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  • This AI resume tool helps you get past ATS filters for $40 DashResume Lifetime Subscription

    TL;DR: DashResume analyzes resumes against job descriptions, identifies keyword gaps, and helps create ATS-friendly applications — all for $39.99 (reg. $139). You could be the perfect candidate for a job and still… Read the rest of the article: This AI resume tool helps you get past ATS filters for $40

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  • For centuries, a cracked Egyptian statue sang at dawn Colossi of Memnon — MusikAnimal / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikipedia)

    The Colossi of Memnon are "two large stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III" that have stood on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor since about 1350 BC.… Read the rest of the article: For centuries, a cracked Egyptian statue sang at dawn

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  • Mysterious glowing balls rise from the Mekong every year Naga fireball — J A Forbes / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikipedia)

    Every year around the end of the Buddhist Lent, crowds gather along the Mekong River to watch the Naga fireballs — glowing balls that, according to Wikipedia, "are alleged to… Read the rest of the article: Mysterious glowing balls rise from the Mekong every year

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  • The masked prisoner of Louis XIV whose name was never spoken Man in the Iron Mask — Albert Morrow (1863-1927) / Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)

    The Man in the Iron Mask was "an unidentified prisoner of state during the reign of Louis XIV of France." According to Wikipedia, he was arrested in 1669 under the… Read the rest of the article: The masked prisoner of Louis XIV whose name was never spoken

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  • There is a real Swiss political party devoted to abolishing PowerPoint Anti-PowerPoint Party — Hakkon Fossen / CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)

    The Anti-PowerPoint Party is a real Swiss political party "dedicated to decreasing professional use of Microsoft PowerPoint and other forms of presentation software." According to Wikipedia, the party claims presentation… Read the rest of the article: There is a real Swiss political party devoted to abolishing PowerPoint

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  • Send giant files and see who opened them with a lifetime subscription to this $100 tool Transfr Pro Fast & Secure File Transfer Subscriptions

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  • California's vanished sunflower sea stars are not totally vanished

    California's sunflower sea stars were nearly erased by wasting disease and warming water. Recently, scientists found 18 of them off the Sonoma County coast. SFGATE reports that divers near Sea… Read the rest of the article: California's vanished sunflower sea stars are not totally vanished

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  • Grandpa Pudding Brains is hunting for vandals in his $14.7 million algae farm

    Grandpa Pudding Brains ordered the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool painted "American flag blue," watched it turn fresh engine-coolant green, and is now hunting for vandals in his $14.7 million algae… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains is hunting for vandals in his $14.7 million algae farm

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  • ICE pepper-sprays Father's Day protest after woman is run over

    Families came to Delaney Hall on Father's Day asking ICE to free detained dads. Instead, a woman was hit by a car, from behind, while protesting at the Newark detention… Read the rest of the article: ICE pepper-sprays Father's Day protest after woman is run over

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  • The schizophrenic Chicago artist who became an outsider rock legend Wesley Willis — Greg from New York, NY, America / CC BY 2.0 (via Wikipedia)

    Wesley Willis was "an American musician and visual artist" from Chicago who, after being "diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1989," became a cult figure in the outsider-music tradition. According to Wikipedia,… Read the rest of the article: The schizophrenic Chicago artist who became an outsider rock legend

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  • For 32 years, every director who disowned a film became Alan Smithee Alan Smithee — User:Leefeni,de Karik / CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

    For three decades, a Hollywood director who wanted to disown a film could take his name off it and replace it with one man: Alan Smithee. According to Wikipedia, the… Read the rest of the article: For 32 years, every director who disowned a film became Alan Smithee

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  • For 60 years, an 84-year-old has let a deck of cards build his map

    Jerry Gretzinger is 84, and for most of the past six decades he has spent nearly every day adding to a single map — now more than 4,000 hand-painted panels… Read the rest of the article: For 60 years, an 84-year-old has let a deck of cards build his map

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  • A 20-mile maze under Budapest hid a secret WWII aircraft engine plant Kőbánya cellar system — VinceB / CC BY-SA 3.0 (via Wikipedia)

    The Kőbánya cellar system under the 10th district of Budapest is, according to Wikipedia, "the largest cellar complex in the country" — a network of tunnels estimated at 32 to… Read the rest of the article: A 20-mile maze under Budapest hid a secret WWII aircraft engine plant

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  • An expedition spent years looking for an Arctic island that didn't exist Crocker Land Expedition — Not stated / Public domain (via Wikipedia)

    In 1913 a party set out to map Crocker Land, "a huge island supposedly sighted by the explorer Robert Peary from the top of Cape Colgate in 1906." Peary had… Read the rest of the article: An expedition spent years looking for an Arctic island that didn't exist

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  • Tesla's driver-assist nightmare bursts through living room wall Elon Musk (screengrab)

    Martha Avila was standing inside her home in Katy, Texas, when a Tesla Model 3 came through the brick wall and killed her. The New York Times reports that the… Read the rest of the article: Tesla's driver-assist nightmare bursts through living room wall

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  • In 1835 a New York paper put bat-men and unicorns on the moon Great Moon Hoax — Benjamin Henry Day (1810-1889) / Public domain (via Wikipedia)

    The "Great Moon Hoax" began on August 25, 1835, when The Sun, a New York newspaper, ran the first of six articles "about the supposed discovery of life and civilization… Read the rest of the article: In 1835 a New York paper put bat-men and unicorns on the moon

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  • Call of Duty shrugs, reheats its leftovers with Black Ops remaster

    There are now seven Call of Duty: Black Ops games, which is honestly fewer than I thought. Even so, ask any CoD fan on the street and they'll tell you… Read the rest of the article: Call of Duty shrugs, reheats its leftovers with Black Ops remaster

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