Origin of Courage
The word 'courage' comes from the Latin word 'cor', which means heart.
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The word 'courage' comes from the Latin word 'cor', which means heart.
8000 is the approximate number of mirror squares the biggest disco ball in the world had in 2006.
The biggest wildcat today is the Siberian Tiger. It can be more than 12 feet (3.6 m) long (about the size of a small car) and weigh up to 700 pounds (317 kg).
Honeybees can collectively make group decisions that optimize their resilience as a colony.
Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' was the only novel she ever published.
The world's oldest known religion is believed to be Hinduism, which dates back to around 4000 BCE.
Between 2 and 3 jockeys are killed each year in horse racing.
Oxytocin, known as the 'love hormone', is released when hugging someone you care about.
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
140 is liters of water needed to produce 1 cup of coffee.
Perhaps the most famous comic cat is the Cheshire Cat in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. With the ability to disappear, this mysterious character embodies the magic and sorcery historically associated with cats.
205 is the world speed record (mph) of a car on ice.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.
Cats urine glows under a black light.
40 is the number of thieves in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and in Ali Shar and Zumurrud, from Thousand and One Nights.
194 is the NHL record number of saves, set by Bruce Sutter in 1982.
Many successful collaborations have resulted in groundbreaking innovations that have shaped the modern world.
9 is the number of circles of Hell in Dante's Divine Comedy.
0 is the coldest possible temperature old the Kelvin scale.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand while drawing with the other
The famous children's author Dr. Seuss had his first book rejected by publishers 27 times before it was finally published.
In a study, it was found that self-discipline is a better predictor of academic success than intelligence.
118 is the atomic number of the element Ununoctium.
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