Curious Facts
Friday, September 21, 2007
THE FIRST PROSTHETIC
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Also known as 'Toe-tankhamun', this worn, bendable, leather-and-wood prosthetic big toe is in the Cairo Museum, attached to the foo...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
DOGS SHOOT MEN
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A short history of canine shooting incidents Aug 6, 2007 Memphis man recovering after dog accidentally shoots him in the back The shoot...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
THE FIFTH TASTE: UMAMI and TASTE BUD DISCOVERIES
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F or centuries it was believed that the tongue only perceived four basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter. That was until the early 1900s ...
COLLY CIBBER AND KOLLY KIBBER
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Colly Cibber [1671-1757] was the first in a long-line of actor-managers in the English theatre and pioneer of the truly personal autobiogra...
Sunday, August 06, 2006
THE LANGUAGE OF COLOUR
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The Colour of Memory (Photo: John May) Two linguists – Paul Kay and Brent Berlin – began studying the language of colour when they were com...
MOUNTAINS: THE SEVEN SUMMITS
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Aconcagua at dawn/ 7 Summits The highest mountains on each of Earth’s continents...
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
INVENTIONS: THE SAFETY PIN
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The paper clip must be one of the simplest and most ingenious of all inventions. Legend has it that New Yorker Walter Hunt, a prolific inv...
SMALLEST SEAHORSE
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The smallest seahorse so far discovered was identified amongst the delicate corals of the Flores Sea off the coast of Indonesia in 2003 by S...
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