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On April 14th, 1910, President Howard Taft began a sports tradition by throwing out the first baseball of the season. That happened at an American League game between Washington and Philadelphia. Washington won, 3-0.
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Some crickets burrow megaphone-like tunnels that help transport the sound of their chirps as far as 2,000 feet away.
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A single coffee tree yields only one pound of roasted, ground coffee annually.
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At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.
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The Vikings believed that the Northern lights which are seen from time to time in the north sky were caused by the flashing armor and spears of Odin's handmaidens as they rode out to collect warriors slain in battle.
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Because the natural habitat of flamingoes is of little use to man the alkaline African lake waters support few fish and cannot be used for human consumption or irrigation and also because their resting areas are typically inaccessible, the birds are rarely disturbed, unlike other African wild birds.
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Mel Blanc the voice of Bugs Bunny was allergic to carrots. After a near-fatal auto accident in 1961, Blanc did his cartoon voices, including the first 65 episodes of "The Flintstones," flat on his back, with the microphone hanging over his bed.
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If an astronaut tried to land on a neutron star, he or she would be crushed by the extremely strong force of gravity, and squashed into a thin layer less than one atom thick.
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The buzzing of flies and bees is not produced by any sound-producing apparatus within the insects' bodies. It is simply the sound of their wings moving up and down at a rapid rate.
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Built in 1967, the world's only flying saucer launching pad is in St. Paul, Alberta, Canada.
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Some crickets burrow megaphone-like tunnels that help transport the sound of their chirps as far as 2,000 feet away.
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A single coffee tree yields only one pound of roasted, ground coffee annually.
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At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.
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The Vikings believed that the Northern lights which are seen from time to time in the north sky were caused by the flashing armor and spears of Odin's handmaidens as they rode out to collect warriors slain in battle.
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Because the natural habitat of flamingoes is of little use to man the alkaline African lake waters support few fish and cannot be used for human consumption or irrigation and also because their resting areas are typically inaccessible, the birds are rarely disturbed, unlike other African wild birds.
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Mel Blanc the voice of Bugs Bunny was allergic to carrots. After a near-fatal auto accident in 1961, Blanc did his cartoon voices, including the first 65 episodes of "The Flintstones," flat on his back, with the microphone hanging over his bed.
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If an astronaut tried to land on a neutron star, he or she would be crushed by the extremely strong force of gravity, and squashed into a thin layer less than one atom thick.
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The buzzing of flies and bees is not produced by any sound-producing apparatus within the insects' bodies. It is simply the sound of their wings moving up and down at a rapid rate.
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Built in 1967, the world's only flying saucer launching pad is in St. Paul, Alberta, Canada.
