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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

\"red-eye-e1316166518163\"<\/a>What Causes Red Eyes In Photographs<\/a><\/p>\n

Today I Found Out<\/a> what makes your eyes red in flash photographs.\u00a0 Simply put, that crazy zombie look people tend to get, as if they are about to use you as a pre-lunch snack, has to do with how light from a camera flash reflects off the eye, and the specific wavelengths at which it tends to do this. It is important to note that the term \u201clight\u201d can refer to any electromagnetic radiation, not just the radiation in the visible spectrum. Electromagnetic radiation can be classified into seven types; Gamma, X-ray, Ultraviolet… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"emu\"<\/a>Emus vs. Humans: The Great Emu War of 1932<\/a><\/p>\n

Emus are native to Australia, and as everyone knows, nearly everything in Australia seems capable of killing you. If the sun doesn\u2019t do it, there are still redback spiders, funnel webs, and Taipans, and others to contend with. It should come as no surprise, then, that the emu\u2014part ostrich, part velociraptor\u2014is also an annoyance bent on making the lives of people living in Australia miserable.\u00a0 Okay, so I was only joking about the velociraptor part, but in truth, velociraptors are thought to have had feathers, and looked something like a modern day turkey<\/a>, contrary to what Jurassic Park<\/em> would have you believe. Emus more strongly resemble ostriches… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"pay-toilet-in-paris-340x255\"<\/a>Many Public Toilets Used to Be Pay as You Use<\/a><\/p>\n

Going to the bathroom might be the one and only activity in America that\u2019s cheaper than it used to be.\u00a0 Pay toilets used to be the rule in airports, bus, and train stations, and one would also often encounter them in gas stations and restaurants. The earliest pay toilets in history were erected in Ancient Rome in 74 AD- during the rule of Vespasian, after a civil war greatly affected the Roman financial scene.\u00a0 Vespasian\u2019s initiative was derided by his opponents, but his reply to them became famous: \u201cPecunia non olet\u201d\u00a0 (\u201cMoney does not smell\u201d)\u2026\u00a0 Wise words. Fast-forward to… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"bermuda-triangle-340x340\"<\/a>The Truth About the Bermuda Triangle<\/a><\/p>\n

The Bermuda Triangle is a large area of ocean between Florida, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda. Over the last few centuries, it\u2019s thought that dozens of ships and planes have disappeared under mysterious circumstances in the area, earning it the nickname \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Triangle.\u201d People have even gone so far as to speculate that it\u2019s an area of extra-terrestrial activity or that there is some bizarre natural scientific cause for the region to be hazardous; but most likely, it\u2019s simply an area in which people have experienced a lot of bad luck\u2014the idea of it being a \u201cvortex of doom\u201d is no more real than Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster (see The Origin of the Bigfoot Legend<\/a> and The Origin of the Loch Ness Monster<\/a>). The Bermuda Triangle\u2019s bad reputation started with.. (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"alexander\"<\/a>Saying \u2018Ahoy-Hoy\u2019 was at One Time the Preferred Way to Answer the Phone<\/a><\/p>\n

The very brief popularity of this telephone greeting stemmed from the fact the \u201cahoy-hoy\u201d was Alexander Graham Bell\u2019s preferred way to answer the phone.\u00a0 Ahoy-hoy derives from the term \u201cahoy\u201d, which is generally associated with being a nautical term used for hailing ships.\u00a0 However, there is also significant evidence that it was popularly used as a way to more or less say \u201chello\u201d in non-nautical situations.\u00a0 Further, \u201choy\u201d was commonly used as far back as the 14th century as a call to use while driving cattle.\u00a0 This precedes the first known instance of it being used in the nautical sense,… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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