Smaller than New York City’s Central Park , the Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of about 1,000 and just 108.7 acres.
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Impressive!
On NASA's Gemini XII flight, the computer docking system failed and Buzz Aldrin (who did his doctoral thesis at MIT on line-of-sight orbital mechanics) successfully calculated the docking trajectory using a sextant and a slide rule.
On NASA's Gemini XII flight, the computer docking system failed and Buzz Aldrin (who did his doctoral thesis at MIT on line-of-sight orbital mechanics) successfully calculated the docking trajectory using a sextant and a slide rule.
03:43 PM - Feb 24, 2023
Wellington boots were oddly enough designed by Germans, named by an Irishman, manufactured by an American in France and first worn by French peasants.
10:01 PM - Feb 23, 2023
Dysentery and chronic diarrhea were so prevalent during the American Civil War that there was an honor code among soldiers: you couldn't shoot a man while he was defecating.
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04:53 PM - Feb 22, 2023
Interesting...
In 2016, Daisy Belle Ward, who is the oldest living leap year baby, celebrated her 25th birthday on her 100th year of life.
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In 2016, Daisy Belle Ward, who is the oldest living leap year baby, celebrated her 25th birthday on her 100th year of life.
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11:46 AM - Feb 22, 2023
A woman named Marijuana Pepsi, who refused to change her name, earned her Ph.D. at age 46 after writing her thesis on "Black names in white classrooms: Teacher behaviors and student perceptions."
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11:09 AM - Feb 22, 2023
Look away?
A recent study found both humans and domestic dogs receive a dramatic increase of oxytocin, the bonding hormone, from the other when staring into each other's eyes.
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A recent study found both humans and domestic dogs receive a dramatic increase of oxytocin, the bonding hormone, from the other when staring into each other's eyes.
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10:01 AM - Feb 22, 2023
Math is your friend!
An economist named Stefan Mandel and his investors won the lottery 14 times (the largest jackpot was $27 million) by calculating when the jackpot was worth more than the cost of buying every possible number
combination for that lottery.
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An economist named Stefan Mandel and his investors won the lottery 14 times (the largest jackpot was $27 million) by calculating when the jackpot was worth more than the cost of buying every possible number
combination for that lottery.
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09:57 AM - Feb 22, 2023
Not bad!
The cast members of Friends earn nearly $20 million each as residuals from syndicated reruns every year (syndicated royalties), which is 2% of the $1 billion in revenue received by Warner Bros. Television. This has been the case since the 2000s.
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The cast members of Friends earn nearly $20 million each as residuals from syndicated reruns every year (syndicated royalties), which is 2% of the $1 billion in revenue received by Warner Bros. Television. This has been the case since the 2000s.
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09:52 AM - Feb 22, 2023
Once developed, instead of growing towards the ground, bananas turn towards the sun. This unique process is known as 'negative geotropism'. The fruit continues to grow against gravity, giving the banana its familiar curved shape.
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07:17 AM - Feb 22, 2023
Castroville is a rural town in California that is nicknamed the 'Artichoke Capital of the World'. 99.9% of all artichokes worldwide are grown in California as they can grow them year-round there.
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07:11 AM - Feb 22, 2023
Dashrath Manjhi, known as 'Mountain Man', carved a path 360 ft long, 30 ft wide and 25 ft deep through a hill using only a hammer and chisel in India. It took him 22 years but it shortened the journey from 34 miles down to 9. A memorial has been built in his honor.
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07:06 AM - Feb 22, 2023
Google offers employees free condoms in their campus health center that come in blue, red, green, and yellow and have their trademark 'I'm Feeling Lucky!' printed on them.
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06:58 AM - Feb 22, 2023
Impressive!
Since 1979, Jadav Payeng aka The Forest Man of India has been planting trees every day on the island of Majuli and Jorhat. In that time, he has built a forest reserve (with tens of thousands of trees) covering 1,360 acres and now that place has its own ecosystem.
Since 1979, Jadav Payeng aka The Forest Man of India has been planting trees every day on the island of Majuli and Jorhat. In that time, he has built a forest reserve (with tens of thousands of trees) covering 1,360 acres and now that place has its own ecosystem.
06:51 AM - Feb 22, 2023
The world's oldest astronomical clock still operating is the 'Prague Orloj' in Prague. The clock was first installed in 1410, making it the third oldest astronomical clock in the world.
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06:27 AM - Feb 22, 2023
First cell phone:
Designed by Rudy Krolopp, the first cell phone (1984) was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X aka 'The Brick'.
