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The tree was commonly used as a landmark because it was the only tree in a 250 mile radius. It finally met it’s demise when a drunk driver struck it in 1973. Today, a metal tree-shaped monument stands in its place. The original tree can be seen

When Ludwig van Beethoven completely lost his hearing by his 40′s he used a metal rod attached to the soundboard of his piano that he could bite down on. When the sound vibrated the rod he could feel it in his teeth.

Published on 2012-11-25 12:43:58

Rollercoaster Tycoon, a popular game from 1998 was created by one man, Chris Sawyer.

Published on 2012-11-24 18:15:46

If a marsh mellow hit the earth at 99.99% the speed of light it’s energy would be equal to a few hydrogen bombs.

Published on 2012-11-23 23:27:48

70.7 x 10 (weight of marsh mellow in grams) x ( 30,000,000,000)^2 = 6.4 x 10^23 ergs

The Romans founded Londinium, what we know as London, on the north bank of the Thames River in A.D. 50.

Published on 2012-11-20 20:40:09

Bread is technically a foam. The yeast causes the bread to rise by producing tiny bubbles of gas in the dough.

Published on 2012-11-16 12:11:48

In 1893, J.P. Morgan and the Rothschild family bailed out the U.S. Treasury with 3.5 millions ounces of gold.

Published on 2012-11-15 10:30:58

Nagycenk, a town in Hungary, has an alley of lime trees more than 1.5 miles long.

Published on 2012-10-24 21:51:32

The largest stadium in the world is the Rungrado May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea. The stadium can hold 150,000 people and is used for football matches and some other athletic events. The stadium is most famous for the Arirang Festival, whi

Published on 2012-10-07 17:30:04

In the human body, blood flows through our veins in a closed loop. Grapevine leaves are open to the world. Gases diffuse from the veins to the leaf surface, where the exchange of water and carbon dioxide takes place.

Published on 2012-10-07 15:30:03

National Geographic. 2012.

The Golden Orb spider’s diet includes insects, mice, snakes, and even birds. The Golden Orb Spider can be found in Australia, Africa, and across south east Asia.

Published on 2012-10-07 11:30:42

The highest scoring NFL football game was on November 27, 1966 when the Washington Redskins beat the New York Giants 72-41. The two reams combined for a total of 113 points.

Published on 2012-10-07 09:00:52

The “Missouri bellwether” is a political phenomenon that notes that the state of Missouri voted for the winner in all but two U.S. Presidential election since 1904 (the exceptions are 1956 and 2008).

Published on 2012-10-04 19:30:49

Alexander Hamilton, a former Secretary of the Treasury, was killed in a duel by the sitting Vice President Aaron Burr on July 11, 1804.

Published on 2012-10-04 17:00:50

Indiana produces about 30 million tons of steel a year. More than any other U.S. State.

Published on 2012-10-04 13:45:50

China produces 19.8% of the world’s goods.

Published on 2012-10-04 11:30:43

The first ever recorded labour strike occurred in Deir el Medina, Ancient Egypt during the reign of Ramses III when workers did not receive their rations.

Published on 2012-10-04 09:00:53

Glacial ice four times the height of the Empire State Building carved out the Hudson River.

Published on 2012-10-04 06:30:23

In 2011, Detroit, Michigan was rated the most dangerous city in the United States. Detroit earned this title due to its 345 murders and 1,111 voilent crimes per 100,000 people.

Published on 2012-10-03 17:16:44

The image above is called a fire tornado, otherwise known as a firenado or a fire devil. Fire tornados occur when intense heat and turbulent wind combine to form a whirling core. Fire tornados can be up to 1000 feet tall, and occur multiple times

Published on 2012-10-03 15:11:20

The fungus shown above is called yartsa gunbu. Yartsa comes into the world by infecting ghost moth larva in the hills of Tibet. The fungus devours the body of the larva and a brown stalk begins to grow out of the larva’s head. Yartsa been perscribe

Published on 2012-10-03 11:34:19

Cuba has the highest literacy rate in the world at 99.9%.

