Math can be downright interesting! For example, most mathematical equations were written in words before the 16th century! Could you imagine what that must have looked like?!
Fact Lab
Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? In 1893, a ruling by the Supreme Court made the tomato a vegetable, officially! It is, however, actually a fruit. It seems as though the age-old debate will continue on for generations!
Pokémon were once featured on a spendable currency! In the isolated Pacific island of Niue, specific Niue dollar coins were released in 2011 with the faces of Charmander, Meowth, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, and of course, Pikachu.
The earliest microscopes were called flea glasses because they were predominantly used to observe small insects such as fleas! These microscopes were simple in construction, using different shapes and sizes of glass with low power (6x to 10x). They were invented by the Romans.
Fact Lab
Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? In 1893, a ruling by the Supreme Court made the tomato a vegetable, officially! It is, however, actually a fruit. It seems as though the age-old debate will continue on for generations!
Pokémon were once featured on a spendable currency! In the isolated Pacific island of Niue, specific Niue dollar coins were released in 2011 with the faces of Charmander, Meowth, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, and of course, Pikachu.
The earliest microscopes were called flea glasses because they were predominantly used to observe small insects such as fleas! These microscopes were simple in construction, using different shapes and sizes of glass with low power (6x to 10x). They were invented by the Romans.
Press Your Luck was a mid-1980s game show that was part quiz show and part “luck.” Contestants played against an illuminated game board that lit up prizes in different patterns, and they could stop it at any time to win the cash or prizes it landed on. Sounds fun!