Jellyfish, though beautiful, can sting with their tentacles if they brush against you when you're swimming in the ocean.
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Columbus didn’t actually discover America. Viking explorer, Leif Eriksson, arrived there 500 years earlier. In addition, it’s a misconception that Columbus ever set foot on what today is the United States. He only visited – and raided – the Bahamas, the Antilles and Honduras. Never did he realise that he had reached a new continent.
An unlikely friendship was forged between Ireland and the American Choctaw Indian Tribe, when the latter sent the former money during the famine. This was despite the fact that the tribe had just been forced to walk the Trail of Tears. You’ll find a monument of appreciation to the tribe in County Cork.
Hundreds of years ago, Robert Hooke published a book called Micrographia that included hand-drawn images of samples observed under a microscope! Hooke, who we mentioned in a previous fact, is often credited as the discoverer of cells, after studying cork under the microscope.
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Columbus didn’t actually discover America. Viking explorer, Leif Eriksson, arrived there 500 years earlier. In addition, it’s a misconception that Columbus ever set foot on what today is the United States. He only visited – and raided – the Bahamas, the Antilles and Honduras. Never did he realise that he had reached a new continent.
An unlikely friendship was forged between Ireland and the American Choctaw Indian Tribe, when the latter sent the former money during the famine. This was despite the fact that the tribe had just been forced to walk the Trail of Tears. You’ll find a monument of appreciation to the tribe in County Cork.
Hundreds of years ago, Robert Hooke published a book called Micrographia that included hand-drawn images of samples observed under a microscope! Hooke, who we mentioned in a previous fact, is often credited as the discoverer of cells, after studying cork under the microscope.
Why is Apple called apple? According to some sources, it’s simply because the fruit was one that founder Steve Jobs enjoyed. Pretty simple. The company has grown dramatically over the past decades and now employs more people than a small city – over 90,000 people!
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