Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Supernanny, Ben Franklin on daylight saving time, and more
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., Oct. 30, 2009
Almost half of the current constellation of GPS satellites are at or approaching "single thread" operation, where a critical system failure could render a satellite inoperative.
As a 1784 letter to the editor in the Journal of Paris suggests, Ben Franklin was joking when he invented daylight saving time.
In 1990, 8% of Americans reported that they had no religious beliefs. Twenty years later, that's 15%. And when you look at younger Americans, you see that the proportion of "nones" is reaching 22%.
Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, and e.e. cummings were independently published authors.
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