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Where the Word “Lego” Comes From
Today I found out where the word “lego” comes from. In 1934, Danish carpenter Ol Kirk Kristiansen, the founder of what we now know of as Lego®, asked his staff to come up with
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The Reason There is No “Nobel Prize for Mathematics” Had Nothing to Do With Any Wife/Mistress of Alfred Nobel
Myth: The reason there is no Nobel Price for Mathematics is because Alfred Nobel’s fiancée wife had an affair with a mathematician. You’d be hard pressed to take any upper level university level mathematics
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Why Milk is White
Today I found out why milk is white. Milk is made up of about 87% water and 13% solids, such as fat and various proteins. Chief among these proteins is something called casein, four
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The Snickers Candy Bar was Named After a Favorite Horse of Creator Frank Mars in 1930
Today I found out the Snickers candy bar was named after one of Frank Mars’ favorite horses. Frank Mars was the creator of the Snickers candy bar and founder of Mars, Inc, originally called
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Why Lobsters and Crabs Turn Red When Cooked
Today I found out why crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, and some other crustaceans turn red/orange when cooked. Typically, the exoskeleton of most crustaceans has a blue-green to grayish color and sometimes they appear a
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The United States Once Planned On Nuking the Moon
Today I found out the United States once planned on shooting a nuclear bomb at the moon. If you presumed that the reasoning behind such an act was “because we can”, you are absolutely
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Why You Used to Have to Use #2 Pencils With Scantron Forms
Today I found out why you used to have to use #2 pencils when using scantron forms. Now, you might be saying, “Used to? Don’t you still have to?” It turns out, despite what
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Listening to Mozart Won’t Make You Smarter
Myth: Listening to Mozart will make you smarter. This myth was popularized by an experiment published in Nature in 1993 by the University of California at Irvine. In this study, they had 36 students
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Where the Term “Rock and Roll” Came From
Today I found out where the term “rock and roll” came from. The word “roll” has been used since the Middle Ages to refer to, among other things, having sex: “Let’s go for a
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A Red-Bellied Woopecker’s Tongue is Almost Three Times the Length of Its Beak and Wraps Around Its Skull When Retracted
Today I found out that the tongue on a Red-Bellied woodpecker, along with some other species of woodpecker, is so long that it can extend at least three times the bill length and, when
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