The earliest microscopes were called flea glasses because they were predominantly used to observe small insects such as fleas!
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The Pokémon Gold and Silver games only used 30 unique sounds for the cries of Pokémon. The previous games had 37 sound clips! What gives?
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 employees at the Unclaimed Baggage Centre at Scottsboro Airport have made some interesting finds over the years, most notably a camera from a space shuttle and – amazingly – the missile guidance system of a fighter jet. Someone must have had a lot of explaining to do...
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The Pokémon Gold and Silver games only used 30 unique sounds for the cries of Pokémon. The previous games had 37 sound clips! What gives?
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 employees at the Unclaimed Baggage Centre at Scottsboro Airport have made some interesting finds over the years, most notably a camera from a space shuttle and – amazingly – the missile guidance system of a fighter jet. Someone must have had a lot of explaining to do...
‘The Life of Pi’, a novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel, was rejected by more than five publication houses before it was finally accepted. In 2001, it was finally published and won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. It also won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Best Adult Fiction. Over ten million copies of the novel have been sold worldwide.
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