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The entire internet was down on April 25, 1997 because of a mistake ONE person made!

In 1997, the internet was perhaps the polar opposite of what it is today. There was little to no porn, no captioned pictures, social networking was virtually non existent. In fact, people mostly used the internet to exchange information and learn about a variety of topics. How did they find the information they were looking for? Who knows - because Google didn't exist yet.

Despite the fact that the Internet was minuscule compared to what it is today and contained next to no adorable cat photos, the world went into a mass panic on April 25, 1997 when the internet went down unexpectedly for a few hours. The reason for the internet crash took experts around the world a couple of hours to figure out, and it's extremely complex and complicated if explained into it's fullest.

To keep it simple, a single man ACCIDENTALLY rerouted the entire internet onto his network, thus, crashing the network, and in turn, crashing the entire internet that existed solely on his network.

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Jewish and Muslim soldiers fought together to defend Jerusalem from Crusaders!

The Jewish people and the Muslim people were once allies, when teaming up against what they viewed as a greater evil - the Crusaders. The Crusaders were Christians that initially came from England, and their goal was to fight their way through Europe and into the Middle East in order to spread Christianity in one of the most violent militaristic campaigns ever led. The Crusaders wanted to rid the world of Islam, because they viewed it as sacrilegious.

The alliance was short lived, because the Crusaders quickly breached the city after a siege that had lasted around two weeks. It is said that while the Muslim soldiers fought to their death, the Jewish soldiers were trapped in a synagogue by Crusaders, and the building was quickly burned to the ground.

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Our universe could be inside a larger universe!

While scientists have made great strides in understanding what is occurring outside of Earth’s atmosphere in the past 40 years, there is still much that is unknown about the universe. Concerning the makeup of the universe, one scientist has put forward the idea that our universe in located within a wormhole of a larger universe! So what does this mean?

This means that our universe would be located inside of a black hole! Because Einstein’s theory of relativity, if a black hole were to form from the collapse of matter then, scientist Nikodem Poplawski claims, the opposite is also true. This would result in an exploding white hole, which is connected to a black hole through a bridge of sorts. Poplawski claims that our universe is located within this bridge, in within a larger universe!

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Tim Allen was once arrested for smuggling a pound of cocaine through an airport!

Tim Allen, the star of Home Improvement and all those Santa Claus films, was a well known dealer and user of cocaine by the students at Western Michigan University. But, like all drug dealers before him, he wanted to make more money. Tim Allen had the genius idea of, with an accomplice, trying to smuggle 1.4 pounds of cocaine through an airport - that's enough cocaine to put someone in jail for life!

Tim Allen and his accomplice, were of course, busted by the police at the airport. However, Tim Allen agreed to make statements against his friend in order for a reduced sentence. As a result he was sentenced to three to seven years in prison, but only served two years and four months!

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An uncontrollable prison riot ended when the superintendent just asked the prisoners to keep calm!

On July 7, 1952, a full-scale riot broke out in an Ontario prison resulting in the prison becoming partially ruined and causing expensive repairs. The situation seemed dire when police couldn’t end the riots and feared the prisoners would escape or kill the guards.

Tear gas was used but was completely ineffective and the prison continued to be consumed by riots. Up to 1000 inmates participated. The guards even threatened to fire on the inmates after several had escaped, but they still could not be controlled. It was not until the superintendent of the prison came out that the entire affair was over within seconds.

He simply asked them to stop and to restore order. He was so respected by the prisoners that as quickly as it had begun, the entire riot was over and everything went back to normal!

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