August 2021 - Page 5 of 6

The True Story Behind How Pearls Are Made

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(via Smithsonian) While all mollusks, including oysters, mussels, and clams can technically make pearls, only some saltwater clams and freshwater

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(via Mental Floss) When someone wanders outside the boundaries of maturity, we tend to say that they’re “feeling their oats.”

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(via Atlas Obscura) Even DNA tests have yet to confirm its identity.

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(via Listverse) Biggest, smallest, oldest, tallest. Only relatively recently have we begun reliably recording the limits of what human beings

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(via Mental Floss) On August 13, 1961, construction began on the Berlin Wall, a roughly 96-mile-long barrier that, when complete,

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(via Mental Floss) At the turn of the 20th century, school lunch as we know it didn’t exist. Most children

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(via Atlas Obscura) A horror movie proved an unlikely source of inspiration.

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(via Smithsonian) Wicker vessels recovered from the ruins of Thônis-Heracleion contain doum nuts and grape seeds

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(via Amusing Planet) An early form of fire extinguisher popular in the late 1800s was the fire grenade. The grenade

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(via Smithsonian) The Adirondack chair has gone through countless permutations, but it all started at a time when resting outdoors

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(via Mental Floss) Before these stories ended up on your kid’s shelf, they were told to children tucked in bed.

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(via Atlas Obscura) Prehistoric people may have created ‘proto-cinema,’ with galloping bison and tail-swishing horses.