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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According to sources, Bingo was originally called ‘’Beano’’ in older times. But later it was changed to ‘BINGO’ when an enthusiastic US based woman accidentally shouted it after winning the big jackpot.
The earliest known precursor of sunglasses was invented in prehistoric times by the Inuit. They made snow goggles out of walrus ivory that had two narrow slits that reduced the wearer’s exposure to sunlight and protected them from going snow-blind.
Chromophobia is the fear of color. It is characterized by an ongoing and irrational fear of color and may stem from a traumatic experience involving color. Clinical cases of this phobia are rare, but colors are known to elicit emotional responses.
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According to sources, Bingo was originally called ‘’Beano’’ in older times. But later it was changed to ‘BINGO’ when an enthusiastic US based woman accidentally shouted it after winning the big jackpot.
The earliest known precursor of sunglasses was invented in prehistoric times by the Inuit. They made snow goggles out of walrus ivory that had two narrow slits that reduced the wearer’s exposure to sunlight and protected them from going snow-blind.
Chromophobia is the fear of color. It is characterized by an ongoing and irrational fear of color and may stem from a traumatic experience involving color. Clinical cases of this phobia are rare, but colors are known to elicit emotional responses.
Between the 1590s and 1660s, the optical microscope was developed by Zacharias, Hans Jensen and Anton van Leeuwenhowek, among others. Anton van Leeuwenhoek used the simple compound microscope to observe bacteria in droplets of water!