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Learning Something Everyday - by Jessicca

You can learn from anything to everything every single day, if you put your heart to notice the little changes in life around you.

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Water colour effect at camera

June 20th 2007 07:37

In case anyone starts frowning after shooting with their brand new Panasonic FZ8 compact semi-dSLR camera (those pro will know what I am saying), don't freak out and sell it off before reading this:

(Found this forum rather interesting

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Fact: Ivory Soap

June 14th 2007 08:17

Ivory Soap was developed by James N. Gamble in 1879. It was originally going to be called P & G White Soap, but Harley Procter became inspired at a church service and came up with the name Ivory Soap. Approximately 40 billion bars of Ivory Soap have been sold since 1879. Ivory Soap is famous for the fact that it floats, and for years it was believed that this was due to a mistake made by an employee who mixed up a batch of extra frothy soap. Recent research, however, shows that James N. Gamble may have always intended for the soap to float. The slogan "99-44/100% Pure" was originated in 1882, and the first Ivory Baby appeared in 1886.

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Fact: Pollination

May 24th 2007 07:38

In order for seeds to develop, a flower has to be pollinated. Pollen from the stamens of a flower of the same species must stick to the plant's stigma (a part of the pistil). In self-pollination, a flower is pollinated by its own pollen or that of another flower on the same plant. Plants that depend on moths for pollination tend to be white or pale yellow so they can be seen better when the light is dim, whereas plants that are pollinated by butterflies tend to have more colorful flowers. Plants that are pollinated by bats usually bloom at night. Bumblebees need to maintain a high body temperature, so they use warmth to determine which flowers they pollinate. They can tell the flower's temperature by its color

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Fact: Word games

May 23rd 2007 07:44

Playing with words is a distinctly human activity. It lets us learn while having fun, and is a humbler and more approachable way to be creative than writing the Great American Novel. We make new sense or nonsense by playing with the basic elements of our language - noticing similarities between different words, finding double meanings in the same word, and using words as the raw material for innumerable games. Words are pulled to pieces and rearranged in anagrams and palindromes, or linked together in diagrams or patterns such as acrostics, crosswords, Scrabble, and word squares. Some games play with individual letters (as in chronograms and beheadments), their shape (concrete poetry), or sound (rebuses and tongue-twisters). Other games, such as charades and hangman, involve guessing.

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Fact: carnivorous plants

March 9th 2007 00:35

Plants that catch and "eat" insects are called carnivorous.

butterworts

These plants fall into two groups: some have active traps with moving parts, like the Venus flytrap, but most have passive traps, catching victims on a sticky surface or drowning them in a pool of fluid, like butterworts

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Fact: Russia

March 8th 2007 00:51

Russia is the world's largest country, with an area of 6,591,100 square miles. It is 1.8 times the size of the United States and spans 11 time zones. However, the population density in Russia is one of the world's lowest

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Fact: alcoholic spirits, cordials, liquors, liqueurs

March 7th 2007 17:00

A liquor is a drink produced by fermentation or distillation of a mash of various ingredients, including grains or other plants. A spirit is a kind of liquor, but also denotes an alcoholic solution of an essence or extract, and a cordial is an aromatized and sweetened spirit used as a beverage

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Fact: marsupials

March 7th 2007 05:39

Koala is a marsupial

Marsupials are a mammalian order (or superorder) characterized by premature birth and continued development of the newborn while attached to the nipples on the lower belly of the mother

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Fact: Bats

March 1st 2007 09:19

A bat is any member of the order Chiroptera, the only mammal to have evolved true, sustained flight. Their flying ability and system of acoustic orientation (bat sonar) have allowed the many species of bat to flourish; about 1,000 are currently recognized, belonging to some 174 genera, and a single species can number in the hundreds of millions of individuals at the very least.

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Blood covered diamonds - What are they?

February 14th 2007 01:50

Article extracted and compiled from MSN.Money

Some of you may be scouting for a diamond in a more affordable price for valentine's day, but before you bling your love ones with these dashing stones, be sure that they are not stained with blood

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Fact: Islands

January 30th 2007 00:45

Millions of islands dot the world's oceans. Islands may occur in oceans, seas, lakes, or rivers, and may be very, very small outcroppings or huge land masses such as Greenland.

An island is defined as an area of land surrounded by water; strictly speaking, the continents are islands, but they are not usually referred to as such. Islands may be created when the sea rises, when land sinks, or when volcanoes on the ocean floor emerge above water

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Fact: Compass

January 24th 2007 06:07

A compass is a navigational device containing a small, free-moving magnet called a needle. The needle is attracted to the earth's magnetism and swivels on a pivot until one end points to the earth's magnetic north pole

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Fact: Magic 8-Ball

January 23rd 2007 06:00

The Magic 8-Ball, invented in 1946 by Abe Bookman of the Alabe Toy Company, is a novelty version of the crystal ball. It is a hard black plastic sphere, the size of a small grapefruit, which reveals answers to life's most perplexing issues when it is turned upside-down. The answers are on a white plastic die made in the shape of an icosahedron and floating in a blue liquid. Of the twenty possible answers, ten are positive, five negative, and five neutral. The name of the novelty comes from its resemblance to the ball used in pool and billiards.

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Fact: Jigsaw Puzzle

January 22nd 2007 04:54

Jigsaw puzzles got their start in 18th-century England as an educational tool to teach geography. Mapmakers pasted maps onto wood and cut them into small pieces. The use of popular pictures for jigsaw puzzles began in the 1860s, and the puzzles grew in popularity in the early 1900s. During the 1930s, jigsaw puzzles began to be mass-produced from die-cut cardboard, their popularity soaring as they became an inexpensive and reusable form of entertainment during the Depression. The part that sticks out of a puzzle piece is called the "nub," which fits into a "void" in another piece to create a "lock."

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