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Stone fruit
Stone fruit is the common name given to fruits with a “stone” inside as a seed. The correct name is “drupe”. Some drupes are coffee, jujube, mango, olive, most palms (including date, coconut and oil...
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Insects or Bugs
A bug is a type of insect. Like lady-bug or stink bug. As a rule of thumb, 6 legs is an insect, 8 legs is a spider. Centipedes can have as “little” as 30 legs, not necessarily the whole 100 foot-set....
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Attention all architects.
57% of architects say people are requesting smaller houses. Reasons why according to Heather Levin of U.S. News & World Report: 5. Small homes may be easier to sell 4. Smaller homes mean quality...
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United Nations Established
UN the world’s premier international organization, established at the end of World War II to maintain world peace and friendly relations among nations—entered into force this day in 1945. (Encyclopedia...
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The Yo-yo 1,2,3
1. The ball, kite, and yo-yo are assumed to be the oldest objects specifically designed as toys. 2. The earliest-known written historical mention of a toy comes from about 500 BC in a Greece. It is...
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Icebergs are blue or green
iceberg: iceberg types. Art. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. An iceberg is a large piece of freshwater ice that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water Here are...
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Dictionary update
Language evolves and as new things come about, new words come out too. These words, among a couple others, have achieved enough currency in English to be added to the latest (2011) printing of the...
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A donkey is 1 year pregnant! Plus more facts
.. And they live up to 47 years max Gestation of a donkey is 365 days.. seems like a lot but an elephant takes +600 days and the smallest gestation period 13 days for a opossum. More about asses:...
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Gas is actually smell-less
Nothing! Natural gas has no smell. The odor is artificially added so that people will be able to identify leaks and take measures to stop them. If you smell gas inside: Call your local gas company...
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Careful with the sun this weekend!
More than 2 thousand cancers diagnosed annually in the US could have been prevented by protection from the sun’s rays and avoiding indoor tanning. Slip (on a shirt), Slop (some sunscreen), Slap (a...
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