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Baby Wipes

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Before the invention of those expensive baby wipes, mothers would use cloth towels and water to wipe their baby’s skin. The technology to create baby wipes was created in the 1970s. Baby wipes contain mostly water. They also contain mild detergents mixed with moisturizing agents, fragrance and preservatives. Chemicals with names […]

Leap Year

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February 29th is such a strange date. It only appears once every four years. Why? We add a day to the calendar every four years because the Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not EXACTLY 365 days, it is approximately 365.25 days. Thus we add on day every four years to […]