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Regular readers of this newsletter know I always feature a video at the end of every post I publish.
Some of those videos are inspirational and some are (hopefully) educational.
But every now and then I love posting one just because it’s fun to watch.
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If you were around during the Space Shuttle era you probably remember watching the astronauts walk out of the hangar and make their way to the shuttle every time a new mission was preparing to blast off.
And you probably also noticed how they always entered the shuttle wearing orange spacesuits.
But then you probably noticed something interesting when they went on their space walks: they always wore white space suits instead of the orange ones they were wearing when they first boarded the shuttle.
Have you ever wondered why they didn’t just wear the same spacesuits all the time instead of always switching to the white ones before exiting the spacecraft for a space walk?
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Our world certainly is a fascinating place.
Virtually every country on the planet has geological features that are stunningly beautiful and/or marvelously intriguing, and Australia seems to have more than its fair share of both.
A perfect case in point is Lake Hillier, a relatively small but incredibly intriguing lake on Middle Island (the largest of the islands that make up the Recherche Archipelago just off the southern coast of Western Australia).
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I’m sure you’ve probably noticed that silver dollars, half-dollars, quarters and dimes have ridges around their edges, but nickels and pennies don’t.
Have you ever wondered why that is?
Well, those ridges are called reedings, and the reason why they’re present on some coins dates all the way back to the establishment of the Coinage Act of 1792…
“Give thanks not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life. Appreciate and never take for granted all that you have.”
–Catherine Pulsifer
For most folks, Thanksgiving is a season of joy.
It’s a day for spending time with loved ones, enjoying the most awesome meal of the year and then spending the rest of the day doing whatever it is that makes Thanksgiving special for each of us.
Truth be told, Thanksgiving isn’t just a name we chose to assign to the fourth Thursday of every November.