Pill bugs are crustaceans that adapted to live on land!

While crustaceans are usually crabs and shrimp, the pill bug or Armadillidium vulgare also falls into this classification instead of the Arthropoda taxonomy! Other cool facts about the pill bug:

• They breathe through gills
• They don’t pee due to their ability to pass ammonia gas through their exoskeleton
• When pill bugs are sick, they turn blue

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The word ‘swagger’ dates back to Shakespearean times!

In fact, the popular word to describe something in a bragging manner has its first written use in the 1596 play A Midsummer Night’s Dream! The quote of the original usage is as follows from character, Puck: “What hempen homespuns have we swaggering here?”

There are even earlier occurrences that may have to do with the word dating back farther before Shakespeare to the 1300s! But what can you do with this newfound knowledge? The next time your English teacher complains on how kids speak to one another, you can give that teacher a lesson on the history and evolution on this word we use so commonly today!

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James Dean was the reason jeans became popular with teenagers

James Dean's most iconic role is A Rebel Without a Cause. In it, he wore a pair of jeans throughout the movie. The actor and the movie were so popular, that teenagers began to wear jeans themselves. This was seen as an act of defiance against society. 

Jeans today are ubiquitous and they are no longer considered a working-man clothing or rebellious. More and more companies are having jeans be their most accepted work-attire, and even high executives in the tech industry wear jeans to most meetings. 

Because jeans are such a staple of clothing, groups like DoSomething are running campaigns to get these items into people who need them. Want to prove teenagers can do good? Join DoSomething.org and Aeropostale and donate your gently used jeans for homeless youth by joining Teens for Jeans! Visit www.TeensForJeans.com to learn more

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Montel Williams has a degree in engineering!

Before becoming a popular talk show host, Montel Williams went to school during enlistment at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland!

He also learned Mandarin Chinese and started shaving his head during his time at the naval academy. Other jobs Williams held include a motivational speaker and rodeo clown! What’s the strangest job you ever had? Tell us in the comments!

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The author of Peter Pan popularized the name Wendy. He was the first to use it in a published work.

Before Peter Pan was written in 1904, there were about 20 instances of the name Wendy used in the United States. There is only one instance of the name being used in the U.K., where author J.M. Barrie was from, but it was as a boy's name.

There are many theories to explain the origin of J.M. Barrie using Wendy as a name in the original Peter Pan play. The most accepted theory is that J. M. Barrie was inspired by the way his childhood friend, Margaret Henley, pronounced “friend” as “fweindy”. Other evidence points to the Welsh name Gwendolyn, and its diminutive variant “Wanda”.

These names were not used as independent fist names before the Peter Pan stories. The kids who inspired Barrie to write Peter Pan ended up getting adopted by the author because their parents passed away.

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