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Avengers.

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X traces its origin to an MSPaint comic made by deviantArt user Whynne about the pointless nature of 'X'ing on 4Chans , uploaded on September 19th, 2008. In his deviantART post, Whynne claims he was attempting to draw a comic character known as Rape Rodent

Rage

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X is an unexplained atmospheric electrical phenomenon. The term refers to reports of luminous, usually spherical objects which vary from pea-sized to several metres in diameter. It is usually associated with thunderstorms, but lasts considerably longer than the split-second flash of a lightning bolt. Many of the early reports say that the ball eventually explodes, sometimes with fatal consequences, leaving behind the odour of sulfur.

The Seven Crystal Balls.

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he earliest recorded image resembling an X is depicted in a 17th century English woodcut called the Mowing-Devil. The image depicts the Devil with a scythe mowing (cutting) a The pamphlet containing the image states that the farmer, disgusted at the wage his mower was demanding for his work, insisted that he would rather have "the devil himself" perform the task. A historical report of X, republished (from Nature, 1880) in January 2000 Journal of Meteorology describes the 1880 investigations by amateur scientist John Rand Capron: "The storms about this part of Surrey have been lately local and violent, and the effects produced in some instances curious. Visiting a neighbour's farm on Wednesday evening (21st), we found a field of standing wheat considerably knocked about, not as an entirety, but in patches forming, as viewed from a distance, circular spots...."

Crop Circle.

5. What dafont?
The name was inspired by a puzzle question that Vincent Connare heard within Microsoft headquarters. The question was "can you make an X that could launch a person from main campus to the new consumer campus about a mile away? Mathematically, is it possible and how?" and Mr.connare "thought that would be a great name for a font that launches words across the internet"

Trebuchet.

6. Hmmm
What is the only type of invention for which the US Patent Office still insists on seeing a working model?

Perpetual Motion Machine

7. Whats the problem?

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The archaic name of which animal was the camelopard? In fact, the scientific name of this animal remains camelopardalis to this day.

Giraffe.

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What name is given to the technique of taking self-shot pictures with the camera placed above the head at an angle?

Myspace angle.

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The first X logo was a complex picture of Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree. The logo was inscribed: "Newton ... A MindForever Voyaging Through Strange Seas of Thought ...Alone. The overly complex logo had something to do with theslow sales of the X I, so he commissioned Rob Janoff of the Regis McKenna Agency to design a new one. Janoff came up with the iconic rainbow-striped logo used from 1976 to 1999. Janoff, however, said in an interview that he designed the logo as such to "prevent people from thinking it is a cherry tomato.

Apple.

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Percy Spencer, an engineer at Raytheon after his WWI stint in the Navy, was known as an electronics genius. In 1945, Spencer was fiddling with a X-emitting magnetron housed in the guts of radar array when he felt a strange sensation in his pants. A sizzling, even. Spencer paused and found that a chocolate bar in his pocket had started to melt. Figuring that theradiation of the magnetron was to blame (or to credit, as it would turn out), Spencer immediately set out to realize the culinary potential at work. The end result was the X savior of eager snackers and single dudes worldwide.

Microwave Oven.

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Derived from a french word for little Bag. The Indian company CavinKare invented it in 1983. The company did not file a patent and hence does not own the trade rights to this invention. Unilever and Procter & Gamble then copied the idea He learnt the first entrepreneurial lessons from his father, Chinni Krishnan, who started a small-scale pharmaceutical packaging unit, before moving on to manufacture pharmaceutical products and cosmetics. Now used as a sales technique in predominently developing countries

Sachet.

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X ("the content-free encyclopedia") is a satirical website that parodies Y. Founded in 2005 as originally an English-language encyclopedia, the project currently spans over 75 languages. The English version has approximately 30,000 pages of content, second only to the Portuguese. Its logo, a hollow potato, serves as a parody. Some of the articles on X contain templates providing a link to the corresponding Y article. It generally uses the quotes "For those without comedic tastes, the so-called experts at Y think they have an article about (a link to the article)."

X-Uncyclopedia Y-Wikipedia

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The band name X" refers to the Hindenburg disaster and a joke made by Keith Moonand John Entwistle. The two were discussing the idea of forming a band with some prominent young guitarists at the time. Moon and Entwistle suggested that a supergroup containing themselves, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck would go down like a "lead balloon", a British idiom for disastrous results.

Led Zeppelin.

15. Trippy stuff


"... little by little I could begin to enjoy the unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind my closed eyes. Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux ... The events of the firstXtrip, now known as Bicycle Day, after the bicycle ride home, Bicycle day is increasingly observed in psychedelic communities as a day to celebrate the discovery of X.

LSD.

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