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Woman buys claw machine and reveals exactly why we can never win

Her findings prove how the game is secretly rigged.

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We all had our suspicions that claw machines didn't really want us to win.

Who among us hasn't been lured into dropping a precious coin into a claw machine, knowing full well that we’ll never actually nab that shiny item tempting us through the glass, but compelled to take our chances all the same. For that is claw’s powerful siren song…maybe this time…

But perhaps now we finally have a piece of evidence that will make our logic stronger than our impulses, thanks to one woman’s curiosity.

Melbourne based renovation expert Katie Clark recently bought herself a claw machine to go in the bar of her house, and after taking a look inside the appliance’s instruction manual, she is determined to “expose the claw machine industry.”

First off, let’s talk about the claw itself.

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Russian lieutenant shares his harrowing tale of averting nuclear war 40 years ago

Even if you don't know who Petrov was, he might be the reason you're alive today.

Images in order via Stanislav Petrov/Wikimedia Commons and Image via Pixabay.

Soviet soldier makes a decision that may have saved all life on the planet.

And even if you don't know who Petrov was, he might be the reason you're alive today.

In the 1980s, Petrov was a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Union's Air Defense Forces. He was in charge of watching the computers at one of the Soviety Union's nuclear early warning centers. If the Americans wanted to start a nuclear war, Petrov would be one of the first to know.

At this time, the United States and the Soviet Union were embroiled in the Cold War. Each had stockpiled tens of thousands of nuclear weapons and a nuclear war, though horrific, often seemed imminent.

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Scientists studied the bones of ancient women, and we might need to rethink 'women's work'

Women of the Bronze Age were anything but weak.

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Certainly not the story we've been taught to believe

Think about the illustrations you've seen of men and women of the Bronze Age who lived thousands of years ago.

Perhaps there's one you recall from your elementary school text book — in which men are probably depicted hurling bronze spears and strangling lions with their bare hands, while the women are most likely pictured leading children around, sifting through grapes or weaving tiny reeds into baskets (presumably to hold the fruits of their husbands' labor).

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Her findings prove how the game is secretly rigged.

Digital portraits as magical as the Madrigal family.

Mirabel

Luisa

Bruno

Isabela

Camilo

Pepa

Julieta

And, of course, Abuela Madrigal

Carl Fredrickson from “Up”

Moana from “Moana”

Ariel from “The Little Mermaid”

Also Prince Eric

Pocahontas from “Pocahontas”

Joe Gardner from “Soul”

Hans From “Frozen”

Amy Winehouse

Bruce Lee

John Candy

Janis Joplin

Prince

Marilyn Monroe

George Washington

Benjamin Franklin

Napoleon

Leonardo da Vinci

Mozart

Beethoven

Sir Isaac Newton

William Shakespeare

Vincent Van Gogh

Marie Antoinette

Cleopatra

Alexander the Great

And just for fun, here’s what the Statue of Liberty might look like as a real person:

Almost too outlandish to believe. Almost.

It’s feeling harder and harder to separate truth from fiction in the age of fake news.

1. "Gaydar"

2. MKUltra

3. The Gulf of Tonkin incident

4. Bohemian Grove: A secretive gathering of world elites

5. The CIA helped fund the Dalai Lama

6. The conspiracy to kill Abraham Lincoln

Even if you don't know who Petrov was, he might be the reason you're alive today.

Suddenly, in the early morning of Sept. 26, 1983, a siren started to scream. If Petrov's computer was to be believed, the Americans had just attacked the Soviet Union.

It was Petrov's job, his duty, to alert his superiors — but something seemed off.

He picked up the phone and, though he couldn't know for sure, told his superiors it was a false alarm. His level-headed thinking may have saved millions of lives.

If you want to hear Petrov describe the incident in his own words, check out this interview with Petrov from the BBC.

Women of the Bronze Age were anything but weak.

According to a groundbreaking new study, Bronze Age women were jacked.

Agriculture, it turns out, is hard work. Work that Bronze Age women handled on the reg.

In addition to grinding grain, researchers speculate ancient ladies got up to a range of other muscle mass-building activities...

Study senior author Jay Stock said the results suggest "the rigorous manual labour of women was a crucial driver of early farming economies."

They saved $27,500 a year overall.

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