26Screen-Time
Research shows that parents who want their children to cut back on screen-time must cut back on screen-time themselves.
27. A Michigan oncologist named Dr. Farid Fata falsely diagnosed 500+ patients with cancer they never had, subjected them to unnecessary treatments, including chemo, and then fraudulently billed over $30 million to their insurance. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison after pleading guilty in 2014.
28. A baker’s dozen is comprised of 13 because in medieval England there were laws that related the price of bread to the price of the wheat used to make it. Bakers caught cheating customers by overpricing undersized loaves were punished. For fear of coming up short, they would throw in an extra.
29. Penguins have a specialized organ that filters salt from their bloodstream, allowing them to drink salt water.
30. When Thomas Edison was 15 he sold newspapers to the railroads and saved the station master’s 2-year-old son from getting hit by a train. The Station Master repaid Edison by training him as a telegraph operator. Edison was adept and sold a better process to Western Union giving him the money needed to launch his lab.
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31Astronauts
All astronauts going to the International Space Station are required to learn Russian, which can take up to 1100 class hours for English language speakers.
