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Post-It Notes…

Posted on April 28, 2010December 2, 2015 by Callie

It's the 30th Anniversary of the Post-It Note! It was created in 1968 when scientist Spencer Silver discovered a unique adhesive that could stick to surfaces & be repositioned. His colleague Art Fry applied the adhesive to create a bookmark and production eventually...

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbook can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

Posted on March 28, 2010December 2, 2015 by Callie

Guacamole

Posted on February 7, 2010December 2, 2015 by Callie

According to the California Avocado Commission, Americans consume eight million pounds of guacamole on Super Bowl Sunday.

Studies Suggest You Will Forget This Pretty Soon!

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Callie

In 1885 a psychologist named Hermann Ebbinghaus wrote about the "Forgetting Curve", which indicates that the human mind forgets on average 60% of all information gained in a day if no conscious impulse is made to retain it within the same 24 hours.