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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The first ever science documentary got stuck straight into the most important topic – cheese. Made in 1903, Cheese Mites showed audiences what a piece of stilton looked like beneath a microscope. The scientist reveals a veritable smorgasbord of mites, in his words “crawling and creeping about in all directions, looking like great uncanny crabs, bristling with long spiny hairs and legs”. The year was 1903, and early cinema goers were shocked and thrilled by the images, stilton manufacturers were appalled, and sales of cheap microscopes soared.
The sea is home to 95 percent of all life on Earth. Still, we know more about the moon than we do about the huge body of water on our home planet. Less than five percent of the ocean has been explored. What we know for a fact is that due to climate change, marine life has become extremely endangered.
About 1 to 2 percent of the human population has red hair. Redheads have genes to thank for their tresses. Research shows red hair usually results from a mutation in a gene called MC1R, which codes for the melanocortin-1 receptor. The pigment found in red hair that makes it red is called pheomelanin.
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The first ever science documentary got stuck straight into the most important topic – cheese. Made in 1903, Cheese Mites showed audiences what a piece of stilton looked like beneath a microscope. The scientist reveals a veritable smorgasbord of mites, in his words “crawling and creeping about in all directions, looking like great uncanny crabs, bristling with long spiny hairs and legs”. The year was 1903, and early cinema goers were shocked and thrilled by the images, stilton manufacturers were appalled, and sales of cheap microscopes soared.
The sea is home to 95 percent of all life on Earth. Still, we know more about the moon than we do about the huge body of water on our home planet. Less than five percent of the ocean has been explored. What we know for a fact is that due to climate change, marine life has become extremely endangered.
About 1 to 2 percent of the human population has red hair. Redheads have genes to thank for their tresses. Research shows red hair usually results from a mutation in a gene called MC1R, which codes for the melanocortin-1 receptor. The pigment found in red hair that makes it red is called pheomelanin.
Alaska didn’t officially become a state until 1959, almost 200 years after the country’s founding. Before gaining statehood, Alaska belonged to Russia before becoming a U.S. territory in the late 1800’s. When it officially became a state, it also overtook Texas as the largest state by area in the U.S.!
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