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Mosquitos are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color. |
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The swastika has been around for over 3,000 years and commonly symbolized goodness and luck, up until its use by the Nazis in Germany. The now reviled image was used by cultures all over the world, including early Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and even Native Americans. |
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Pink wasn’t always a girl’s color and blue a boy’s color — in fact, it was once the other way around. The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl. |
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Newly discovered fossils show that moths and butterflies have been on the planet for at least 200 million years whereas flowering plants came along around 130 million years ago. Butterflies survived without flowers for 70 million years. |
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The idiom “Turning a blind eye” is attributed to Admiral Horatio Nelson who, in the midst of battle and given the permission to retreat by his superior, lifted the telescope to his eye (blinded from an earlier injury) and said “I really do not see the signal” and pressed on with the attack. |
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The ancient Chinese used natural gas for lighting purposes around 500 B.C., using bamboo pipelines to transport the gas for miles. |
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Between 1798 and the Civil War, the U.S. Navy lost two-thirds as many officers to dueling as it did to more than 60 years of combat at sea. |
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1816 was called “The Year Without a Summer” after the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia. Crop failure forced Joseph Smith to leave Vermont, and his journeys resulted in “The Book of Mormon,” the dreary rain in Switzerland drove Mary Shelley to stay indoors, where she wrote “Frankenstein.” |
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In England until the early 20th century, a man wishing to separate from his wife could lead her to market by a halter and sell her to the highest bidder. |
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In the 1930s, parents used to keep their babies in cages on their windowsill in order to make sure they got enough air and sunshine in tall apartment buildings. |
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The wheel was invented thousands of years after boats, woven cloth, rope, sewing needles, baskets and even the flute. |
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The richest man in history is the 14th century Malian Emperor Mansa Musa I. When adjusted for inflation, he had a net worth of $400 billion. |
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An ancient Greek wrote a science-fiction story over 1,800 years ago, featuring plant-based aliens living on the Moon. It was called A True Story and was written by Lucian of Samosata The photo . . . Lucian of Samosata's ship getting swept up to the moon by a tempest. |
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On April 23 1982, Key West seceded from the U.S., declared war, surrendered, and requested one billion dollars in foreign aid. |
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The pyramids were built not by slaves, but by well–fed, skilled laborers, who were given proper housing and living quarters. https://s26.postimg.cc/gc2x6m73t/62870074_ly9y5zyf.jpg At the time when the pyramids were first beginning construction, Mammouths were still alive in Siberia |
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Jiminy Cricket is killed by Pinocchio with a hammer in the original Italian story. |
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The Code of Hammurabi, written nearly 4000 years ago, had progressive laws such as minimum wage, the right to be born a free man, the need to work off your debt, and no incest. This was written 2000 years before the Bible. |
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Awesome stuff Lee -- keep em' coming ... TAZ :scholar:
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FORT EDWARD, N.Y. — A New York man will be living large thanks to his decision to buy some Slim Jims for his dog. New York Lottery officials say Monday that 73-year-old Dale Farrand recently won the $10 million prize on a Cash Spectacular scratch-off ticket. The Fort Edward man says he bought a $30 ticket at a local Cumberland Farms convenience store while buying Slim Jims snacks for his dog Boots. |
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According to Commander Riker himself, who led a tour of the ship as part of the "Star Trek Interactive Technical Manual," there's only one bathroom on the Enterprise, and it's right off of Engineering. |
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A CT scan of a new species of snailfish specimen captured (at 25,000 feet) during a recent expedition to the Atacama Trench which is located off the coasts of Peru and Chile. |
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Jeff Bezos may be the richest man in the world, but he is definitely no Midas - meaning everything he touches turns to gold. Here are some of his failures:
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A vehicle navigates a flooded Ocean Boulevard during Hurricane Florence in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U.S. September 14, 2018. |
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