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If I were to ask you to name the easternmost and westernmost U.S. states, you would probably answer Maine (easternmost) and Alaska (westernmost).
And why not? All it takes is a quick glance at a map of the United States to arrive at that seemingly obvious conclusion.
But guess what? Your answer would only be half right…
If you’re an experienced Internet user you probably use the Firefox web browser at times.
I’ve had several people ask me how Firefox got its name, and the answer is actually quite interesting.
In the early days Mozilla referred to their new browser as Firebird, and they used that name for a good while.
It’s widely believed that diamonds are extremely rare, hence the high prices we’re willing to pay for diamond jewelry.
But guess what? Diamonds aren’t really rare at all.
Truth be told, that’s just a carefully-crafted myth designed to keep both the desire to acquire them and the prices we have to pay for them as high as possible.
Chances are you’ve been warned about the danger of using electrical appliances near a bathtub or swimming when a thunderstorm is in the area.
Well, there’s a good reason for that warning…
If an appliance or a lightning bolt were to come into contact with water you could be easily be electrocuted if you happen to be in contact with the water when the electrical current strikes it.
But what if I told you the water involved in such an electrocution isn’t really what facilitated the deadly shock?
I’ve spent my entire life thinking I knew what a berry was, but it turns out I was wrong.
Apparently lots of things that I thought were berries really aren’t, and lots of things that I thought weren’t berries are!
According to the folks at LiveScience and Wikipedia, a fruit must have the following characteristics in order to be classified as a berry: [Read more…]