Funny Google Easter Eggs

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Google has a great sense of humor and allows their developers to occasionally put Easter eggs in the search results (in addition to just about every other product they own). Here are a few of the funniest Google Easter eggs. Note: some of these require you run Chrome browser and some expire or only working…

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The Grand Canyon’s rock record is missing 1.2 billion years of history

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Called “The Great Unconformity”, the Grand Canyon has a 1.2 billion year gap in the rock record. Above the gap is 500 million-year-old sandstone (Cambrian age), a time of billions of shelled marine creatures. Below the gap is metamorphic rock of the Slatherian period aged 1.75 billion years where no fossils exist at all. But…

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Thirteen Abandoned Mental Asylums

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By the 20th Century, mental asylums had begun evolving from dark, isolated institutions where criminal and civil insane patients were housed together to the more organized, medical treatment facility that we know today. The old were left to decay. Here we present thirteen abandoned mental asylums.

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Urbee: the World’s first 3D printed car

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Urbee 3D printed carA working prototype of a hybrid-electric two-seater car called Urbee, is the world’s first 3D printed car. Urbee, (Urban Electric with Ethanol as backup) was created to be practical, efficient, inexpensive, easy to repair, safe to drive, and built from technology that exists today. Instead of being prototyped by hand, the company…

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