Published on 2012-10-03 08:39:23

In 1801, 20% of the people in the United States were slaves.

Published on 2012-10-02 14:46:03

In 1960, before there was a precise scientific measurement for testing the strength of laser beams, Theodore Maiman defined the strength of a beam by the number of Gillette razor blades it could cut through. A Gillette equals about 1.5 joules; today

Published on 2012-10-02 12:45:19

Some geologists theorize that during the Cambrian period, about five hundred million years ago, a day was only 20.6 hours.

Published on 2012-10-02 11:50:14

An asteroid caused a mass extinction at the end of the Cambrian period, scientists believe it also caused the Earth to rotate at a faster rate and wobble. “Chandler’s wobble” named after it’s discoverer, Seth Carlo Chandler.

1845 – Robert W. Thompson, a Scottish Engineer, received a British patent for the invention of the pneumatic tire (inner tube inflated with air inside a rubber tire).

Published on 2012-09-30 21:00:04

The Maldives, a nation comprising 1,192 islands in the Indian Ocean, is the lowest country in the world with an average elevation of just 5ft. above sea level.

Published on 2012-09-30 19:00:48

The highest peak on an island is Jaya Peak, New Guinea at 16,024 ft.

Published on 2012-09-30 16:00:13

The strongest human can lift approximately three times his weight. The strongest non-human animal (an oribatid mite) can support 1,180 times its weight.

Published on 2012-09-30 13:45:41

Bill Clinton can technically still run for president in Ireland and France.

Published on 2012-09-30 11:45:24

While speaking with CNN’s Piers Morgan Tuesday (9/25/12), Clinton said, “If I move to Ireland and buy a house, I can run for president of Ireland because of my Irish heritage.” He also commented; “Any person anywhere in the world that was born in a place that ever was a part of the French empire, if you move to, if you live in France for six months and speak French you can run for president of France.” Clinton was born →

Macaque monkeys are 93% genetically similar to humans. Mice are 80% similar and fruit flies are 60% similar.

Published on 2012-09-30 08:30:38

The largest concert ever was Rod Stewart at the wonderful Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1994. The concert had over 3,500,000 screaming fans in attendence. Woodstock in 1969 drew in about 400,000 fans which is about 1/8th of what Rod S

Published on 2012-09-29 17:16:36

The hat shown above was mailed to National Geographic headquarters in 1920 by William J. O’Rearden. The hat was made entirely from the mushroom “fomes fomentarus”

Published on 2012-09-29 13:46:57

Antimony is a metalloid that was used for a variety of aliments from ancient Egypt till Medieval Europe. In small doses it was used as a contraceptive or to induce vomiting, it’s side effects ranged from headaches, to seizures to death. Since antim

Published on 2012-09-29 12:26:18

It takes a minimum of 1.6 million generations for a sheep-size land mammal to increase to the size of an elephant. But it only takes 0.1 million generations for an elephant to decrease to the size of a sheep.

Published on 2012-09-29 08:30:33

Over 9,000 banks failed during the 1930′s and since they were uninsured people lost their entire savings.

Published on 2012-09-28 19:00:03

Cocoa was introduced to Europe in 1527 by Spanish conquistadors and was considered an aphrodisiac. It was commonly consumed in liquid form until J. S. Fry & Sons created the first chocolate bar in 1847.

Published on 2012-09-28 17:48:22

Mount McKinley is the highest mountain peak in North America at 20,320 feet (6,194 m) above sea level.

Published on 2012-09-28 12:27:24

In the late 1890s, a gold prospector named it McKinley as political support for then-president William McKinley. It is referred to as Denali by locals.

Before the Americas were colonized by the Spanish, British, etc.. they were inhabited by tens of millions of native people.

Published on 2012-09-28 09:55:27

New research indicates that number could’ve been even higher, some speculate that over 100 million native people could’ve been living throughout the Americas by the time Columbus arrived in the caribbean in 1492.

