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Be positive. Your mind is more powerful than you think. What is down in the well comes up in the bucket. Fill yourself with positive things. #motivation

Sprite can break down acetaldehyde, a metabolite of ethanol, making it an effective hangover-curing drink #health

In Germany, first aid training is mandatory for getting a driver's license to ensure that drivers can assist in the event of an accident #funfact

Human-sized penguins used to roam the planet 60 million years ago They weighed about 170 pounds and were 5 feet tall #history

Cannabis can reduce your odds of constipation by 30% #marijuana

Don’t mistake a calm response to chaos for weakness. It takes mental resilience and emotional maturity to choose peace when someone is pressuring you into having a problem. #tips

When your immune system fights an infection, it increases the mutation rate of antibodies by 1,000,000 and forces them to compete with one another This self-natural selection process results in the creation of highly specific antibodies against a virus #funfact

FORPLAINT - to be tired from complaining so much #funword

A rare gene mutation causes people's bones to be several times denser than usual, allowing them to walk away from car accidents with no fractures However, they may have trouble staying afloat while swimming #funfact

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​​How is Math used in Video Game designing and programming? Math is an absolute fundamental foundation to successful game development and game design. Math is everything when it comes to games. From having the ability to calculate the trajectory of an Angry Bird flying through the sky, to ensuring that a character can jump and come back down to the ground without the help of mathematics, games simply wouldn't work. A character wouldn't be able to walk up a slope, slide down a slide, fire a bullet from a gun, or even jump without the help of the mathematics. The most basic of games use some form of math to the most complex of games. Math is essential to the production of games. It is the flour to the cake that game developers are trying to bake. Without it, the cake wouldn't rise. Math is used in every aspect of game development, including art. Maya is a math based program that plots out the vertices and normals in mathematical form while the artist just uses a tool that allows them to create stunning 3D graphics without worrying about math. Simply put, you could model Godzilla in notepad and push it into Maya, if you knew were to plot the points in numerical form (which is extremely difficult). However, a lot of the math is computed at runtime and handled by the game engines that render back face culling, and the other nitty gritty things that would be too cumbersome to do without the use of using an engine to alleviate the math calculation portion at runtime. A lot of math in gameplay scripting is fairly simple, but math used in game engine architecture is far more complex and a lot more taxing mentally. Math in game development is simulated either by the developer or handled by the engine at runtime by running computations to calculate the operation that is needed.

The last thing you Googled is what kills you. So, how did you die? #questions

Norway's first aircraft hijacking ended after the hijacker surrendered his gun in exchange for beer #funfact

In 2008 thieves in Russia stole an entire church, brick by brick. #funfact

Every year, an estimated 2,000 tons of World War II munitions are found in Germany, at times forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes #funfact

People who spend 2–3 hours a day on social networking sites are more likely to identify as "big spenders" #funfact

Plants, like humans, can run a fever if they're sick #funword #plants

Losing just a couple of hours of sleep is enough to make you angrier #psychology

Harvard University is older than the United States #knowledge

​​The Afrikaans word for an elephant’s trunk is ‘slurp’. #animals #elephants #funword