Category Archives: Natural World

Mar 24 2017
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Natural World

Fact #1322: Newborn babies cannot shiver.

Source: http://www.sciengist.com/newborn-human-babies-cant-shiver-thats-why-they-have-brown-fat/

Feb 15 2017
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Natural World

Fact #1295: Magenta does not have a physical wavelength associated with it and thus doesn’t “exist”. It is a biological artifact. Our brains are telling us we are seeing “not green”.

Source: http://www.richannel.org/colour-mixing-and-the-mystery-of-magenta

Jan 27 2017
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Natural World

Fact #1282: The Stoned Ape Theory is a controversial theory from which states that advanced human evolution came as a result of the ingestion of magic mushrooms by our primate ancestors.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna

Jan 09 2017
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Animals, Natural World

Fact #1268: Livestock and their byproducts actually account for at least 32.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, or 51 percent of annual worldwide GHG emissions.

Source: http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6294

Dec 19 2016
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Animals, Natural World

Fact #1254: A plane en route from Australia to Malaysia with a cargo of 2186 sheep had to make an emergency landing in Bali when excess gas from the animals set off smoke indicators.

Source: http://avherald.com/h?article=48e6ef9c

Nov 09 2016
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Natural World

Fact #1228: There are two U.S. states where the temperature has never surpassed 100 degrees F: Alaska and Hawaii.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_temperature_extremes

Oct 30 2016
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Natural World

Fact #1221: Barns are painted red because red paint is cheap. The paint is cheap because iron is plentiful, and iron is plentiful because it is the final element formed out of a star’s death.

Source: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/barns-are-painted-red-because-of-the-physics-of-dying-stars-58185724/

Sep 07 2016
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Natural World, Places

Fact #1182: The U.S. experiences approximately 75 percent of all tornadoes in the world.

Source: http://www.ustornadoes.com/2013/07/25/from-domestic-to-international-tornadoes-around-the-world/

Aug 19 2016
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Natural World, People

Fact #1170: The reason perfume is applied to necks and wrists, with behind the knees being the most ideal location, is because these are pulse points that will warm the perfume and release fragrance continuously.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume#Applying_fragrances

Aug 17 2016
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Natural World

Fact #1168: In String Theory, the size of ‘Strings’ in a hydrogen molecule would be relative in size to the width of human hair to the Milky Way.

Source: http://www.quantumday.com/2011/11/what-is-string-theory.html

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