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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

\"sea-monkeys\"What Are Sea-Monkeys?<\/a><\/p>\n

The product of a collaboration between a marketer and inventor and a marine biologist, Sea-Monkeys are a hybrid of several species of brine shrimp (Artemia<\/em>), bred to have a particularly long dormant period, as well as to foster a large swarm.\u00a0Brine shrimp have existed in much the same state for many millions of years. Found across the globe in saltwater lakes (but not oceans), they prefer habitats of high salinity in order to protect them from predators.\u00a0As saltwater lakes tend to dry up from time-to-time, brine shrimp have adapted a technique of going into a kind of hibernation, called anhydrobiosis, where the creature\u2019s metabolic…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Fish-Fillet\"The Surprisingly Interesting Story Behind the Filet-O-Fish Sandwich<\/a><\/p>\n

The Filet-O-Fish is one of the more curious items on the McDonald\u2019s menu in that it receives virtually no advertising whatsoever, yet still continues to be sold by the chain despite the fact that it seems like nobody ever orders one and it\u2019s been a problem item for years for the company due to difficulty in finding a sustainable, tasty source of fish meat at the volume the behemoth needs, as well as the fact that it requires a separate fryer to cook in than their other items. As it turns out, they keep it around because the Filet-O-Fish is actually intended to be eaten by a very specific kind of customer- people who abstain from eating non-seafood meat for religious reasons.\u00a0According to McDonald\u2019s executives, approximately 23% of the Filet-O-Fish sandwiches sold…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"rain\"What is the Largest Raindrop Possible?<\/a><\/p>\n

At only about half as wide in diameter as a U.S. penny, the largest raindrops ever recorded, between 8.8 mm and 1 cm, were observed by scientists in the clouds above Brazil (1995) and the Marshall Islands (1999). It is unknown, however, if these bad boys ever reached the ground at that size. So why can\u2019t raindrops grow to arbitrarily large sizes?\u00a0To begin with, let\u2019s talk a little about how raindrops actually form. Raindrops are more than just water; the vapor in a cloud has to have something to condense around, without which there would be no rain. Called condensation nuclei, little particles in the air, from dust, smoke or even salt, sit at the center of the tiny droplets that begin to form in a cloud…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"GuinessWhat Happens to Big Food Made to Break World Records?<\/a><\/p>\n

According to Guinness World Records, the de-facto authority on world record breaking, this is one of the most common questions they\u2019re asked alongside \u201cWhat record is broken the most often?\u201d (the heaviest object lifted with glue according to them) and \u201cWho holds the most Guinness World Records record titles?\u201d (Ashrita Furman with 125 records at last count). Since we\u2019ve also gotten this question a few times from readers over the years, we figured it\u2019s high time we looked into the answer.\u00a0In regards to records involving comically giant food, as of 2011, Guinness has a policy in place that all giant food or records involving large amounts of food, such as most pizzas made in 24 hours (7,539<\/a> by a team of Domino\u2019s employees in Queensland in 2012), must be either donated, consumed or sold for consumption for the record to be recognised as official. This stipulation was put in place for a number of reasons, but was mostly added to prevent such…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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