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?!
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The word ‘bankrupt’ comes the Italian ‘banca rotta’, which literally means ‘broken bench’. This refers to the early days of banking in Italy, where the public marketplace would take place literally at the bench. If the banker ran out of money or behaved badly, his bench would be smashed to smithereens.
Here is an astonishing figure: approximately one-third of all 30-year-old men who are not employed are either in prison or are unemployed ex-prisoners. Ex-prisoners have a difficult time finding jobs in their first several years as free people, with nearly half earning nearly nothing in this time period.
India's first ever Test victory came against England at Madras in 1952. However, India's first series victory was against Pakistan in the same year!
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The word ‘bankrupt’ comes the Italian ‘banca rotta’, which literally means ‘broken bench’. This refers to the early days of banking in Italy, where the public marketplace would take place literally at the bench. If the banker ran out of money or behaved badly, his bench would be smashed to smithereens.
Here is an astonishing figure: approximately one-third of all 30-year-old men who are not employed are either in prison or are unemployed ex-prisoners. Ex-prisoners have a difficult time finding jobs in their first several years as free people, with nearly half earning nearly nothing in this time period.
India's first ever Test victory came against England at Madras in 1952. However, India's first series victory was against Pakistan in the same year!
Butterflies can't hear, but they can feel vibrations. Butterflies don't have lungs.
Butterflies breath through openings on their abdomen called 'spiracles'. Millions of shingles, like overlapping scales give butterfly wings their color. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly colored wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight.
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