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Coffee has a pretty distinctive aroma – for many people, the smell alone can help them wake up, although it likely leads to a craving for a cup. And for that very reason, especially if you're Starbucks, Tim Horton's or Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, the aroma of coffee can be a pretty powerful tool.

The whalers would go out into the water in hunt for their prey, armed with harpoons and, they hoped, some luck. The whales they were targeting needed to be in the bay, after all; otherwise, there's little chance of killing one and taking its body back to shore.

Let's say you are a musician. You work hard for a year writing and producing (and singing, of course) a new album, and, when you finally release it, buyers rush to the store with their money in hand.

For the almost the entire first half of the 20th century, African Americans were barred from playing for Major League Baseball teams. But on April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color barrier.

By many estimates, the world's Jewish population hovers around 14 million. Most of those people – around 12 million – live in either the United States or Israel.

Times Square is the tourist trap center of New York City. You can tell because there are billboards the size of small aircraft plastered on virtually every vertical square inch.

CTRL+ALT+DEL ["CONTROL-ALT-DELETE"], a familiar keyboard command, first became commonly used in the 1990s when it was generally used by anyone with Microsoft Windows-based computer. When things went wrong, the computer froze up or the dreaded "Blue Screen of Death" appeared – simultaneously striking these three keys on one's keyboard was often the best route to recovery.

Where were you on December 30, 2011? Can't remember? Well, one thing's for sure: you weren't on the Oceanian islands of Samoa – you couldn't have been, because no one was.

A candy bar – let's go with the criminally underrated Sky Bar as an example – will cost you about $1 nowadays, give or take. Accounting for inflation (and even though I'm about to talk about Canada, we're going to use all US dollars here, because accounting for inflation and for currency exchange rates at the same time is basically impossible for someone without an advanced math degree), that same candy bar should have cost about 10 cents back in 1947.

The problems that beavers can cause are, actually, pretty simple: firstly, the animals build dams – which is a very good thing if they're in a relatively rural floodplain, but a really bad thing if they're in more densely populated suburbs or cities – and secondly, if left unchecked, beavers in an area with a lot of humans can cause damage to trees and, in some cases, flooding.

Off the southwestern corner of the Korean Peninsula is Sorokdo, or Sorok Island. At first glance, it looks like a good vacation getaway – it is a tiny but accessible 1.75-square-mile (or 4.46-square-kilometer) spot of land with nice beaches and pine trees, and is home to about 1,000 people, give or take a few hundred.

Richard Feynman was one of modern history's greatest scientists. A well-respected academic, Feynman won the Nobel Laureate in Physics in 1965 and later served as a member of the commission that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion.

Minneapolis and St. Paul are, respectively, the largest city and the capital of the state of Minnesota. Together, they're often referred to as the "Twin Cities" because they border one another—the local baseball team (the Minnesota Twins) even adopted the moniker.

A typical Hershey's chocolate bar is 1.55 ounces (or about 44 grams) and contains 210 calories—most of which are empty, or nutrient-less, calories. No doubt about it, Hershey bars are a treat—and there are few people, if any, who would say otherwise.

"There's no such thing as a free lunch." That quote, the origins of which are unknown, has been a staple rule of economics for nearly a century.

At the close of World War II, the victorious Allies split Germany into four parts—one controlled by France, another by the United Kingdom, another by the United States and another by the Soviet Union. And Berlin, although it was embedded within the Soviet-controlled sector, was itself divided into four similarly managed parts.

ATMs – short for automated teller machines – have become a ubiquitous feature in the lives of most people in developed nations.

On the evening of December 2, 1984, a chemical manufacturing plant in Bhopal, India owned by Union Carbide began leaking toxic gas into the residential areas surrounding the plant, and the resulting tragedy is considered one of the worst such disasters in history.

In 1875, two men from Wisconsin convinced P.T. Barnum, the famed showman, to join their business – a circus. Barnum's job was to lend his name to the product and, ultimately, his wisdom as well, and the circus became known as "P.T. Barnum's Great Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan, and Hippodrome."

Baseball, like many other sports, requires good hand-eye coordination. This is especially true if you're trying to hit a pitched ball with a bat – for instance, a 75-mile-per-hour fastball (which is fast for amateurs, but comically slow if you're a Major League pitcher) reaches home plate in less than a second.