Did dinosaurs really have feathers? A lot did, but, then again, there were a lot that didn’t. And they were more a kind of fluff than the feathers that we see on birds today. The idea that dinosaurs might have had feathers was first put forward in 1876. A British biologist called Thomas Huxley realized […]
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Why was the abacus invented? It was invented because merchants needed to keep an inventory, trade was taking off, and the powers that be wanted their tax.. The English word abacus came from the Latin word abax, which came from the Greek word abax, which meant table or tablet. It could have come from an
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Why doesn’t the Autobahn have a speed limit? The Autobahn didn’t have a speed limit when they were introduced in Germany and it was left without one. Trying to apply a speed limit later on was met with a lot of resistance. Germany is the only country in the world that has roads without speed
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What are pyramids for? Some pyramids are tombs, some are just monuments, and many are for religious or ceremonial purposes. There are a lot of pyramids, such as the ones in Mexico, that people don’t really know the purpose of. People tend to think that the Great Pyramids in Egypt are the only pyramids that
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Why did the Watergate Hotel cause the downfall of Nixon? It didn’t necessarily cause his downfall, but it was the first domino that fell, and it was his coverup of what happened that sealed his fate. Richard Nixon became president in 1968, beating the Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey, who was the vice president at the
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What happened to Kaiser Wilhelm? He was given asylum in the Netherlands, where he lived until he died in 1941. Wilhelm became Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia in 1888. Germany was not a unified country until after the end of World War 1. What we know now as Germany was a collection of
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What could the 10 plagues in the bible have been? Assuming they actually happened, they could all have rational explanations. However, the evidence shows that they were not a real event. The ten plagues appear in the Book of Exodus in the Old Testament. The story is that the Israelites were enslaved by the Egyptians
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When did people start using passports? The idea for the modern passport was introduced by the League of Nations in 1920, shortly after the end of World War 1. It was basically a way to control immigration. The idea behind the passport has existed since the very first nation states. A passport was a document
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Where did stoicism come from? It was invented in Athens in 300 BC, by Zeno of Citium (modern day Cyprus). Stoicism is a philosophy that seems to enjoying a revival these days. You see lots of videos of people on Instagram and YouTube who espouse the stoic lifestyle. So, what exactly is stoicism? Stoics believe
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Was Robin Hood real? Probably not, but the legend could have been based on a real person. Robin Hood has been made famous by the many movies that have been made about him. His story is legendary. In all of the modern stories, he is a lord and while he is away fighting in the
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