The Santa María was the flagship for Columbus’s famed journey in 1492. She ran aground off the cost of Haiti on December 25, 1492 and was destroyed. Realizing the ship was beyond repair, Columbus had his men construct the remaining timbers into th

Published on 2012-09-28 07:23:45

When Columbus returned a few years later, the crew & the structure we’re completely destroyed. Most speculate from troubles with neighboring tribes.

A second, ten years younger Mona Lisa has been unveiled.

Published on 2012-09-27 18:26:26

The alleged 16th painting of Leonardo Da Vinci’s 15 known paintings has been turning the art world upside down. The Mona Lisa is the most visited, most known, most written about piece of art in the entire world so to find a second one has created an incredible buzz. It is estimated that if verified, the painting will quickly shoot past $100 million dollar worth, possibly even hundreds more. The new painting was discovered shortly before World War I by an →

Darren Samuelson built a six foot long camera that uses three foot long x-ray film to capture shots. Each shot takes 10-15 minutes to prepare and costs around $2,000 to make.

Published on 2012-09-27 17:30:31

Known as the world’s greatest linguist, Gregg Cox speaks 64 different languages fluently. He began learning at age 5 starting with Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and Chinese. He learns approximately 5 languages a year and has published a lang

Published on 2012-09-27 11:15:38

Jonathan Swift, a great 18th-century British writer who wrote “Gulliver’s Travels,” had one of the largest brains ever, weighing in at 2,000 grams.

Published on 2012-09-27 07:45:52

Article | Patient Gets World’s First Artificial Trachea

Published on 2012-09-26 20:00:37

A patient will be discharged from a hospital in Sweden on Friday after his cancerous windpipe was removed and replaced by the world’s first artificial trachea, made of his own stem cells grown on a man-made plastic matrix. “This is the first permanent artificial organ ever,” says Paolo Macchiarini, professor of regenerative surgery at the Karolinksa Institute in Stockholm, who led an international team of researchers. Just as remarkable as the man-made windpipe, he says, is how [..]

September 26th, 1789 – Thomas Jefferson was appointed America’s first secretary of state.

Published on 2012-09-26 16:45:12

On a diagram of the solar system to scale, with Earth reduced to about the diameter of a pea, Jupiter would be over a thousand feet away and Pluto would be a mile and a half distant (and about the size of a bacterium, so you wouldn’t be able to see

Published on 2012-09-26 14:00:44

in 1881, Alexander Graham Bell invented an electromagnetic device called an induction balance to try and locate a bullet lodged in President Garfield after an assassination attempt.

Published on 2012-09-26 12:13:24

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Josh Klinghoffer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Red Hot Chili Peppers on April 14, 2012, becoming the Hall of Fame’s youngest-ever inductee.

Published on 2012-09-26 10:45:55

Orcas, also known as ‘killer whales’, are actually in the dolphin family.

Published on 2012-09-26 06:15:38

Dr. Benjamin Church was the first Surgeon General of the Continental Army. He was also the first American caught spying for the British.

Published on 2012-09-25 17:12:25

Among being the first on the scene to help victims of the Boston Massacre, Dr. Benjamin Church also participated in the Boston Tea Party. He was generally regarded as a patriot by John Adams, John Hancock & George Washington until his messages to the British were intercepted and decoded in 1775. Originally sentenced to life imprisonment, George Washington ultimately overturned the decision in favor for exile in the West Indies. The ship and Dr. Benjamin Church were never seen again. →

Article | Researchers Make Transparent Soil For Plant Research

Published on 2012-09-25 09:47:26

Plant researchers who want to study the roots of growing plants have a problem: Those roots are obscured by the soil in which the plant grows. But no more hiding. Now researchers have designed a transparent soil that lets them look at not only roots but also the microbes, good and bad, that colonize them. The transparent soil is made of a synthetic polymer called Nafion. (When not serving as soil, Naflon, a polymer that conducts electricity, lends itself to batteries →

The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World’s Fair. The blueprints covered more than fourteen thousand square feet of drafting paper. In total, the tower has 2.5 million rivets and varies in height as much as six inches, depending on the temperat

Published on 2012-09-24 19:45:35

Playing cards in India are round.

