✨🌈🪐 Videos Today • March 12, 2025

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Rion Nakaya
March 12th, 2025

Daily knowledge and wonder. Share it with a kid.
 

“The origin of life is one of the deepest mysteries in science, but the clues to solving it have been buried by plate tectonics, the water cycle, and even life itself.” To try and solve that mystery, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission traveled 1.2 billion miles to collect pristine samples from asteroid…

 

In 1919, American mechanic Charles Strite invented the automatic toaster—a device that used nickel and chromium filaments to radiate heat evenly across bread, then popped it up with a timer. When electric current passes through these metal coils, they overflow with energy, creating the perfect toast without constant attention. Today,…

 

Travel back in time to around 14,000 years ago when woolly mammoth populations began to dramatically shrink around the northern hemisphere. How did the mammoth die out? How did warming after the Ice Age affect their habitats? Did humans hunt them into extinction? And what was it like to live…

 

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