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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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Fact: Potato Chips

January 21st 2007 07:02

The potato chip has an interesting history. Potato chips originated at the Moon Lake Lodge in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1853 and were known as Saratoga chips. George Crum, a Native American chef working at the Moon Lake Lodge, became frustrated with a diner who kept sending back the French fries complaining they were too thick. To get back at the diner, Crum decided to slice the fries extremely thin and fry them crisp so that the diner could not use a fork to eat them. The plan backfired when the diner thought they were the best thing he had ever tasted. Other diners began to request the new snack, and the popularity of potato chips has continued ever since. Potato chips have become America's favorite snack food.

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Fact: Harriet the Tortoise

January 8th 2007 12:00

Harriet the Tortoise is one of the world's oldest (recorded) living animals. DNA testing performed on the giant Galapagos tortoise suggested that she was born around 1830. She died in 2006 at the Australia Zoo at the ripe old of age of 176. It is believed that in 1835, Harriet belonged to Charles Darwin and was studied by him, leading to his theories of evolution and natural selection. Harriet's original name was Harry, as she was mistakenly thought to be a male for more than 100 years

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Fact: Dead Sea

December 7th 2006 06:33

The Dead Sea is actually a landlocked salt lake between Israel and Jordan. Its name goes back to about 323 BC. The Dead Sea is the world's saltiest body of water

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Fact: Stonehenge

December 6th 2006 06:19

Stonehenge is an ancient monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, the remains of four massive trilithons surrounded by concentric circles of megaliths, probably constructed c. 3100 BC

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Fact: Leaning Tower of Pisa

December 5th 2006 10:09

The Leaning Tower of Pisa, an eight-story, 185-foot bell tower in Pisa, Italy, was begun in 1173 and completed in 1350. From the beginning, the tower leaned because of the way the foundation settled

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Fact: Mount Rushmore

December 4th 2006 06:02

The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a colossal sculpture in the Black Hills of South Dakota, about 25 miles southwest of Rapid City. The four United States Presidents whose portraits are carved in the granite are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln

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Fact: Old Faithful

December 3rd 2006 09:57

Old Faithful is the most famous geyser in the world, but not the highest or most regular. Located in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Old Faithful reaches heights of 106 to 184 feet

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Fact: Basketball Slam Dunk

December 2nd 2006 09:49

In college basketball, the NCAA banned the slam dunk shot at the start of the 1967-68 season to reduce the dominance of UCLA's 7-foot 2-inch Lew Alcindor (now known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). For this reason the ban is often referred to as the "Lew Alcindor Rule." The slam dunk shot was not reinstated in college basketball until the 1976-77 season.

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Fact: Contact Lenses

November 29th 2006 08:34

A contact lens is an artificial lens designed to fit over the cornea of the eye in order to correct vision

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Fact: Volleyball

November 28th 2006 08:27

Volleyball is a sport played by teams of six players each, who aim to score points by propelling a ball over a net into the opponents' court in such a way that the opponents cannot return it

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Fact: Stars

November 27th 2006 08:15

There are more stars than any other object in the universe. Each is a spinning ball of hot, luminous gas. Most are composed mainly of hydrogen and helium. As these gases are converted to heaver elements, energy is produced. A star has a life cycle of billions of years; its mass dictates how it will develop and die.

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Hard disk of 1956

November 27th 2006 06:23

When you look at this picture you might have thought that they are trying to carry some tray of things up to the plane, but "does it necessary to have such a big hole?" some might have asked

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Fact: phonetic alphabet

November 26th 2006 08:15

This is the standard list of words used to identify letters of the alphabet unambiguously in police and maritime communications, air traffic control, and military contexts.

It is also called the NATO alphabet, named after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which standardized it. A - Alpha, B - Bravo, C - Charlie, D - Delta, E - Echo, F - Foxtrot, G - Golf, H - Hotel, I - India, J - Juliet, K - Kilo, L - Lima, M - Mike, N - November, O - Oscar, P - Papa, Q - Quebec, R - Romeo, S - Sierra, T - Tango, U - Uniform, V - Victor, W - Whisky, X - X-ray, Y - Yankee, Z - Zulu

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Fact: outer space radio message

November 25th 2006 08:15

In 1974, a radio communication was transmitted toward a cluster of stars called M13 or Messier 13 (The Hercules Globular Cluster), approximately 25,000 light years away in the constellation Hercules, to explore the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligent life.

The digital message was beamed from a radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and contained some very basic information about the human race. It included representations of the fundamental chemicals of life, the formula for DNA, a crude diagram of our solar system, and simple pictures of a human being and the Arecibo telescope.

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