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Ever wonder where the Lego toys got their name? It's a contraction of "leg godt," meaning "play well" in Danish. It has a double meaning, since "Lego" can also be interpreted as "I put together" or "I assemble" in Latin.

On this day in 1734, Daniel Boone was born.

In 1903, Curly Howard of The Three Stooges was born.

In 1938, Christopher Lloyd was born.

There are some pretty fascinating breeds of spiders that other people don't seem to know anything about because they're too busy jumping screaming and saying how horrible and evil spiders are.

Like the wolf spider. It does not spin a web, but stalks and hunts its prey, like a wolf. The mother carries her egg sac with her, attached to her body, and when the bay spiders hatch she lets them ride on her back. They are not aggressive spiders, but you should not handle them because they may bite. They may be mistaken for the more dangerous brown recluse spider. Go on wiki about the latter and you'll be treated to some lovely photos of brown recluse bites.

The brain itself can't feel pain. Our headaches come from the meninges, periosteum and the scalp.

John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States, was born in 1790...

...and he still has grandchildren who are alive today.

Not great-grandchildren or great-great-grandchildren, but grandchildren. He was in his 60s when his son was born, and his son was in his 70s when his children were born.

Most of the laughs we hear in the background of movies and series were recorded so long ago that most of the people who did that died so we're basically hearing dead people laughing.

A group of frogs is an army.

Smokey Quartz darkens as danger approaches.

OTC = Ornathine Transcarbomalyse deficiency is an inborn error of metabolism, basically a blockage of an enzyme in the urea cycle causes ammonia to build up, ammonia is a neurotoxin, the results are devastating if it is not picked up. A special diet of extremely restricted protein, amino acids and medications can aide in survival if that fails only liver transplant will correct the disorder.

an ant that crawls one centimeter a second on a 1 km long rubber rope that extends itself by a kilometer once every second will, indeed reach the end of the rope.

There's a nebula 8,000 light years away that's giving us the finger.

you can buy granules of wolf urine on amazon.

here.

(This has probably been posted before, but here goes ...)

A hair from a polar bear's fur is not white, but in fact see-through and hollow (for insulation). They appear white because the light reflects off them. Their skin is actually black.

We know that Beethoven wrote 9 symphonies, 32 piano sonatas, 5 piano concertos, etc but it would've been much more had he not stopped composing for five years while he took care of his nephew, Karl.

The gnathion is the lowest point on the anterior margin of the lower jaw in the midsaggital plane.