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Unusual Counting Systems

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Is Zero an Even or an Odd Number?

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What Was the Super Bowl’s First Blockbuster Commercial?

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From Sport to Spectacle: The History of the Super Bowl

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Which Waters Do You Pass Through When You “Sail the Seven Seas”?

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Nikola Tesla's Weird Obsession with Pigeons

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Periods of American Literature

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9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

The Lost Colony of Roanoke, North Carolina, where 115 people mysteriously disappeared c. 1590. John White discovers the word Croatoan carved onto a tree upon his return to the deserted Roanoke Colony in 1590

The Lost Colony of Roanoke

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Dedekind

Richard Dedekind

German mathematician

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Fun Facts of Measurement & Math