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This is a weekly wrap of our Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here.<\/a><\/div>\n

\"zelda\"<\/a>The Origin of the Legend of Zelda<\/a><\/p>\n

The Legend of Zelda<\/em> is aptly named, as the series has truly become a legend within the gaming industry. Every new generation of gamers have been given the opportunity to fall in love with it through their current Nintendo console. Or if they\u2019re purists, going back to the original NES game. However, the fundamentals have pretty much always remained \u2013 a boy in green whose quest is to stop an evil wizard and save the princess. You don\u2019t mess with perfection. The question is- where did the inspiration for the Legend of Zelda come from? What… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"lincoln-beard\"<\/a>The Little Girl Responsible for Lincoln\u2019s Beard<\/a><\/p>\n

In 1860, the clean shaven Abraham Lincoln was running for President of the United States. That\u2019s when he received the following letter from an 11 year old girl by the name of Grace Bedell from New York, dated October 15, 1860: “Dear Sir My father has just home from the fair and brought home your picture and Mr. Hamlin\u2019s. I am a little girl only 11…” (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"bill-morgan\"<\/a>The Man Who Died, Came Back to Life and Won the Lotto Twice- the Second Time When Reenacting the First Win for the Media<\/a><\/p>\n

In 1999, 37 year old Bill Morgan was a truck driver living in a travel trailer in Australia. That\u2019s when disaster struck- while working, he got in a pretty bad accident that he nonetheless survived. However, medication he was given during his recovery resulted in him having an extreme allergic reaction that ultimately caused his heart to stop. After being clinically dead for fourteen minutes, they were able to get his heart going again.\u00a0 Sometimes with that span… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"circus-maximus\"<\/a>While the Roman Colosseum is More Famous Today, Its Predecessor, the Circus Maximus, Could Hold About 3 to 6 Times More People<\/a><\/p>\n

The Colosseum is one of the most iconic landmarks in Rome and incredibly popular with tourists. Movies would have you think that chariot races, gladiator shows, and battle simulations always took place there, but that isn\u2019t true. The Colosseum was finished relatively recently, all things considered. Before its completion, a more popular venue for such things was the Circus Maximus. The Circus Maximus was arguably the largest structure in ancient Rome, with the capacity to seat 250,000 people according to Pliny (roughly a quarter of Rome\u2019s population at the time; some historians… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"anatoli-bugorski2\"<\/a>What Happens When You Stick Your Head Into a Particle Accelerator<\/a><\/p>\n

Exhibit A: Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski, a Russian scientist who has the distinction of being the only person to ever stick his head in a running particle accelerator.\u00a0 Shockingly, he also managed to survive the ordeal and, all things considered, came out without too much damage. Bugorski was a researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, working with the Soviet particle accelerator: The Synchrotron U-70. On July 13, 1978, Bugorski was checking a… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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