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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Solid chocolate was first called “edible chocolate” and was invented in 1847. This all happened in the Fry and Sons shop, where it was cooked up by a pair of British confectioners by combining cocoa butter, sugar and chocolate liquid.
George Clooney auditioned for the role of JD in ‘Thelma & Louise’ but it ultimately went to a then relatively unknown Brad Pitt! Clooney jokingly said he couldn’t bear watching the film because he was still upset that he wasn’t given the part. But what if he’d gotten it? Would Brad Pitt have risen to fame?
Researchers discovered that the tempo in the top 100 songs between 1958 and 2007 were eerily linked to the S&P 500. Calm, slow, and simple music typically trends before a period of instability in the stock market! Next time a sobering love ballad shoots to the top of the charts, start thinking about liquidating!
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Solid chocolate was first called “edible chocolate” and was invented in 1847. This all happened in the Fry and Sons shop, where it was cooked up by a pair of British confectioners by combining cocoa butter, sugar and chocolate liquid.
George Clooney auditioned for the role of JD in ‘Thelma & Louise’ but it ultimately went to a then relatively unknown Brad Pitt! Clooney jokingly said he couldn’t bear watching the film because he was still upset that he wasn’t given the part. But what if he’d gotten it? Would Brad Pitt have risen to fame?
Researchers discovered that the tempo in the top 100 songs between 1958 and 2007 were eerily linked to the S&P 500. Calm, slow, and simple music typically trends before a period of instability in the stock market! Next time a sobering love ballad shoots to the top of the charts, start thinking about liquidating!
For approximately 200 years, microscope technology remained relatively unchanged. In the 1850s, however, Carl Zeiss, a German engineer, developed improvements for the device! Joseph Jackson Lister also helped eliminate the unequal bending of light hitting the microscope lens, leading to further improvements!
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