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How to Repair a Credit Card 24 Aug 2013 | 12:04 am
The dark stripe on the back side of the credit card is made up of a bunch of tiny magnetic particles bound in plastic. The particles are arranged in magnetic and non-magnetic “zones” to encode the dat...
Happy Friday 24 Aug 2013 | 12:04 am
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. It is not loneliness, but solitude if you celebrate a Happy Friday by yourself!
Eight Coffee Facts 24 Aug 2013 | 12:02 am
A coffee bean tree takes five years to mature. It takes the yield of a complete coffee tree to make one pound of coffee. There are fifty species of coffee, but only two, Arabica and Robusta are used...
Latinizing Words 24 Aug 2013 | 12:01 am
For a while, it was popular to change the spelling of ordinary words to make them appear more Latin to increase their stature. Receipt is a victim of the Latinizing craze. When the word came into Engl...
Drain the Mediterranean 23 Aug 2013 | 11:59 pm
During the 1920s, Herman Sorgel, a German architect, proposed creating a dam across the Strait of Gibraltar, turning the area into a massive hydroelectric plant, creating enormous amounts of renewable...
Wordology, Piggyback 23 Aug 2013 | 11:57 pm
Back in the 16th century, goods were transported in packs that people carried on theirs or animals backs. The term used to describe this was “pick pack” because you would pick up a pack in order to ca...
Saccharin 23 Aug 2013 | 11:56 pm
The artificial sweetener in "Sweet'N Low," is somewhere around 400 times sweeter than sugar. It was discovered in 1879 by Constantine Fahlberg who was actually working on substitution products of coal...
Ten Interesting Facts About Humans 23 Aug 2013 | 11:55 pm
The surface area of a human lung is equal to a tennis court. Sneeze outputs usually exceed 100 mph. Approximately 75% of human waste is made of water. The average person expels flatulence 14 times ...
Electronic Bubbles 23 Aug 2013 | 11:53 pm
Here is one of those captivating, but useless devices to have fun with and annoy your friends at the same time. Pressing any key produces the sound of bubble wrap popping. When sitting with someone w...
Clarence Leonidas “Leo” Fender 23 Aug 2013 | 11:52 pm
He invented of one of the most popular electric guitar brands in the world, Fender Guitars, but never learned how to play guitar. He was an accountant before losing his job during the Great Depressi...
