What’s the difference between white and light tuna?

October 23, 2010 by Fact Master · Leave a Comment
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I am not a big fan of tuna, but my hubby likes it. I always bought whatever was on sale, which was usually chunk light. I learned early on he preferred the tuna packed in water. I’d tasted it myself and agreed, I thought tuna packed in water was lighter than tuna packed in oil, less fishy and

Where do Warts come from ?

October 15, 2010 by Fact Master · Leave a Comment
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Many people have superstitions about warts. They believe that if you handle toads, you get warts. Or that certain animals can pass them on to you. None of this is true. You can’t get warts by handling toads, and while dogs and cattle do have warts, there is no animal that passes warts on to

What are the romance Languages ?

October 15, 2010 by Fact Master · Leave a Comment
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There is a group of languages that is descended from the form of Latin spoken by the ordinary people of ancient Rome. They are known as the Romance languages, and they are: French, Provencal (including Catalan), Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and the Rhaeto-Romantic dialects, These

Comet Tail and Head

October 15, 2010 by Fact Master · Leave a Comment
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why does comet have a tail As seen through a telescope, a comet has a ?head? and a ?tail.? The head is a large cloud of glowing gases called the ?coma? of the comet. The coma may be more than 1,609,300 kilometers across. Its gases are so light that the ?wind? from the sun blows them. The tail of

History & Invention of COMIC BOOKS

October 15, 2010 by Fact Master · Leave a Comment
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The comic strip is usually found in daily newspapers. It is made up of three or four picture panels telling a story with one or more characters. Comic books are extensions of comic strips into magazines. Each magazine is about one set of characters and the pictures tell a complete story. While

Why no life on Moon?

October 15, 2010 by Fact Master · Leave a Comment
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Now that man has actually explored the surce of the moon, he has learned many new things about it. But one thing man knew before he ever reached the moon was that there was no life on it. There is no atmosphere on the moon. Astronomers knew this because there is no twilight on the moon. On earth

How to measure humidity ?

October 15, 2010 by Fact Master · Leave a Comment
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Water in the atmosphere is the only reason we have clouds, fog, rain, snow?and warm, sticky days. The atmosphere carries water in three different forms: water vapor, liquid water, and solid water. A hot humid day is different from a hot dry day only because of water vapor. The amount of water

What is Radio astronomy

October 15, 2010 by Fact Master · Leave a Comment
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We are able to see the stars in the sky because they send out light which reaches us. Light is a form of radiation. Besides light, stars send out other forms of radiation, and one of these is radio waves. Some of these waves can be detected by special radio receivers here on earth. The radio

How to grow Bana Trees

October 15, 2010 by Fact Master · Leave a Comment
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The banana “tree” is actually not a real tree. This is because there is no wood in the stem rising above the ground. The stem is made up of leaves growing very close together, one inside the other. The leaves spread out at the top of the stem and rise in the air, making the plant look like a

How are Calories measured?

October 15, 2010 by Fact Master · Leave a Comment
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A calorie isa measurement of energy or heat. One calorie is the amount of heat it takes to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree Centigrade. What does this have to do with food? Well, we eat food to supply us with energy, and so energy in foods is measured in calories. When foods

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