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Kyrillion
Russian Federation748 Posts
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Krowser
Canada788 Posts
The greatest climber in history. There was a National Geographic article about him. His body is so used to climbing that he climbed mountains (don't remember which one) on a pack of trail mix. Nothing else. He also went up mount Everest WITHOUT Bottled oxygyn, a feat some doctors thought impossible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Messner | ||
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RoosterSamurai
Japan2108 Posts
On June 08 2012 20:18 Vivax wrote: So many serial killer articles, the sickness award goes to Albert Fish, seriously. My favorites I didn't know so far are the radio intrusion, the permanent broadcasts, the headless chicken and the mass psychogenic illness phenomena. Here's mine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unexplained_sounds Some of the undersea ones really creep me out. Thanks for sharing! | ||
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Omnipresent
United States871 Posts
On June 09 2012 00:35 Krowser wrote: Check out this guy. The greatest climber in history. There was a National Geographic article about him. His body is so used to climbing that he climbed mountains (don't remember which one) on a pack of trail mix. Nothing else. He also went up mount Everest WITHOUT Bottled oxygyn, a feat some doctors thought impossible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Messner And this somewhat related article... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unauthorized_Biography_of_Reinhold_Messner | ||
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nooboon
2602 Posts
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Heh_
Singapore2712 Posts
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KharadBanar
Austria463 Posts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103 - an international standard about how to brew tea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_Protocol - related to the above, a data transmission protocol for remotely controlling a coffee pot from your computer. | ||
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FlamingForce
Netherlands701 Posts
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sorrowptoss
Canada1431 Posts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death South Korean urban legend. | ||
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Tewks44
United States2032 Posts
Very interesting story, but notice the four campers who had the most mysterious injuries "Notably, the bodies had no external wounds, as if they were crippled by a high level of pressure" were found under four meters of snow, which I would think perfectly explains their injuries. However, the whole situation is still bizarre, how they cut out of their tents and walked into the extreme cold shoeless and with practically no provisions. I can only assume it was due to hysteria brought on by extreme hypothermia. this would be totally terrifying: [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome Can't get the link to work for some reason. grrrr | ||
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Vivax
22409 Posts
you forgot the [/URL] + Show Spoiler + | ||
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natalia_shimanchuk
Uzbekistan30 Posts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51  wikipedia is so amazingly comprehensive, you can really find anything there. sure, not all of it is 100% factual, but it's about the quest for knowledge, not about what is always necessarily absolutely truth | ||
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Eatme
Switzerland3919 Posts
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NET
United States703 Posts
On June 09 2012 03:31 sorrowptoss wrote: I'm not sure if this has been posted yet, but this one is very very good. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death South Korean urban legend. This could be a way to keep electricity use down. If you leave a fan or air conditioner on all night, it will add up in costs. Then multiply that by thousands of people. Or its just an easy way for the media to give a cause of death or something rather then wait for a report or if the person is a political figure or someone famous it may be a way to avoid saying they died from a drug over dose and not tarnish their reputation. Just some ideas on it. "There is speculation that this was done in order to conserve energy usage by the Korean population" Silly me for skimming through it and then reading the entire article. I always like to play the detective though, keeps me entertained. | ||
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TNK
United States163 Posts
On June 09 2012 05:37 Tewks44 wrote: Very interesting story, but notice the four campers who had the most mysterious injuries "Notably, the bodies had no external wounds, as if they were crippled by a high level of pressure" were found under four meters of snow, which I would think perfectly explains their injuries. However, the whole situation is still bizarre, how they cut out of their tents and walked into the extreme cold shoeless and with practically no provisions. I can only assume it was due to hysteria brought on by extreme hypothermia. this would be totally terrifying: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome Can't get the link to work for some reason. grrrr Although this was not confirm there is a theory that I believe is that they where camping close to a nuclear bomb test site and the fallout from the bomb killed them. Also they probably cut the tent due to the heat of the radiation to try to cool themselves off. Radiation can do a lot of crazy shit. | ||
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Ender985
Spain910 Posts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor I still think those have to be dump sites from military experiments, but who knows. | ||
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Tewks44
United States2032 Posts
On June 09 2012 07:48 TNK wrote: Although this was not confirm there is a theory that I believe is that they where camping close to a nuclear bomb test site and the fallout from the bomb killed them. Also they probably cut the tent due to the heat of the radiation to try to cool themselves off. Radiation can do a lot of crazy shit. It's possible, but interestingly enough the symptoms of extreme hypothermia are also feelings of being extremely overheated and a general loss of sanity. Plus, I don't believe fallout from old nuclear test sites would cause people to feel physically hot. While I'm sure the radiation would be bad for you, I don't believe you'd feel it, after all you don't feel hot after you get an x-ray. | ||
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Keitzer
United States2509 Posts
On June 08 2012 00:47 Radel wrote: Myself and an old roommate of mine used to play Wikipedia Golf. You randomly pick 2 seemingly unrelated Wikipedia articles, and try to get from the first page to the second page in the shortest amount of clicks. Lower score wins. I.E. Miley Cyrus and the U.S. Moon Landing. How many related pages does it take to get from one to the other? We used to call it The Hitler Game Can you get to Hitler in 5 or less links? Dirt... yes dirt... can get there... | ||
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Beamer
United States242 Posts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_headache | ||
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ibanez
75 Posts
"World's most mysterious manuscript" (sorry if it has been posted before) | ||
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