DID YOU KNOW?
Crime and koala bears, what is the relation? You’ll be surprised with the answer. Have a look through our facts for this week and tell us what you think?
1. Portable music began when Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, which used vibrating stylus and tinfoil sheets to project sound, before this music was only experienced in live performances. Now we get to shuffle through thousands of musicians on our phones and iPods and listen to our favorite songs.
2. Vitamin A, C, E, D and mineral selenium are quite important vitamins for optimum health. The antioxidants help remove the unwanted free radicals. Adding antioxidants into your diet has a variety of health benefits and fights diseases in the body.
3. Amazon’s most influential piece of hardware was the Kindle, this does not come as a surprise as Amazon actually started out as an online bookstore. The Kindle not only introduced the online reading era, but also marked the beginning of the Amazons digital media journey, now Amazon is a multifaceted digital media company.
4. Koala bears do not have much in common with human beings, however we do share one similar feature, our fingerprints. Koala bear fingerprints are so similar to humans that there have been police reports in Australia stating that criminal investigations have been hampered by koala prints. So if you want to rob a bank, Get a koala bear on your team.
5. A word with two opposite meanings are called contranyms. They might have originated from two different etymologies or when a word gained a different meaning over time. A common contranym in English is ‘dust’ which stands for both “to remove dust” and “to sprinkle with dust”. Can you think of other contranyms?
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