《Useless Facts》14 - Shoelaces
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The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
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Extinction
Extinction is a story filled with action and adventure. A story that starts here in the present day - and that takes us on a journey through time to 67 million years ago. Extinction is the story of the fight to save humanity and our future. Extinction is a story of time travel, aliens, dinosaurs, robots - and Eddie Murphy!
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Polymyth Equation
In a world where super powers exist, a company attempts to market itself as creating training programs for heroes and other super powered occupations. Confidence and optimistic projections soon give way to frustration and worry that they are not up to the task. The problem is, how does one make a one size fits all program for people who fly, or shoot beams, or can turn into living metal? An ambitious project is carried out. To create a fully self maintaining facility, a modular training complex run by a self learning AI created solely to improve itself and the location. A flawless, exciting idea. Or at least a cost cutting shortcut that sounds good in a board meeting But what of the mind now forced to take this task? What will it think, what will it want? And what might it BUILD? -- A Dungeon fic from another angle. Image by JD Hancock [participant in the NaNoWriMo Royal Road challenge]
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The Nocturne Society
For the first time on Royal Road The Nocturne Society is a series of urban horror stories centered around the remains of a dissolved secret society called … you guessed it … The Nocturne Society. Thirty years ago all monsters vanished and nobody knows why. The secret society dedicated to research and containment of these supernatural threats slowly fell apart and the dark age where dangerous things unknown to men slowly became legend. Finally nobody believed in the existence of such otherworldly threats anymore. But when thirty years later a young woman is killed in Hamburg and a tentacled monster seems to be the prime suspect an aging operative is forced out of retirement and together with the tech-savvy boyfriend of the victim he must return to the shadows to hunt the monster the world does no longer believe in. The Nocturne Society contains six novels available on Amazon, with another one in pre-sale. The Nocturne Society Series There are No Monsters Wormking Leviathan Let them burn Worst Case Scenarios The Secret Friend Mother (pre-sale)
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Mesmerized // The Goonies
I sat on the beach pulling the blanket closer around my arms as the ocean breeze from the Goon Docks blew gently against my arms. I couldn't stop thinking about how I had never had a real relationship. My friends all had found someone I was the third wheel every where now. I started dreaming up my dream guy. Then he walked up. I never knew dreams came true.
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Midoriya's luck
Just a shit ton of sex and lemon scenes.
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Safe at Last
In the world of Lorenzo Davis', he is very paranoid. Not being able to trust anyone, he thinks that everyone is out to get him. Being a CEO, he's not only a paranoid narcissist, but a perfectionist. With having to get his way, he opposes anyone who says otherwise to his ideas. If they don't agree with him, then they're against him. One of the things that Lorenzo makes sure of is that no one knows his other lifestyle. The life he only lives at nighttime. Of course if everyone were to find out, that would not only damage his reputation, but his enemies would surely benefit from it. So Lorenzo does the one thing he knows how to do best, push everyone away. Overtime, he becomes cold, and dark. With no friends or family to speak to, he puts all of his energy into his business. He lives with the mentality that everyone will always leave him. That's until the eighteen year old Aurora Wright comes along into his life seeking a job.Aurora has always had a hard life. Dealing with the murder of her father, her abusive mother, being pimped out by her own mother, to having to raise her siblings all the while being a high school senior, would be tough on anyone. Aurora has tried her hardest to get a better life for her siblings but was unable to because of their mothers cruel ways. So being the older sibling, she had to figure out ways to make money. Some of those things she wasn't proud of, but she did it in order to provide for her, and her siblings. Throughout her entire life, she's only had help from her best friends family. So when they tell her that they've found a job for her, it's not something she expected. She also didn't expect to become the personal assistant to one of the richest, ruthless men in America with a secret that could bring down his entire corporation.
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