We all have things that we fear and our fears are often ones that seem irrational to other people. When those fears reach the level where even the thought of the object of our fear causes intense anxiety then they become phobias. Many people have common and well-known phobias such as arachnophobia (a fear of …
Why did the Homo sapiens survive and the Neanderthals didn’t? Scientists now believe the Neanderthals’ large eyes may be to blame. Indeed, analysis of Neanderthal skulls shows that they had much larger eye sockets than the Homo Sapiens. This, in turn, meas they used most of their brain for seeing, instead of thinking, making …
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Isinglass is a substance found in the swim bladders of fish and once dried, it is used in the processing of wine and beer, particularly to make these beverages clearer.
Throughout your life, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
In Sparta, men were required to live in military barracks until they were 30. Only after could they marry and most of them did since marriage was an important duty in order to add more soldiers to the army.
While some salamanders are born as adults, axolotls never become adults. Instead, they retain their gills for life and have legs that never fully develop, which means they have to stay in the water, earning the name ‘walking fish’. This condition is called neoteny and is the result of the lack of the thyroid …
This comes from the Greek myth wherein Eris, the goddess of mischief, threw a golden apple in the middle of the wedding banquet, saying that it was for the most beautiful goddess of all, a title which Hera, Athena and Aphrodite all wanted. Next articleDangerous Animals in North America Quiz
The form of writing used in Ancient Egypt called hieroglyphics has no vowels or punctuations, only consonants. It was a complex writing system, using thousands of symbols and pictures. Next articleUnusual Dog Breeds Quiz
In 720 BC, the Greek athletes who competed in the Olympic games did so without any clothes on or just a small strip of cloth. The Greek word for nudity is ‘gymnos’ which is where the words ‘gymnastics’ and ‘gymnasium’ come from. Previous articleTop 10 Weirdest Animals in the WorldNext articleMaking Square Bubbles.
Normally, cats have five front toes but some have six and apparently, these were the ones Ernest Hemingway loved ever since he was give one by a ship’s captain. Today, the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Florida is home to about 50 six-toed cats. Previous articleA Few Fetid Food-related Facts
But only under very high pressure and temperature so not everyone can do it. Also, the resulting diamond isn’t shiny. It looks muddy because of the impurities in peanut butter and is small, about the size of a fennel seed. Previous articleHow to Make a Bottle Burp.Next articleUgliest Animals on Earth Quiz
Salt was expensive in ancient China so only the nobility could afford it. When committing suicide, they would consume one pound of salt, which was effective since as little as 1 gram per 1 kilogram of body weight is already enough to be fatal. Previous articleCat AttackNext articleRecently Extinct Animals Quiz
When you wake up in the morning, you are about half an inch taller than you were the previous night. This is because while you slept, the body fluids between the discs in your spine were refilled. As you go through the day, the fluids run out again and the discs become compressed, plus …
Graham Barker has been collecting lint from his bellybutton for the past 26 years and he now has three bottles containing more than 22 grams of each – worth a Guinness World Record. Previous articleTop 10 Longest Living AnimalsNext articleBottle of Curiosity.
Hemingway spent a lot of his free time deep sea fishing. When hauling his catch, he would often be interrupted by sharks so he decided to hunt them using a submachine gun. Previous articleSugar Cube Trick.Next articleMegalodon Quiz
Your cellphone has more computing power than NASA back in 1969.
Indeed, each foot has up to 250,000 tiny sweat glands that are capable of creating up to a pint of sweat per day. It’s not the sweat that causes the smelly odor, though, but the bacteria that absorbs the sweat.
When Rudolf Diesel came up with the diesel engine, his first prototype used peanut oil. His invention was so efficient it quickly replaced steam engines. Unfortunately, though, his death remains a mystery to this day.
