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I guarantee almost all of you have seen this picture.

This picture is called Bliss, and it was the default desktop wallpaper for Windows XP.

It looks like it was made in photoshop because it’s so perfect. But it wasn’t.

It’s 100% real, no editing whatsoever.

This is the man behind the picture, Charles O’Rear.

O’Rear was on his way to visit his girlfriend, and he saw a sunny hill that looked particularly picturesque. He stopped his car, and took a few photos.

Eventually he sold the photo to an advertising company as a stock photo.

Many years later, Microsoft found it. They agreed to license it from O’Rear, and made it the default background for Windows XP.

It’s believed that Bliss is the most viewed image ever. It’s been seen on roughly one billion computers.

That’s how a guy pulled over on the side of the road, and took the most viewed picture in history.

Credit - Dylan Owens

Source - Quora

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Dreamt is the only word in the English language that ends with “mt”

The English language is full of idiosyncrasies, and the word dreamt is one of them. According to Oxford Dictionaries, "dreamt" (and its variations, such as "undreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends with the letters "mt."

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Cats can't taste sweet things because of a genetic defect.


Cats can jump surprisingly high, slip through the tightest spaces, and seemingly have nine lives. But there's one thing they can't do: taste sweet things. According to a 2007 article in Scientific American, unlike other mammals, felines can't taste sweetness due to the fact that they "lack 247 base pairs of the amino acids that make up the DNA of the Tas1r2 gene. As a result, it does not code for the proper protein … and it does not permit cats to taste sweets." While that may sound a little complicated, you don't really need to understand the specifics to get that Ginger won't enjoy sugary desserts.

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Your fingernails grow faster, on a dominant hand


If you've ever broken a nail way down near the base or lost one completely you know they take quite a while to grow back. In fact, the American Academy of Dermatology says that a fingernail takes around six months to grow from base to tip and toenails can take up to a year. Fingernails also grow faster on your dominant hand as well as on your bigger fingers. Nails also grow faster during the daytime as well as during the summer months.

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Playing dance music, can help ward off mosquitos


Playing electronic dance music (EDM) may scare people away, and it turns out, it could do the same with mosquitos. According to one 2019 study, the Skrillex song "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" combines "very high and very low frequencies" as well as "excessive loudness and constantly escalating pitch" that discourages the yellow fever mosquito from biting victims and mating.

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Around 16 million people, alive today are direct descendants of Genghis Khan


Genghis Khan wasn't only famous (and infamous) for being the leader of the Mongol Empire from 1206 to 1227—he also fathered a lot of children. In fact, he sired so many offspring that a 2003 historical genetics paper found that around 16 million people alive today are direct descendants of Genghis Khan.

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There’s only one walled city in the whole of Morth America


The next time you're planning a trip and want to head somewhere that's both breathtakingly beautiful and incredibly unique, be sure to check out Quebec City in Canada. In the capital of the province of Quebec, the Old Town (Vieux-Québec) area is the only fortified walled city in North America. It was founded by French explorer Samuel de Champlain in the early 17th century.

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Ketchup was once used as medicine to cure diarrhea, indigestion, jaundice, and rheumatism.


It's hard to imagine ketchup without the sweet tomatoey taste, but when the condiment was originally invented, it was actually a fish or mushroom-based mixture. Dr. John Cooke Bennet was one of the first folks to add tomatoes to ketchup in 1834. And because it was rich in vitamins and antioxidants, the doctor claimed that the product, which he sold in pill form, could help cure diarrhea, indigestion, jaundice, and even rheumatism.

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There are four kings in every deck of cards. And while they all look similar, the king of hearts is the only royal fellow who doesn't have a mustache. According to The Guardian, the so-called "suicide king" (who earned his name because it looks like he's stabbing himself in the head with a sword), wasn't always bare-faced. He mistakenly lost his facial hair in a redesign.

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When the public started using the phone back in the 1800s, inventor Alexander Graham Bell thought they should answer a call with "ahoy." That's likely why the incredibly elderly Mr. Burns on The Simpsons says "Ahoy-hoy" when he picks up the phone. However, Bell's rival, Thomas Edison, wanted users to answer the phone with "Hello." And, according to The New York Times, by 1880, "hello" had won out.

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It would be impossible to properly read without periods, commas, exclamation points, and question marks. But it turns out that punctuation wasn't always a part of writing. According to the BBC, a librarian named Aristophanes from the Egyptian city of Alexandria in the 3rd century B.C. attempted to introduce a form of punctuation into a system that not only didn't use it, but also didn't bother to use capital letters or include spaces between words. While Aristophanes' version of punctuation didn't stick around, Christian writers in the 6th century began to punctuate their text, and eventually, we ended up with the punctuation we use today.

Education! The second fact is not most likely true because I am not fully convinced.

Kudos to Christian writers

Nice piece

can someone just show me a download link for this American bullcrap 9/11 conspiracy

I'm enlightened, thanks OP.

But the 9/11 conspiracy is quite confusing, though.

..are they really useless?

The 9/11 conspiracy is just a whole lot of horseshit nothing convincing in it to make it stick..

I had high hopes for this thread. It's unfortunate it didn't live up to expectations.

kennybelle:
I'm enlightened, thanks OP.

But the 9/11 conspiracy is quite confusing, though.

I deliberately added it so those that know more bout it can input their knowledge on the matter

Jackossky:
..are they really useless?

They’re useless ooo, since it won’t fetch me money these trying times

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You see the conspiracy in that 9/ 11 is the more you see the more confusing it all gets
something doesn't add up and those who have investigated the whole thing knows it.For example, type in the airline flight number Q33NY into Microsoft Word. Enlarge it to the max, then highlight and change the font to Wingdings.what you will see might surprise you

OP, thanks for sharing.
I would appreciate if you add more, I love reading stuffs like these.

dT no 2 mad o