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Honestly most of us are just peasants again and we have our lords and kings that we beg for one more piece of bread. America wasn’t founded for this to happen eat the rich and save the American way of life.

u/NAStrahl — 12 days ago
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An Indian man grew a 4-inch cutaneous horn from his scalp after a head injury, a rare keratin buildup his barber tended for years before he sought surgical removal, which succeeded and was documented in medical case reports.

u/GreatMacGuffin — 18 days ago
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A real medical case of a large blood clot coughed up by a patient that had formed inside the airways and hardened into the exact branching shape of the bronchial tree it had been sitting in, a rare event doctors call a bronchial cast

u/No-Piglet3900 — 24 days ago
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The chess game that emptied a king's treasury

As per the legends, the inventor of the chess game went to a king to show him his invention. The king was so impressed that he asked the inventor to ask for anything he wanted.

Instead of asking for gold, land, or anything valuable, he made a surprisingly simple request.

He asked the king for one grain of rice on the first square of a chessboard, two grains on the second, four on the third, and to keep doubling the amount until all 64 squares were filled.

The king thought this was an incredibly cheap reward. One grain of rice? Seriously? But there was a catch. Every square doubled the amount from the previous one.

By the time they reached the 64th square, the number of grains needed on that single square was 9,223,372,036,854,775,808. And when you add all 64 squares together, it comes to more than 18 quintillion grains of rice.

That's so much rice that the king's treasury couldn't possibly cover it.

The king basically got defeated by his own promise before he even understood what was happening. All because he underestimated the power of compounding.

u/Upbeat-Analysis-3370 — 1 month ago
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A bet that you will never lose

Take a normal piece of paper and make two deep cuts, each about one-third of the way across the paper.

Now give it to your friend and ask them to tear both sides at the same time.

Sounds easy, right?

But there's a catch.

They have to start with both hands and tear the two sides apart at exactly the same time.

There is like a 99.99% chance they won't be able to do it perfectly. Even if one side starts tearing just a tiny fraction of a second before the other, the middle section loses its support and falls with it.

So they can't finish tearing the other side at the same time.

Now it's your turn.

Instead of using your hands to hold the middle section, put it between your teeth and hold it there.

Grab both sides of the paper with your hands and pull them apart at the same time.

Now the middle section stays supported while both sides tear.

You technically just won the bet.

This is how you can win almost every time.

But you might lose a friendship in the process.

u/Upbeat-Analysis-3370 — 2 months ago