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#751 What vegetables came from the New World?

What vegetables came from the New World? There are many, but potatoes, tomatoes, corn, beans, squash, chili, cacao, peppers, and vanilla are […]

What is flash memory? It is a type of memory that can store data without power and can erase memory in blocks. […]

Did Christopher Columbus really think he had landed in India? Not India, but the Indies, and, yes, he did. When Columbus said […]

Why does it rain in a rainforest? Tropical rainforests cause rain when water is released by the trees, but temperate rainforests form […]

Why do giant redwood trees grow so big? It is a combination of things. It could be the amount of soil they […]

Did Shakespeare write the plays attributed to him? The available evidence shows that, in all probability, Shakespeare was a real person who […]

Does being cold or wet increase your chance of catching a cold? Being wet doesn’t make much of a difference, but being […]

Where and when did language originate? This is an impossible question to answer, but, probably, in and around Africa between 150,000 and […]

Is a whale shark a whale or a shark? A whale shark is a shark and not a whale. The difference between […]

Why does the Leaning Tower of Pisa lean? It leans because the ground under the tower is not hard enough and has […]