This is the daily fact sheet the first writing. Every day I will be posting facts in history, science, and a few other areas.
Did they have soap in the colonial days of America? They did! But instead of walking down to the general store they made it themselves once a month. First they save up all their cooking fat and ashes they've burned. First they pour water through the ashes to collect a chemical called alkali. Then they mixed the water with the fat and boiled it until they had some “soft” soap. If a family needed “hard” soap, they simply boiled it longer and added salt.
Has anyone heard of a neutrino? Anyone? If you haven't heard of a neutrino, a neutrino is an atom with little or no matter. A neutrino can pass through a lead wall. Also, theoretically if even one neutrino has matter then the universe is much more massive than scientists believe.
The Scablands is a rugged landscape that looked like an injury of the planet. When the Pioneers went west of the colonies they fond this and gave the Scabland it's name. But how did it form? For many years it was an impossible landscape. Nothing like this has ever been seen before. Well, a long time ago someone made a theory that they where formed overnight instead of over a long period of time. At first he was proven wrong until many years later where they tested it and found that it was possible. This theory was that overnight a giant flood was moving hundreds of miles an hour and carved it out. But, still later they found that there where formations that could only have formed over long periods of time. They found ashes between many layers of rock. How could one flood do this? Then they came up with yet another theory that there was more then one flood and that is what we go by today.
That's all the information we have for today read us next time we can on The Daily Fact Sheet.
