View Full Post These are the men behind “Pineapple Express.” The 12 of them plus 2 social workers evacuated around 12,000 people from Afghanistan. These men are heroes
View Full Post DID YOU KNOW? IN 1926, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT POISONED ALCOHOL IN AN EFFORT TO CURB ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION DURING THE PROHIBITION. AS A RESULT, BY THE TIME PROHIBITION ENDED IN 1933, AN ESTIMATED 10,000 PEOPLE DIED FROM BEING POISONED BY THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT.
View Full Post This is Afghanistan’s Famous Comedian Nazar Mohammad AKA ‘Khasha Zwan’. He was brutally killed by the Taliban for his satirical jokes on them. Until he died, he was still making jokes and shouting insults on the Taliban. What A LEGEND!
View Full Post Before anesthesia, speed was essential to minimize pain and improve the odds of survival. Robert Liston, a British surgeon who excelled at this, once performed a surgery, during which he moved so fast that he took an assistant’s fingers off when cutting through a leg. Both the patient and the assistant later died of infection, and one spectator died of shock. This was the only known surgery in history that had a 300% mortality rate.
View Full Post If you ever find yourself in a position thinking how awful the United States is, just remember, there are people willing to attempt to ride on the exterior of a jet to get away from what’s going on in their country… This
View Full Post How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? Charles Bukowski, Factotum, 1975
View Full Post 5 petabytes (5,242,880 Gigabytes) of data necessary to image a black hole Katie Bouman, who led the development of the algorithm for the project, and the moment when the first black hole image was processed
View Full Post – Pirates of the Caribbean first movie came out 18 years ago – Britney Spears turns 40 this year – Iron Man movie came out 13 years ago Michael Jackson has been dead for 12 years – Justin Bieber is 27 years old – MSN Messenger was closed 8 years ago – Babies born 2000-2003 are adults – Year 2040 is closer than year 2000 Feeling old yet?
