Trapped Construction Crew Finds a Mysterious 400-Year-Old Artifact in the Chimney of an Old Folks Home

Getting Down To It

Before the renovators arrived, they hired a few inspectors to check out the place and see what work needed to be done to bring the place up to code. First things first, the group of volunteers paid for the old folks to be sent to a nice hotel for the period they would be working on the place!

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The More You Know

  • February used to be the last month of the year.
  • The 100 folds in a chef's hat represent 100 ways to cook an egg.
  • It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth. Taxpayers lost over $100 million in 2013 just through the coins being made.
  • The majority of polar bears live in Canada—not in the Arctic.
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