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“I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive.”


Joan Rivers


Joke

I'm on a seafood diet. Every time I see food, I eat it


Fun Fact

Tyromancy is the practice of predicting the future with cheese.


Shoe shops used X-Ray machines to measure shoe sizes in the 1940’s before the risks of X-Rays were fully understood.


Reading Fact Enciclopedia Mecánica, a Spanish invention from 1949, is widely considered a predecessor of the ebook. It uses mechanics, electrics, and air pressure to display text and images.


Patented in 1949 by a Spanish writer and teacher Ángela Ruiz Robles, this incredible device operated through using pressurized air. It also had a zoom function, making it possible for the readers to focus on specific parts of the text. The inventor had also planned on adding a reading light, a calculator, and sound, to the following prototypes.


The Mechanical Encyclopedia is currently exhibited in the National Museum of Science and Technology in La Coruña, Spain. 


History Fact

The 7.62mm rifle bullet was created 129 years ago.

 

Even if you’re not a gun nut, you’ve probably heard someone refer to this type of ammunition before. It’s the ammunition AK47 assault rifles use.


Therefore it should come as no surprise that it was developed by the Russian Empire in 1891.


Originally designed for the Mosin-Nagant bolt-action rifle, this round is still in-use today.


It’s one of the most common types of firearm ammunition in history.


Movie/TV Trivia

Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) played a minor role in Spielbergs 1998, Saving Private Ryan.


Movie/TV Quote

“Houston, we have a problem.”


Apollo 13, 1995


Conversation Starter

What will the future of education be?


Writing Prompt

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