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This is a weekly wrap of our Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

\"dr-suess\"<\/a>Dr. Seuss Wrote “Green Eggs and Ham” on a Bet<\/a><\/p>\n

The bet was made in 1960 with Bennett Cerf, the co-founder of Random House, and was for $50 (about $382 today).\u00a0 Despite Dr. Seuss, a.k.a. Theodore Geisel, winning the bet by producing one of his most popular works Green Eggs and Ham<\/a> using exactly 50 unique words, Cerf never paid up.\u00a0\u00a0 Green Eggs and Ham went on to be Geisel\u2019s best selling work, so he made out on it anyways. Geisel\u2019s first successful… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"humpback-whale\"<\/a>Whales Don\u2019t Spray Water Out of Their Blowholes Nor are Their Throats and Blowhole Connected<\/a><\/p>\n

Contrary to what you may have seen in such movies as Pixar\u2019s otherwise extremely entertaining Finding Nemo<\/em><\/a>, whales don\u2019t\u00a0 spray water out of their blowholes.\u00a0 Further, the whale\u2019s trachea doesn\u2019t connect to the esophagus of the whale; so when Dory and Marlin went down the whale\u2019s throat, in real life, they\u2019d have simply been eaten. (Another interesting thing about Finding Nemo <\/em>is that when the mother died, the father would have turned into a female and become the mother<\/a>– clownfish are all born male with the… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"milk-e1286880145116\"<\/a>Why Milk is White<\/a><\/p>\n

Milk is made up of about 87% water and 13% solids, such as fat and various proteins.\u00a0 Chief among these proteins is something called casein, four types of which make up about 80% of the proteins in milk.\u00a0 The casein protein molecules are typically suspended somewhat uniformly throughout the milk and are spherical, about a micrometer across.\u00a0 The reason they are typically somewhat uniformly suspended in the liquid is because kappa-casein molecules have a negative electrical… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"earwig\"<\/a>Do Earwigs Really Burrow Into Your Brain and Lay Eggs?<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, to answer your question, we\u2019ll start off talking about the mating habits of the earwig.\u00a0 To make baby earwigs, the male grabs and holds onto the female and they, literally, bump uglies. The eggs may not fertilize immediately (the sperm can hang around for several months before fertilizing the eggs), but ultimately they will.\u00a0 At some point, the lady comes to her senses- no doubt realizing the male is super creepy looking- and exiles him from the nest- yes, nest, that… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"whole-grains\"<\/a>Grape-Nuts Contain Neither Grapes Nor Nuts<\/a><\/p>\n

Grape-Nuts is a wheat and barley cereal developed by C.W. Post in 1897, and it has actually made some interesting contributions to American food history. A box of Grape-Nuts actually contains \u201cwhole grain wheat flour, malted barley flour, isolated soy protein, salt, whole grain barley flour, malt extract, and dried yeast.\u201d It also boasts a number of essential vitamins and minerals. From what I could find,… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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