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The Longest Word In English Takes At Least 2 Hours To Say
The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and would take you about two hours to mumble through. Seriously. It’s the chemical name of Titin (or connectin), a giant protein “that functions as a molecular spring which is responsible for the passive elasticity of muscle.” If it’s your thing, you can listen to a guy…
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How One Australian Town Helped A Doomed Plane Win History’s Greatest Air Race
Lost in a thunderstorm over southeastern Australia, Captain R.D. Parmentier and his crew were desperately trying to find a place to land the big DC2 airliner. They were just a few hundred kilometres from the finish of an epic 18,000km race from London to Melbourne and the storm had rendered their communications equipment useless.
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Hamper Hoops Is A Good Reason Not To Just Throw Your Laundry On The Floor
Since it’s already dirty, there’s really no reason not to just throw all your laundry on the floor, right? But if you’ve got a partner or roommate who says otherwise, Wham-O’s got a pretty sweet laundry bag with a basketball hoop attached so putting away dirty laundry is just like making free-throws.
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Incredible Overhead View Of An Oil Tanker Perfectly Docking At A Narrow Port
Video: The captain of this ship must be a master Tetris player or a savant when it comes to that time wasting iPhone parking game or at least, be the inventor of the three-point turn because his manoeuvring of this tanker, the Galway Fisher,into the narrow Port of Galway is simply incredible to see from…