26Macaroons and macarons
Macaroons and macarons are not the same things. Macaroons are American coconut-based cookies. Macarons are French (originally Italian) meringue-based confection made up of two cookies with filling in the center.
27. Between the years 4000 of 3500 B.C., the Tripolye culture which was centered around the modern Moldova in Eastern Europe built the largest settlements in the world at that time. They were inhabited by 20,000 to 46,000 people. Cities of this size only reappeared in Mesopotamia a Millennium later.
28. Screech owls bring Texas blind snakes into their nests so the snakes will eat the parasites that feed on the owlets.
29. As President Grover Cleveland and his wife were moving out of the White House, she told staff to take care of the place because "We are coming back four years from today." Cleveland won another term and moved back in four years later.
30. “Barcode Battler” was a handheld game released in 1991. The “barcode gaming system” came with a variety of cards containing barcodes; each representing a player, enemy, or power up. Players could also experiment to find barcode monsters from everyday products like food and cleaning supplies.
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31Decision fatigue
Decision fatigue refers to that weary feeling you get when you are overly stressed by the endless amount of decisions you’ve had to make throughout the day, from what to eat for lunch to more complicated decisions that involve our emotional, financial, and physical well-being.
32. Many of the props used in the 2009 film ‘District 9’ were reused from a planned Halo movie that fell through.
33. Black American Sign Language (BASL) is a dialect of American Sign Language (ASL), used most commonly by deaf African-Americans in the United States, that diverged from ASL largely as a result of the segregation of schools in the American South.
34. Harrison Ford got his ear pierced at the popular preteen store, Claire’s Accessories. After the piercing, he signed a notepad to the woman who pierced his ear: "To Tavora. You made a hole in me. Harrison Ford."
35. Given their lack of empathy, psychopaths are not susceptible to contagious yawning, according to a study conducted in 2015 at Baylor University.
