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 word ‘hologram’ comes from two Greek words. ‘Holo’ which means whole and ‘gamma’ which means message. Hungarian engineer and physicist, Dennis Gabor, came up with the idea of holograms in 1947 and was later awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971 for the invention.
Basketball used to be played with a soccer ball. This all changed in 1929, when what we've come to recognize as the commonplace basketball was introduced into the game. The original ball, made by A.G. Spalding, was brown in color.
Superstitions just might work! Scientists believe that people with lucky charms tend to attack a problem for a longer period of time because they feel like they are getting assistance from some other power. When people feel empowered, they usually perform a task at hand better.
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The word ‘hologram’ comes from two Greek words. ‘Holo’ which means whole and ‘gamma’ which means message. Hungarian engineer and physicist, Dennis Gabor, came up with the idea of holograms in 1947 and was later awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971 for the invention.
Basketball used to be played with a soccer ball. This all changed in 1929, when what we've come to recognize as the commonplace basketball was introduced into the game. The original ball, made by A.G. Spalding, was brown in color.
Superstitions just might work! Scientists believe that people with lucky charms tend to attack a problem for a longer period of time because they feel like they are getting assistance from some other power. When people feel empowered, they usually perform a task at hand better.
Hundreds of years ago, Robert Hooke published a book called Micrographia that included hand-drawn images of samples observed under a microscope! Hooke, who we mentioned in a previous fact, is often credited as the discoverer of cells, after studying cork under the microscope.
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