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It’s rumored that in Holland, Michigan a bunch of children with Hydrocephalus were locked away in an asylum, but in the 70’s they were essentially secretly released into the wild and all became feral. Reportedly to this day people still claim to see people with enlarged heads roaming about in the forests in the area, and it’s also common for people to claim to hear footsteps rapidly moving around the trees.
 
Glad I couldn't help said:
King C. Gillette, inventor of the safety razor, wanted create a city on top of Niagara Falls that would power the city with hydroelectricity. Using the power of SCIENCE and PROGRESS, it would house up to sixty million people, he figured it was the only city that the US, maybe even the world, would ever need.

He called it Metropolis.
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So, what would be under that giant dome in the middle of the housing complexes?
 
Charlie Gillingham, the Keyboardist for The Counting Crows used to edit wikipedia in his spare time. I'm not talking just bits and pieces, the dude contributed a ton to the science part of the website, writing up the pages for AI.
 
Today I learned that there is a Detroit, Alabama. It has a population of 237.

It will now be known as Best Detroit.
 
The only place on earth that doesn't have the common cold is Antarctica, it's too cold for the bacterium to survive.
 
According to a comic book released in the early era of SpiderMan comics, Peter Parker was molested by an older boy named Skip as a kid.

It was part of a series akin to the Sonic Sez skits warning kids about real life dangers. It was a bit awkward, but I gotta say I personally think it was kind of a sweet idea. At the very least kids knowing that their favorite super hero suffered from something as horrible as what they went through and still turned out a strong heroic guy was a pretty touching concept for the time it was released.
 
Count groudon said:
According to a comic book released in the early era of SpiderMan comics, Peter Parker was molested by an older boy named Skip as a kid.

It was part of a series akin to the Sonic Sez skits warning kids about real life dangers. It was a bit awkward, but I gotta say I personally think it was kind of a sweet idea. At the very least kids knowing that their favorite super hero suffered from something as horrible as what they went through and still turned out a strong heroic guy was a pretty touching concept for the time it was released.
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There's a comic book that was written especially for sexual abuse awarness featuring Spider-Man. Peter Parker's next door neighbor's son is molested by a baby sitter, and our hero relates the story of his abuse to the boy to get him to open up. I still have that somewhere.
 
Count groudon said:
It’s rumored that in Holland, Michigan a bunch of children with Hydrocephalus were locked away in an asylum, but in the 70’s they were essentially secretly released into the wild and all became feral. Reportedly to this day people still claim to see people with enlarged heads roaming about in the forests in the area, and it’s also common for people to claim to hear footsteps rapidly moving around the trees.
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I want to believe...I really do, but how plausible is it that the children survived enough to produce descendants (and generations), and wouldn't further evidence have been found by now?
 
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Mfw I want to believe that the world is spooky and cool but logic always ruins it.
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Honestly on the surface, deformed kids/preteens being neglected and left to fend for themselves in the woods and surviving for a period of time isn't totally out of the ballpark, especially for the greatest, wildest decade (1970s), but for them to have produced children successfully to continue the line in 2019 is on the outside of the ballpark.

More believable than bigfoot though.
 
Menopause (an extended period of survival after the cessation of fertility) is extremely rare in the animal kingdom, not even our closest relatives (gorilla, chimps, orangutan, gibbons) have it. The only non-human animals known to have menopause are a few species of cetaceans: Pilot Whale, Orca, Narwal and Beluga Whale.
 
While most people probably think Mickey Mouse is Disney's oldest continuing character, it is actually Pete, who is 94 years old as of 2019. Pete made his debut three years before Mickey in the 1925 short, Alice Solves the Puzzle. He is widely believed to be a dog, but he was originally a bear, and was changed to a cat after Mickey -the mouse- made his debut.

Also, the first person to provide a voice for him in sound cartoons was Walt himself.
 
Despite "modern toilet paper" being invented around 1883, it wasn't until 1935 that it could be advertised as splinter free.
 
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