Did you read Do You Know About These Grand Canyon Fun Facts? Because this is part two. One of the best things about the South Rim is its internet bandwidth. Senior employees mostly live in houses with broadband connections but for those that don’t have that, the best signals are found in and around the community …
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Michelangelo’s David, the Statue of Liberty, Rodin’s The Thinker… All of these sculptures are famous for a reason, but wouldn’t you sometimes want to see something different? History is chock-full of more obscure sculptors who created stunning but sadly unknown works of art. We figured we’d take this opportunity to highlight some of them. Particularly …
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Have you ever been to the Grand Canyon? It’s unlike almost anything else in the United States and here are a bunch of fun facts to prove it! One of six rattlesnake species lives inside the park. There’s a Grand Canyon pink rattlesnake that is only found within the park’s boundaries. You can still see …
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National Utah Day is every May 31st and today’s the day! Here are a bunch of facts about the state of Utah. Philo T. Farnsworth was born in Beaver, Utah. He was known for inventing a prototype of the first all-electric television. It’s illegal to cause a catastrophe in Utah. Coal has been the State …
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A calm ocean at sunset is one of the most beautiful sights in the world. But under that serene surface lies an often terrifying entity. Oceans are home to bizarre creatures and unexplained mysteries. There are also plenty of weird, creepy, or straight-up horrifying phenomena. Here are eight things that oceans might throw at you, …
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Did you read All The Weird Piercings You Can Get: Part One? Because this is part two. Tongue Piercing You can get a tongue piercing anywhere you’d like on your tongue. They can be painful for some but most people say the pain level is only about a four or six out of ten. Your …
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Did you know there was a National Piercing Day celebrated on May 16th? Here are a the weird piercings you can get and some that aren’t so weird, too. Nipple Piercing The things you need to know about nipple piercings are that they hurt. Some people say it didn’t hurt as much as they thought …
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It might be easy to think that UFO sightings are a modern phenomenon, born mostly after WWII. After all, that’s when we developed proper flying machines ourselves, and mass media grew to the point that potential UFO encounters could be reported worldwide. But the fact is that people have seen unexplainable things in the sky …
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As you get older, you might find yourself getting irritated by the way the young’uns speak. That’s normal and most people simply grumble about it to themselves. Not William Barnes, though. This 19th-century poet and linguist from England hated that the English language was borrowing words from other languages. He set out on a campaign …
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Did you read Things To Know About Endangered Species In The United States? Because this is part two. Beluga Whale Beluga whales have a developed and acute sense of hearing and their auditory cortex is highly developed. They can swim 2 to 6 miles an hour but the fastest observed whale was at 17 miles …
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