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Posted on Thursday October 22nd, 2009 at 11:45
The first law of thermodynamics states that energy is neither created nor destroyed.This means that the energy we use in our bodies is as old as the universe.. that's about 13.5 to 14 billion years!!According to the first law of thermodynamics, the a...
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Posted on Wednesday December 31st, 2008 at 11:32
Origen was a Christian scholar and theologian who was the head of Alexandria's Catechetical School during the second century AD.Today, Origen is considered one of the father's of the Christian church, though in his time he was labeled a heretic for h...
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Posted on Sunday November 23rd, 2008 at 14:53
What animal, related to scorpions, has inhabited the earth for 200 million years, crawls around on five pairs of legs, and swims upside down?Horseshoe Crabs!Horseshoe crabs are not actually crabs, they are more closely related to scorpions or spiders...
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Posted on Thursday March 27th, 2008 at 11:49
During World War II, a squadron of B-29 pilots mistook the planet Venus for a Japanese plane and tried to shoot it from the sky.Source: The Planets by Dava Sobel...
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Posted on Saturday March 22nd, 2008 at 22:58
Outer space does some crazy things to your inner ears. The confusing information reaching the inner ears causes nearly every astronaut to experience space sickness. Symptoms include but are not limited to: nausea, headaches, and trouble locating your...
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Posted on Saturday March 22nd, 2008 at 17:30
In 1898 mother's could buy Bayer's Heroin off the shelves for their sick kids believing it to be a safe painkiller and cough medicine. It was approved by the American Medical Association and marketed as a non-addictive morphine substitute. Interestin...
This is wonderful. As a writer I am always looking for odd and interesting facts to fuel my creativity and spark a story or a plot turn in a novel. Thanks!
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