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That One Time Nikola Tesla Didn’t Sleep for an Entire Year

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Thanks to the efforts of websites that treat the advances of science like a commodity they can trade for likes on Facebook, the work of Nikola Tesla has never been more well-known. However, few people really know anything about the man other than that he once claimed to have built a death ray and that he was obsessed with pigeons, for example did you know he never slept?

There’s an Alternate Version of What Happened at the Battle of Thermopylae

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It’s almost certain that everyone reading this learned everything they known about the Battle of Thermopylae from the movie, 300 and that’s okay, that movie was rad. However, what a surprising number of people fail to realise is that, that movie and indeed most every other story about the battle is just the best guess of what happened that day.

The Ridiculous Way the WWE Sold John Cena’s Shirt

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Considering he’s the most famous and well-known wrestler they have on their roster, the WWE don’t really have to try that hard to sell John Cena merchandise. That said, the WWE has been known to utilise an obscure marketing technique called “lying” to sell Cena related items in the past. 

The Children’s Book Author Who Was Also a Kick-ass Botanist

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Beatrix Potter is best known as the author of a bunch of children’s stories about a the adventures of a tiny, adorable rabbit called Peter and his equally as tiny and fuzzy friends. Which is weird, because she was also a self-taught expert on mycology (the study of fungi) credited with being one of the first people to realise that fungi for symbiotic relationsships with their host, sort of like Venom from Spider-man.

The L Block From Tetris is a Badass

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Every year members of the popular gaming forum, GameFAQs (which is pronounced however you feel like) organise a competition of sorts between popular video game characters to see which one is the current darling of the collective internet and in 2007, that darling was the L Block from Tetris.