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Sandie’s Sidenotes

June 9, 2020 by Horse Tales Nevada Leave a Comment

Strictly speaking specifically about specifics is called “specificity.”

James Naismith, a Canadian-American physical educator, invented the game of basketball at age 30 in 1891.

Which letter is silent in the word “Scent”… the S or the C?

The Marianas Trench is the deepest known submarine trench. It is located in the floor of the western North Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands, near Guam. The trench is further below sea level (at 35,798 feet) than Mount Everest is above sea level.

USB was developed by a large team, with Ajay Bhatt often credited as the inventor. The USB 1.0 specification was actually introduced in 1994. IBM began selling the first USB flash drives commercially in 2000.

Peanuts were known as early as 950 B.C. and originated in South America. The ancient Incas ground the peanuts into a pastelike substance. Perhaps this is where “Peanut Butter” first originated.

10,000 years ago everyone had brown eyes. But, 6,000 – 10,000 years ago a genetic mutation which took place is the cause of the eye color of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today…all blue-eyed individuals are linked to the same ancestor.

The Duge Bridge is a cablestayed bridge located near Liupanshui in China. As of 2016, the bridge tops all previous records for height with the road deck sitting over 1,854 feet above the Beipan River. This also makes it the highest cablestayed bridge.

Arachibutyrophobia is The fear of  having peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth.

Really Bad Puns: I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.

If you replace ‘W” with “T” in “What, Where and When,” you get the answer to each of them.

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