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

\"gas-prices\"<\/a>How the Practice of Pricing Fuel with 9\/10th of a Penny Got Started<\/a><\/p>\n

The practice of pricing fuel with a fraction of a penny is thought to have started around the 1930s.\u00a0 While we can\u2019t be sure who was the first to price fuel this way, it seems to have become relatively commonplace across the United States all the sudden around the same time. So what happened? In short- taxes and the Great Depression. The United States Congress first implemented a $0.01 gas tax in 1932 as a temporary measure, putting… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"1040\"<\/a>A Brief History of Taxes in the U.S. & Why They are Due on April 15th<\/a><\/p>\n

As Ben Franklin wrote in a 1789 letter to Baptiste Leroy, \u201c\u2026 in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.\u201d Depending on your belief in vampires, this is most certainly true. But did you know that income taxes in the United States didn\u2019t exist until 1861? In fact, it wasn\u2019t until 1913 when the income tax became the official law of the land. The first document that governed the United States was not the Constitution, but rather the Articles of Confederation<\/a>. The AOC asked each state to \u201center into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare.\u201d What it didn\u2019t do was give Congress, or the federal government, the power to tax. The framers… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"ariel-1\"<\/a>That Time the U.S. Accidentally Nuked Britain\u2019s First Satellite<\/a><\/p>\n

When it comes to nations with a long and rich history of space travel and exploration, Britain isn\u2019t normally a country that comes to most people\u2019s minds. However, they were the third country in the world to operate a satellite in orbit. It\u2019s just a shame America ended up accidentally killing it just a few months later\u2026 The satellite in question was the Ariel-1, which was developed as a joint-venture between the United States and Britain, with Britain designing and building the core systems of the satellite and NASA… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"reading\"<\/a>Is It Really Possible to Learn to Speed Read?<\/a><\/p>\n

95% of college educated individuals read at a rate between 200-400 words per minute according to extensive research done by University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Dr. Keith Rayner. However, there exists a small, but rather vocal subset of people who insist that they can read several times faster than this using various speed reading techniques. With very little searching, you\u2019ll also find many-a-company claiming that after going through their program or using their app regularly, you can easily read even as many as 1,000 words per minute. Tim Ferriss of… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"tea\"<\/a>The Difference Between Green and Black Tea<\/a><\/p>\n

Both black and green tea is harvested from an evergreen, tree-like shrub known as camellia sinensis. Most likely originating in China, the camellia sinensis is thought to have first been used to brew a medicinal elixir during the Shang Dynasty (1600 BC to 1046 BC). By the Qin Dynasty in the third century BC, it had become a relatively popular drink using only the leaves from this plant, rather than mixed with other things as seems to have been common when used medicinally. As for the plant itself, camellia sinensis can grow as tall as 30 ft if left untended, but is generally kept significantly shorter… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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