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Tweet The good news, Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) are extraordinarily bright. The bad news, LEDs are extraordinarily bright. There’s actually a lot of good when it comes to LEDs. LEDs use much less...
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Tweet Man has been harnessing the power of the sun for centuries. Ancient historians claimed that during the siege of Syracuse in 212 B.C., Archimedes was able ignite the invading Roman ships by...
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Tweet “Scrabble,” means “to scratch or claw about clumsily or frantically,” according Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary. It’s also such a popular game that it can be found in some form or another in...
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Tweet In an effort to make use of the enormous and growing amounts of scrap wood left over from the manufacture of Model Ts, Henry Ford starting making charcoal briquettes – a process of chipping the...
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Tweet Shooters are meant to be finished quickly, if not all at once. And, what differentiates a shot from a shooter is that former only contains only alcohol while the later can be made from a...
View ArticleTime for the Lowest Common Denominator
Tweet Is there any doubt, Americans love hot dogs? They love them so much, in fact, that during “Hot Dog Season” – Memorial Day to Labor Day – Americans usually eat about 7 billion hot dogs, or 818 hot...
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Tweet While they called themselves the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, they were known as “Shakers” on account of their crazy dancing and talking in tongues. To be fair, they...
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Tweet At their most basic, fish have eyes very much like people that feature a cornea, iris, pupil, lens and retina. But there some major differences like the ability to see right and left...
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Tweet While it’s not a craze that’s sweeping the nation exactly, tens of thousands of people take part in polar bear plunges around the world each year. The oldest of America’s winter bathing...
View ArticleA Pint of Sweat Saves a Gallon of Blood
Tweet For better or worse, sweatpants have been legitimate sportswear for nearly a century. From NASA astronauts to Sylvester Stallone in Rocky to Patrick Swayze in Road House, sweatpants were worn...
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