Published on 2012-09-24 16:49:36

At the height of inflation in Germany in the early 1920′s, approximately two dollars were equal to a quintillion German marks.

Published on 2012-09-24 14:10:23

Mentions | Alexander Graham Bell, Garfield & The Sunlight Telephone.

Published on 2012-09-24 11:34:11

Alexander Graham Bell has become somewhat of a house hold name, I remember learning about him at a very young age in school. He invented the first practical telephone. Maybe it was his name that made it stick but I’ve always remembered who he was. Recently, I stumbled upon an article about him and it re-sparked some interest. What I found was pretty cool, and something I definitely did not learn in school. To start with the basics, Alexander was →

Positioned on hundreds of square miles of desert outside Magadelna, New Mexico, the Very Large Array (VLA) is one of the largest telescopes in the world. Its 27 individual radio antennas, each 82 feet in diameter, form a Y with arms 13 miles long.

Published on 2012-09-23 17:45:16

Its sister project, the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) is a line of 10 radio antennas that extended 5,531 miles from hawaii to the virgin islands.

In the water, seals use their hind flippers in a side to side motion to propel them as fast as 15 mph. Conversely, sea lions use their large front flippers for propulsion.

Published on 2012-09-22 20:00:20

Mentions | Mirages

Published on 2012-09-22 18:00:34

You have all seen one, but did you know it was a mirage? Whether you are driving down a warm blacktop road, adventuring out in the desert, or peering into the expanse of an ocean, you are seeing the same phenomenon in different forms. One of the more common types of mirage is called an “Inferior Mirage”, which is featured in the image above. These occur when the warm air close to a surface, which is denser than the cooler air →

A group of ferrets is commonly referred to as a “business.”

Published on 2012-09-22 15:00:13

Article | ‘Searching For Sugar Man’: The Unbelievable True Story Of Rodriguez

Published on 2012-09-22 13:00:01

Every striving artist has their own vision of success. In Rodriguez’s case he did everything he could to work towards this goal. He recorded a promising record, printed copies and sold them, but it just didn’t work out for him in the United States. But little did he know, he experienced a whole different type of stardom, a secret fame. While he gave up on his dreams of stardom to make a living working hard labor in →

Former North Korean dictator Kim Jong IL was one of Hennessey’s best customers. He reportedly spent more than $800,000 on the cognac per year.

Published on 2012-09-22 10:34:37

It is illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.

Published on 2012-09-21 17:30:35

Schorschbrau Schorschbock 57% Finis Coronat Opus, made in Gunzenhausen, Germany is the world’s most potent beer with an alcohol by volume of 57%. Jack Daniel’s whiskey has an ABV of 40%.

Published on 2012-09-21 11:15:48

Mentions | The Triangle Fire of 1911

Published on 2012-09-21 11:00:54

The fire that occurred at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City in 1911 goes down as one of the worst disasters since the start of the industrial revolution. The fire claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers. The Triangle Fire was a horrible tragedy that rose awareness about unsafe working conditions that existed across the nation. The Triangle Waist Company, located on the northern corner of Washington Square East, was a manufacturer of women’s cotton and linen →

Four major oil companies; Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, and Chevron, have a combined annual revenue of about 1.5 trillion as of December 31, 2011. These oil companies own about 2% of the world GDP, which is approximately 70 trillion according to the World

Published on 2012-09-21 07:45:59

The pavement at Epcot in Walt Disney World is painted a specific color of pink, in order to make the grass look greener.

Published on 2012-09-20 22:44:21

Duct tape was used on Apollo 13 when the square carbon dioxide filters from the failed command module had to be modified to fit round receptacles in the lunar module. The lunar module had to be used as a “life boat” after an explosion on board th

Published on 2012-09-20 21:14:32

Duct tape has been stowed on board every mission since Gemini.

