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Canadian doubles player Daniel Nestor is of Serbian descent.

X-rays were discovered by accident. While experimenting with cathode rays covered by thick cardboard in 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen noticed a light being cast on a fluorescent board across the room. The first X-ray was of the hand of his wife, who saw the image of her bones and exclaimed ‘I have seen my death!’ - so he named them X-rays, using an ‘X’ to represent their mysterious nature.

ADX Trax Stems is unique software that can parse a solo, accompaniment and percussions/rhythmic track out of a monophonic source audio file, enabling the 3 separate stems or tracks to be remixed into new stereo mixes.

There’s a rare type of blood that’s shared by only 43 people in the entire world. ‘Rhnull’ blood doesn’t contain any of the Rh antigens that 99.9% of humans have. It’s often called ‘golden blood’ because it can be given to anyone who has a rare Rh blood type, but there are only 9 active donors, so it’s only used in extreme circumstances.

Around 600 AD the Chinese became the first to experiment with heavier than air flight.

They would tie a huge kite to the back of a slave and then force the slaves at sword point to walk off of a tall brick tower to see if they would fly. History's first attempt at hang gliding. It didn't go well for the slaves. Oh well.

Your brain starts slowing down when you’re 24. This is when the reaction time of people playing video games shows the first sign of decline. You’re not getting dumber, though, because your brain then begins to compensate by relying on experience and mental shortcuts- so your thought process actually becomes more efficient.

The play Romeo & Juliet is not a love story.

It is a play about a relationship between a 17-year old boy and a 13-year old girl that results in the deaths of 6 people.

Not that I think this would happen, but.....
If an actual zombie outbreak happened in New York City, everyone would be ‘undead’ within 24 hours. Researchers estimated the zombie infection rate in America by using the same method epidemiologists would for real diseases and found that people who live farther from big cities would have a whole month to prepare, with the safest place being the northern Rockies.

When Uranium 238 gives off an alpha particle it becomes Thorium 234.

A Rolex Submariner model 5513 from the early to mid 1960s with a gilt dial in good condition is worth around $30,000.

Wow, lots of myths posted in here as if they were fact. I'm amazed how people will believe something without researching it first, especially considering the present company!

George Washington was not the United States' first president, he was the first president after confederation. Prior to this there were 13 colonies, depicted by the 13 stripes on the flag, and each colony had its own president. This group of colonies was known as the United States prior to 1776, just not the Confederate United States we have today.

Merry Xmas isn't a way to cross out Christ from Christmas, the X is merely an abbreviation of the Greek letter Chi which is the first letter of the Greek Christ or Christos.

Everyone knows that every 4 years is a leap year but not everyone knows it isn't EVERY 4 years, there are additional rules:
- if the year is divisible by 4, it's a leap year
- if the year is divisible by 100, it is not a leap year
- if the year is divisible by 400, it is a leap year
This is why the year 2000 was a leap year, it would normally have been skipped because it was divisible by 100 but since it was divisible by 400, it got included.

Many people say Newfoundland (where I'm from) is the most easterly point in North America but this isn't true. Some of Alaska's Aleutian islands cross the 180th meridian which technically makes them east of us, by definition. That means Alaska is the most northern, eastern and western point in the USA. The most southern is Hawaii.

The desire to lay in bed all day is called clinomania.

to have recurrent dreams about having leprosy is a warning from the subconscious/unconscious mind that one is wasting one's talents or not using them.

auntblabby gives excellent dream interpretations