Author: Ian Fortey

McDonald’s used to advertise under the Golden Arches just how many burgers they’d sold. Until the mid-90s, they would update this sign regularly, but they stopped counting around 99 billion. That’s great and all, but do you ever wonder who ate the first McDonald’s burger? We make a big deal out of firsts – first…

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The word expert carries with it a lot of weight. When you hear that someone is an expert, you expect they have donated much of their life to learning about something specific. They have studied, mastered, and know this thing inside and out, whatever it may be. That’s the idea, anyway. But as it happens,…

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Everyday people encounter things that can’t be explained.  What that statement means can be interpreted in a lot of ways, however. A UFO in the sky is an unexplained phenomenon to most of us. On the other hand, if you’ve never seen a vacuum before, that would be a baffling phenomenon as well. Everything in…

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There are over 10,000 hostage situations in America every year. Many of them are resolved peacefully but thousands are not. It’s obviously a serious and potentially deadly issue that can play out in so many unpredictable ways it’s hard for anyone to know how to proceed. While movies and TV shows can make everything look…

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Artists can take their inspiration from almost anything. That could include painters, musicians, and actors. They can draw on personal experience, other artistic works that they have found moving, or maybe they just make it all up on the spot and hope for the best. Whatever the case may be, it’s always interesting to learn…

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No one wants to get sick with anything whether it be the common cold or some rare genetic condition that most people have never even heard of before. Unfortunately, disease is a part of life that all of us have to deal with at some point in time. We can all hope that whatever we…

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Colleges and universities will give out honorary degrees to various individuals of note, typically celebrities, politicians, and business people, as a way to establish or maintain a relationship with these people. Sometimes they’re just a matter of gaining a little bit of notoriety or trying to get into the public eye. Most recipients haven’t really…

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Science has identified somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.2 million different species on the planet earth. Of all those species, few are as disliked as the rat. While some people really enjoy rats and keep them as pets, and evidence shows they are quite intelligent, most people are not so forgiving. They are considered disease…

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It’s been predicted that the global weight loss industry will be worth over $400 billion by the year 2030. With a world population of 8 billion people, that means it’s worth about $50 for every single person out there.  It’s safe to say that there’s a lot of money to be made thanks to weight…

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Most people don’t remember much from the movie Wild, Wild West starring Will Smith except for the fact there was a giant steam-powered tarantula in it. That’s the kind of thing that makes an impression. When villains choose to express their villainy with some technological know how, it makes an impression. Not just in movies,…

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