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| Celebrate Cat Facts This Halloween! |
| Halloween and cats go hand in hand and you may be surprised to know a few facts about cats. Beware when trick or treating; you never know where a cat may be lurking! 1. Ever wonder why a cat sees in pitch-black dark? It’s because their eyes take light in and reflect if back out … like a flashlight! |
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| The History of Peanut Butter |
| George Washington Carver was an agricultural chemist who discovered over 300 uses for peanuts. He made the first peanut butter in 1880, but believing that food was a gift from God, he never applied for a patent. |
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| The Silent Wonder of Silent Cartoons |
| Few silent cartoons were ever made due to the expense involved. At first glance, one might not realize how expensive it was to produce cartoons. However, back in the early twentieth century, artists needed to draw twenty-four separate cartoons for an individual second of airing time. |
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| Revrepfigits |
| If you separate each of the digits of the number 8166 and form a sequence by summing them in a Fibonacci-like fashion thus: 8 + 1 + 6 + 6 = 21, 1 + 6 + 6 + 21 = 34, 6 + 6 + 21 + 34 = 67, …, after 14 terms you will see the reversal of 8166 appear. Here is the full sequence: 8, 1, 6, 6, 21, 34, 67. |
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