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https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/yuba-county-five

When these five men vanished in 1978, a sheriff described it as "bizarre as hell". Over 40 years later, it's still a mystery.

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https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/daniel-tammet

This little boy saw extraordinary things when he closed his eyes. How his mind works will leave you in absolute awe.

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https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/comet-fever

In 1910, the media sparked mass hysteria across the world. For the next three months, people lived in unnecessary fear.

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@very-rusty said
https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/comet-fever

In 1910, the media sparked mass hysteria across the world. For the next three months, people lived in unnecessary fear.

-VR
A similar thing happened 110 years later when mass hysteria spread through the GF sparked by a prank.

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https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/emil-maurice

Second to Adolf Hitler in the SS, this man was hiding a potentially 'deadly' secret unknown even to himself.

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https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/hansel-and-gretel

Hansel and Gretel is based on a true period of history that will forever change the way you look at a gingerbread house.

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@the-gravedigger said
A similar thing happened 110 years later when mass hysteria spread through the GF sparked by a prank.
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@very-rusty said
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That's a lot of alerts 😉 😛

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@the-gravedigger said
That's a lot of alerts 😉 😛
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https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/wall-from-space

The Great Wall of China can't be seen from space after all. The time from when the myth dates will explain why..

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@very-rusty said
https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/wall-from-space

The Great Wall of China can't be seen from space after all. The time from when the myth dates will explain why..

-VR
The way I learned that little factoid was from a US astronaut sitting in Skylab, from 270 miles high. The astronauts claimed
that the Great Wall of China was the only sign of intelligent life on earth that they could discern from their lofty perch.
Not too long after that, the Skylab astronauts claimed that they could see another sign of intelligent life, logs in a river in Canada.

Don't ask me why I remembered all that 🙂 And I didn't even know they had intelligent life in Canada

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The Great Wall can be seen from orbit.

As the article states, however, it cannot be seen from the moon. At an average of 256,000 miles away, it's just too far to see anything man-made on the Earth.

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@earl-of-trumps said
The way I learned that little factoid was from a US astronaut sitting in Skylab, from 270 miles high. The astronauts claimed
that the Great Wall of China was the only sign of intelligent life on earth that they could discern from their lofty perch.
Not too long after that, the Skylab astronauts claimed that they could see another sign of intelligent life, logs in a ...[text shortened]... Don't ask me why I remembered all that 🙂 And I didn't even know they had intelligent life in Canada
Earl,
You asked for this one. I know someone from Canada who beat you in a game of chess. 🙂 😛

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@suzianne said
The Great Wall can be seen from orbit.

As the article states, however, it cannot be seen from the moon. At an average of 256,000 miles away, it's just too far to see anything man-made on the Earth.
By all accounts, my ego can be seen from Jupiter.

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