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The IKEA effect is a cognitive bias that occurs when consumers place a disproportionally high value on products they partially created.


The apostrophe (, although often rendered as '), is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet or certain other alphabets.

Reductio ad Hitlerum, also argumentum ad Hitlerum (Latin for "reduction to" and "argument to" and dog Latin for "Hitler" respectively), is a term coined by Leo Strauss, an informal fallacy that consists of trying to refute an opponent's view by comparing it to a view that would be held by Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party.


Fox tossing (German: Fuchsprellen) was a popular competitive blood sport in parts of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, which involved throwing live foxes and other animals high into the air.

K Foundation Burn a Million Quid was an action on 23 August 1994 in which the art duo consisting of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty burned cash in the amount of one million pounds sterling in a disused boathouse on the Ardfin Estate on the Scottish island of Jura.


Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia 

is the fear that originated from the Biblical verse Revelation 13:18, which indicates that the number 666 is the Number of the Beast, linked to Satan or the Anti-Christ.


The Great Stink, or the Big Stink, was a time in the summer of 1858 during which the smell of untreated human waste and effluent from other activities was very strong in central London.


The Mary Ellis grave is in New Brunswick, New Jersey in the parking lot of the Loew's Movie Theatre.

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