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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Juggling is said to increase the volume of gray matter in a child’s brain by 3 percent. “Learning a difficult perceptual-motor skill—juggling—induced a 3 percent increase in the volume of gray matter in visual attention areas,” write Yale scholars.
“Silicon Valley”, California, got its name from a series of articles about semiconductors in 1971 titled “ Silicon Valley U.S.A.” The phrase became synonymous with technology, and given to the part of the state where many computer chips are produced.
Turkish tradition says that the Nazar or eye bead shields its owners against evil and absorbs negativity. The belief comes from the lack of blue eyes people born in the Middle East and Mediterranean, leading to the superstition that those with light or blue eyes could curse someone just by looking at them.
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Juggling is said to increase the volume of gray matter in a child’s brain by 3 percent. “Learning a difficult perceptual-motor skill—juggling—induced a 3 percent increase in the volume of gray matter in visual attention areas,” write Yale scholars.
“Silicon Valley”, California, got its name from a series of articles about semiconductors in 1971 titled “ Silicon Valley U.S.A.” The phrase became synonymous with technology, and given to the part of the state where many computer chips are produced.
Turkish tradition says that the Nazar or eye bead shields its owners against evil and absorbs negativity. The belief comes from the lack of blue eyes people born in the Middle East and Mediterranean, leading to the superstition that those with light or blue eyes could curse someone just by looking at them.
The Great Emu War in Australia was a wildlife management program that escalated to a military operation. Emus were multiplying at alarming rates and destroying valuable crops. Crop destruction continued despite efforts, and humans lost the emu war.
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