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The quickest win in solving a Rubik's cube is currently 3.47 seconds. Speedcubing is absolutely fascinating to watch.
The original classic marketing book "Positioning the Battle for your Mind" was published in 1981 by Al Ries and Jack Trout. This book is the cornerstone for this marketing concept. Did you know Al Ries has a math degree?
The Guinness Book of World Record for "Most Individual Contributions to an Animated Film" is 1,897 people who contributed to The Tate Movie Project in 2011.
The 2009 Pixar movie Up was directed by Peter Docter and co-directed by Bob Peterson. They also co-wrote the screenplay. He is Chief Creative Officer of Pixar and is the first person to win an Oscar for Best Animated Feature three times.
We all take for granted that today web forms allow us to accept online payments from our customers. Did you know electronic payments have their roots in the 1870's?
One of the oldest virtual communities in continuous operation is the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, or The WELL.
Raise your solo cup to the solo marketers! The now-ubiquitous red Solo cup was developed by Robert Hulseman in the 1970's. Robert is the son of Leo Hulseman, who in the 1930's create the "Solo Cup", a paper cone he made at his home and sold to bottled-water companies.
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It's true that marketing funnels can be satisfying, especially when all the leads are flowing through and producing revenue. But have you ever had a funnel cake?
The original recycling symbol was designed by Gary Anderson. He won a logo design contest held by Bill Loyd of the Container Corporation of America in 1970.
Drip email means to deliver a series of emails, "dripping" into the inbox, so called because of drip irrigation.
In the 1950's, "drip" was slang for someone who is very uncool. but over the years, using "drip" fell out of style.
Then around 2018, the word "drip" had a renaissance thanks to hip-hop
Obverse and its opposite, reverse, refer to the two flat faces of coins. Obverse means the front face of the coin and reverse means the back face.
William Sealy Gosset was an English statistician who pioneered small sample experimental design and analysis. So what's the relationship between statistics and beer?
We all know about email spam, which is unsolicited unwanted messages. We all know about SPAM, the canned cooked pork introduced by Hormel Foods in 1937. But do you know how unsolicited emails got to be named after a pork product?
The GIF image file format, widely used on the web, was developed in 1987 by a team at CompuServe. So is it pronounced with a soft "g" (Jif like the peanut butter) or hard "g" (Gif)? It's been a debate on the internet for years.
Native English speakers know it is proper to say "a cute little purple dog" and not "a purple cute little dog". Or "great big blue ocean" and not "blue big great ocean". It's the thing we do and don't even know about. There is a grammar rule for that.
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Twitcher: A type of bird watcher who seeks to add as many species as possible, willing to go to great lengths to see any bird species they haven't previously recorded.
We've all heard that goldfish have something like a 7 second memory, right?
Open ended question: a question that prompts a conversation and cannot be answered with a simply yes or no.
Valediction: an expression used to say farewell, especially a word or phrase used to end a letter or message.
Simone Biles knows how to stick a landing. The Biles II move is a triple-double in floor gymnastics, composed of a double backflip with three twists.
What's your signature move?
Groundlings: a member of a theater audience who traditionally stood in the pit below the stage, originated from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Bleacher Creatures: someone who goes to baseball games and sits in the cheap seats.
