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A woman was born with two pelvises and four legs!

Josephine Myrtle Corbin was born in Lincoln County, TN in 1868. She had a rare form of conjoined twining called dipygus. As a result, she was born with two complete bodies from the waist down.

Her two small pelvises were side by side and she had two inner legs smaller than the outer ones. However, each inner leg was paired with it's outer leg. It's reported that she could move all four of her legs, but she had a hard time walking, as three of them were unusable: Two were too small, and the other had a clubbed foot.

His dad started showing her when she was just one month old, charging a dime. This started her successful career as a sideshow attraction that resulted in her earning as much as $450 a week and being able to retire when she was 18.

She married a doctor and had four daughters and a son. It's rumored that 3 of her kids were from one set of organs and two from the other. It's not possible to confirm whether this is true, but it was medically possible.

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Stalin and Hitler were both nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize!

Unbelievable as it may sound, both of these shady characters were nominated for the most prestigious award given to people who work towards world peace. Stalin was nominated in 1945 and 1948 for his efforts to end World War II.

Hitler's nomination, however was supposed to be a joke. In 1939, a member of the Swedish parliament, EGC Brandt, nominated Hitler for the peace prize. Brandt never intended for the nomination to be taken seriously.

Brandt intended for the nomination to be satiric criticism of the current political climate in Sweden. The nomination was, obviously, not well received and was swiftly withdrawn.

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There's a filesharing network made up of USB Flash drives scattered around the world!

There's a network of around 1000 USB flash drives scattered around the world, devised as a public file sharing project. Started by Aram Bartholl in 2010, project Dead Drops has grown to be one of the most interesting uses for USB drives around.

People simply plant USB drives in bricks and walls with the connector sticking out. They load up the drive with random files and wait for others to come take those files, or leave some of their own.

Check out the source to find a map and locate one near you. There's one by us here in Chicago that contains movies, gifs and even a video game! If you go look for these, let us know in the comments!

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China had fake Apple stores so realistic; employees thought they were working for Apple!

China can take counterfeiting to incredible levels. Take these 22 'Apple Stores' that the Chinese government cracked down on in 2011. After an American blogger wrote about his experience at the store, and how it was a 'beautiful rip-off,' they decided to investigate.

The stores had copied every single aspect of a real Apple store: From the décor, to the ambiance, to T-Shirts that were the exact same color. Even the lanyards were the exact same design as the real ones.

The stores were so realistic, that the employees themselves believed that they were working on a real Apple store. The blog post was so heavily shared that Chinese authorities took action and shut them down. It's unclear if the products they were selling were legitimate or from the grey market.

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Scientists have produced brain cells from pee!

You read that right. A team of Chinese researchers have found a way to extract ordinary cells from human urine and repurpose them into fully functional neurons. They hope that this advancement will lead to the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.

This is a particularly big breakthrough because it eschews the use of embryonic stem cells, which pose ethical dilemmas, but most importantly, have been known to cause tumors. Other types of stem cells are not as easily obtained, so they're not as viable for treatment as either embryonic stem cells or these new urine cells.

The method produced usable cells within 12 days, which is half the time required using the second fastest method. The cells were then acting like functional neurons with no tumors or mutations. The urine cells can be taken from almost any patient's urine.

Learn more about this exciting development at the source.

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