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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It is believed 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.
Good news for the women out there. According to researchers, a mother’s genes determine the intelligence of a child. Scientists say that the cleverness gene is carried by the X chromosome. Smart ladies!
Many of Marvel’s famous superheroes and villains are of Irish descent. This includes: Captain America, Beast, Iceman, An incarnation of Ant-Man, Daredevil, Bullseye and Dum Dum Dugan.
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It is believed 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.
Good news for the women out there. According to researchers, a mother’s genes determine the intelligence of a child. Scientists say that the cleverness gene is carried by the X chromosome. Smart ladies!
Many of Marvel’s famous superheroes and villains are of Irish descent. This includes: Captain America, Beast, Iceman, An incarnation of Ant-Man, Daredevil, Bullseye and Dum Dum Dugan.
Here’s looking at you, ostrich kid! Those lashes! Those eyes! Not only are the world’s biggest bird’s visual organs quite pretty to behold, but each eye is also actually bigger than the ostrich’s brain! An ostrich egg, on the other hand, has as much volume as two dozen chicken eggs.