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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It's thought that oranges get their name from the Sanskrit word for fragrant – naranja. The use of the word 'orange' to describe a cross between red and yellow wasn't recorded until three hundred years after the fruit appeared in Europe.
Research from Britain has shown that the most commonly lost items are keys, phones, pens and glasses. That’s hardly surprising. What comes as a bit of a shock, though, is that the average person loses a staggering 3,000 possessions over the course of their lifetime, including 64 umbrellas!
In its original form, the popular board game Scrabble was simply a bunch of tiles — there was no board in sight! It was also first called “Lexico,” but was later changed to the far more catchy name we now know.
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It's thought that oranges get their name from the Sanskrit word for fragrant – naranja. The use of the word 'orange' to describe a cross between red and yellow wasn't recorded until three hundred years after the fruit appeared in Europe.
Research from Britain has shown that the most commonly lost items are keys, phones, pens and glasses. That’s hardly surprising. What comes as a bit of a shock, though, is that the average person loses a staggering 3,000 possessions over the course of their lifetime, including 64 umbrellas!
In its original form, the popular board game Scrabble was simply a bunch of tiles — there was no board in sight! It was also first called “Lexico,” but was later changed to the far more catchy name we now know.
Scientists have determined the color of the universe to be a light beige, which they call “cosmic latte.” This beige color is caused by the fact that there are more regions in the universe which produce red, yellow, and green light, than those which produce blue.
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