Facts

11/14/19
   1. Spring: Male bees are called drones. They are haploid, so every unfertilized egg will develop into a male. Their only purpose is to produce sperm. Female bees are worker bees. They are the ones going out to collect pollen. They are sterile. The Queen is the only one who can lay viable eggs. She becomes the queen because worker bees secrete 'royal jelly' from their head on the queen-to-be larvae.
   2. Britt: Perhaps ancient days could see the color blue. Perhaps everyone in Homer's time was schizophrenic.
   3. Calen: Bees will spontaneously make cocoons for new Queens, just in case.

11/7/19
   1. Sdix: Ginko trees were anciently planted by universities. They symbolize intelligence.
   2. Brad Pitt: Temperature of electronics effects speed. Some encoders can perfectly encode their signals by generating random numbers based on the speed of sending bits.
   3. Britt: gypsies originated in India
   4. Lucy: gypies didn't originate in India. That is a myth. Their original name came from 'Egypt' because that's where they're fabled to come from but that may also be false.
   5. Annie: Basketball players with more common names are more successful

9/25/18

  Calen - There are rat monuments in Russia to honor them and encourage scientific research.
  Ethan - “Vikings” started skiing for travel and fun.
  Miriam - none
  Clara - If kidnapped you have 60% chance of being found if you don’t leave the primary location.
  Spring - none
  Kendal - Macaroni Grill has no macaroni.
  Natalie - Religious group of men wear special pants to catch the born Christ believing he’ll be born of a man.
  Jessy - 2 women witnessed the Book of Mormon - Lucy Harris and Mary Witmer
  Britton - Inuit origin of orca whale: Orca whale carved out of a tree sent to avenge a man’s dead family, and then promised to never kill again.
  Adam - World record for handstand push-ups on a bar is held by BYU coach.

9/18/18

  Matt - Omega 3 in fish is absorbed by the skin of the salmon. Eat your skin.
  Ethan - every wall of a ship is called a bulkhead.
  Britton - Study if whether Native Americans have Middle Eastern heritage has never actually been done. And it would be close to impossible to do considering all the other different groups already in America (beyond the Lehi’s family).
  Adam - The average person spends 2 hours a day being bored.
  Calen - Babylonia means “gate of the gods”
  Cecilia - Arrived late


9/11/18
  Matt - Martin Luther sold 6 million copies of his theses in 6 years.
  Ethan - UFC is changing Rules to remove gloves to limit concussions, which have caused horrifying mental damage (blackouts and going mad).
  Natalie - Plato believed a perfect system requires a considerable amount of lying.
  Britton - 20 inches of rain is required to grow crops.
  Adam - gold foil in paints represents divinity in old paintings.
  Calen - Cave art 2 miles deep, legs in run so that in firelight it looks they are running.
  Nick - He has been bitten by a yellow anaconda.
  Lilly - Ate it on stage at a national ballet competition, with 1,000 people watching.


4/17/18
- Wind towers were anciently build to cool water and then flow cool air through buildings. This is still used today in the Zion's Park visitors center.
- Sacred Band in Greece beat the Spartans, was an extremely close group, all of them gay, defeated by Alexander the Great's father.
- Norway is 99% powered by wind energy.
- The NCAA was founded by a sport loving President of the US in response to too many athletes dying (needed to set regulations).
- White smoke exiting a carbon power plant is not a bad sign of pollution, only black smoke is.

4/10/18
- All the swans in England are owned by the Queen
- Life and details of legendary Japanese warrior monk, Benkei
- Rene Descartes died of nuemonia

4/3/18
- Since Pluto was unmade a planet, it has not even made a revolution around the Sun.
- Alexander the Great was so lethal because he never hesitated, nothing daunted him, and he could move forces extremely fast.
- "Layman" is derived from when priests and clergymen were the only literate people.
- Human eyesight is better than almost all animals and are adapted to see red.

3/27/18
- Pompoms found on hats were originally used in the Navy so that if they hit something they could drop their head.
- Alexander the Great sent back plants and seeds to Aristotle throughout his conquerings.
- The 2018 World Cup for soccer is in Russia.
- Washing your hands after going to the bathroom has no correlation with disease prevention, it's just the principle of washing your hands throughout the day.
- The 3 stars in Orion's Belt are Olnitac, Onilan, Mintaca.