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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Famed actor Christopher Lee, who played the titular antagonist in “The Man with the Golden Gun”, was actually Ian Fleming’s step cousin. During World War II, both men had even worked for Her Majesty’s Service, albeit in different departments.
You might have heard that listening to Mozart can increase your IQ. This common belief is based on a 1993 study that has been widely misquoted and blown out of proportions. The idea that listening to classical music can make you smarter has since been thoroughly debunked.
Eye activity can be used to measure many things in medical situations, especially if the patient is non-verbal. The way eyes move and focus can also be a way to convey messages outside of medical fields, like how looking at the area near someone's collar is a sign of respect in some Western Pacific countries.
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Famed actor Christopher Lee, who played the titular antagonist in “The Man with the Golden Gun”, was actually Ian Fleming’s step cousin. During World War II, both men had even worked for Her Majesty’s Service, albeit in different departments.
You might have heard that listening to Mozart can increase your IQ. This common belief is based on a 1993 study that has been widely misquoted and blown out of proportions. The idea that listening to classical music can make you smarter has since been thoroughly debunked.
Eye activity can be used to measure many things in medical situations, especially if the patient is non-verbal. The way eyes move and focus can also be a way to convey messages outside of medical fields, like how looking at the area near someone's collar is a sign of respect in some Western Pacific countries.
The youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize was Malala Yousafzai, who was just 17 when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. The oldest recipient was John B. Goodenough, who was 97 years old when he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019!