
mikerampton
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- January 09, 2023
About Me
Five Academically Successful Punk Musicians Who Prove Headbanging Isn’t That Bad for Your Brain Cells
They don’t just have punk down to a science. They also have science down to a science
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- By Mike Rampton
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Five Chinese Towns That Are Strangely Familiar
Wait, what are near-exact replicas of Paris, France and Jackson, Wyoming doing in the middle of China?
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- By Mike Rampton
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Five Fires That Never, Ever Stop Burning
As Billy Joel once said, ‘They’ve been burning since the world’s been turning’ — and show no signs of stopping (that last part is us, not Billy Joel)
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The German Knight Who Coined the Phrase ‘Kiss My Ass’ Was the Iron Man of His Time
Equipped a bionic hand that was a 16th-century technological marvel, Götz von Berlichingen is said to have delivered the invitation to rim him to a general who invited him to surrender, and in Germany, his name alone is now interpreted as the same
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Five Times It Rained Something Other Than Water
Not creepy — or apocalyptic — at all
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Five Times Being Dead Didn’t Prevent Someone from Being Executed
That’ll teach ’em
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The Scummiest Cheating Scandal in the History of Sports
There’s cheating, and there’s being as awful as humanity gets — something the 2000 Paralympics Spanish basketball team established a new low point for
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Four Times Breakfast Cereal Invaded the World of Physics
Snap, Crackle and Pop is science now, yo
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The Father of Fairy Tales Was Also a Masturbation Journal Pioneer
When Hans Christian Andersen wasn’t putting pen to paper crafting ‘The Little Mermaid’ or ‘The Princess and the Pea,’ he was rubbing himself raw and documenting the aftermath
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The Great 19th Century Freak-Out About Being Accidentally Buried Alive
‘Premature burial’ is basically everyone’s worst nightmare, but back in the 1800s, it was prevalent enough that a whole funereal economy sprang up around it
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