Thai Ngoc is a Vietnamese farmer who claims he hasn’t slept in over 39 years after he had a fever in 1973.

Published on 2012-09-20 18:22:31

He apparently has no ill-effects and still carries two 100lb bags of pig feed 2 miles down his road every morning.

Jeanne Calment is the oldest recorded living person at 122 years, 164 days. Jeanne was born in France on February 21 1875, five years before Thomas Edison founded General Electric.

Published on 2012-09-20 17:01:59

And 28 years before the Wright Brothers took their first manned flight and 53 years before the discovery of penicillin!

Evolution was widely discussed among scientists prior to Charles Darwin. The concept was first suggested by zoologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1801 (8 years before Charles was born) and supported by Erasmus Darwin, Charles’s grandfather.

Published on 2012-09-20 14:25:26

When René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle claimed the land around the Mississippi River for France, he named it La Louisiane, meaning “Land of Louis”, or as you know it, Louisiana.

Published on 2012-09-20 12:01:26

Louis XIV was the King of France from 1643–1715.

fMRL studies have shown that brain regions responsible for regulating emotion are larger in long-term meditators.

Published on 2012-09-20 11:00:49

Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, famous for the Eiffel Tower, designed the steel and iron framework that hold the Statue of Liberty’s outer copper shell in place.

Published on 2012-09-20 08:02:27

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Psychologists at the University of Dusseldorf in Germany suggest that the chemical transfer of anxiety may cause a feeling of discomfort in the perceiver. In other words, Anxiety, along with other emotions, can be chemically transferred between peopl

Published on 2012-09-19 17:45:53

Mentions | The Tropical Storm

Published on 2012-09-19 11:15:33

Regardless of where you live, tropical storm coverage is one of the most talked about weather events in the world. Wind gusts, category strength and trajectory are all headlines of one of earth’s greatest phenomenas. What meteorologists and reporters may not discuss in detail or gloss over completely is the actual name of these storms. Any curious individual would say to themselves, “Why did they pick that name?” The origin and evolution of naming a tropical storm dates back fu [..]

The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, at Stanford University on the San Francisco Peninsula, is one of the highest energy electron accelerators in the world. The main working part is a two-mile-long tube down which electrons ride an electromagnet w

Published on 2012-09-19 07:55:24

On this day, September 19th in 1692 Giles Corey was pressed to death by stone weights after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.

Published on 2012-09-18 23:01:07

Abigail Hobbs accused Giles of being a warlock. “Don’t Know Much About History”. Davis, Kenneth C.

Astronomers believe there are billions of objects beyond Neptune, the size of, smaller, and larger than Pluto. The problem is that they typically have an albedo, or reflectiveness, of just 4%. That is about the same reflectiveness as a lump of charc

Published on 2012-09-18 18:00:06

Source: “A Short History of Nearly Everything”. Bryson, Bill.

The silhouette on the NBA logo is Hall of Fame Laker Jerry West.

Published on 2012-09-18 14:00:36

The Statue of Liberty owes her signature light green color (called a patina) to the natural weathering effect of copper. In her early years the Statue was the brownish-red color of copper.

Published on 2012-09-18 13:55:32

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Over 850 languages are spoken on the island of Papua New Guinea, making it the most linguistically diverse place on Earth.

Published on 2012-09-18 11:15:44

Of the billions and billions of species of living things that have existed since the dawn of time, 99.99% are no longer around.

Published on 2012-09-18 07:45:38

Source: “A Short History of Nearly Everything”. Bryson, Bill.

Article | Russia Boasts of Huge Diamond Field

Published on 2012-09-18 00:01:00

Russian scientists are claiming that a gigantic deposit of industrial diamonds found in a huge Siberian meteorite crater during Soviet times could revolutionize industry. The Siberian branch of Russian Academy of Sciences said that the Popigai crater in eastern Siberia contains “many trillions of carats” of so-called “impact diamonds” — good for technological purposes, not [...]

