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towjam (59)in #history • 5 years ago
History and people are the same...and history shows that to be the case
Credit When I think of some of the things that are believed today, it kind of blows my mind. We live in a time where it takes very little time to get information at our…
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towjam (59)in #science • 5 years ago
Argentinian farmer discovers a huge preserved dinosaur shell
It seems that an egg shell of a dinosaur called a Glyptodont was found buried in mud about 40km (25mi) south of Buenos Aires at their farm in Carlos Spegazzini, Argentina.…
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towjam (59)in #history • 5 years ago
Princess Anastasia Romanov escaping assassination 101 years ago!!
Anastasia, the Disney movie, highlighted something which was part of most people's historic understanding, that the whole Romanov family was assassinated in Russia, leaving…
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janton (71)in #art • 5 years ago
A Fellow Texan Is One Of Our Best Western Artists
Howdy folks and greetings from the Great Plains of North Texas! I was delighted to find out that one of my favorite Western artists lives just a couple hours South of us here…
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towjam (59)in #science • 5 years ago
LEFT-HANDERS.....are the facts and myths true?
I have to admit, I look at lefties as special. Not the asylum 'shpethal', but people that in my experience have above average talents and abilities. I am not a young whipper…
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towjam (59)in #fun • 5 years ago
Weird laws - have a little fun
Seeing kids riding their bikes down the road during the holidays, you're bound to see a few trying their luck out with some wheelies or no hands stunts. It's a normal thing for a…
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towjam (59)in #history • 5 years ago
Alexander Graham Bell did NOT invent the telephone?!?!
Come on now!!! Surely this is just a load of nonsense. I mean this is information I have grown up with and accepted as a known and accepted truth. But as so often happens in…
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towjam (59)in #history • 5 years ago
The origin of the word "OK"
The word OK happens to be one of the most used words in the English language. We all use it and even though we know what it means, we generally have no idea where the expression…
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towjam (59)in #history • 5 years ago
The Titanic did NOT sink because it hit an iceberg!
My wife and I were talking about this event a little while ago because she is fascinated by them, and loves the historic stories and even tragedies. So if anything it is cool…
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towjam (59)in #health • 5 years ago
Cracking knuckles and the consequences of it
Now I'm not here to try cause a stir or make people worry about their health futures, but this is to once and for all find out what if this is indeed bad for you, or just a worry…
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towjam (59)in #health • 5 years ago
Cold weather and colds
I have had the conversation with quite a few people regarding the correlation between BEING in the cold, and actually GETTING a cold. Credit Most parents around the world…
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towjam (59)in #information • 5 years ago
How many words for snow can you have in a single language....more than you think actually
This is a very arbitrary piece of information, but would you believe it when I told you that the Scots were working through the Scottish Thesaurus, they realized there are over…
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towjam (59)in #information • 5 years ago
Lies told to us that we grew up with
Do you remember being told that if you swallowed your gum that it would take 7 years before it would digest? HAHA I remember my aunt and family telling me this stuff and as a…
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towjam (59)in #nature • 5 years ago
Microfragmentation: an accidental breakthrough for today's dwindling reefs
Did you know, 25% of all marine life is supported by the world's reefs, while they only cover 1% of the seafloor! 9 million species of animals use the reefs as their home.…
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towjam (59)in #nature • 6 years ago
Make your bananas blue....just for fun
OK there are naturally blue bananas that grow in areas like Hawaii, Fiji and the Philippines. They are known as Ice Cream bananas and apparently taste like vanilla ice cream…
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towjam (59)in #information • 6 years ago
Deodorant causes cancer! Um...
This last week the wife asked me to get her some deodorant and as a LOVING, AMAZING and GREAT husband I am ( I wish ), I went and bought her some. Thing is, I made the same…
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towjam (59)in #science • 6 years ago
We only use 10% of our brains
I read an article in the Scientific American where one of the lecturers at the Simon Fraser university in Vancouver discussed the above question, because it is often a question…
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towjam (59)in #experiment • 6 years ago
What would happen if you spent a week in Virtual reality? Someone tested it out!
Credit For the non tech people out there, VR is Virtual reality, a headset that has a television of sorts attached directly before the eyes that allows the person to be…
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towjam (59)in #science • 6 years ago
Drop a penny from the Empire State building and kill someone!
I don't live in the USA, and even I have heard this one. And in some way it makes sense that something that is able to fall from so high up, must come down with serious…
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towjam (59)in #science • 6 years ago
Chameleons DON'T actually change colours to match their surroundings
Credit Perhaps its the bright blue and orange foliage and trees that we are surrounded by that make us think that chameleons use their amazing colour changing ability to blend…
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