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10 Common Misconceptions Dispelled (Part4)

January 16, 2012 Noreen

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10 Common Misconceptions Dispelled (Part 3)

January 12, 2012 Daven Hiskey

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8 Animal Myths Dispelled

January 6, 2012 Daven Hiskey

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10 More Common Misconceptions Dispelled

December 31, 2011 Daven Hiskey

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The Truth Behind 5 Old Wives’ Tales

December 27, 2011 Daven Hiskey

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10 More Interesting Words & Phrases Facts

December 20, 2011 Noreen

Embed This Infographic Source: Today I Found Out 1. What the “Bee” in “Spelling Bee” Means While no one knows exactly where the word derives from, the “bee” in “spelling bee” simply means something to the effect of “gathering” or “get together”. The earliest documented case of this word appearing with this meaning was in 1769, referring to a […]

Black Friday: History, Myths, and Facts

November 18, 2011 Daven Hiskey

Embed This Infographic: Source: Today I Found Out How the Black Friday Tradition Got Started While it wasn’t called “Black Friday” until the 1960s, and then not popularly called such until the last two decades, retailers have been trying to push people to shop the Friday after Thanksgiving since the late 19th /early 20th century. Around this time, it was […]

Five Iconic Items That Were Invented Accidentally

November 4, 2011 Noreen

Embed This Infographic On Your Site: Source: Today I Found Out 1) Super Glue was Invented by Accident, Twice Super Glue, also known as cyanoacrylate, was originally discovered in 1942 by Dr. Harry Coover, who recently died on March 26th, 2011. Coover was attempting to make clear plastic gun sights to be put on guns used by Allied […]

10 More Fascinating Food Facts

September 28, 2011 Noreen

Embed This Infographic Source: Today I found out 1) Pre-Sliced Bread was Once Banned in the United States In 1943, Claude R. Wickard, the head of the War Foods Administration as well as the Secretary of Agriculture, got the bright idea to ban pre-sliced bread in America, which he did on January 18, 1943. The specific reasons behind this aren’t […]

How Maple Syrup Is Made

August 22, 2011 Noreen

Embed This Infographic Source: Today I found out How to Make Maple Syrup Ever find yourself sitting there enjoying a stack of pancakes dripping with melted butter and maple syrup (getting hungry aren’t you?) and find yourself wondering, “I wonder how maple syrup is made?” …. Ya me neither. However, on the off chance you’re out of maple syrup and […]