The world is such a wide and fascinating place. You often hear people bitten by the travel bug bemoaning how they feel like they’ll never get to see all of it. If you’re one of these people, you can relax a little. Yes, you may never see all of the world, but that’s because you …
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If you know all of these spring fun facts, that would be surprising. Like do you know which mammal travels furthest each year? The day and night are similar in length to the point of being almost equal during the spring equinox and the word equinox comes from the Latin words meaning “equal night.” April …
In the 1980s, there was big boom in consumer product development. Partially, it was because people had enough money to buy stuff, but tech was also getting smaller and cheaper, so all kinds of gadgets found their way to the store shelves. Some of them never left the shelf, though. Because of the mad rush …
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The Cold War might as well have been called the Spy War because, really, that’s what it was. The CIA and its Soviet counterpart, the KGB, were constantly coming up with new, sneaky ways to find out what was happening on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Some spying techniques the CIA developed were …
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Fossils can tell us so much about what life was like on ancient Earth. For example, a few footprints are enough to know that one rainy day, one of the first land animals was playing around with a friend. Some fossils, though, leave everybody scratching their heads. Life has taken many forms over four billion …
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Considering that your brain activity is what makes you you, you might think it’s a fairly stable organ. But that’s not true at all. Your brain changes over your life — a lot. And sometimes, even seemingly innocuous small things we do every day physically alter our brains. Some of them change your brain for …
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These weird food fun facts may not be what you expect. You will have to tell me the best ones in the comments! Bananas are berries, and strawberries aren’t berries. (They don’t meet the botanical definition of a berry.) Ketchup was used as a medicine in the 1800s. In the 1830s, a ketchup recipe was …
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A race is a really simple concept. You start at point A and try to reach point B as quickly as possible. There’s always a place for a classic race, but it can get dull in the long run (pun unintended). To keep racing interesting, people have put various twists on it for ages. Some …
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Strawberry fun facts like the Carolinas having two strawberry seasons because of their temperate and similar spring and fall seasons is just the start these facts. The majority of the roots of strawberry plants are located in the top 3 inches of soil. Some think the berries got their name from the fact that the …
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There are events in history so important and momentous that everyone knows about them. But the thing is that many of those events never happened. Even if they did, many times the events were vastly different from what we think today. You see, history is a centuries-long game of telephone and things often get distorted …
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