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		<title><![CDATA[How large was Ross's telescope?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1845, the third Earl of Ross, a wealthy amateur astronomer, built the world's largest telescope on his Ireland estate. The earl's reflecting telescope had a 72-inch metal mirror, and was suspended between two ivy-covered stone walls.
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    <pubDate>May/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What do we use Dr. John's invention for today?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. John Gorrie of Appalachicola, Florida, invented mechanical refrigeration in 1851. He patented his device on May 6, 1851. There is a statue which honors this "Father of Modern Day Air Conditioning" in the Statuary Hall of the Capitol building ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who came up with the modern version of Sudoku?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The modern Sudoku was designed anonymously by Howard Garns, a 74-year-old retired architect and freelance puzzle constructor, and first published in 1979. Garns added a third dimension to the traditional Roman practice of Latin Squares and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why does a cat have whiskers?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cats use their whiskers to find out if a space is too small to squeeze into. They also have no collar bone which means they can fit into any space that is the size of their head.
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    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Did Asimov's creation of the Three Laws of Robotics change robots forever?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Asimov himself believed that his Laws became the basis for a new view of robots, which moved beyond the "Frankenstein complex". His view that robots are more than "mechanical monsters" eventually spread throughout science fiction. Stories written ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How devastating was mad cow?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1984, Britons ate 41 pounds of beef per person per year, according to the Meat & Livestock Commission. By 1994, the figure dropped to 35 pounds. In March 1996, "Mad Cow Disease" in Britain lowered the consumption figure even more, although many...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What does Babe have over Reggie?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Babe Ruth was one of only two people (Reggie Jackson being the other) to ever hit three home runs in a World Series game, and is the only one to do it twice (1926 and 1928).
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    <pubDate>May/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Can a diamond be manufactured that is indistinguishable from the real thing?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pretty much, yes. Since gemological and industrial uses of diamond have created a large demand some of it is met by synthetics, man-made diamonds which have similar properties to natural diamonds. This process has historically produced industrial-...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Which is the world's largest construction project?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In size, materials, and human labor, the Great Wall of China is the largest construction project ever undertaken by man. Enough stone was used in the 1,700-year project to build an 8-foot wall girdling the globe at the equator. The Great Wall ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who provided the voice of Cap'n Crunch?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Daws Butler, the voice of Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound for Hanna Barbera, and literally dozens of characters in the Fractured Fairy Tales segments for Ward, was the original voice of The Cap'n. June Foray (Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Little Nell...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why do we serve ham at Easter?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[A baked ham has graced traditional Easter tables in America for centuries. The tradition of ham served at Easter dates back to the 1600s. The colonists got the idea from their Native American neighbors. Every year the Native Americans welcomed ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dailytrivia/s-575404</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What do the stones on a Danakil tribesman's grave signfy?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Among the Danakil tribesmen of Ethiopia, when a male dies his grave is marked with a stone for every man he killed.
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    <pubDate>May/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Was Nevada ready for Y2K?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In December 1997, the state of Nevada (USA) became the first state to pass legislation categorizing Y2K data disasters as "acts of God" — protecting the state from lawsuits that may potentially be brought against it by residents in the year 2000.
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dailytrivia/s-1346425</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who does tortellini honor?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Legend has it that tortellini was created to honor the Roman goddess Venus's belly button, after an Italian innkeeper spied on her through a keyhole and told the community the titillating details.
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    <pubDate>May/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How many bulls did Lagarijo kill?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The famous nineteenth-century bullfighter Lagarijo (born Rafael Molina) killed 4,867 bulls.
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    <pubDate>May/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How many times was Brock buried?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sir Isaac Brock, the hero of the War of 1812, was buried four separate times. He was first buried in a fort, then in the old Brock monument, then in a temporary grave after that monument was damaged in an explosion, and finally laid to rest under ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What was Ichabod's horse's name?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The name of the broken-down, partially blind old horse Ichabod Crane rode in Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow was Gunpowder.
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    <pubDate>May/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is alchemy still practiced today?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not really -- Today, the discipline is of interest mainly to historians of science and philosophy, and for its mystic, esoteric, and artistic aspects. Nevertheless, alchemy was one of the main precursors of modern sciences, and we owe to the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How long does a nematode sleep?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans ages the equivalent of 5 human years for every day they live, usually expiring after 14 days. However, when stressed, the worm goes into a state of suspended animation that can last for 2 months or more. The ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>May/09/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who came up with cellophane?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was Swiss chemist Jacques Edwin Brandenberger who invented cellophane, back in 1908.
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    <pubDate>May/08/2026</pubDate>
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