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Abraham Lincoln’s voice was actually shrill and high. We tend to think of Lincoln as having this great baritone voice that carried into the crowds as he gave monumental speeches. We can’t be certain of how his voice sounded, because Thomas Edison’s phonograph was invented 12 years after Lincoln died. So, how can we know? Well, a man by the name of Holzer has written 40 books about Lincoln and the Civil War. He has spent countless hours poring over information circulating about all his appearances and speeches to the public. He states that it is certain that Lincoln was a tenor. It’s said that for the first ten minutes of his speech, people were shocked at his voice and accent, but soon his strong ideas and views overtook them and they could overcome his high voice and twangy accent. Just because he was a country boy with a high voice, did not mean he wasn’t intelligent and very well spoken.

An Episode of Fear Factor in which contestants drank donkey semen and urine has been pulled by NBC.

The first webcam was created to watch a coffee pot. In 1991, a camera was installed to capture pictures of the coffee pot in the Trojan Room of the old computer lab at the University of Cambridge! The idea behind it was to allow people to see if there was still coffee without having to go from their respective departments/rooms to the pot.

When you repeat a word continuously and it loses meaning, it’s called “jamais vu”. Jamais vu means “never seen” and is considered the opposite or reverse of deja vu.

Europe has "Silent Discos." You listen to music on your headphones. Due to noise ordinances in Europe, club owners have created “silent discos” where clubbers listen to music through headphones. Rather than use a speaker system, some club owners have resorted to wireless headphones to entertain club goers.

Astronauts on the International Space Station see 15 sunrises and sunsets each day.

In 2000, Japan voted instant noodles as their top invention.

Bubble wrap was intended to be used as wallpaper. In 1957, inventors Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes attempted to create a 3D wallpaper. Unfortunately, the wallpaper didn’t catch on but the men realized that it was useful for packing delicate items for shipping, and people receiving items wrapped in bubble wrap realized that popping the bubbles was a fun way to pass the time.
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