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FACT-OF-THE-DAY ARCHIVE
"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
- Marcus Aurelius

OCT 2019


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10/1/19      Snakes typically need to eat only 6-30 meals each year to be healthy.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/2/19      Earth's rapid rotation coupled with its nickel-iron core creates a powerful magnetic field. The field protects the Earth from damaging solar winds.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/3/19      The 1912 eruption of Novarupta was the largest volcanic eruption in the 20th century. It was a 6 out of a possible 8 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/4/19      Famed linguist Noam Chomsky has argued that humans possess a biological "language module" that allows the expression of a potentially infinite number of utterances, thoughts, and ideas with a limited set of sounds.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/5/19      China is often considered the longest continuous civilization, with some historians marking 6000 B.C. as the dawn of Chinese civilization. It also has the world’s longest continuously used written language.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/6/19      Cameroon has more than 1,000 species of butterfly-more than a quarter of all species found in Africa.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/7/19      The earliest evidence of humans in Yellowstone is an 11,000-year-old Clovis-type spear found at the park's north entrance in Gardiner, MT; it is made of obsidian from Obsidian Cliff.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/8/19      Mexican cartels make over $152 million a year from manipulating the avocado market. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/9/19      Only 4 women from first class died during the sinking, compared to 89 third-class women. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/10/19      The first gay rights organization, the Society for Human Rights, was founded in Chicago in 1924. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/11/19      More people in the world have learned English as a second language than there are native English speakers. - Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/12/19      In 1955, the first ever McDonald's restaurant was opened in Chicago.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/13/19      While Titanic's first-class passengers were treated to an opulent Turkish bath, there were only two bathtubs for over 700 third-class passengers.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/14/19      The first named victims of the plague died in 1338 and 1339 in the area around Lake Issyk Kul (Lake Baikal) in Russia, where a grave marker says, "In the year of the hare (1339). This is the grave of Kutluk. He died of the plague with his wife, Magnu-Kelka."- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/15/19      The word "cancer" is related to the word "crab" in Latin. Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen, among others, noted the similarity of swollen tumors with veins to crabs.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/16/19      In 1895 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, an early Russian rocket scientist, was the first to propose the concept of space elevators, a type of space transportation system.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/17/19      Even positive events such as graduating, getting married, or starting a new job can lead to depression.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/18/19      Mexicans drink more Coke than any other country in the world. Mexicans drink about 745 Coke beverages per year. Americans drink about 401 Coke products a year.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/19/19      Jeannette Rankin, the U. S. representative from Montana, was the only member of Congress who voted against declaring war on Japan.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/20/19      Dogs were the first domesticated animal and therefore, most likely, our human ancestors' first pet. Historians believe the first domesticated dogs became pets in the Paleolithic Era.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/21/19      Cancer is the leading cause of death in developed countries and the second leading cause of death in developing countries, after heart disease. Globally, heart disease is the number one killer.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/22/19      Blue, green, and hazel eyes all exist thanks to a genetic mutation; brown was the only eye color present in humans until about 6,000 years ago.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/23/19      The word "oysterhood" means "reclusiveness" or "an overwhelming desire to stay at home."- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/24/19      The phrase "First Light" refers to the moment when a new telescope is trained on the sky for the first time.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/25/19      In addition to malaria, mosquitoes also transmit various types of encephalitis, meningitis, and West Nile.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/26/19      All dogs can be traced back 40 million years ago to a weasel-like animal called the Miacis which dwelled in trees and dens. The Miacis later evolved into the Tomarctus, a direct forbear of the genus Canis, which includes the wolf and jackal as well as the dog.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/27/19      Diabetes is responsible for over one million amputations each year, a large percentage of cataracts, and at least 5% of blindness worldwide.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/28/19      A Flemish painting called The Adoration of the Christ Child may depict an angel with Down syndrome. Evidence like this suggests Down syndrome is not a recent phenomenon, despite only being accurately described in detail fairly recently.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/29/19      Indians made significant contributions to calculus, trigonometry, and algebra. The decimal system was invented in India in 100 B.C. The concept of zero as a number is also attributed to India.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/30/19      Rhino horns are not made of bone, but of keratin-the main ingredient in human hair and fingernails-combined with calcium and melanin. Rhino horns are structurally similar to horse hooves and turtle beaks.- Provided by FactRetriever.com
10/31/19      The ability of a cat to find its way home is called "psi-traveling." Experts think cats either use the angle of the sunlight to find their way or that cats have magnetized cells in their brains that act as compasses.- Provided by FactRetriever.com


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