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The bald eagle uses its feathers to balance. When it loses a feather on one wing, it will also lose a matching feather on the other side.
Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone with the Wind between 1926 and 1929. In her early drafts, the main character was named "Pansy O'Hara" and the O'Hara plantation we know as Tara was called "Fountenoy Hall."
In December 2014, a team of researchers conducting a population survey on Pinzón Island in the Galapagos found 10 baby saddleback tortoises. They are believed to be the first Galapagos giant tortoises to be hatched and reared on the island in as many as 150 years, and a hopeful sign that the once critically endangered species is crawling back from the very brink of extinction.
The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.
Of the 2200 persons quoted in the current edition of "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," only 164 are women.
The highest temperature ever reached on earth was 4 trillion degrees Celsius.
"At the “April” meeting, physicists from Brookhaven National Lab announced that they measured the hottest temperature ever recorded, thus recreating an exotic form of matter (quark-gluon plasma) that hasn’t existed since microseconds after the Big Bang."
"At the “April” meeting, physicists from Brookhaven National Lab announced that they measured the hottest temperature ever recorded, thus recreating an exotic form of matter (quark-gluon plasma) that hasn’t existed since microseconds after the Big Bang."
In 1962 news channel NBC paid a West Berlin team 50,000DM ($150,000 today) to dig under the Berlin Wall, on the condition that NBC could film the escape. 29 East Germans managed to escape, and the resulting NBC film, The Tunnel, won 3 Emmies.
Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective, arrived on the mystery scene in the late nineteenth century in "A Study in Scarlet" (1887).
The Golden Wheel Spider (Carparachne aureoflava)is a species native to the steep sand dunes of the Namib Desert in Southern Africa. When threatened, the spider will curl its legs around its body to make a ball and roll down the slope to safety at speeds of 1 m/s and about 20 rotations per second.
The occupations of the three men in a tub were butcher, baker, and candlestick maker.
The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, 'Aladdin was a little Chinese boy.'
Aspirin went on sale as the first pharmaceutical drug in 1899, after Felix Hoffman, a German chemist at the drug company Bayer, successfully modified Salicylic Acid, a compound found in willow bark to produce Aspirin.
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