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April Fools' Day or April Fool's Day (rarely called All Fools' Day [1] ) is an annual custom in many Western countries on the 1st of April consisting of practical jokes , hoaxes , and pranks. Jokesters often expose their actions by shouting "April Fool[s]!" at the recipient. Mass media can be involved with these pranks, which may be revealed as such the following day. The custom of setting aside a...

A  placebo  ( / p l ə ˈ s iː b oʊ /   pluh-SEE-boh ) is a medicine or treatment intended to appear genuine to its recipient, but which has no pharmaceutical effect. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]  Common placebos include inert tablets (like sugar pills), inert injections (like  saline ),  sham surgery , [ 3 ]  and other procedures. [ 4 ]

Guy Fawkes  ( / f ɔː k s / ; 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), [ a ]  also known as  Guido Fawkes  while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial  English Catholics  involved in the failed  Gunpowder Plot  of 1605. He was born and educated in  York ; his father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a  recusant  Catholic. Fawkes converted to Cat...

Enshit*ification , also known as  crapification and platform decay , is a process in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to both users and business customers to maximize short-term profits...

Sputnik 1  ( / ˈ s p ʌ t n ɪ k ,   ˈ s p ʊ t n ɪ k / ,  Russian :  Спутник-1 ,  Satellite 1 ), often referred to as simply  Sputnik , was the first artificial Earth  satellite . It was launched into an elliptical  low Earth orbit  by the  Soviet Union  on 4 October 1957 as part of the  Soviet space program . It sent a radio signal back to Earth for three weeks before its three  silver-zinc batteri...

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/maximum-speed/   Taken from this article from Outside Magazine.

Freedom House Ambulance Service  was the first  emergency medical service  in the United States to be staffed by  paramedics  with medical training beyond basic first aid. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]  Founded in 1967 to serve the predominantly Black  Hill District  of  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , it was staffed entirely by African Americans. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]  Freedom House Ambulance Service broke medical ground by trai...

The  Super Bowl  is the annual  league championship  game of the  National Football League  (NFL) of the United States. It has served as the final game of every NFL season since  1966 , replacing the  NFL Championship Game . Since 2022, the game has been played on the second Sunday in February. Prior Super Bowls were played on Sundays in early to mid-January from 1967 to 1978, late January from 19...

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A feral child (also called wild child ) is a young individual who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, with little or no experience of human care, social behavior, or language. Such children lack the basics of primary and secondary socialization . [1] The term is used to refer to children who have suffered severe abuse or trauma before being abandoned or running away. They...

Hundreds of proposed amendments to the United States Constitution are introduced during each session of the United States Congress . From 1789 through January 3, 2025, approximately 11,985 measures have been proposed to amend the United States Constitution. [1] Collectively, members of the House and Senate typically propose around 200 amendments during each two-year term of Congress . [2] Most, ho...

Captain Sir Thomas Moore (30 April 1920 – 2 February 2021), more popularly known as Captain Tom , was a British Army officer and fundraiser . He made international headlines in April 2020 when he raised money for charity in the run-up to his 100th birthday during the COVID-19 pandemic . He served in India and the Burma campaign during the Second World War , and later became an instructor in armour...

" The Fir-Tree " ( Danish : Grantræet ) is a literary fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). The tale is about a fir tree so anxious to grow up, so anxious for greater things, that he cannot appreciate living in the moment. The tale was first published 21 December 1844 with " The Snow Queen ", in New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Second Collection , in Copenhage...

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries , it was erroneously believed that there were " canals " on the planet Mars . These were a network of long straight lines in the equatorial regions from 60° north to 60° south latitude on Mars, observed by astronomers using early telescopes without photography. They were first described by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli during the opposit...

The Field of the Cloth of Gold ( French : Camp du Drap d'Or , pronounced [kɑ̃ dy dʁa d‿ɔʁ] ) was a summit meeting between King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France from 7 to 24 June 1520. Held at Balinghem , between Ardres in France and Guînes in the English Pale of Calais , it was an opulent display of wealth by both kings. [1]

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/chasing-tornadoes   National Geographic article on Storm Chasing called Chasing Tornadoes.

Ian Robert Maxwell (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch ; 10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor and politician. [1] [2] Of Jewish descent , he escaped the Nazi occupation of his native Czechoslovakia and joined the Czechoslovak Army in exile during World War II . He was decorated after active service in the British Army . In subsequent years he worked in...

On August 28, 2003, pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells robbed a PNC Bank near his hometown of Erie , Pennsylvania , United States. Upon being apprehended by police, Wells died when an explosive collar locked to his neck detonated. The FBI investigation into his death uncovered a complex plot described as "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI". [1]   https://w...

Koro is a culture-bound delusional disorder in which individuals have an overpowering belief that their sex organs are retracting and will disappear, despite the lack of any true longstanding changes to the genitals. [1] [2] Koro is also known as shrinking penis , and was listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders .

Balloonfest '86 was a fundraising event in Cleveland , Ohio , United States, held on September 27, 1986, in which the local chapter of United Way set a world record by releasing almost 1.5 million balloons . [2] The event was intended to be a harmless publicity stunt . However, the released balloons drifted back over the city and Lake Erie and landed in the surrounding area, causing problems for t...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel_claims_and_urban_legends   Multiple accounts of people who allegedly  travelled through time  have been reported by the press or circulated online. These reports have turned out to be either  hoaxes  or else based on incorrect assumptions, incomplete information, or interpretation of fiction as  fact . Many are now recognized as  urban legends .

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