WASHINGTON (UPI) — The U.S. space agency announced Tuesday it is extending the Cassini-Huygens mission — scheduled to end in July — by two years. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the spacecraft’s stunning discoveries and images of Saturn have revolutionized our knowledge of that planet and its moons. The two-year extension will include […]

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Was there ice cream on the moon? In a way — Baskin-Robbins introduced the flavor “Lunar Cheesecake” to commemorate America’s landing on the moon on July 20, 1969. Is a diamond worth more than an emerald? While diamonds are usually considered the most precious of stones, a large, near flawless emerald is worth considerably more […]

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I always love to read trivia… I am also sharing it to you before sending it to my trashbox…Wish everyone a very nice Tuesday!! here they are!! hope you got some infos from it!! Who can a Dieri marry? The Dieri tribe in Australia has strict laws regarding who can marry whom. For example, a […]

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (UPI) — Married women perform seven more hours of housework weekly than single women, University of Michigan researchers say. The researchers said their study suggested the average amount of housework women do weekly dropped from 26 hours in 1976 to 17 hours in 2005, while men’s contributions to housework has risen from […]

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What did Boston have against bathing? In 1845 Boston had an ordinance banning bathing unless you had a doctor’s prescription. How long have anti-smoking forces been crusading? When Sir Walter Raleigh introduced tobacco into England in the early 1600s, King James I wrote a booklet arguing against its use. The early example of attempted government […]

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What was writings on blindness taboo? After Helen Keller graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1904, she began writing about blindness, a subject taboo in women’s magazines because so many cases were related to venereal disease. How many types of flatfish are there? Flatfishes form a unique and widespread group that includes about […]

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) — Now that the latest space shuttle Endeavour mission is completed, the U.S. space agency said it’s preparing for the May launch of space shuttle Discovery. National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials said Discovery’s two solid rocket boosters and 15-story external tank are undergoing final work and checkouts in the Kennedy […]

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PRINCETON, N.J. (UPI) — U.S. molecular biologists have determined proteins found in the intestines of some ants might be used to create new antibiotics for gram-negative bacteria. Princeton University researcher Natividad Ruiz, lead author of the study, and his colleagues discovered two key proteins guide one of the two groups of pathogenic bacteria that make […]

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