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On June 22, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the G.I. Bill, it provided funding for services catering to veterans, such as home loans, job counseling, unemployment insurance, and education.
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On October 28, 2014, a rocket bound for the International Space Station exploded, it was carrying five thousand pounds of supplies, including more than one thousand pounds of food for astronauts.
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On average, office workers spend more than five hours sitting at their desks, researchers believe that extended periods of sitting can have a negative impact on overall health.
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Right-handedness is controlled by genetics, interestingly enough, the same genes are also responsible for the brain becoming more specialized at certain tasks.
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Roman gladiators consumed more calcium than everyday Roman citizens the source of that calcium may have been the ashes of burned plants.
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Scientists once believed that the Clovis people were the first humans in the New World, however, recent evidence indicates that people were living in North and South America before the Clovis.
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The Scythians were nomadic warriors who lived in Central Asia in the ninth century BCE, before disappearing during the second century CE, they had spread westward into Eastern Europe.
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The Twenty-Third Amendment gave citizens of Washington, D.C., the right to cast ballots for the nation's president and vice president, residents voted in a presidential election for the first time in 1964.
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The first car that Mr. Hoffman bought is still the most precious in his collection it's a 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle.
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When a dog wags its tail, it doesn't always mean the dog is happy or friendly, a wag that is slow and restrained may convey a warning to "back off."
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White chocolate does not contain cocoa solids, it contains milk solids, cocoa butter, sugar, and flavorings such as vanilla.
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According to a 2008 study, hog farms across five counties in eastern North Carolina produce more than fifteen million tons of manure every year, creating a waste management challenge of epic proportions for county officials.
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According to one theory, aviator Amelia Earhart may have crash landed on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean rather than crashing into the water as many historians believe.
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After playing an hour-long set for nearly one hundred cheering fans, Darren's band returned to the stage and delivered a stellar encore performance.
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American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, who wrote the musicals West Side Story and On the Town, idolized the Austrian conductor and composer Gustav Mahler.
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An avalanche occurs when a large slab of snow tears away from its resting spot on a slope that has at least a thirty-degree grade; often triggered by human activity, avalanches are nevertheless natural disasters.
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As a young boy in England, Roald Dahl dreamed of growing up and working in a chocolate factory, inspiring his children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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At the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, students can take taxidermy workshops in which they learn how to skin and stuff dead mice.
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Because penguins are frightened by humans and difficult to approach, researchers from the University of Strasbourg used remote-controlled rovers outfitted as baby penguins to study their subjects.
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Blood Falls in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valley gets its name from its famous crimson-colored water, which results from high concentrations of iron rusting as it comes into contact with the air.
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Clinging to a two-point lead in the final minute of the fourth quarter, the Tigers triumphed when their defense recovered a fumble and sealed the victory.
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Despite some initial setbacks, the Ravens improved their offense over the course of the football season and finished with a 5-3 record.
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Dust particles around nine nearby stars may have been caused by long-ago collisions between melting comets and asteroids.
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First completed in 1939, the Potomac Park Levee System was installed to protect the National Mall and surrounding areas in Washington, D.C., from flooding.
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Helsinki, Finland, is developing a "mobility on demand" system in which individuals can use their smartphones to order trips with various mass transit options, including buses, bicycles, and driverless cars.
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I was incredibly bored at the party; on the other hand, my younger sister had a fabulous time.
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If you have a hankering for a delicious bowl of soup, you should try Mr. Buchanan's smoked French onion soup made with Vidalia onions, smoked Gruyère cheese, and fresh thyme.
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In 2004, the Cassini spacecraft arrived on Saturn and began photographing Saturn's moon Titan, revealing a number of lakes, rivers, and seas on the moon's frozen surface.
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In 2014, researchers discovered forgotten satellite images of Earth from the early 1960s that, when compared with recent satellite photographs, reveal how humans have altered the face of the planet.
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In an effort to deter counterfeiters, the central bank of Norway wanted to redesign the nation's currency and sponsored a competition to find a fresh look for the banknotes.