It weighed about two pounds, and took ten hours to charge a battery that lasted only 30 minutes It was sold in the United States for just under $4,000.
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Designed by Rudy Krolopp, the first cell phone (1984) was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X aka 'The Brick'.
It weighed about two pounds, and took ten hours to charge a battery that lasted only 30 minutes It was sold in the United States for just under $4,000.
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11:43 PM - Feb 21, 2023
Muhammad Ali's star on the Hollywood walk of fame is not on the sidewalk. It is on the wall of Kodak/Dolby theater because of his request that the name of Muhammad not be walked on.
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10:41 PM - Feb 21, 2023
You receive a higher dose of radiation living next to a coal plant than you do a nuclear plant. This is due to the fly ash emitted by the power plant which is 100x more radioactive than a similar nuclear plant''s waste.
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05:44 PM - Feb 21, 2023
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Your tooth enamel is harder than a lobster's shell or a rhino's horn. It's even harder than steel. It's made of mineralized calcium phosphate, which is the hardest substance a living being can produce.
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05:28 PM - Feb 21, 2023
5MB? Well, it was a big deal then!....
IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD) in September 1956. The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data.
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IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD) in September 1956. The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data.
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05:19 PM - Feb 21, 2023
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Market power or Coke power?
During the Great Depression, a banker convinced families in Quincy, Florida to buy Coca-Cola shares for $19 apiece. The town later became the single richest per capita in the USA with 67 millionaires.
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During the Great Depression, a banker convinced families in Quincy, Florida to buy Coca-Cola shares for $19 apiece. The town later became the single richest per capita in the USA with 67 millionaires.
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05:13 PM - Feb 21, 2023
The Washington Monument is capped with a 9", 100-ounce aluminium pyramid. Aluminium was a precious metal in 1884 and the pyramid was displayed at Tiffany's jewelry store in New York before it was placed at the top.
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05:00 PM - Feb 21, 2023
Nightmares?
Studies have found that right-side sleepers experienced more positive dreams and fewer nightmares than left-side sleepers. For people with heartburn or gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD), doctors say the left side is best.
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Studies have found that right-side sleepers experienced more positive dreams and fewer nightmares than left-side sleepers. For people with heartburn or gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD), doctors say the left side is best.
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04:42 PM - Feb 21, 2023
And the US blocked it!
Japan proposed an amendment to the Treaty of Versailles to abolish all racial discrimination. The US and Australia were the only opposition to it and so it was not included. As a compromise, Japan received a number of Pacific islands instead.
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Japan proposed an amendment to the Treaty of Versailles to abolish all racial discrimination. The US and Australia were the only opposition to it and so it was not included. As a compromise, Japan received a number of Pacific islands instead.
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04:35 PM - Feb 21, 2023
Scary stuff!
Over 50% of pilots surveyed in the U.K., Norway, and Sweden admitted to have fallen asleep while flying a passenger plane. A third of them stated that when they woke up, they discovered that their co-pilots had also fallen asleep.
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Over 50% of pilots surveyed in the U.K., Norway, and Sweden admitted to have fallen asleep while flying a passenger plane. A third of them stated that when they woke up, they discovered that their co-pilots had also fallen asleep.
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04:23 PM - Feb 21, 2023
UK researcher FitRated found that the free weights at the gym have 362 times more bacteria than a toilet seat and treadmills had 74 times more bacteria than a bathroom faucet.
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02:02 PM - Feb 21, 2023
A colleague of Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel, who was a brilliant mathematician and often cited as the greatest logician since Aristotle, survived on a diet of baby food, butter, and laxatives. Paranoid, he wouldn’t eat food not tasted by his wife. After her death, he died of starvation.
01:58 PM - Feb 21, 2023
Steve Job's button phobia has shaped the modern world...
Koumpounophobia is the fear of buttons. Steve Jobs was afraid of buttons and therefore wore turtlenecks and a number of Apple's product designs are button-less because of his aversion.
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Koumpounophobia is the fear of buttons. Steve Jobs was afraid of buttons and therefore wore turtlenecks and a number of Apple's product designs are button-less because of his aversion.
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01:27 PM - Feb 21, 2023
A few years ago, scientists developed a micro particle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood flow, allowing us to live without breathing. The micro particles are actually tiny capsules (2-4 micrometers tiny) made of a single layer of lipids surrounding a small bubble of oxygen gas.
01:17 PM - Feb 21, 2023
