Japan has introduced a new health insurance ID system which uses individual number cards, commonly known as My Number Cards, as the main means of identification required to receive insured medical ...

The familiar 21 ridges on glass bottle caps are the result of over a century of engineering. Initially, William Painter's 24-ridge design damaged bottles, but after extensive testing, 21 ridges were ...

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Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Mira Norian / Investopedia A bank identification number (BIN) is the initial set of four to ...

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Narrator: Muscles! Really? They don't look much use. When a muscle contracts (bunches up), it gets shorter and so pulls on the bone it is attached to. When a muscle relaxes, it goes back to its normal ...

People call almonds a nut, but they are seeds, rather than a true nut. Almond trees may have been one of the earliest trees that people cultivated. In Jordan, archaeologists have found evidence of ...