The earliest microscopes were called flea glasses because they were predominantly used to observe small insects such as fleas!
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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.
If you have caught a cold, you can try and mend it with medicine – or simply enjoy a bowl of chicken soup. Studies have found that the savoury concoction has genuine health benefits. It’s hardly breaking news, though – even the ancient Greeks used chicken soup as a remedy for cold.
The Price is Right gave an elephant as a fake prize to a winning contestant! They planned to give the winner $4,000 eventually, but the winner demanded that they wanted the elephant as promised. The show finally agreed and delivered it to the contestant’s home in Texas.
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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.
If you have caught a cold, you can try and mend it with medicine – or simply enjoy a bowl of chicken soup. Studies have found that the savoury concoction has genuine health benefits. It’s hardly breaking news, though – even the ancient Greeks used chicken soup as a remedy for cold.
The Price is Right gave an elephant as a fake prize to a winning contestant! They planned to give the winner $4,000 eventually, but the winner demanded that they wanted the elephant as promised. The show finally agreed and delivered it to the contestant’s home in Texas.
The sun isn’t merely that far-away ball of gas – it has an atmosphere that extends far beyond Pluto! The northern lights, for example, are the result of the interaction of solar winds with the earth’s magnetic field. In a manner of speaking, we live inside the sun!
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