I learned this today. The UK finished paying its World War 2 debt on 29th December 2006 and its World War 1 debt on 9 March 2015. Fighting World War 1 and World War 2 cost the UK a lot more than they could have imagined. Even though they had an empire, they didn’t have […]
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I learned this today. The moon is moving away from Earth at a rate of 3.78cm per year, but there will be a time when it will stop moving away and then it will start to fall in towards Earth. However, we are talking about a hundred billion years. The moon has been dated to
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I learned this today. Antarctica is a polar desert because it has less than 250mm a year of precipitation, which is the set amount to be classified as a desert. However, it is classified as an ice cap climate because it isn’t hot enough to be called a desert. Deserts can be classified using the
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I learned this today. Bamboo can grow so fast because it doesn’t need leaves until it is fully grown, it grows with a constant diameter, and it can stretch its cells. Bamboo is actually a grass, and it is one of the fastest growing plants in the world. Bamboo is generally fast growing, but some
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I learned this today. Our bodies make energy from food by breaking it down and converting the chemical energy that is stored in it. Our bodies need energy to move and to exercise, but we also need energy just to live. Even when we think we are perfectly still, our bodies are burning energy so
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I learned this today. Russia didn’t think it would be able to defend Alaska from Britain, had no real reason to keep Alaska, didn’t want Britain as a neighbor, and needed the money, which is why they agreed to sell it. First, we need to go back a few hundred years in time to look
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I learned this today. The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28th June 1914 started World War 1 because of a series of treaties that existed across Europe. It should be noted that the assassination didn’t cause the war. Because of the rising tensions in Europe, war was probably going to happen at some
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I learned this today. No one seems to know the definite cause of Alzheimer’s Disease but it seems to be connected with the buildup of amyloid plaque in the brain, entanglement in the neurons, and inflammation of neurons. Alzheimer’s Disease was named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer. The disease had obviously existed for thousands of years,
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I learned this today. A nut is a hard-shelled pod that contains the fruit and a seed. The difference between a nut and a seed is the hard outer shell. A seed is an embryonic plant. It contains protein, vitamin B, minerals, fat, and dietary fiber. These are all of the things that the seed
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I learned this today. West Point is the United States Military Academy. It used to be a fort and is now the most famous military academy for officer training in America. There are 5 American service academies and West Point is the oldest. The others are the US Naval Academy, the US Air Force Academy,
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