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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St Louis’s Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall monument that required an incredible level of exactitude. The monument’s two legs were erected separately, and if their measurements were off by as little as 1/64th of an inch, they would not have been able to join at the top. Many people suspected the structure would fail when the last piece was put in place, but fortunately, it didn’t.
Alfred Mosher Butts, a New York architect, invented the popular board game Scrabble in 1931. He wanted to create a game which involved some luck and a lot of skill (and a large vocabulary)! Butts decided on the point-values of the letters by studying the front page of the New York Times.
Words can be downright confusing! In Indonesian, the word 'air' means 'water'! And Hawaiians have over two hundred words (yes, two hundred) for 'rain'! How many words for rain can you think of off the top of your head?
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St Louis’s Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall monument that required an incredible level of exactitude. The monument’s two legs were erected separately, and if their measurements were off by as little as 1/64th of an inch, they would not have been able to join at the top. Many people suspected the structure would fail when the last piece was put in place, but fortunately, it didn’t.
Alfred Mosher Butts, a New York architect, invented the popular board game Scrabble in 1931. He wanted to create a game which involved some luck and a lot of skill (and a large vocabulary)! Butts decided on the point-values of the letters by studying the front page of the New York Times.
Words can be downright confusing! In Indonesian, the word 'air' means 'water'! And Hawaiians have over two hundred words (yes, two hundred) for 'rain'! How many words for rain can you think of off the top of your head?
Bob Barker, the show’s host in 1987, went prematurely grey almost overnight! Actually, two shows aired two days in a row: one was before he went grey, and the other, when he turned grey. A fellow fan wrote into the show saying: ‘Bob, you must have had one hell of a night.’
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