People are building their own huge batteries for home energy storage from hundreds of salvaged laptop batteries.

Swintec is a company in New Jersey that sells up to 5,000 typewriters a year to prisoners in the US. Their typewriters have clear plastic covers so inmates can’t hide anything inside.

A cryptocurrency mining company called Genesis Mining is growing so fast that they rent Boeing 747s to ship graphics cards to their Bitcoin mines in Iceland.

“There are more chickens in America than people on the planet.”

In only a five-block stretch of St. Charles Avenue, which is the yearly Mardi Gras parade route in downtown New Orleans, cleanup crews unearthed 93,000 pounds of beads.

The National Health Service in the UK uses more than a tenth of the global stock of pagers.

“It took humanity approximately 4 times longer to switch from copper swords to steel swords than it took to switch from steel swords to nuclear bombs.”

Taco Bell spent ten years trying to develop a cheese-stuffed taco shell, helped by a cheese promotion group called Dairy Management Inc, known as ‘the Illuminati of cheese’. After a successful trial, they’re “figuring out how to get robots to pick up cheese and put it on tortillas” for a full-scale launch.

“Artificial intelligence systems pretending to be female are often subjected to the same sorts of online harassment as women.”

“The Holy Roman Empire existed until 30 years after the United States was founded (1776-1806).”

Dana Lewis from Alabama built herself an artificial pancreas from off-the-shelf parts.

In the UK, marriages between couples over 65 have risen 46% over the last decade.

“There was a period of time where four distinct species of human lived concurrently.”

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