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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Diana Nyad became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida. She accomplished this feat, without a shark cage or fins, on September 2, 2013. She had attempted the 103-mile journey four times before. It took her 52 hours, 54 minutes, and 18.6 seconds.
If you’ve played Connect Four, you might be surprised to know that a board has 4,531,985,219,092 possible positions. English DJ Stuart Maconie, came up with the urban myth that David Bowie had created Connect Four…
"I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent." Rahul Dravid
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Diana Nyad became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida. She accomplished this feat, without a shark cage or fins, on September 2, 2013. She had attempted the 103-mile journey four times before. It took her 52 hours, 54 minutes, and 18.6 seconds.
If you’ve played Connect Four, you might be surprised to know that a board has 4,531,985,219,092 possible positions. English DJ Stuart Maconie, came up with the urban myth that David Bowie had created Connect Four…
"I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent." Rahul Dravid
The trees which grow cocoa can live for an impressive 200 years! However, the plants only create viable beans for making chocolate for just twenty years of their lifespan. They are indeed a tricky plant to work with for farmers.