The Bizarre and Dangerous Beauty Trends of Ancient Times

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The minds behind the full-body defibrillator believed that one minute attached to this machine equaled "eight hours of hard exercise." This was wildly untrue, and it was also extremely dangerous. The electrical current that ran through the person's body was almost intense enough to stop someone's heart. 

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The More You Know

  • A Nepalese doctor has restored the sight of over 100,000 often poverty-stricken people in the last thirty years across Asia and Africa using a 5 minute procedure and an inexpensive artificial lens.
  • In 1966 and 1967, soldiers testing Agent Orange in Canada were told the chemical was completely safe and sprayed it on each other to cool off.
  • But the loudest animal relative to its size is a water bug.
  • The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.
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