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No Such Thing As The iSausage
The word alcatraz means gannet in Spanish, but when the island was named in 1775, it actually meant pelicans. The Spanish word for pelicans, alcatraz, actually came from the Arabic word for sea eagle. Basically the bird…
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This was in the Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska. There was someone called Volker Decker from the University of St. Andrews. Volker found this Grizzly bear picking up a rock from the water, looking at it, sort of…
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There was someone called Volker Decker from the University of St. Andrews. Volker found this Grizzly bear picking up a rock from the water, looking at it, sort of turning it over, putting it back, picking another one…
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There was a 1904 carousel up for auction, very beautiful. There was a park in Cleathorpes — Pleasure Island, it was called. There were no bids. The reserve price was £180,000 because obviously it's a huge, complicated,…
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Have you guys heard of the Great Corncob Fire of 1958? Quaker Oats used corn cobs at the time to get a particular chemical. They had a stockpile at their plant of 70,000 tons of corn cobs — it was six stories high.
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There is now no point in playing drafts, because there is a correct way to play it. This was worked out by a computer games expert called Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta. At the peak of his work, there…
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There is now no point in playing drafts, because there is a correct way to play it. This was worked out by a computer games expert called Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta. At the peak of his work, there…
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