97% of all the water on Earth is in the oceans. Of the 3% of the Earth’s water that is fresh, most exists in ice sheets.
July 5th, 2004 | Residents, Think-snack, Reading Room, Jennifer Morrison | 1 comment
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An average-sized person contains about 7 x 1018 joules of potential energy which is enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs.
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June 28th, 2004 | Residents, Think-snack, Reading Room, Jennifer Morrison | 2 comments
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The maize cob was only half an inch long 8000 years ago.
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June 14th, 2004 | Residents, Think-snack, Reading Room, Jennifer Morrison | 2 comments
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The first modern humans lived about 100,000 years ago, perhaps numbering between 20,000 to 100,000 people.
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May 31st, 2004 | Residents, Think-snack, Reading Room, Jennifer Morrison | 3 comments
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A few dozen wild almonds contains enough cyanide to kill a person.
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May 24th, 2004 | Residents, Think-snack, Reading Room, Jennifer Morrison | 3 comments
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If we were randomly inserted into the cosmos, the chance that we would find ourselves on or near a planet would be less than one in a billion trillion trillion. Planets and stars and galaxies […]
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May 17th, 2004 | Residents, Think-snack, Reading Room, Jennifer Morrison | 2 comments
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In the distant past, the Greeks called all foreigners ‘barbarians’ which means ’stutterers’ because they didn’t know greek.
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May 10th, 2004 | Residents, Think-snack, Reading Room, Jennifer Morrison | 1 comment
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A thousand years is the minimum time span for a language to change so much that it becomes incomprehensible.
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May 3rd, 2004 | Residents, Think-snack, Reading Room, Jennifer Morrison | 10 comments
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The universe is estimated to be approximately 15 to 20 billion years old. Earth, to be 4.6 billion years old.
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April 30th, 2004 | Residents, Think-snack, Reading Room, Jennifer Morrison | 4 comments