I learned this today. The Trieste, a Swiss and Italian submarine reached a depth of 10,911m. This is the deepest point on Earth and is the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench. Different submarines can reach different depths, depending on what they are needed for. A submarine that is built to go deep […]
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I learned this today. Glass and metal can be recycled indefinitely, but plastic can only be recycled once or twice and paper about 7 times. Recycling has been around for as long as people have used resources. There is archaeological evidence of scrap bronze being collected and melted down again in Europe. In 1031, a
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I learned this today. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a universal classification system which has the most important needs at the bottom and then the following needs in an ascending order of importance. Maslow was an American psychologist. He worked from the early 1930s until his death in 1970. He published his hierarchy of needs
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I learned this today. Vellum is a material for writing on that is made from prepared animal skin. The document on the front of this article is the Magna Carta. It is the document that tried to control King John of England and is one of the most famous documents in the UK. It was
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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. 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. 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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I learned this today. Erasers work because of friction. They become sticky when they are hot and hold onto the graphite particles. Before we look at how erasers work, I think we need to look at how pencils are able to write on paper. Pencils are made with graphite. These days the graphite is mixed
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