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In Microsoft’s internal documentation, the digital Office assistant Clippy was referred to as ‘tfc’. To anyone who asked, it was ‘the friendly character’, but it actually stood for ‘the fucking clown’.

My Son's Adult Teeth are Growing in Behind His Baby Teeth

And it will only cost five dollars of electricity per kilogram. https://t.co/j4R8E6KKiL

These lasers would emit bullet-like pulses of light that would exterminate the target. https://t.co/sPI5QX2upw

During the French Revolution, being guillotined was referred to as ‘being given the patriotic haircut’, ‘sticking your head through the cat-flap’, ‘poking through the window’, and ‘sneezing into the basket’.

The novel cement-free process will help remove 330 lbs (150 kgs) of Co2 for every ton of concrete produced. https://t.co/VYz2onrWse

Reality will surprise you. https://t.co/1i6ezp638J

This Asian guy is just straight up a fucking bad ass (Didn't know where else to post it)

Integrating projectors in smartphones will be the next big innovation in mobie

Ethiopian languages have a punctuation mark for sarcasm. It is called ‘temherte slaq’ and looks like an inverted exclamation mark.

Born in 1908 in Austria-Hungary, Oskar Schindler worked for German intelligence and later joined the Nazi party. An opportunist businessman with a taste for the finer things in life, he seemed to be an unlikely candidate to become a wartime hero. During World War II, he operated a factory that employed more than 1,000 Polish Jews, saving them from concentration camps and extermination. By the war’s end, he was penniless, having used his fortune to bribe authorities and save his workers. Oskar Schindler died on #ThisDayInHistory in 1974. What was his life like after 1945? 📸 Some of the over 1,300 Holocaust survivors saved by Oskar Schindler give him a hero's welcome at the airport during his visit to Israel

My toothpaste says where the ingredients comes from and what they do https://t.co/NpJTznjzVE

This is the longest road in the world that a person can walk on. 22,000 Km!

After 13 years of construction. https://t.co/3VYvc71Cjt

TIL that the U.S. Treasury loses tens of millions of dollars every year producing pennies. Since 2010, the cost to produce a penny has ranged from 1.50 to 2.42 cents.