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AnecdotesCantilever Bra

Jane Russell, who once had twin peaks in Alaska named in her honor, was famed for her remarkable natural endowment....

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AnecdotesSmart Brick

In 2003, professor Chang Liu and his team of structural engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...

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TriviaFeature creep & product design

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often...

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AnecdotesCharles Steinmetz: Mark of Distinction

Charles Steinmetz was once called out of retirement by General Electric to help them locate a problem in an intricate system...

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AnecdotesElegant Response

A student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) once asked Buckminster Fuller whether he took aesthetic...

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AnecdotesZero-G Toilet

"It`s a seat and a hole and a fan that sucks in through the hole," NASA robotics whiz Dave Lavery once remarked of...

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AnecdotesSimply Brilliant

In 214 BC, a powerful Roman force attacked the city of Syracuse, the home of the famed mathematician and inventor Archimedes.

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AnecdotesHenry Ford: 4719?

One day, a man visiting the Ford factory in Dearborn, Michigan happened to encounter Henry Ford himself, who, pointing out...

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TriviaVirgin train crash

On February 23rd [2007, Virgin Group CEO Richard] Branson`s cell phone rang while they were at dinner... a...

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AnecdotesWily Wren

One day building inspectors declared that the ceiling of Christopher Wren`s Windsor Town Hall was supported by an...

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