The NFL’s highest paid player Dwight Freeney earns about 19 million dollars per year, which is about 127 times more than NFL referees. NFL referee’s average salary was 150,000 in 2011, which makes NFL referees the lowest paid referees compared to

Published on 2012-09-17 17:30:56

New York City’s population is about 18,900,000, which is over 33 times larger than the population of Wyoming. However, Wyoming is more than 14 times larger than New York City in square miles.

Published on 2012-09-17 14:30:44

Researchers have variously suggested that Hitler suffered from irritable bowel syndrome, skin lesions, irregular heartbeat, Parkinson’s disease, syphilis, and tinnitus.

Published on 2012-09-17 07:45:12

Open brain surgery has been preformed on conscious patients because brain tissue itself cannot feel pain.

Published on 2012-09-17 04:03:59

There are a number of other structures such as portions of the dura mater, the veins and some of the arteries inside the brain, cranial nerves, the trigeminal nerve and, the skull itself that do feel pain.

Approximately 2% of immigrants were refused entry to the United States through Ellis Island. That’s around 240,000 individuals.

Published on 2012-09-16 15:20:11

More than 12 million migrants entered the United Sates through the Ellis Island portal between 1892 – 1954. Around 1.25 million in 1907 alone.

John F Kennedy suffered from serious back pain and regularly wore a back brace, including on November 22 when he was assassinated. The brace kept him upright after the first shot to his neck, it’s possible that without the brace, he might have been

Published on 2012-09-16 11:02:28

Norman Thomas, of the Socialist Party, ran for President of the United States 6 times, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948. More than any other person.

Published on 2012-09-16 07:57:34

Studies have shown that Americans stop eating on cues: when our tv show is over, when our plate is empty, when someone yells “stop”. Other countries, most notably France, are shown to stop eating when they were full.

Published on 2012-09-15 13:43:38

Eating the wrong part of a pufferfish has a 60% fatality rate. That’s because the puffer fish is packed with tetrodotoxin, one of the most powerful neurotoxins. The poison blocks sodium from firing neurons correctly causing the brain to cease funct

Published on 2012-09-15 12:45:11

When administered in small doses the poison causes complete paralysis of the body while the mind stays completely active. It has been historically used in torture and is believed to be an active agent in the Haitian Voodoo Zombiism phenomenon.

In 2018, NASA will launch the James Webb Space Telescope with mirrors seven times larger than the Hubble.

Published on 2012-09-15 11:27:55

The state moto of Michigan is “If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look around you”

Published on 2012-09-15 09:25:22

The worlds largest stump is located in Kokomo, Indiana. It is the remains of a massive sycamore tree. It is 57 feet in diameter, 12 feet high and is estimated to be over 800 years old.

Published on 2012-09-15 07:58:05

Mentions | The Perfect Game

Published on 2012-09-14 11:08:39

Perfection (def:) the highest degree of proficiency, skill, or excellence, as in some art. People live their lives striving to be perfect at one thing. Perfection is something humans crave. The perfect omelet, the perfect pickup line, the perfect drive home from work. Everyone has something they want to do perfectly. Many people meet their [...]

Mentions | The Statue of Liberty

Published on 2012-09-13 16:31:27

If you live in the United States you’ve probably seen it. Those who havent know about it (and think it’s bigger than it is). It is our green lady, our creme de le greme – our beautiful statue, “Liberty Enlightening the World”. And I want to take a moment to mention her. The year is [...]

Mentions | The Perfect Game

Published on 2012-09-05 14:08:39

Perfection (def:) the highest degree of proficiency, skill, or excellence, as in some art.

Mentions | The Perfect Game

Published on 2012-09-05 12:04:36

Perfection (def:) the highest degree of proficiency, skill, or excellence, as in some art.

When you swallow an antacid, your stomach acid (with excess H) and the antacid (with excess OH) mix together. When the H and OH ions react to form water (H20) your tummy feels better.

