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There’s an Oregon Trail board
game. It has cards that look like
the original computer game and
dry-erase gravestones that allow
you to write down your name and
how you died along the way. SourceSource 2
Ancient Persian engineers made their
own freezers that kept ice cold - even
during desert summers. By 400 BCE,
they’d perfected the ‘yakhchal,’ which
which are made of thick, heat-resistant
materials with vents that funnel breezes
to an underground storage area and
push warm air out through the top. Ice
brought in during winter was used to
make chilled treats in the summer. Source
17-year-old Vinnie Ream got to meet with
Abraham Lincoln every day for 5 months
straight. Senators hired her to sculpt a
bust of her choosing, and she picked
Lincoln, who gave her his time each day.
She was also hired to sculpt his memorial
statue, despite a senator’s warning that
her age and sex would cause her to fail.
She was the first woman commissioned
by the US government, and her work still
stands in the Capitol Rotunda today. SourceSource 2
The picture became well-known and historic, because it called attention to the healing power of touch and caused a groundbreaking change in the medical community. Today, twins are often placed together in the NICU, even when attached to ventilators.
Mama dolphins sing to their babies
in the womb. Dolphins use signature
whistles to identify themselves, and
expecting mothers have been
observed performing a new whistle
close to the time of birth and for two
weeks after. Researchers think it may
be a form of imprinting, which could
explain why other nearby dolphins
grow quieter during this time. Source
