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·6 days ago

The Great Loop — The Waterway That Encircles the Eastern United States

The Great Loop is a continuous waterway that encompasses parts of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, the Great Lakes, inland rivers, and the Canadian Heritage Canals to make a loop around the Eastern United States. You may not have known about this travel loop that is all…

Travel

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The Great Loop — The Waterway That Encircles the Eastern United States
The Great Loop — The Waterway That Encircles the Eastern United States
Travel

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Published in Knowledge Stew

·Jan 25

The Mysterious Galactic Signals That Came From a Kitchen Appliance

In March 2015, astronomers at Parkes Observatory in Australia were trying to identify the source of radio signals picked up at the observatory and came up with a surprising discovery. The signals were called perytons, a type of radio signal resembling fast radio bursts (FRB) that came from somewhere else…

Science

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The Mysterious Galactic Signals That Came From a Kitchen Appliance
The Mysterious Galactic Signals That Came From a Kitchen Appliance
Science

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Published in Knowledge Stew

·Jan 21

What is the Color of the Universe?

In 2002, astronomers at Johns Hopkins University conducted a study to determine the color of the universe from the light we see. They averaged the light emitted from a large sample of 200,000 galaxies from the Australian 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey. The galaxies emitted colors throughout the entire electromagnetic spectrum…

Space

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What is the Color of the Universe?
What is the Color of the Universe?
Space

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Published in Fact World

·Jan 18

The Wonderful World of Completely Random Facts — Issue 55

Pele’s Hair A curious natural phenomenon occurs on Kīlauea, the youngest and most active volcano on the Island of Hawai‘i. Around the summit, strands that resemble golden hair can be found scattered and sometimes piled up on the ground. While the strands look like hair, they are actually thin glass fibers…

Trivia

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The Wonderful World of Completely Random Facts — Issue 55
The Wonderful World of Completely Random Facts — Issue 55
Trivia

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Published in Knowledge Stew

·Jan 16

The Discovery of Penicillin and Its Connection to a Moldy Cantaloupe

Penicillin is considered one of the greatest achievements in medicine. This antibiotic allowed doctors to successfully treat and cure patients with deadly infectious diseases. Its discovery came by accident, its development involved many people, and its ability to be widely used for treating patients can be traced back to one…

Medicine

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The Discovery of Penicillin and Its Connection to a Moldy Cantaloupe
The Discovery of Penicillin and Its Connection to a Moldy Cantaloupe
Medicine

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Published in Knowledge Stew

·Jan 12

How a Tiny Island Country Cashed in By Using Its Internet Domain Name

In 1995, the tiny Pacific island country of Tuvalu received news that it had been assigned “.tv” by the Internet Telecommunication Union as its top-level domain country code. But at the time, the country’s officials didn’t know why that was a good and prosperous thing. A top-level domain is a…

Internet

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How a Tiny Island Country Cashed in By Using Its Internet Domain Name
How a Tiny Island Country Cashed in By Using Its Internet Domain Name
Internet

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Published in Knowledge Stew

·Jan 10

Why Was the Telephone Keypad Designed the Way It Is?

The design of the telephone keypad didn’t happen by chance but resulted from years of research on the best position of the keys on a new telephone device, the push button phone. We’re all familiar with a telephone keypad, with its three rows and three columns starting with one, two…

History

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Why Was the Telephone Keypad Designed the Way It Is?
Why Was the Telephone Keypad Designed the Way It Is?
History

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Published in Fact World

·Jan 8

The Wonderful World of Completely Random Facts — Issue 54

A Nuclear Reactor in an Old Building It might not seem like the safest spot, but a 17th-century building in Greenwich, a town in southeast London, England, once contained a working nuclear reactor that remained largely unknown to the public. The nuclear reactor was nicknamed “JASON” and was located in the King William Building within the Old…

Facts

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The Wonderful World of Completely Random Facts — Issue 54
The Wonderful World of Completely Random Facts — Issue 54
Facts

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Published in Knowledge Stew

·Jan 6

Why the Tokyo Narita Airport Has a Farm in the Middle of It

If you’re flying into Tokyo’s Narita International Airport, you might see something unusual between the taxiways. In the middle of the airport are patches of farmland and even houses. But these aren’t there because of a flaw in the design of the airport or terrain features. The farms are still…

History

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Why the Tokyo Narita Airport Has a Farm in the Middle of It
Why the Tokyo Narita Airport Has a Farm in the Middle of It
History

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Published in Knowledge Stew

·Jan 4

The Tiny Island That Was Named After a Satellite

In the mid-1970s, a tiny island off the Labrador coast of Canada was discovered for the first time through images a satellite far overhead had sent back to Earth. This new land was named after the technological marvel that made the discovery happen, and so it got the name Landsat…

History

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The Tiny Island That Was Named After a Satellite
The Tiny Island That Was Named After a Satellite
History

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