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Harry Houdini was the greatest magician during his time. He was also a fantastic locksmith and boasted that he could escape from any jail cell in the world in less than...

Mozart, a student of Haydn for a time, once boasted that he could compose and play a piano piece that no one else could play. His teacher was skeptical, so Mozart dashed...

Have you ever heard of Andrew Bradford? Probably not. He was one who was satisfied with a mediocre job. He had low expectations. During colonial days he had the contract...

There are 200 kinds of bamboo plants throughout the world, but the Chinese bamboo is one of the most fascinating. When you plant it, nothing seems to happen for five years....

In May 1995, Randy Reid, a 34-year-old construction worker, was welding on top of a nearly completed water tower outside Chicago. According to writer Melissa Ramsdell,...

Writer Philip Yancey notes that toward the end of his life, Albert Einstein removed the portraits of two scientists—Newton and Maxwell—from his wall. He replaced those...

Many electronic fire alarms have an internal switch triggered by a beam of light. As long as light is received unbroken by the photo-sensitive receiver, the detector is...

Coming home from work, a woman stopped at the corner deli to buy a chicken for supper. The butcher reached into a barrel, grabbed the last chicken he had, flung it on the...