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Did You Know – 04/16/2012


Before Mercury, Brandy was used to fill thermometers
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The shortest word with all five vowels in alphabetical order is “aerious,” meaning “airy”
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If you keep a goldfish in the dark it will eventually turn white
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Bill Gates designed a traffic control system for Seattle when he was only 15 years old. Bill and a friend, Paul Allen, formed a company called Traf-Data, which used the Intel 8008 microprocessor to help control traffic patterns in Seattle. Gates eventually sold this system to the city for $20,000 when he was only fifteen years old.
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The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
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Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.Peanut oil can be processed to produce glycerol, which can be used to make nitroglycerin, one of the constituents of dynamite. However, there are other processes that can be used to make dynamite without using peanuts at all.
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