01Booker consumed 49 glazed doughnuts in 8 minutes — roughly one every 9.8 seconds.
02He weighed approximately 400 pounds during his competitive eating peak and stood 6 feet 3 inches.
03Off the circuit, Booker works as a New York City Transit subway conductor and records rap music.
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01Receiver was built in seven days for the 7DFPS game jam in 2012 by Wolfire Games.
02The game models hammer, safety, cylinder, and magazine as independent mechanical states that interact realistically.
03Its procedurally generated levels mean no two runs share the same room layout or enemy placement.
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01Gnarr refused to form a coalition with any party whose members had not watched all five seasons of The Wire.
02He delivered a mayoral inaugural address in drag, dressed as a character from the film 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.'
03Despite the comedy origin, Gnarr's administration balanced the city budget and improved public transit through his four-year term.
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01Muhammad's actual target was his ex-wife Mildred; the 10 random killings were designed as camouflage.
02He had trained Malvo, then a teenager, for months before the 2002 attacks began.
03Muhammad was executed at Greensville Correctional Center, Virginia, on November 10, 2009.
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01David Greybeard was the first wild chimpanzee to accept Goodall's presence — and the first observed using a grass stem as a tool.
02Goodall had no formal science degree when Louis Leakey sent her to Gombe in 1960; he preferred it that way.
03She has traveled over 300 days per year for the past three decades advocating for conservation, into her eighties.
gnostek1 / 21920 advertisement for the Thor electric washing machine.
01The Thor, launched in 1908 by Hurley Machine Company, had no electrical insulation on its motor housing.
02Alva Fisher's patent drawings show live copper contacts positioned inches above the water basin.
03Early electric washing machine electrocutions were recorded in Chicago within the first year of Thor's sale.
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01Titus reportedly wept at dinner if he had performed no act of generosity that day.
02He commanded the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD, during which the Second Temple was destroyed.
03He reigned only 26 months before dying of fever at 41; his brother Domitian may have hastened his death.
gnostek1 / 9Temperature map of the cosmic microwave background measured by the Planck spacecraft
01The pigeons roosting inside the horn antenna were trapped and relocated twice before the engineers accepted the hiss was cosmic.
02Penzias and Wilson won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics — accidentally, while testing satellite communication equipment.
03Princeton cosmologist Robert Dicke had been building a detector specifically to find this radiation; Penzias called him first, and Dicke told his team: 'We've been scooped.'
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01Frye was limited to 4 kilobytes of ROM; the arcade Pac-Man ran on hardware with far greater capacity.
02Atari produced 12 million cartridges expecting Pac-Man to sell the 2600 console to new households.
03The port's failure — returning millions of unsold units — is cited as a primary trigger of the 1983 crash.