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The Pledge of Allegiance was written as a PR stunt to sell magazines. "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America…" How many times did you stand and recite those words when you were growing up? While the Pledge of Allegiance might feel like something that's been around forever, it was actually written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy as part of a contest designed to promote sales of the weekly children's magazine Youth's Companion. |
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Bed bugs are near impossible to get rid of and can spread faster than water-cooler gossip. But that might also be why they've managed to stick around for so long. Scientists believe that the bugs have existed since the time of the dinosaurs, coming onto the scene about 115 million years ago, according to a 2019 study in Current Biology. |
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You can tell the temperature by counting a cricket's chirps. If you're not sure what the temperature is on hot summer day, just listen to the crickets. According to the Library of Congress, the musical creatures adjust their signature sounds according to the temperature, which means that if you count how many times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds and then add 37, you'll get a number that is a pretty close approximation of the current temperature in degrees Fahrenheit. |
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Dogs evolved "puppy eyes" to manipulate humans. That puppy-dog look that your canine companion gives you is completely adorable, totally intentional, and something that they've developed since they've become man's best friend. A 2019 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences explained that domesticated dogs have evolved to have facial muscles around their eyes that wild wolves lack. These muscles give our pets the ability to make certain expressions that are intended to communicate with humans, such as raising their eyebrows to make them look like they're sad or pouting. |
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If you sneeze while driving at 60 mph, your eyes are closed for around 50 feet. When you sneeze, your eyes automatically close for a moment. But if you sneeze in a car that's traveling at 60 mph, then your eyes will be closed for around 50 feet. According to one 2014 study by Halfords Autocentres, drivers who temporarily lose vision due to sneezing are the cause of 2,500 accidents every week in England. |
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Planes burn a lot of fuel transporting passengers around the world, which is why Qantas airlines, one of the largest carriers in Australia, has been looking for eco-friendly alternatives. One option? A blended fuel that is half conventional fuel and half cooking oil. The end result produces around 60 percent fewer carbon emissions than traditional options. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce told ABC, "We need to get ready for a future that is not based on traditional jet fuel or, frankly, we don't have a future." |
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Watermelon is a summer staple and the preferred fruit for a delicious picnic. It's also Oklahoma's state vegetable—yes, vegetable. Senator Don Barrington, who sponsored the 2007 bill that saw the watermelon earn the honor, reportedly backed up the decision by saying that watermelon comes from the cucumber and gourd families, which are classified as vegetables. |
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It's hard not to smile when you spot a ladybug—but they may not seem so cute once you find out they're cannibals. An adult ladybug typically eats around 50 aphids (sap-sucking insects that gardeners despise) per day, but when there's not enough food around, they'll devour ladybug larvae and even other young ladybugs, which both have shells that are soft enough for an adult ladybug to chew, according to the BBC. |
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The Roads Are Nearly Empty, and People Are Driving like Idiots. The California Highway Patrol has seen tickets issued for speeds over 100 mph almost double. |
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The Livermore Centennial Light Bulb in Livermore, California, was installed in 1901, according to Guinness World Records, which recognizes it as the world's longest-burning light bulb. The hand-blown bulb was made by the Shelby Electric Company in Ohio in the late 1890s and donated to Livermore's fire department in 1901. Originally a 30-watt bulb, it has been operating at about 4 watts since 2010. It's left on 24 hours a day at Fire Station #6 "in order to provide night illumination of the fire engines," according to Guinness. |
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Joann Saladino and Marcus Weisgerber, from Long Island, New York, bought the General Electric appliance for $100 in 1979, although it was reportedly built in 1923. They showed Inside Edition how it worked. "I've been cooking on it since the day I got it," Saladino said. The design was among the first line of automatic electric stoves produced by General Electric under the Hotpoint brand, which was born after Earl H. Richardson, a meter reader for the Ontario Power Company, found out how to introduce electricity into household appliances. Hotpoint started with electric irons before branching out to toasters, coffeepots, stoves, and more. |
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In 2011, a still-functioning Marconi 702 went up for auction in London. The TV, which had a 12-inch screen inside a walnut and mahogany case, was first bought in 1936, just three weeks after transmissions in the UK started. Unfortunately, the original owner had only been able to watch it in their London home for a few hours before a nearby transmitter burned down. Picture wasn't restored to the area until a decade later in 1946, according to Time. The original owner bought it for £100 ($130), which was half of an average annual salary in the 1930s. |
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A 1933 Bakelite phone, just like that pictured above, has been used by a small British pub for decades. "Most people are quite stunned when they realize it still works. The sound is a bit muffled and you get crackly noises but I still love using it," Glenys Crampton, the landlady of the Birch Hill Inn in North Yorkshire, England, told the York Press in 2015. The pub itself dates back to 1860. The phone, which was also the first in the village, is only used by the pub occasionally to help preserve it, the Press reported. |
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Charles Darwin's personal pet tortoise didn't die until recently. Okay, technically she wasn't his pet, but after his tour of the Galapagos Islands, Charles Darwin brought back a 5-year-old tortoise he named Harriet. She outlived her adopter by 124 years, ultimately making it to a whopping 176 years old. Harriet lived out her final years as part of the family of Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin in Australia, until she passed away in 2006. |
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The apex predator with the highest kill rate is not the lion, the cheetah, or the wolf, it's the African wild dog. According to researchers, these lean, big-eared canines are noted for having a kill rate of 85 percent—lions get just 17 to 19 percent—while peregrine falcons get 47 percent of their targets. Another animal with surprisingly high kill rates? Domestic cats, which kill more than 30 percent of their targets. |
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Those annoying foil seals on the top of medicine bottles were put in place after a rash of poisonings occurred in 1982, in which seven people in the Chicago area were killed after ingesting Tylenol laced with potassium cyanide. |
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