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21/09/2022

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19/09/2022

5 facts about Dodo birds
1. The Dodo was a flightless bird that was only found on an island called Mauritius.

2. The Scientific name of Dodo bird is Raphus cucullatus.

3. In Portuguese Dodo means Stupid.

4. Dodo was the only bird that became extinct shortly after it was discovered (175 years after discovery).

5. Dodo was a relatively large bird. It can reach height up to 1 meter and weight up to 13-23kg.

19/09/2022

Things You Never Knew About Doughnuts
1: Doughnuts — loosely defined — are believed to have existed way back to prehistoric times, but doughnuts more or less as we know them today are said to have been brought to what would become Manhattan when it was still New Amsterdam. They were not terribly appealingly known as olykoeks — “oily cakes.”

2: Many accounts credit Elizabeth Gregory, the mother of a mid-19th-century New England ship captain, with creating the first doughnut with a hole in the middle — and for giving the doughnut its name. According to one account, Gregory put hazelnuts or walnuts in the center of deep-fried dough to fill in where the dough was unlikely to cook through. Another version claims Gregory’s son, the captain, created the hole by spiking a doughnut on the ship wheel when he needed both hands to steer during a storm.

3: Doughnuts hit the popularity big-time during WWI, when volunteers served them to United States soldiers while they were fighting on the front lines and then, subsequently, returned home with a taste for them.

4: A Russian immigrant named Adolph Levitt invented the first doughnut machine in 1920, using it to make the doughnuts at his bakery in New York City.

5: Automatically produced doughnuts were highly popular at the 1934 World’s Fair, in Chicago. A poster touted them as “the food hit of the Century of Progress.”

6: The Entenmann’s brothers, William, Robert and Charles, and mother, Martha, invented the familiar “see-through” cake box for baked goods in 1959. They believed people were more inclined to buy what they could see.

7: In 1996, the New York Times declared that “no profession is as closely identified with a food as police work is with doughnuts” and posited that, because so many police officers hang out in doughnut shops, they “have one of the lowest rates of robbery of any type of retail business.”

8: Today, Entenmann’s doughnut bakery in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, is the largest doughnut bakery in the United States.

9: Entenmann’s — which churns out 100,000 doughnuts every hour, 15 million every week, 780 million every year — has made more than 4 billion doughnuts. That’s enough to circle Earth nearly nine times, if you laid them end to end.

10: At the Grand Canyon’s narrowest point — about 4 miles wide — you would need to put 253,440 doughnuts on a string to reach the other side.

11: It would take 3,660 doughnuts to reach the top of the Statue of Liberty.

12: More than 55 million donuts would be needed to reach across the U.S. from Long Beach, California, to Long Island, New York.

19/09/2022

16/09/2022

20 Random Facts You Didn’t Know (or Didn’t Want to Know) About Pencils
The humble pencil has been around for nearly six hundred years and is still the writing instrument of choice for many writers and students. Even though we’re well into the digital age and have become dependent on all things connected to the Internet, the classic pencil doesn’t require recharging, or batteries; only the occasional sharpening to keep it going. Though if you prefer mechanical pencils, they only require to be refilled every once in a while.

But while some people prefer to type up their notes on their phones, or send text messages versus hand written letters in the mail, the reliable pencil lives on, with over a billion pencils made in the U.S. annually alone.

Still, the people prefer the old fashioned way of writing, know very little about the writing instrument they take for granted. From why the #2 appears on every pencil, to how a special pencil inspired a character in the James Bond series, here are 20 facts you probably didn’t know about pencils.



1. Pencils Aren’t Filled with Lead (Seriously, Stop Saying That)
No, you’re not going to get lead poisoning if you get poked with a pencil because there is no lead in your everyday pencil. The dark substance in a pencil is graphite, which has been used inside pencils since they were invented.

2. One Tree Makes a Hill of Pencils
The average tree can create around 170,000 pencils. The most common tree used for pencils are cedar trees.


3. The #2 on Your Pencil Denotes the Darkness of the graphite used (not lead)
Once again, there is no lead in your pencils. As proof, the most commonly used type of graphite for writing is #2, using the HB hardness scale. Only American pencils use #2 on their pencils and there is no standard of measurement for graphite hardness or color.

4. Graphite (NOT LEAD) Comes from Greek
Graphite comes from the Greek word “graphine,” which literally means “to write.”

5. Pencils Can Be Used Almost Everywhere
Even though it’s made from wood, graphite, and clay, the pencil can be used underwater, in space, and upside down. In case you’re ever SCUBA diving and feel like writing a novel, take a pencil with you.

6. Pencils were the Preferred Writing Tool of Famous Writers
Both Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck used pencils to write their famous novels.

7. Pencils Will Last You Far Longer than Any Ballpoint Pen
It’s an unproven theory that a single pencil can draw a line about 35 miles long. This theory has yet to be validated.

