Category: +Did You Know?

Did you know? Emperor Constantius II issued a decree closing all pagan temples in the Roman Empire on Feb. 19, A.D. 356. LEARN MORE.

Did you know? The first Church of Scientology was established Feb. 18, 1954 in Los Angeles, California. LEARN MORE.

Did you know? Jeanne Calment was a French woman with the longest verified lifespan on record: 122 years, 164 days. She passed on August 4, 1997. LEARN MORE.

Did you know? Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun on Feb. 16, 1923. LEARN MORE.

Did you know? The first electronic general-purpose computer–ENIAC–was formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia Feb. 15, 1946. LEARN MORE.

Did you know? The world’s heaviest creature is an aspen grove named “Pando” (Latin, “I spread”). It is in Utah, and it is a single superorganism where its individual trees are shoots of a single underground root network. It weighs around 6,600 tons and is thought to be 80,000 years old. LEARN MORE.

Did you know? The tallest (known) mountain in the solar system is found on the dwarf planet/asteroid Vesta. It is 120 miles across and 14 miles high (almost three times the height of Mt. Everest). It sits in the middle of one of the largest known impact craters, Rheasilvia, and it is known as Rheasilvia Mons (Mt. Rheasilvia). LEARN MORE.

Did you know? The largest rodent is the Capybara. It is native to South America and grows to be more than 4 feet long and up to 200 pounds! In South America you can also eat them on Fridays during Lent. LEARN MORE.

Did you know? The BBC produced the first-ever sci-fi TV program on Feb. 11, 1938. It was adapted from the Czech play R.U.R., which gave us the word “robot.” LEARN MORE.

Did you know? Think it’s too expensive for the government to keep track of you, individually? Think again! “About $50 worth of storage can hold the information identifying the location of each of one million people to 4.5-meter accuracy at five-minute intervals, 24 hours a day for a full year.” LEARN MORE.