing paychecks every month. In addition to acclaim, patriotism, and the chance to be an icon, they were at least partially in the space exploration game because it beats digging a ditch.
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The Reason Saber-Toothed Tigers Went Extinct
Imagine if you had to worry about giant fanged cats while you were camping. Forget putting your food in a bear locker--you'd have to put your whole tent in one. Saber-toothed tigers were cool, but their extinction pretty much made the whole outdoor industry possible. So why did they go extinct?
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