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Sometimes you find the most fascinating stories hidden in the most mundane topics. Duct tape, for example, will not be the central figure of any novels this year, and rightly so. However, when I learned the origin of duct tape recently I found it truly amazing. Read on to find out more about duct tape, its origin, and its many uses. Duct tape was born during wartime but amazingly it was created by a caring mother. Her sons worked in a factory packing ammunition for the war. These boxes were packed, taped and waxed to make them waterproof and ready...

We all know that China is one of the fastest-growing and technologically evolving countries in the world. With advanced building industries flexing their ample construction muscles for the past decades like Shanghai and Beijing, it is hard to believe that tens of millions of people still live in underground homes just a hundred miles away. China’s Shaanxi province is the area where porous soil is great and helps these cave dwellers in easy digging. The majority of these cavemen live in the Shaanxi province of China. Cavemen of 21st century It may sound insulting or funny to call someone a...

The United States stopped executing criminals publicly after Rainey Bethea was executed on 14 August 1936. But in Kentucky, executions continued to be held publicly even after that. According to the jury at Rainey Bethea’s trial, Bethea deserved such an end, but there was a controversy that the whole thing happened within two months from Bethea’s crime. The same thing happened with a young black man who had been executed previously. He was sentenced to death in a rape and murder case without any real evidences. He even claimed that his confessions were given under coercion. The jury talked for...

Speaking about medieval times, a variety of questions and ideas come across the mind, like how it was like to live in medieval times in Europe from a daily hygiene point of view. So, the question arises why bathing was uncommon in medieval Europe? It turned out to be that humans during medieval times were as clean as we are today. They never liked to be stunk or have dirt on their bodies. So, it seems contrary to some beliefs as they also followed some hygiene practices. Here is what they did Humans during medieval times in Europe used to...

It was in the late 19th and early 20th century when mass food production started and shipped to long distances. Instead of growing locally and selling it fresh, it was like a Wild West regarding the production of food, and we see that there were no official regulations on what you could add to a diet. If you even had some labeled chicken then, it had to chicken at all or not. There were no rules about reporting any ingredients, so businesses did pretty much whatever pleased them. Adulteration everywhere To give you a central idea, the drug and food...

Thomas Wiggins was a musician, born in slavery in the year 1850, in Georgia. He was known as a virtuoso of Liszt and Rubinstein and was the one who was completely unaware of how famous he was. Some people call him a complex character who left nothing behind in the world. There's very little information about this genius who once performed in the White House. Life Of America's First Black Music Star: Blind Tom At an early age, he was sold to General James Neil Bethune, an editor of a newspaper and a lawyer based in Georgia. Thomas was blind...

When we think of exact lookalike, we often think of strange sci-fi movies about clones, robots, laboratory evils, and more. In reality, it happens. In a world of over 7 billion people, likely, you are not so unique. Someone out there looks just like you. These people are called doppelgangers or your living double. Of course, with over 7 billion people out there, it is equally unlikely that you will ever meet them. Unless you are Santana Gutierrez, who met her living double in the mall recently. Santana was having a day like any other, meeting friends in the mall,...

Knock Knock. Who’s there? Orange. Orange Who? Orange you glad you are going to learn some amazing facts about the color orange. I never really understood that knock-knock joke, but I know one thing. Orange is cool. Here are 25 reasons why: 1. Orange is the color worn to represent many important issues including animal cruelty and self-harm. Support important conditions, wear orange. 2. The Golden Gate Bridge is orange! It is actually a shade called International Orange, used by space agencies to make things stand out really strongly in space.  3. Some Buddhists wear orange robes. While you might...

The most fearsome animals on the planet are very well known. They are the animals that rule their ecosystem. Apex predators that do not fight for territory they take it, they do not struggle for a meal because they capture their prey with ease. Whether it is the shark in the ocean, the lion in the savanna, the wolf in the wilderness or the bear in the forest. These animals are feared by those below them in the food chain and respected by the rest. Yet the number of people who are killed each year by these terrifying animals is...

The Godfather to this day is thought to be one of the greatest films ever made. The movie has stood the test of time and made many a star from its debut. Behind this great movie is a story that is just as interesting about an uphill climb to get made that stems all the way back to the author of the book the story was based on. The author of the book, Mario Puzo, had his fair share of struggles early on in his career until he found success with The Godfather. The novel spent over 60 weeks on...