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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/malik_zz • 1d ago

In 2015 14 year old Ahmed Mohammed was arrested for bringing in a clock he "created" that his teacher thought looked like a bomb. This set off a firestorm, started the #IStandWithAhmed trend on social media and culminated with an invitation to NASA and the White House to show off his "invention"

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 12h ago

Fastest way to climb stairs on a skateboard

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 18m ago

A Virginia man inadvertently left his phone recording while he was under anesthesia for a colonoscopy, which captured audio of the doctors: mocking him, instructing a medical assistant to lie to him, and discussing giving him a false diagnosis of hemorrhoids. In 2015, a jury awarded him $500,000.

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 19m ago

A man in Rhode Island just grew the first pumpkin in history to weigh over 3,000 pounds (1,431 kg), setting a new world record

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/GuybrushFunkwood • 15h ago

Melting down old RAM sticks for gold!

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Money-Beautiful5196 • 16h ago

Miracle moment driver escapes overturned truck in Santiago mudslide

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 9m ago

'Internet may be just a passing fad' Article in Daily Mail, December 5, 2000

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 11m ago

These illustrated Christian Gospels have survived for roughly 1,500 years in an Ethiopian monastery

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 13m ago

In 1987, 800,000 people celebrated the Golden Gate Bridge for its 50th anniversary. The weight of the crowd caused the bridge to sag 7 feet.

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 22m ago

Saturn visible through telescope 30 minutes before sunset

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 23m ago

The legendary tusker "Padayappa" from Munnar, India

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 12m ago

In 2015 a woman accidentally snorted 55 mg of pure LSD (equal to 550x a normal recreational dose), thinking it was cocaine. She "blacked out" for the first 12 hours & felt "pleasantly high" for the second 12. A day later her chronic foot pain ceased, leading her to eventually end her morphine habit.

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/_Dark_Wing • 10h ago

Astronomers say they’ve discovered the first green star

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Certain-Progress-401 • 16h ago

Baby goes viral for his extreme relaxation minutes after being born.

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 22m ago

Painting from the 1600s show how much watermelons have changed due to selective breeding.

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Money-Beautiful5196 • 1d ago

A baby seal pup waits every morning to meet up with surfers in San Diego, California. The seal gets on their boards to catch some waves together.

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/perfectpointcrystals • 12h ago

Crystalline Quartz Stalactites found in India

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/_Dark_Wing • 3h ago

Building A Flying Drone With A Single Propeller

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 8h ago

Gold is Now the Top U.S. Export

numismaticnews.net

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 23m ago

Limoges city hall (France 1873 -2026) which survived both world war , was destroyed today

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 27m ago

The "Hasanlu lovers" died around 800 B.C. and were discovered in 1972. They died in what seems to be an embrace or kiss, and remained that way for 2800 years. The skeletons were both later identified as male.

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Money-Beautiful5196 • 15h ago

A nervous traveller heading for the ‘nothing to declare line, at at German airport ended up having his suitcase searched, with officers finding more than 90 reptiles inside.

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Money-Beautiful5196 • 1d ago

Spanish downhill skateboarder Diego Poncelet set a new world speed record for standing skateboarding, reaching a staggering 94.34mph down a closed section of a road in Canada.

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Alternative_Bad663 • 2d ago

A Group of Good Men Help Stop a Kidnapping in Progress

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r/whoathatsinteresting • u/santropy • 2d ago

US Teen Goes To Hindu Temple For Mass Shooting, Jammed Rifle Stops Him

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