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FACT: arthropods make up 80% of all living species
Spiders, ants, crabs, lobsters, and beetles. They may not be the prettiest bunch of animals, but they are the most plentiful. They are all arthropods. In the grand scheme of the classification of life they are in the Phylum Arthropoda. At the phylum...
FACT: the size of earth was first discovered using shadows
The time is 250 BC, about 1500 years before what we call “modern science” took it’s first baby steps. The Egyptian city of Alexandria, on the northern coast of Egypt, was home to the greatest library that ever existed, filled with ...
FACT: chia pets are very nutritional
Ch-ch-ch-chia! The Chia Pet is deeply rooted in the popular culture of North America so much that it is part of the Smithsonian Institutions permanent collection. It started as an authentic bit of Mexican culture before becoming an “As Seen on...
FACT: book stores are in the real estate business
It’s officially December, and for most of the world that means at some point you’ll be stuck shopping. Surely I’m not the only one who considers a book store the fall-back gift solution. If I don’t have a better idea, surely ...
FACT: a woman in high heels is more deadly than an elephant
Not only am I a man, I’m a man who doesn’t always wear matching socks… so women’s high-heel shoes are a mystery to me. How can these ladies bear to stand on their tippy-toes all day? Why put yourself at the mercy of a metal s...
FACT: a gorilla’s proper scientific name is gorilla gorilla gorilla
I don’t know if somebody along the way failed latin, but the Western Lowland Gorilla’s scientific name really is Gorilla gorilla gorilla. The western gorilla is classified as Gorilla gorilla, and the lowland variety got tagged with the t...
