05.07.2010 |
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by Alex Rogala Anechoic chambers, rooms that absorb internal and external sounds, are used for acoustic experiments where outside sound cannot be present.
Operation Acoustic Kitty, a CIA project in the early 1960s, was... |
04.23.2010 |
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by Alex Rogala In January 2010, archaeologists uncovered an ancient Egyptian temple devoted to cat-goddess Bastet, proving a continued loyalty to animal-related deities.
The Buddhist temple Asakusa Kannon in Tokyo dates... |
04.16.2010 |
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by Alex Rogala Methuselah, a 4,841 year old bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California, is the oldest living TREE in the world.
A synthetic Christmas TREE takes roughly 32 SECONDS to burn.
With only 30... |
04.09.2010 |
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by Alex Rogala Aribica beans are most popular type of coffee beans, comprising 70 percent of coffee consumption.
The Coffee Mill and Tobacco Roll, opened in 1657 in London, helped spread the popularity of chocolate among... |
04.02.2010 |
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by Alex Rogala In March 1998, Greenbrier High senior Mike Cameron was suspended for a day after wearing a PEPSI shirt to his high school’s “Coke Day.”
Crystal PEPSI, a colorless cola released in 1993, was later... |
03.19.2010 |
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by Alex Rogala Esperanto, a language invented by L.L. Zamenhof in 1887, was an attempt to create a common language that would be spoken around the world.
Chessington World of Adventures, a theme park in Britain, offers a... |
03.12.2010 |
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by Alex Rogala In 2006, William Shatner, famous for his role as “Star Trek’s” Captain Kirk, sold one of his kidney stones for $25,000.
A kidney sells for roughly $1,000 to $3,000 on the Indian black market.
Pirate... |
02.19.2010 |
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by Alex Rogala The Salisbury Cathedral, located in Salisbury, England, is home to Europe’s oldest clock.
The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock created by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in 1947. It estimates how close... |
02.12.2010 |
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by Alex Rogala Underwater volcanic activity over 20 million years ago led to the formation of Iceland.
Iceland has the highest per-capita consumption of Coca-Cola of any country in the world.
Coca-Cola is sold in 194... |
