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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When you peer through a microscope, you are not looking directly at a specimen underneath but rather at an image of the specimen that is being projected up by the lenses to a place below the eyepiece!
Here’s looking at you, ostrich kid! Those lashes! Those eyes! Not only are the world’s biggest bird’s visual organs quite pretty to behold, but each eye is also actually bigger than the ostrich’s brain! An ostrich egg, on the other hand, has as much volume as two dozen chicken eggs.
A dog’s sense of smell is simply amazing: Our canine friends can smell a teaspoon of sugar dissolved in two Olympic swimming pools. That’s thanks to the 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses – humans have a measly six million...
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When you peer through a microscope, you are not looking directly at a specimen underneath but rather at an image of the specimen that is being projected up by the lenses to a place below the eyepiece!
Here’s looking at you, ostrich kid! Those lashes! Those eyes! Not only are the world’s biggest bird’s visual organs quite pretty to behold, but each eye is also actually bigger than the ostrich’s brain! An ostrich egg, on the other hand, has as much volume as two dozen chicken eggs.
A dog’s sense of smell is simply amazing: Our canine friends can smell a teaspoon of sugar dissolved in two Olympic swimming pools. That’s thanks to the 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses – humans have a measly six million...
The yummy sandwich restaurant Subway started a few years earlier under a different name. Over in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Fred DeLuca (with a small loan from his friend Peter Buck) opened what was then called Pete’s Drive-In: Super Submarines. It wasn't until 1968 that it got its current name of Subway.
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