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A pair of Air Jordan shoes just sold for over $11,000!


Michael Jordan envisioned the Air Jordan XI in black to be a shoe that could be worn with tuxedos. It was supposed to be released in 2010, but never saw the light of day. 

A sample pair, however, made its way into eBay. The auction made this sample become one of the most valuable sneakers ever, because the selling price ended up at $11,267!

What do you think, would you have paid this much for a pair of sneakers? Check out the original auction here

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You cannot legally watch MLK’s “I Have A Dream Speech” for free!


It's copyrighted material, and it costs $10 to get any video/audio or $20 for the entirety of the speech that changed the United States’ history forever. Dr. King’s family owns the rights to his speech until the year 2038!

But why is it copyrighted? Usually speeches are in the public domain, such as Obama’s “Yes We Can” speech. However, The estate of Dr. King sued Twentieth Century Fox in 1963 for selling records of his speech without permission. Since then, the speech has been disputed to be in the public domain as well as staying copy-written. What do you think? Should speeches be automatically in the public domain? Tell us in the comments below! 

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Silly string is used in the US and British Armies!


In their Iraq missions, troops from these countries developed a way to search for traps. They sprayed open doorways and halls with silly string to detect and maneuver around tripwires, preventing explosions!

How does it do this? silly string is sticky enough to latch itself onto wires without weighing too much and setting off traps. At the peak of the War in Iraq, people held silly string drives to send the canned goop to troops overseas! To read more on the properties of silly string and other uses, click the Source below!

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There is a treehouse that is over 90 feet tall!


The tree that the house resides in is 80 feet tall and over 12 feet long. This tree comfortably holds an 11 floor, 8000 square foot, over 250,000 nail wonder that would put every eight year old's tree house to shame. The house stands at 97 feet tall, which means that it is 17 feet taller than the tree it resides in.

The creator of the treehouse, Horrace Burgess, is 56 years old and has said that he put over $12,000 into the building of the structure. Also, Burgess says that he is not done making his monument in the trees. He’s not stopping at floor #11! Do you want to move into this treehouse? I know I do.

Tell us what you think about the colossal cabana in the comments below!

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