If you’ve played Connect Four, you might be surprised to know that a board has 4,531,985,219,092 possible positions.
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Cardinals and other birds are known to smear crushed or living ants all over their feathers. It’s not clear why but scientists believe cardinals use the formic acid secreted during this practice to get rid of lice and other parasites.
Siamese cats are widely regarded as sleek and attractive creatures today, but they once had crossed eyes and kinked tails! Bred in what is today Thailand, the reason these cats had such a strange appearance became the subject of several legends. In one, they said a Siamese cat was given the job of guarding an important golden goblet belonging to a king. This was a loyal cat of course, and she clutched the cup so hard with her tail that it permanently bent, and stared at it so hard that her eyes became permanently cross eyed.
The word ‘hologram’ comes from two Greek words. ‘Holo’ which means whole and ‘gamma’ which means message. Hungarian engineer and physicist, Dennis Gabor, came up with the idea of holograms in 1947 and was later awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971 for the invention.
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Cardinals and other birds are known to smear crushed or living ants all over their feathers. It’s not clear why but scientists believe cardinals use the formic acid secreted during this practice to get rid of lice and other parasites.
Siamese cats are widely regarded as sleek and attractive creatures today, but they once had crossed eyes and kinked tails! Bred in what is today Thailand, the reason these cats had such a strange appearance became the subject of several legends. In one, they said a Siamese cat was given the job of guarding an important golden goblet belonging to a king. This was a loyal cat of course, and she clutched the cup so hard with her tail that it permanently bent, and stared at it so hard that her eyes became permanently cross eyed.
The word ‘hologram’ comes from two Greek words. ‘Holo’ which means whole and ‘gamma’ which means message. Hungarian engineer and physicist, Dennis Gabor, came up with the idea of holograms in 1947 and was later awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971 for the invention.
Do you remember the 1990s PBS game show “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego”? It was created in response to a National Geographic survey which stated that one in four Americans could not locate Russia or the Pacific Ocean!
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