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1. Volleyball was invented by William George Morgan, an American educator. Morgan was an acquaintance of basketball inve...
24/06/2022

1. Volleyball was invented by William George Morgan, an American educator. Morgan was an acquaintance of basketball inventor James Naismith and the former was inspired by the new sport to invent his own. However, he wanted one that could be played indoors. Taking a badminton net and a soccer ball bladder, he created volleyball.
2. Volleyball had a dainty name: Mintonette. This is on account of the fact that it was similar to badminton (“minton” later turned to “mintonette). It was renamed “volleyball” by another educator, Alfred S. Halstead because the ball was volleyed back and forth. Halstead is credited for popularizing the sport.
3. Originally, volleyball was meant to be played indoors. It was also invented because Morgan wanted a game where players did not have to run. He wanted a game that was physical and required players to perform plenty of actions but does not require direct contact with opposing players.
4. The very first volleyball game was an exhibition played in 1896 at Massachusetts’ Springfield College, then known as the International YMCA Training.
5. Basketballs were once used to play the game but their weight prevented players from keeping the ball in flight. The first volleyballs, which were made from a basketball bladder, proved to be too light and slow.
6. The first “official” volleyball was commissioned by A.G. Spalding & Sons for William Morgan. The company designed a ball that had three layers – the innermost layer was made of latex bladder, the next layer was made of cheesecloth, and the outermost was made of leather.

1. Mister Rogers always mentioned out loud that he was feeding his fish.He did this because a young blind viewer once as...
22/06/2022

1. Mister Rogers always mentioned out loud that he was feeding his fish.
He did this because a young blind viewer once asked him to do so. She wanted to know the fish were OK.
2. Boring, Oregon, and Dull, Scotland, have been sister cities since 2012.
In 2017, they added Bland Shire, Australia, to their "League of Extraordinary Communities."
3. Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt once sneaked out of a White House event and commandeered an airplane.
The two women went on a joyride to Baltimore.
5. During Prohibition, moonshiners would wear "cow shoes."
The fancy footwear left hoofprints instead of footprints, helping distillers and smugglers evade police.
7. The 100 folds in a chef's toque are said to represent 100 ways to cook an egg.
Here are some tips on how to cook perfect eggs.

1. A house cat’s genome is 95.6 percent tiger, and they share many behaviors with their jungle ancestors, says Layla Mor...
22/06/2022

1. A house cat’s genome is 95.6 percent tiger, and they share many behaviors with their jungle ancestors, says Layla Morgan Wilde, a cat behavior expert and the founder of Cat Wisdom 101. These behaviors include scent marking by scratching, prey play, prey stalking, pouncing, chinning, and urine marking.
2. Cats have an extra organ that allows them to taste scents on the air, which is why your cat stares at you with her mouth open from time to time.
3. A cat’s average lifespan increased by a year over the span of time between 2002 and 2012, according to a study by Banfield Pet Hospital.
4. Every Scottish Fold cat in the world can trace its heritage back to the first one, which was found in Scotland in the 1960s, says Cheryl Hogan, a Scottish Fold breeder and the committee chair for the breed at The International Cat Association (TICA).
5. Kittens can be spayed or neutered when they are only eight weeks old. If possible, these procedures should be performed in the first 5 months of your cat’s life.
6. Hissing is defensive, not aggressive, says Wilde. “It’s an expression of fear, stress or discomfort of a threatened cat communicating ‘stay away,'” she says.
7. Whiskers are also good indicators of a cat’s mood. When a cat is scared, he put his whiskers back. But when a cat is in hunting mode, he puts his whiskers forward.
8. People often think that they’ve stumbled over a purebred as a stray or in a shelter, but Hogan says that this is very uncommon. “Ninety-nine times out of 100 what you have found on the street will not be purebred anything,” she says. “Very seldom do breeders sell kittens that are not already spayed or neutered,” as purebred cats need to meet very strict standards.
9. Two hundred feral cats prowl the park at Disneyland, doing their part to control rodents — the ones who don’t wear funny outfits and speak in squeaky voices.
10. Some 700 million feral cats live in the United States, and many shelters run trap-neuter-release programs to stem the population growth.

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