Why is Greenland an Island and Australia a Continent?
(via Today I Found Out) What makes a continent? There’s no simple definition, but Simon Whistler of Today I Found
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Month: February 2021
10 Places to Remember the Impact of the Civil Rights Movement
(via Atlas Obscura) Despite threats of violence, Black Americans have never detoured from the road to equality. Here are 10
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A Brief History of the Invention of the Home Security Alarm
(via Smithsonian) A hardworking nurse envisioned a new way to know who was at the door
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Inside the Gently Competitive World of Giant Vegetable Growing
(via Atlas Obscura) Great Britain’s greatest green thumbs break records every year.
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The Mad World of Hat Making
(via Amusing Planet) Hat-making in the 18th and 19th centuries was a hazardous business, because it involved the use of
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How Maggie Lena Walker Became the First Black Woman to Run a Bank in the Segregated South
(via Smithsonian) Maggie Lena Walker was one of the most important Black businesswomen in the nation, and today too few
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How an Arizonan Company Turns Cacti Into Candy
(via Atlas Obscura) Prickly pear gummies are a taste of the Sonoran Desert.
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Top 10 Tremendous Features Of The Mars Perseverance Rove
(via Listverse) The Perseverance has landed. On February 18, NASA’s most ambitious rover to date competed a nearly seven-month journey
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A Brief History of Ketchup and Mustard
(via Mental Floss) Around 300 BCE, people in China were experimenting with making pungent pastes out of fermented fish guts.
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This Apollo-Era Rocket Stage, Lost For Half a Century, Turned Up in a Telescope Search
(via Smithsonian) Found in a hunt for asteroids, an old pal checks in on its way around the sun.
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Top 10 Interesting Facts About Shapes
(via Listverse) The world around us consists of shapes. Every creature or object we see, touch or interact with, are
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20 Memorable Facts About the ‘Miracle on Ice’
(via Mental Floss) On February 22, 1980, the Soviet War in Afghanistan was almost two months old, making the Cold
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