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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Dominoes date back to the 12th century! It was played in China during the Yuan Dynasty and was referred to as 'pupai'! Much later, in the early 18th century, the game began appearing in Europe and, according to many scholars, spread when Italian missionaries brought the game back home with them.
In some regions of Japan, traffic lights are red, yellow and blue instead of green. This is due to the Japanese language where for centuries, the same word, “ao”, was used to describe blue and green. A word for green has evolved later, but Japanese traffic law still uses the archaic term.
Computers are everywhere, and they don’t take up much space. The first computer was invented in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering. The computer, ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), weighed a mind-boggling 60,000 pounds and was larger than most studio apartments!
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Dominoes date back to the 12th century! It was played in China during the Yuan Dynasty and was referred to as 'pupai'! Much later, in the early 18th century, the game began appearing in Europe and, according to many scholars, spread when Italian missionaries brought the game back home with them.
In some regions of Japan, traffic lights are red, yellow and blue instead of green. This is due to the Japanese language where for centuries, the same word, “ao”, was used to describe blue and green. A word for green has evolved later, but Japanese traffic law still uses the archaic term.
Computers are everywhere, and they don’t take up much space. The first computer was invented in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering. The computer, ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), weighed a mind-boggling 60,000 pounds and was larger than most studio apartments!
Many of the names in ‘The Lion King’ are Swahili words. Simba, Sarabi, Rafiki, and Pumbaa translate into lion, mirage, friend, and foolish. And perhaps one of the most iconic phrases in the film, ‘Hakuna matata’ translates roughly from Swahili into English as ‘no worries.’
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