8. There’s a Reason Hemingway and Steinbeck Used Pencils
For those who don’t measure the longevity of a pencil in miles, the average pencil can write around 45,000 words. This is the same length as a short novel.

9. Pencils have Their Own Holiday
People around the world celebrate their love of pencils on March 30th, considered World Pencil Day.

10. The Yellow Pencil and the China Connection
In the early days of pencil production, the best graphite in the world came from China. When American manufacturers wanted to indicate their pencils were made with Chinese graphite, companies began painting their pencils yellow, the color of royalty and respect associated with China.

11. It Took a Long Time for the Pencil Sharpener to Be Invented
Bernard Lassimone invented the pencil sharpener in 1828. But before the pencil sharpener….

12. The First Pencil Sharpener was a Knife
Sharpening a pencil was dangerous business before the first real pencil sharpener was invented. Cutting yourself while sharpening your pencil was a common reality of life.

13. Thank John Dixon if You Love Pencils
John Dixon, of the famous Dixon Pencils, created a machine that allowed him to mass produce wooden shapes that would easily accept graphite cores, creating pencils much faster.

14. The First Pencils Never Stayed Put!
Originally, pencils were rounded. Of course, this caused pencils to roll whenever they were placed on a surface, making it an annoying problem for anyone trying to use one.

15. The World Makes a Lot of Pencils
On average, 15 billion pencils are produced in the world annually. Laid end to end, they would circle the world 62 times.

16. Not All Pencils are Made of Wood
Mechanical pencils, as they’re called in the US, are called propelling pencils in the UK and pen pencils in India.

17. And Not All Pencils Let You Make Mistakes
While American pencils traditionally feature rubber erasers on their heads, European pencils don’t have erasers. Maybe they’re still using bread to rub away their mistakes?

18. There is NO LEAD in Mechanical Pencils Either
Even though mechanical pencils are sold with “lead” refills, lead refers to the core and not the material. The cores are made from graphite, the same material used in regular pencils.

19. Pencils Helped POWs During World War II
In Cumbria, where the largest deposits of graphite was discovered, a pencil factory began creating special pencils to help prisoners of war escape from their camps. The pencils contained a compass in the eraser head to help them find their way. The pencils were nicknamed “spy pencils.”

20. Spy Pencils Inspired a Character in a Famous Spy Series
The spy pencil is said to have been a source of inspiration for Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond. The famous gadget inventor called “Q” is thought to have been inspired by spy pencils.

14/09/2022

10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT K9 DOGS
#1: New York City Debut
NYPD debuted police dogs in 1907. The K9 dog unit was called “Patrol Squad 1.”

#2: War Dogs
German Shepherds were used in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. They are strong, intelligent, and hard workers, which makes them phenomenal for protection and military service.
#3: Early Retirement
Police dogs only work for 6-8 years. The rest of their life is spent at home with their owner. Sometimes, the owner is the handler who worked with them. Other times, people who know how to care for these trained breeds adopt them.

#4: A K9’s Sense of Smell
You know that K9s have a good sense of smell, but did you know that their sense of smell is 10,000 times stronger than ours? It’s true!

#5: Some Police Dogs Start Life in a Shelter
Not all police dogs are brought into the K9 way of life as puppies. Some start at an animal shelter with unknown pasts. However, at Scott’s K9, we personally import our pups and adult dogs from Europe to ensure the purest bloodlines.

#6: Differentiate Between Identical Twins
Identical twins (humans) are no match for K9s. They can tell the difference between them without difficulty.

#7: Fast Searchers
Trained guard dogs, especially German Shepherds and Belgian Malinois, can search areas much faster than any human could dream of. This makes search and rescue efforts far more effective than with humans alone.

#8: Pets
K9s can be family protection dogs, but they need to be with owners who understand how to utilize them in a way in which they can use their natural instincts. Trained law enforcement dogs want to work, and they feel good when they do their work well.

#9: Sniffing It Out
K9s can sniff out a car in about three minutes. When we say sniff, we mean finding whatever they have been trained to alert their handler to (drugs, etc.).

#10: Thanks, Germany!
The first K9 came from Germany. We owe it to Germany for opening us up to the potential of their amazing dogs.

12/09/2022

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12/09/2022

13 Things You Didn't Know About ... Sand
1. Got sand? You probably do, in your kitchen pantry. Sand is defined as any material made up of grains within a specific size range. Sugar and salt typically qualify.

2. Much less common, however, is gypsum sand, which gives White Sands National Monument in New Mexico its name. The site’s unusually high concentration of the rare variety started out as a shallow seabed about 280 million years ago.

3. The material most commonly thought of as sand is silica, made of quartz crystals that have broken down about as far as they will naturally, to about a millimeter in diameter.
4. At the beach, silica sand mixes with fragments of coral, shell and other material of biological origin.

