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It doesn't look like much but it is . . . the farthest object ever photographed by a man made space explorer called New Horizons. Nicknamed "Ultima Thule" the object which resides in the Kuiper Belt is 4 BILLION miles from our sun. |
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What a dichotomy! Here I sit at my desk looking at this photo of the Bahamas on my monitor and glancing up over the monitor, looking out my window, I see 3 inches of snow! It has been VERY cold in in ABQ, NM - below 20 for the last 3 days. Haven't seen the sun since last week. How depressing. |
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A cow-bison hybrid is called a 'beefalo.' You can even buy its meat in at least 21 states. |
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Firefighters use wetting agents to make water wetter. The chemicals reduce the surface tension of plain water so it’s easier to spread and soak into objects, which is why it’s known as 'wet water.' |
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Only a quarter of the Sahara Desert is sandy. Most of it is covered in gravel, though it also contains mountains and oases. Oh, and it isn’t the world’s largest desert—Antarctica is. |
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There were active volcanoes on the moon when dinosaurs were alive. Most of the volcanoes probably stopped one billion years ago, but new NASA findings suggest there might still have been active lava flow 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs were still roaming. |
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Avocados were originally marketed as 'alligator pears' in the United States until the current name stuck. |
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You only have two body parts that never stop growing. Human noses and ears keep getting bigger, even when the rest of the body’s growth has come to a halt. |
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You can thank the Greeks for calling Christmas 'Xmas.' In Greek, the word for 'Christ' starts with the letter Chi, which looks like an X in the Roman alphabet. |
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A cattle rancher in New Jersey is credited for inventing glitter, and it was by accident. Henry Ruschmann from Bernardsville, New Jersey was a machinist who crushed plastic while trying to find a way to dispose of it and thus made glitter in 1934. |
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Victor Frankenstein’s Creature is actually vegetarian. Frankenstein and Creature are fictional characters created by Mary Shelley in her novel, Frankenstein. In the novel, Creature says, 'My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment.' |
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James Cameron is the award-winning director of movies like Titanic, Avatar, and The Terminator. In order to get his big break with The Terminator, he sold the script for $1 and a promise that he’d be able to direct. |
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To the everyday eye under normal conditions, ripe bananas appear yellow due to organic pigments called carotenoids. When bananas ripen, chlorophyll begins to break down. This pigment is the element that makes bananas glow, or 'fluoresce,' under UV lights and appear blue. |
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Silly Putty, the weird bouncy rubbery thing that became a bestselling toy in the second half of the 20th century, has some weird physical properties. It's a non-Newtonian fluid, which means it sometimes acts like a liquid and sometimes like a solid. Some YouTube experimenters showed exactly what that means, dropping 50 pounds of Silly Putty from the top of a parking garage. Instead of bouncing back up, it shatters like glass and makes a crashing noise. |
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The US Air Force lost a nuclear bomb somewhere off the coast of Georgia. No one knows where it is! An Air Force pilot dropped the bomb into the water outside of Savannah, Georgia, after colliding with another plane in 1958 during a training mission. The US Navy searched for the bomb for months, but never found it. |
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Cashews grow on the bottom of a fruit called a cashew apple. The nuts are removed individually and the fruit is often sold in juiced form. |
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Stone Crab Claws are a delicacy most associated with South Florida. The crabs are trapped, then their claws are removed and the crabs put back in the water for the claws to regenerate. Because they spoil so quickly, the claws are cooked dockside then cooled and sold to resturants, food stores, etc. |
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A single small kiwi has over five times the amount of vitamin C as an orange. |
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In an historic first, China has successfully landed a rover on the far side of the moon, Chinese state media announced Thursday, a huge milestone for the nation as it attempts to position itself as a leading space power. The photo above is the actual rover - but on a stage made to look like the moon's surface for PR. |
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In 2017, Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona released a list of the most outlandish tax splurges he could find. One involved the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, which used a $560,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to force fish to exercise to exhaustion on treadmills as part of a 2009 study. The scientists chose mudskippers because of their unique ability to use their fins like legs for extended periods of time when out of the water. The exhausted fish were then given 48 hours to rest before hitting the gym again. Different oxygen levels were used as variables to test their progress and recovery. |
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The National Science Foundation conducted a $450,000 study in 2016 to determine whether or not dinosaurs could chirp and sing like birds, which are their closest living relatives. The study concluded that, despite what you might have learned from “Barney,” dinosaurs did not have the vocal structure required to sing. |
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The Simpsons were renewed through 2019, which will mark its 30th season. It'll surpass Gunsmoke as having the most episodes of any scripted show. |
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Founded by GM retiree Steve Pasteiner, he is the guy that designed the Buick Grand National, the Buick Blackhawk concept car and Steve functions as the MC of the "Eyes on Design" concours event at the Edsel Ford estate. Steve also owns the bookstore on Woodward avenue where we have our weekly "Cars and Coffee" gatherings. http://www.aatcars.com/about.html K |
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Enchantment: a feeling of great pleasure; delight. the state of being under a spell; magic. Well that surely doesn't apply! At least not this past week. OK . . . the sun finally came out today but it's only 28 degrees! It was 9 degrees this morning. THAT'S COLD! |
Eh, The Simpsons has it's moments, although I haven't watched an episode in probably 10 years. The Flaming Moe episode is the best one I've ever seen, beginning to end.
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[QUOTE=Keith Seymore;1429280]These are designed and built by Advanced Automotive Technologies in Rochester Hills, MI. The one shown is a Z06 model coming up for sale at the Mecum auction.
Founded by GM retiree Steve Pasteiner, he is the guy that designed the Buick Grand National, the Buick Blackhawk concept car and Steve functions as the MC of the "Eyes on Design" concours event at the Edsel Ford estate. Steve also owns the bookstore on Woodward avenue where we have our weekly "Cars and Coffee" gatherings. Keith I have probably bumped into you at Pasteiners and didn’t even know it. I’ll have to look for you! |
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Vivid new satellite photos of Anak Krakatau are providing our first cloud-free glimpse of the island volcano that triggered a devastating tsunami in Indonesia late last month. As the photos show, a gaping lagoon now appears where a 1,115-foot-high volcanic mountain once stood. |
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