World Facts

2022-07-31 16:26:17 With 3.572 billion viewers, half the world’s population watched the 2018 FIFA World Cup of soccer (or football, as many international fans call it), which is held every four years. That number is on par with the 2016 Summer Olympics; but only a quarter of the world watched the less-popular Winter Olympics in 2018.
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2022-07-31 12:24:17 Can’t figure out a WiFi password? A lot of restaurants and stores get set with their phone numbers as their passwords. Don’t know their phone number? If you have Google Maps cached for the area, it can provide you their number.
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2022-07-31 11:37:18 Lunar Roving Vehicle first used on the Moon
On this day in 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts James B. Irwin and David Scott first used the four-wheeled battery-powered Lunar Roving Vehicle to extensively explore the Moon's surface, in particular the Hadley-Apennine site.
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2022-07-31 02:03:18 This is one animal myth that's true: Eating parts of a pufferfish can kill you because, in a defense mechanism to ward off predators, it contains a deadly chemical called tetrodotoxin. There's enough in one pufferfish to kill 30 people—and there’s no antidote. Still, pufferfish, called fugu, is a highly-prized delicacy in Japan, but can only be prepared by well-trained chefs.
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2022-07-30 22:59:17 As soon as you feel the itch of a mosquito bite, rub a gluestick on it. The itch will go away within 15 minutes and it won’t come back!
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2022-07-30 21:39:05 Standard prefixes for units increase a thousandfold at a time (one thousand = ‘kilo-’, one million = ‘mega-’), all the way up to a trillion trillion = ‘yotta-’. The proposed prefix for a thousand trillion trillion is ‘hella-’.
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2022-07-30 20:57:17 Making Omelettes? Buy your toppings from the salad bar instead of buying them separately. It’s much cheaper and they are already chopped!
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2022-07-30 18:54:16 Driveway have oil stains? Pour some soda on it. Douse each stain in a couple of cans of lukewarm cola and let it soak in overnight, then wipe the excess liquid away in the morning.
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2022-07-30 14:47:17 Trying to lose weight? Stop saying you’re on a diet. This implies that be be OFF the diet at a later stage. Instead, say you’re going through a lifestyle change. This is a much more sticky statement. Open / Comment

2022-07-30 13:49:23 Trying to lose weight? Stop saying you’re on a diet. This implies that be be OFF the diet at a later stage. Instead, say you’re going through a lifestyle change. This is a much more sticky statement.
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