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#[[Media:Fact core fact04.wav|Cellular phones will not give you cancer. '''Only hepatitis'''.]] | #[[Media:Fact core fact04.wav|Cellular phones will not give you cancer. '''Only hepatitis'''.]] | ||
#[[Media:Fact core fact58.wav|In Greek myth, Prometheus stole fire from the Gods and gave it to humankind. '''The jewelry he kept for himself'''.]] | #[[Media:Fact core fact58.wav|In Greek myth, Prometheus stole fire from the Gods and gave it to humankind. '''The jewelry he kept for himself'''.]] | ||
#[[Media:Fact core fact17.wav|The | #[[Media:Fact core fact17.wav|The Schrödinger's cat paradox outlines a situation in which a cat in a box must be considered, for all intents and purposes, simultaneously alive and dead. '''Schrödinger created this paradox as a justification for killing cats'''.]]''Schrödinger actually posed this paradox to try to ''discredit'' the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum theory, thinking it was silly.'' | ||
#[[Media:Fact core fact46.wav|In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves. '''Like everything he did, Lincoln freed the slaves while sleepwalking, and later had no memory of the event'''.]] | #[[Media:Fact core fact46.wav|In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves. '''Like everything he did, Lincoln freed the slaves while sleepwalking, and later had no memory of the event'''.]] | ||
#[[Media:Fact core fact12.wav|The plural of surgeon general is surgeons general. '''The past tense of surgeons general is surgeonsed general''']] | #[[Media:Fact core fact12.wav|The plural of surgeon general is surgeons general. '''The past tense of surgeons general is surgeonsed general''']] | ||