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Four U.S. presidents have been assassinated while in office and many more have faced serious attempts on their lives. Andrew Jackson holds the dubious distinction of being the first sitting president to survive a serious assassination attempt, which occurred in 1835. Thirty years later, Abraham Lincoln was the first to be slain. Chances are, you…

  Have you ever noticed how often we use math in real life? All those math facts you learn in school are so useful! How could we figure out the number of bones in our bodies without addition? We would never know how much change to expect back at the movie theater without subtraction. There’s at least one more…

In the presence of parallel economy and lesser life of the paper currency notes, the Reserve Bank of India has decided to circulate plastic notes of Rs. 10 denomination in the five cities i.e. Mysore, Kochi, Jaipur, Shimla and Bhubneshwar on trial basis. To curb the existence of parallel economy and increasing cost of printing…

  Can you recite the words to your favorite song? How about the last book you read? Was it hard to memorize the names of all your classmates? Have you ever taken part in a memory contest? In 2015, Rajveer Meena broke a world record by reciting 70,000 digits of Pi from memory. In 2017, Zou Lujian broke another record by…

  Have you ever seen a goldfish touch its tailfin? How about a lizard raise both its arms in the air? Does your dog stretch his neck to the left and right? Most of those sights might seem pretty silly, but anyone with a pet will tell you their animals stretch. Cat owners might even say their pets seem to stretch…