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Weird science, forgotten history, and human quirks — each one true, each under a minute, each a little stranger than you’d expect.
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Santorio Santorio
The Chair That Would Not Let Him Eat
What does a Renaissance physician discover when he rigs his dining chair to yank the table away the moment he has eaten his ration?
He weighed his food, his sleep, his feces, and, by his own accounting, his sex life. For thirty years he sat in a chair that took his dinner away. Santorio Santorio, founder of quantitative physiology, discovered that we are all quietly evaporating.
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The Bucket List
A college dropout found him in four days with a bucket list.
The Shoemaker Who Became a Bear
A grizzly attack left him with a silver-dollar-sized hole in his skull — and that bear ended up on the California state flag.
The Woman Who Got the Moonlight by Accident
The most famous piano dedication in history was a last-minute substitution, named by a man who never met her, for a woman who was busy doing other things.
