Neil DeGrasse Tyson considered becoming a male stripper to make money during graduate school. When he visited the club, the dancers came out with lighter fluid soaked jockstraps and set them ablaze while dancing to “Great Balls of Fire.” He chose math tutoring instead.
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Scientist Niels Bohr was “given a house next door to the Carlsberg brewing company, and had a pipeline running from the brewery into the house so that he could have a never-ending supply of fresh beer on tap”.
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The inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.
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If you fake a laugh long enough, you'll actually start to laugh really hard.
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One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed.
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Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
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The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders.
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