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Why Did Cars Have 'Suicide Doors' and Do They Still Exist?
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The popular name for car doors that opened from the rear rather than the front is "suicide doors". Why are they called that, and do any cars have this feature?
Who Was the Mad Trapper of Rat River?
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The Mad Trapper of Rat River probably wasn't a trapper, and he most likely wasn't mad, but who was he and why did he lead the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on one its greatest chases ever?
It's a Small World, and It's Wiping Out Languages
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Thousands of languages are threatened with extinction. Learn more about vanishing languages at HowStuffWorks.
Mystery Solved? DNA Tentatively Identifies Somerton Man
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The Somerton Beach man mystery has baffled authorities and mystery buffs for decades, but DNA researchers have finally put a tentative name to the man found dead on Somerton Beach in 1948.
How Soccer Powerhouse FC Barcelona Became a Symbol of Catalan Pride
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HowStuffWorks looks at FC Barcelona, whose motto 'More than a club' symbolizes its allegiance to the Catalan cause.
6 Times a Single Vote Really Did Change an Election
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Has one vote ever made a difference to swing an election? Learn more about pivotal votes in this HowStuffWorks article.
8 Terrifying Real Life Cults
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In the general sense, a cult is a group of people who come together with a set of unified beliefs and practices. Most of the time, the common values are fanatical views of religion and culture that tend to isolate one particular ideal or standard and then place it above all else. But what separates cults from [...] The post 8 Terrifying Real Life Cults appeared first on Goliath.
The Hamsa Appears in Multiple Cultures, but Why?
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The hamsa, a depiction of a human hand, often with a central eye motif, is a protective symbol meant to ward off evil.
Why are blueprints blue?
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Why are blueprints blue and not some other color? There's a specific chemical process behind it, and its discovery has all the elements of a dark fairy tale.
How do erasers erase?
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Ahhhh, the good old No. 2 pencil and its oft-used eraser. Have you ever wondered exactly what science is at work when that pink, rubbery lifesaver eradicates your blunders?