Published on 2012-09-04 11:15:00

Neato Mentions | The Legend of John “Bet-a-Million” Gates

Published on 2012-09-04 10:42:52

Mentions | John “Bet-a-Million” Gates

Published on 2012-09-01 12:31:02

“Rumor has it that he laid down a bet of approximately one million dollars on a horse race in Saratoga, New York, earning himself the moniker “Bet-a-Million” in the process.”

On this day in 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana.

Published on 2012-08-29 08:00:49

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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together. This doesn’t happen on earth because the atmosphere puts a layer of oxidized material between the surfaces.

Published on 2012-08-28 18:34:39

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On this day in 1883 the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history occurred on Krakatoa, a small, uninhabited volcanic island located west of Sumatra in Indonesia. Heard 3,000 miles away, the explosions threw five cubic miles of earth 50 mil

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On this day in 1939, the first televised Major League baseball game was broadcasted on W2XBS, the station that would become WNBC-TV. Announcer Red Barber called the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn

Published on 2012-08-26 08:00:17

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When you swallow an antacid, your stomach acid (with excess H) and the antacid (with excess OH) mix together. When the H and OH ions react to form water (H20) your tummy feels better.

Published on 2012-08-21 06:15:00

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NASA research has proven that houseplants remove toxins from the air like the spider plant, weeping fig tree, snake plant, bamboo amongst many others.

Published on 2012-08-20 20:10:59

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NASA research has proven that houseplants remove toxins from the air like the spider plant, weeping fig tree, snake plant, bamboo amongst many others.

Published on 2012-08-20 20:10:59

Today, Apple became the most valuable publicly traded company in the world, ending the day with a record market cap of $623.5 billion, surpassing the previous record of $618.9 billion set by Microsoft on Dec. 30, 1999.

Published on 2012-08-20 15:41:00

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Today, Apple became the most valuable publicly traded company in the world, ending the day with a record market cap of $623.5 billion, surpassing the previous record of $618.9 billion set by Microsoft on Dec. 30, 1999.

Published on 2012-08-20 15:41:00

Byron Nelson, who won a record 11 consecutive golf tournaments in 1945, is known as the father of the modern golf swing. “Lord Byron” as he is sometimes referred to, had such a natural, fluid motion, that when testers in the golfing industry cons

Published on 2012-08-20 08:00:00

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Byron Nelson, who won a record 11 consecutive golf tournaments in 1945, is known as the father of the modern golf swing. “Lord Byron” as he is sometimes referred to, had such a natural, fluid motion, that when testers in the golfing industry cons

Published on 2012-08-20 08:00:00

London’s Underground is the oldest subway system in the world.

Published on 2012-08-15 07:30:30

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London’s Underground is the oldest subway system in the world.

Published on 2012-08-15 07:30:30

Men tend to dream more about other men. Around 70% of the characters in a man’s dream are other men. On the other hand, a woman’s dream contains almost an equal number of men and women.

Published on 2012-08-14 20:49:18

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Men tend to dream more about other men. Around 70% of the characters in a man’s dream are other men. On the other hand, a woman’s dream contains almost an equal number of men and women.

Published on 2012-08-14 20:49:18

Soap requires two ingredients, an oil and alkali. These can be as simple as the oil from fish and using ash from a campfire as the alkali.

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Soap requires two ingredients, an oil and alkali. These can be as simple as the oil from fish and using ash from a campfire as the alkali.

Published on 2012-08-14 19:00:46

Cats meow to communicate with humans, not with other cats.

Published on 2012-08-04 15:16:50

Cats meow to communicate with humans, not with other cats.

Published on 2012-08-04 15:16:50

Banana’s are actually berries. Berries are defined as being a flower with many seeds with a fleshy inner layer which fits bananas. They also don’t grow on trees, the banana plant (not tree) is the largest herbaceous flowering plant.

