FANTASTIC!!!
Curating the "Learn Something New Every Day Contest"
Well, since the goal was to "Learn at least two new things every day", I would have to say that this contest is a SMASHING SUCCESS!!! I have definitely learned more than two new things per day since the first day of this contest, and it is all thanks to you Amazing Steemians! Thank you for making my contest so much fun and educational at the same time!
Contest Day 2
Here I would like to recap some of the things that I learned from the previous post!
You can see all of the participants and the fun conversations that their submissions sparked by clicking the link just above that says "Contest Day 2" (for those who didn't know, text that appears green in a Steemit post is usually a link or hyperlink). So here they are, in no particular order!2 . "Vantablack" is the darkest man made substance in the world. I thought for sure that someone had just gone into a paint program and blotted out a chunk of a picture with black paint, but after a little research, either it really is a thing, or it is the greatest global hoax since Stonehenge.
3 . Penguins also gives rocks (as in actual pebbles and rocks) to one another when proposing! If I am not mistaken, penguins also mate for life, which makes this a pretty neat little fact, in my opinion. Thanks to @diebitch for this little tidbit!
Rules for participation.
Tell me Something I Don't Know.
Leave me a meaningful comment below with a random bit of trivia knowledge (if you don't know what a meaningful comment is, make sure you read the post by @ogochuckwu linked at the bottom of this post). It doesn't have to be the most fantastic bit of knowledge, it just has to be true. If you post something really hard to believe, I may ask you to cite your source or link me to something that backs up your bit of info. If you cannot provide me with SOMETHING (a webpage, a news report, ANYTHING) to back up you claim I will not consider it a valid entry and I will not Upvote your entry. If you say something like "One thousand years ago, homo sapiens were an average of 12 feet tall. My teacher in third grade taught me that", I am probably not going to believe you. Like I said, it just has to be true (and somewhat verifiable).All entrants will get a small Upvote for participating, (One Entry Per Person Per Day!!!) and my top three favorite will receive a 100% Upvote, a 75% Upvote and a 50% Upvote for teaching me something new that day.
Replies need to be in English or translated to English (If I can't read it, I can't judge it). You have about twenty three hours (give or take an hour depending on what time I get online that day) to make submissions to this post, at which time I will give out rewards and post the new Day's contest. Be sure to check the comments and support the other entrants. I highly encourage engagement in the comments section, and the vast majority of my Upvote power is used on comments. Earning rewards just for talking to each other is my favorite part of the platform, and I highly recommend Upvoting each others entries in the replies to this post! If the first three comments have Upvotes from me (the first one will be about a dollar), then I have already given out prizes for this contest, but the next one will be out shortly!
You must Upvote this post to be considered a "valid entry". This is not because I want the rewards from your vote. This is because I rent delegated Steempower to provide larger Upvotes as prizes to my contests, and your Upvote on this post helps me pay for that delegation, and spread more rewards to more users!
Again, sorry for the delay of this post!
Post should have been up last night, but I fell asleep. Also, I will be skipping the "Daily Introduceyourself Post Bounty" today, as it takes a lot of my voting power to curate that contest (three prizes plus the Upvotes given to the intro posts linked to me). So today will be just this contest, and I will be back again tomorrow with both contests again!As always, thanks for taking the time to read my post!
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