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Who Invented Sliced Bread, Anyway?

Sliced bread is a great thing.  It also has the luck or unlucky distinction of being compared to every other great thing that comes along.  But who actually invented sliced bread?  When did it become popular.  Mental_Floss has the answer.

FAKE STROKE EFFECT LINKED TO FULL MOON

We’ve all heard that the full moon as strange effects on people.  I’m not referring to the sprout hair and eat your neighbor effect.  ”Dr Terry Quinn, of the University of Glasgow Medical School, said: “We found a significant increase in presentations to a stroke unit with medically unexplained symptoms during the full moon.”  Despite an study conducted on the phenomenon the effect is still unexplained.

3 Controversial Maps

I’ve always had a fascination for maps.  Especially maps of places that don’t actually exist.  These maps dug up by Mental_floss are of places that exist, but the lines of these maps don’t match the current ones.  Well worth a look.  Think map of the U.S.A. is a bit confusing?  Apparently somebody did and went to the trouble of redrawing and renaming the states.