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In the 1970s, Asian carp were imported to clean ponds on aquaculture farms in the South; they are believed to have escaped and spread, negatively affecting fish populations as far north as the Great Lakes.
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Inside its tissues, the spotted jelly—a marine invertebrate native to the South Pacific—grows symbiotic algae that produces food for the jelly and gives it a greenish-brown hue.
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Located just south of Newton, Kamal's Restaurant offers an eclectic menu in a scenic country setting.
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Overcome with joy, Mrs. Stephenson told her husband the exciting news about her promotion.
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The Gullah Geechee Heritage Corridor, which stretches from the Cape Fear River in North Carolina to the St. John's River in Florida, was established by Congress to recognize and preserve the cultural and historical contributions of the descendants of the West African slaves brought to the United States around the 1700s.
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The honey mushroom, a fungus spreading over more than two thousand acres across eastern Oregon's Malheur National Forest, is thought to be the largest living organism on Earth.
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The octopus is often considered to be the most intelligent invertebrate and a master of disguise; it can instantly match the colors and textures of its environment to hide from predators.
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When the female jewel wasp is ready to lay an egg, she injects a toxin into a cockroach to paralyze it, drags the cockroach to a burrow, and then lays her egg on the cockroach, which will become food for the hatched larva.
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A helium-filled balloon called the Double Eagle II completed the first transatlantic balloon flight in history in 1978, it landed in a barley field near Paris about 140 hours after lifting off from Presque Isle, Maine.
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According to legend, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León was searching for the Fountain of Youth, according to historians, he was more likely seeking political power.
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Archaeologists are unable to explain the mysterious structures in Jordan, Syria, and Turkey called "Big Circles," made of stones piled several feet high, the two-thousand-year-old circles are more than 1,300 feet in diameter.
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At Okunoin, Japan's largest cemetery, visitors will find some unusual memorials, there's even a monument to puffer fish that have died at the hands of chefs.
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Baiting—filling barrels with tasty treats to attract bears—is a familiar practice in the United States, it is legal in more than half of the thirty-two states that permit the hunting of black bears.
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Before the start of the Revolutionary War, the British thought it would be easy to defeat the colonists, whereas Britain had an army and the world's most powerful navy, the colonists had neither.
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Coconut crabs are the largest terrestrial arthropods on the planet they can weigh up to nine pounds and grow to be up to three feet across.
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Culture plays an important role for orcas they communicate with distinct calls and live in small, intimate groups led by older females that teach the younger orcas.
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During the Civil War, the Union blocked the port of New Orleans, preventing the shipment of coffee, devoted coffee drinkers began mixing chicory with their coffee to make it last longer.
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In 1227, Genghis Khan, the Mongol leader who conquered much of Central Asia, died he was buried in an unmarked grave, and its location remains a mystery today.
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In 1941, automaker Henry Ford wrote a letter to Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi to express his admiration, in response, Gandhi sent Ford a manual spinning wheel.
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In 1960, American pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down and captured by the Soviets as he flew over the Ural Mountains on an intelligence mission for the CIA, nearly two years later, Powers was released in exchange for Rudolf Abel, a KGB spy who had been caught in the United
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In the early 1960s, Alan and Doris Litman, a couple in Pittsburgh, invented mace (a nontoxic tear gas), after one of Doris's colleagues was mugged, the Litmans wanted to create a safe product that women could use in self-defense.
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It is estimated that ten percent of the population has a fear of needles, medical researchers are developing devices that make injections pain-free.
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Lasagna is a delicious comfort food, it can be made healthier with the addition of vegetables such as mushrooms and kale.
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Mexico is the world's largest avocado producer, one variety is so profitable that Mexican farmers refer to the fruit as oro verde, or green gold.
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Ms. Hensley, an interior designer, asks her clients to fill out a design questionnaire she uses it to get a sense of their personalities and style preferences.
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My favorite furniture company offers more than one hundred different fabrics to choose from you can order free fabric swatches to see what looks best with your decor.
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