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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Who doesn’t love to cuddle? Cuddling makes your body produce oxytocin, a hormone that acts as a natural painkiller and can make your headache disappear. Holding hands also has a nice effect: it relieves stress.
Christmas puts a smile on the faces of most people, but did you know that from 1659 to 1681, it was outlawed in the New World? Puritan settlers in Boston made the celebration of the festive season a punishable offense because of the holiday’s pagan roots. So much for “Joy to the world”...
It's thought that oranges get their name from the Sanskrit word for fragrant – naranja. The use of the word 'orange' to describe a cross between red and yellow wasn't recorded until three hundred years after the fruit appeared in Europe.
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Who doesn’t love to cuddle? Cuddling makes your body produce oxytocin, a hormone that acts as a natural painkiller and can make your headache disappear. Holding hands also has a nice effect: it relieves stress.
Christmas puts a smile on the faces of most people, but did you know that from 1659 to 1681, it was outlawed in the New World? Puritan settlers in Boston made the celebration of the festive season a punishable offense because of the holiday’s pagan roots. So much for “Joy to the world”...
It's thought that oranges get their name from the Sanskrit word for fragrant – naranja. The use of the word 'orange' to describe a cross between red and yellow wasn't recorded until three hundred years after the fruit appeared in Europe.
The game Operation was invented by a university student at the University of Illinois in 1962 as part of a class assignment to invent a toy or game. The patient in the game is named ‘Cavity Sam’.
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