Published on 2012-08-04 15:03:52

Searching something on Google takes as much power as turning on a 60 watt lightbulb for 17 seconds

Published on 2012-07-30 10:18:55

L-cysteine is an amino acid made from human hair or duck feathers which helps enhance the pliability of dough, which better suits the machinery for large corporations like McDonalds and Dunkin Donuts.

Published on 2012-07-26 14:45:59

The most cover appearances upon Time magazine has been by Richard Nixon (37th President of the United States) with 55 covers.

Published on 2012-05-10 02:46:35

Emperor penguins can dive to nearly 2000 feet.

Published on 2012-04-23 22:07:34

The oldest playable instrument is a 9,000 year old Chinese flute, made from a bird’s leg bone.

Published on 2012-04-19 11:00:10

The shark’s sense of smell is greater than any other fish. It can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

Published on 2012-04-09 10:00:37

Russia has 11 time zones, more than any other country.

Published on 2012-04-08 18:00:28

Oak trees can start producing acorns when they are 20 years old, but sometimes can go all the way to 50 years before the first production.

Published on 2012-04-08 15:00:06

The 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells’ “The War Of The Worlds” caused panic amongst many listeners as they believed that aliens really had landed on earth.

Published on 2012-04-08 14:27:11

Mozart wrote is first piece of music when he was just five years old.

Published on 2012-04-08 14:21:08

Whether your hair is straight or curly depends on the shape of your hair follicles. Straight hair grows from round follicles while curly hair grows from oval follicles.

Published on 2012-04-08 14:17:23

A round manhole cover can’t fall into the manhole, no matter how much you twist and turn it. That is one reason manholes are round instead of rectangular.

Published on 2012-04-05 23:03:10

At Microsoft, job applicants are asked a number of questions designed to test their smarts. At one point one question was “Why are manhole covers round?” If you didn’t have an answer, you weren’t smart enough to work at Microsoft. A rectangular cover can fall in, all you have to do is tilt it sideways. Now you’re [...]

The ancient Greeks believed redheads turned into vampires after death.

Published on 2012-04-05 15:18:46

Your pupils expand as much as 45% when you look at someone you love.

Published on 2012-04-05 15:15:40

Pepsi is named after the digestive enzyme pepsin.

Published on 2012-04-05 15:10:16

A recent study has shown that popcorn is packed with antioxidant compounds called polyphenols. It may contain just as many healthful antioxidants as fruits and vegetables.

Published on 2012-03-28 15:23:09

About 1.5% by weight of air-popped popcorn is made up of polyphenols. About two tablespoons of kernels, or 33 g of popped corn, would give you about 500 mg of polyphenols, which is about half of what the average American consumes in polyphenols each day — primarily from fruit juice, wine, tea, coffee and chocolate.

You can pronounce “Ghoti” as “Fish” using [gh] from “laugh”, the [o] from “women” and the [ti] from “nation”.

Published on 2012-03-28 14:50:03

English can be one of the toughest languages to learn. Toughest? Whats up with pronouncing “gh” as “f”? Check out this website for some interesting facts about the english language. www.alphadictionary.com/articles/ling006.html

Various fish, as well as polychaete worms and even crabs, are specialized to take advantage of the constant flow of water through the cloacal respiratory tree of sea cucumbers while simultaneously gaining the protection of living within the sea cucum

Published on 2012-03-24 00:06:30

On average, women have more taste buds than men.

Published on 2012-03-23 01:14:44

Vanilla is the second most expensive spice after saffron.

Published on 2012-03-21 22:02:43

“Acoustic Kitty” was a CIA project launched in the 1960s attempting to use cats in spy missions against the Soviets. They spent over $20 million training cats and implanting batteries and microphones into their bodies and antennas into their tail

Published on 2012-03-15 16:19:27

The first cat mission was eavesdropping on two men in a park outside the Soviet compound in Washington, D.C. The cat was released nearby, but was hit and killed by a taxi almost immediately. Shortly thereafter the project was considered a failure and cancelled in 1967.

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