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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I learned this today. A battery works because the chemical reaction within it produces electrons. There are different kinds of batteries that use different chemicals, but the general principle is the same. A battery is an energy storing unit. The energy is stored in the form of chemical energy. A chemical reaction happens that causes
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I learned this today. Dinosaurs were able to grow so big because they had hollow bones, could get more nutrition out of less food, and they didn’t need to chew their food. The largest land animal today is the African elephant and they grow up to about 3m and weigh about 6 tons. The largest
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I learned this today. The first fire extinguisher was patented in 1723 by Ambrose Godfrey. For thousands of years, the only way to fight fire was to bring water to it. If you lived too far from a water source, then your house was going to burn down. Friends, family, or anyone available would rush
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I learned this today. Superglue works because a chemical reaction occurs that makes it harden. Superglue is made from ethyl cyanoacrylate, which is an acrylic resin. Cyanoacrylate hardens when it comes into contact with water. Cyanoacrylate is an acrylic monomer. A monomer is a molecule that can react together with other monomer molecules to form
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I learned this today. Reuters is an international news agency that started in Germany 150 years ago. Reuters was started by Paul Julius Reuter in 1851 and he could have had no idea what he was starting. Paul Reuter was born in Germany as Israel Beer Josaphat. He moved to London in 1845 and changed
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I learned this today. What is liquefied natural gas? Liquified natural gas is gas that has been cooled down until it becomes a liquid. There are four states of matter: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Matter changes from one state to the other depending on how much energy the particles within it have. As more
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I learned this today. What is the dark web and how does it work? The dark web is the part of the Internet that can’t be indexed by search engines and is anonymous. To access the dark web, you need to use dedicated software. It cannot be accessed in the same way as the regular
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I learned this today. What is the difference between Celsius, Centigrade, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin? Fahrenheit was invented first. Celsius came next. Celsius and centigrade are the same thing. Kelvin came last. The Fahrenheit scale was invented in 1724 by the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit. He was German by birth, but spent nearly all of his
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I learned this today. There are three different types of run-flat tires. Ones that can self-seal a hole, ones that can still support the weight of the car when flat, and ones that have an insert on the wheel rim that can support the weight of the car. Self-sealing tires have a layer of sealant
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