5. While sand of all sorts is usually made by material breaking down into smaller pieces, in water with high concentrations of calcium carbonate or certain other minerals, the opposite can happen. A tiny particle gets coated over time by the minerals, resulting in a special type of sand grain called an oolith.

6. Members of Palythoa, a genus of coral, can be up to 65 percent sand by weight; they use the material to build their frame, making them more resistant to climate change effects such as ocean acidification.

7. Humans also use sand as a construction material, mining huge quantities of it to make concrete.

8. There’s such high demand that an illegal worldwide sand market has exploded in recent years. A 2013 estimate valued the shady business at about $16 million a month.
9. India’s sand mafia (yes, it’s a thing) is notorious for using violence, bribery and coercion in the course of illegally collecting and selling the material.

10. More than legitimate business is at risk: Sand is a finite natural resource which, like fossil fuels, takes centuries to form — and which humans are using at accelerating rates. In 2014, the U.N. Environmental Program declared that sand mining was causing “unequivocal” environmental problems.

11. A 2017 study linked the mining to increased coastal erosion, especially devastating in regions prone to tsunamis. Without sandy buffers, the deadly waves are even more destructive, and a retreating tsunami drags sand into the ocean, aggravating the problem.

12. The process of digging up sand can also contaminate groundwater or drive it deeper underground. As a direct result of the practice, farmers in Sri Lanka have difficulty finding clean water to grow crops.

13. When sandy habitats are mined, plant and animal life can get carried away with the haul and invade new areas, crowding out native wildlife.

09/09/2022

Interesting Facts About Big Ben
It’s Actually Called Elizabeth Tower
The tower itself is Elizabeth Tower, and it’s the huge bell inside that’s called Big Ben. Why Big Ben? Well, it’s really big! In fact, the bell of Big Ben weighs over 13 tonnes.

It was only in 2012 that the tower was given its current name, as an honour to Queen Elizabeth on her jubilee.

What was the tower called before the new name? It was very imaginatively named Clock Tower. Big Ben’s clock faces are called The Big Clock, which is just as thoughtful. Not.

We’re not Sure how Big Ben got its Nickname
One of the first questions many people ask about London’s famous clock is, ‘how did Big Ben get its name?’

The thing is, no one is quite sure. However, you might get one of two answers. Either could be true.
The first theory is that the bell (and now the whole clock, usually) was nicknamed ‘Big Ben’ after Sir Benjamin Hall, the first Director of Works. He was a large man, and known around the house as Big Ben.

The second suggests that the clock was named after a heavyweight boxer, champion at the time the tower and clock were built, Benjamin Caunt. He was also nicknamed Big Ben.
Big Ben’s Tower Leans Sideways
Don’t worry, the tower leans at an inclination of just 1/250 or 0.4 degrees. It’s not about to topple over, but if you look carefully when you’re standing close to Big Ben you should be able to see it tilt to one side.
Big Ben has Always Been Important
In fact, the bell was seen as so important that when it arrived in London it was brought down the Thames in a barge as Londoners flocked to watch. Then, it was taken across Westminster Bridge in a carriage drawn by sixteen white horses. That’s a lot of ceremony for a bell!

Big Ben is Really, Really Accurate
In fact, the clock is accurate to within two seconds every two weeks.

Of course, in order to keep Big Ben’s chimes sounding at just the right moment the clock has to be adjusted and wound.

Winding takes over an hour, and someone has to wind the clock three times a week. On top of that, the pendulum is adjusted by adding old pennies (from before decimalisation). Each penny causes Big Ben to gain 0.4 seconds.
Big Ben has a long history
How old is Big Ben? Well, old enough to have been standing through the reigns of six monarchs. That takes us right back to Queen Victoria, who was queen from 1837-1901.

But Big Ben facts and history go back even further than that. The tower we now know as the Elizabeth Tower was not the first clock on the site. Far from it in fact.

The first clock tower reported having been built where Westminster now stands was constructed in the 1290s. The first that we have records of was built in the 1360s, and was the first public chiming clock in England.

There were plenty more ups and downs at Westminster, including a fire, but ultimately Big Ben’s clock face began ticking in 1859.

Big Ben’s Face Went Dark in 1939
Of course our interesting facts about Big Ben had to include some wartime drama!

During WWII, the face of Big Ben’s clock was dimmed in compliance with blackout rules. With the whole of London dark, the glowing face would have been an easy target.

In 1940, Big Ben Began Observing the Silent Minute
As a way to help Britons contemplate the terror and sadness of war, the BBC introduced the silent minute in 1940. This was a minute before the 9 o’clock news during which everyone listening to the radio was asked to quietly contemplate the sacrifices of soldiers on the battlefields of Europe.

During this minute, Big Ben stayed silent and contemplative itself, to encourage Londoners to do the same.