The What?
The Playa! That's what Burners call the Black Rock City. The Playa (which translates to "beach" from Spanish) is a nickname that attendees gave to the vast expanse of sand and sun that is Burning Man.
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Unbelievable Moments Captured at Burning Man
The More You Know
- It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth. Taxpayers lost over $100 million in 2013 just through the coins being made.
- A former NASA scientist invented the Super Soaker.
- Mark Zuckerberg said a voting mechanism that says whether posts are good or bad is 'not something that we think is good for the world'.
- An oyster's sex is fluid.