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There’s an annual scavenger hunt that takes place over the entire United States and lasts a full 24 hours!

Tricadecathlonomania, aka “Trica”, is a very unique scavenger hunt. It starts and ends at midnight, and bribing judges, finding loopholes, and cheating in general is actually encouraged!

Scavenger hunts aren’t just for kids. In fact, they were invented in the 1930s by the notorious socialite and party-hostess Elsa Maxwell, “the hostess with the mostest”. Not only were they a way to entertain her guests, they were also a good way to stimulate them intellectually.

DoSomething.org is planning their own scavenger hunt! Sign up here by July 11 and you can participate in an 11-day long scavenger hunt where you can earn scholarships, computers or a trip to LA. The whole event is to raise awareness for a bunch of good causes, so make sure to check it out!

Saddam Hussein had a Koran that was written in his own blood!

The former dictator had 27 liters (7 gallons) of his own blood drawn out of his body to be used as ink. This project reportedly took him only 2 years to do, which, if true, could have killed him. All 114 chapters (336,000 words!) of the holy book were written in blood, and the new bloody book was placed into a secure vault in Baghdad. Now that the dictator is gone, the question of what to do with the book remains a contentious issue. Writing a Koran in blood is considered to be blasphemous, but its destruction would also be blasphemous.
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The creators of YouTube originally were working on a dating site.

Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim met as employees of PayPal. They got their first big payout when Ebay bought Paypal in 2002. The trio decided to team up on some new projects. Their initial plan, a dating site called Tune In Hook Up, fizzled out. They were then inspired by the fact that they had a hard time finding good videos of stuff online (specifically, the 2004 Tsunami in the Indian Ocean, and Janet Jackson’s nip-slip incident during the Super Bowl). They got the idea to have a website where users can share and host videos, and thus history was made (thanks, in part, to PayPal, Janet Jackson, a tsunami, and a failed dating site).
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Lara Croft's large breasts were the result of an accidental mouse click!

Wanting to stray as far from any Indiana Jones imagery as possible with Tomb Raider, video game developer Core Design originally chose a strong South American female as their lead character. Lead artist Toby Gard chose the name ‘Laura Cruz’, but, seeing as Core Design had recently been acquired by another British company, upper management preferred something a bit more ‘Brit-friendly.’ Therefore, the team voted on names from a local phone book, with the winner being ‘Lara Croft’.

After modifying her backstory to fit the new name, the developers had to create a digital model of their heroine. It took just over 540 polygons to complete her figure, and the end result was the most realistic in-game character that had been seen at the point! With her long braid, tiny shorts, and twin pistols at her sides, Miss Croft was ready for action. All along, Gard had intended to give his adventurer somewhat exaggerated features, but her hefty bosom was actually a complete accident. While adjusting her figure, he increased her bust size THREE his intended 50% adjustment! The enhancement was met with unanimous approval from his team before he was ever able to change it back...and so a teenage video game fantasy was born.
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A 17-year old Chinese student sold one of his kidneys to buy an iPad 2 and an iPhone!

Xiao Zheng of the Anhui province met a broker on the Internet that claimed he could sell his kidney for $3,000. In late April, Zheng traveled to a hospital in Chenzhou to make good on this transaction by having his right kidney removed! When Zheng came home with the two brand-new Apple devices, his mother was naturally a bit inquisitive. Upon finding out how her son acquired enough money for the tech, she called the authorities, but they were not able to locate the broker. Astoundingly, the hospital which performed the surgery was not even authorized to do organ transplants! And what’s worse, another broker said kidneys were normally sold for much more across the country - typically a sum of $5,400, plus a bonus of $300 to $1,500!
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