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Dutch trains now run entirely on wind energy. The wind powers 5,500 trips per day, enabling 600,000 daily train passengers to commute without any emissions. Over the course of an hour, a single windmill can power a train for 120 miles. 

If you pretend to understand your baby, they might start talking sooner. Studies show infants whose parents respond to them in conversational patterns have better language skills and more vocalization during their toddler years- because if they can understand early on that speech elicits a reaction, they are more likely to use words to get what they want. 

To allow for more commercials, ABC cut scenes from ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ …the 1965 holiday TV special about the overcommercialization of Christmas.   

Medieval English longbows could fire an arrow further than 300 yards - which is almost the distance of 3 football fields. So much strength was required to operate them that ancient skeletons can be identified as longbow archers due to their enlarged left arms. 

In 1897, Indiana almost passed a bill to change the value of pi. An amateur mathematician decided he had proof that pi was not 3.14, but actually 3.2, so he convinced the state to take on the bill. It passed the House unanimously, made it through a Senate committee, and likely would’ve been approved if a professor from Purdue hadn’t been in town. After hearing the news, he went to the state- house, watched the debate, decided to intervene, and eventually convinced the Senate that the theory was nonsense. 

Right before Thomas Edison died, he came out of a coma, opened his eyes, looked upward, and whispered: “It is very beautiful over there.” 

“December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.”

IKEA has a team of product namers who use a database of Swedish words to pick names for the merchandise. Bookcases are named for occupations, desks and chairs have men’s names, fabric and curtains have women’s names, and kid’s items are named after mammals and birds, while bed sheets, comforters and pillowcases are named after flowers, plants, and precious stones. 

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Every day in Nature you’ll find them, carried by a breeze, resting on a flower, traveling on fluttering wings… Miracles. Don’t believe in them, depend on them 💙

Sad, angry, jealous, and guilty feelings can make you a healthier person. Figuring out the reason for your negative emotions and learning from unpleasant experiences makes you stronger, and that success can bring happiness- but when you suppress and ignore negative emotions, you eliminate the balance of good and bad. Because the contrast of feeling sad is what makes feeling happy so wonderful, happiness wouldn’t really exist if you’d never truly embraced your sadness.