Washington, D.C. is home to a lot of impressive architecture. Did you know that one of the gargoyles of the National Cathedral is Darth Vader?
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London sweet shop-owner Tom Smith invented the Christmas Cracker, but called them ‘Bangs of Expectation’. The ingenious invention was a huge hit and by 1900 he was selling a cracking 13 million a year.
Ever tried to build a card house? It’s tough work, huh? Well, not for Bryan Berg, who created a card house that stood over 25 feet tall back in 1992. It consisted of over 2,400 decks of playing cards. Dayum.
Venus has the longest day of any planet in our solar system. It completes one rotation every 243 Earth days. Its day lasts longer than its orbit. It orbits the Sun every 224.65 Earth days, so a day is nearly 20 Earth days longer than its year.
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London sweet shop-owner Tom Smith invented the Christmas Cracker, but called them ‘Bangs of Expectation’. The ingenious invention was a huge hit and by 1900 he was selling a cracking 13 million a year.
Ever tried to build a card house? It’s tough work, huh? Well, not for Bryan Berg, who created a card house that stood over 25 feet tall back in 1992. It consisted of over 2,400 decks of playing cards. Dayum.
Venus has the longest day of any planet in our solar system. It completes one rotation every 243 Earth days. Its day lasts longer than its orbit. It orbits the Sun every 224.65 Earth days, so a day is nearly 20 Earth days longer than its year.
The original script of the film was a bit different. In this early version, Scar was unrelated to Simba. Instead, he was written as a lone lion who was the leader of a pack of ferocious baboons. Timon and Pumbaa were also friends with Simba from the start and Rafiki was a cheetah.
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