The earliest microscopes were called flea glasses because they were predominantly used to observe small insects such as fleas!
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Arctic foxes are pretty incredible animals – they live in the most northerly place in the world and have an astonishing ability to handle cold temperatures. Thanks to their fluffy white fur they won’t start shivering until the temperature goes down to -70 degrees Celsius.
The last time Olympic Gold Medals were made mostly of gold was for the 1912 Olympics. Today’s Gold Medals are made mostly of silver. An Olympic medal made of pure gold would be pretty expensive, coming in around 28,000 thousand dollars!
The man known as the Father of Information Theory, Claude Shannon, invented the digital circuit – the foundation of the magic that provides us all access to the Internet today - during his master’s degree program, when he was just 21 years old.
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Arctic foxes are pretty incredible animals – they live in the most northerly place in the world and have an astonishing ability to handle cold temperatures. Thanks to their fluffy white fur they won’t start shivering until the temperature goes down to -70 degrees Celsius.
The last time Olympic Gold Medals were made mostly of gold was for the 1912 Olympics. Today’s Gold Medals are made mostly of silver. An Olympic medal made of pure gold would be pretty expensive, coming in around 28,000 thousand dollars!
The man known as the Father of Information Theory, Claude Shannon, invented the digital circuit – the foundation of the magic that provides us all access to the Internet today - during his master’s degree program, when he was just 21 years old.
Kay and Martyn Tott were the lucky winners of a £3.9 million ($5 million) fortune. Well, lucky is a very relative term in this case because they lost the ticket! They did eventually convince the National Lottery that their claim was legitimate – but too late! They missed the deadline for reporting lost tickets...
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