Read how Mohan Srivastava, a geological statistician in Toronto, has broken the code to pick winning scratch lottery tickets.
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_lottery/all/1
Thanks to kebmodee for bringing this to the attention of the Its-Interesting community.
To fight simultaneous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (and now Libya), our government has outsourced a tremendous portion of America’s military operations.
Inexperienced newcomers Packouz and Diveroli picked the perfect moment to get into the arms business.
“I was going to make millions,” Packouz says. “I didn’t plan on being an arms dealer forever — I was going to use the money to start a music career. I had never even owned a gun. But it was thrilling and fascinating to be in a business that decided the fate of nations. Nobody else our age was dealing weapons on an international level.”
You really just have to read it to believe it: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-stoner-arms-dealers-20110316
Fascinating article about one man, Paul Haggis, who rose to the top of Scientology, and then left.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_wright?currentPage=all
Thanks to Mrs. L for bringing this to the attention of the Its-Interesting community.
Recently almost every major firm has been involved in criminal activity that has impoverished millions and collectively destroyed trillions of dollars of the world’s wealth.
Nobody except Bernie Madoff has gone to prison.
Maybe it’s because Madoff’s victims were also wealthy people.
Read here in the March 3rd article of Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail-20110216?page=1
When he died in 1955, Einstein bequeathed the literary rights for his more than 75,000 papers and other items in his estate to the Hebrew University in Israel. Now, his 69 year old granddaughter wants a share.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/10/california.einstein.granddaughter/index.html?hpt=T2#
Local organizers tried to break the Super Bowl record for attendance by exceeding 105,000, but ended up having to tell about 400 people that they’d paid for seats that weren’t there. Can you imagine arriving at the stadium and finding out that your seat doesn’t exist?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/06/us-nfl-superbowl-scene-idUSTRE71525620110206
First published in 1924, the Happy Birthday Song still generates about $2 million a year in royalties.
http://musiced.about.com/od/historyofmusic/a/happybirthday.htm
Birthday Wishes from The Beatles:
BPM 37093, a crystallised white dwarf star 4,000 km across and 50 light years away from Earth, is the largest diamond yet discovered.
A conversation between hip hop’s soon to be first billionaire and the world’s 3rd wealthiest person (2010).
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