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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‘The Life of Pi’, a novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel, was rejected by more than five publication houses before it was finally accepted. In 2001, it was finally published and won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. It also won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Best Adult Fiction. Over ten million copies of the novel have been sold worldwide.
Ninety-one percent of all adults have their mobile phone within arm’s reach every hour of every day. There are 6.8 billion people on the planet and 4 billion of them use a mobile phone. Only 3.5 billion of them use a toothbrush.
Did you know that parents are now paying for coaches by the hour to improve their children’s Fortnite techniques? People are literally being paid to coach young children on how to take down fools online. One parent had this to say: "There's pressure not to just play it but to be really good at it. You can imagine what that was like for him at school." Kids’ll be taking Fortnite lessons in place of piano lessons in the near future!
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‘The Life of Pi’, a novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel, was rejected by more than five publication houses before it was finally accepted. In 2001, it was finally published and won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. It also won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Best Adult Fiction. Over ten million copies of the novel have been sold worldwide.
Ninety-one percent of all adults have their mobile phone within arm’s reach every hour of every day. There are 6.8 billion people on the planet and 4 billion of them use a mobile phone. Only 3.5 billion of them use a toothbrush.
Did you know that parents are now paying for coaches by the hour to improve their children’s Fortnite techniques? People are literally being paid to coach young children on how to take down fools online. One parent had this to say: "There's pressure not to just play it but to be really good at it. You can imagine what that was like for him at school." Kids’ll be taking Fortnite lessons in place of piano lessons in the near future!
Dmitri Mendeleyev presented his periodic table of elements at the Russian Chemical society on March 6, 1869. His table was based on increasing atomic weight. It was not, however, the first attempt at organizing the elements. In 1864, Lothar Meyer published a table with the placement of 28 elements.
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