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AND THEN A HERO COMES ALONG There is Something Special Inside You

Van Halen once demanded that every brown M&M be removed from their dressing room.   It sounded like ridiculous rock-star behaviour. It wasn’t.   Their concerts involved enormous stages, heavy equipment and detailed safety instructions. Buried inside the contract was the M&M clause. If the band found brown sweets…

1,600 different materials. That's roughly how many Thomas Edison tested while searching for a practical light-bulb filament. Coconut fibre. Fishing line. Bamboo. Even hairs from a friend's beard. Most of them didn't work. But here's the bit I love: Edison wasn't failing 1,600 times. He was finding 1,600 thin…

AND THEN A HERO COMES ALONG There is Something Special Inside You

Van Halen once demanded that every brown M&M be removed from their dressing room.   It sounded like ridiculous rock-star behaviour. It wasn’t.   Their concerts involved enormous stages, heavy equipment and detailed safety instructions. Buried inside the contract was the M&M clause. If the band found brown sweets…

HE SPOKE FOR 84 MINS AFTER BEING SHOT In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was walking to a campaign speech.   A gunman shot him in the chest.   Most people would have gone straight to hospital.   Roosevelt did something else.   He checked whether the bullet had entered his lung.   It hadn't.   Then he walked onto the stage…