Category Archives: Natural World

Jun 10 2016
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History, Natural World

Fact #1121: Neanderthals’ voices were actually high-pitched and nasal, not deep and baritone like many assume.

Source: http://mentalfloss.com/article/19428/neanderthal-vs-cro-magnon-whats-difference

Jun 08 2016
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Natural World, People

Fact #1119: Male hands tend to have shorter index fingers relative to the ring finger.

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

Jun 06 2016
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Natural World, People

Fact #1117: It took all of human history up to 1804 for the world’s human population to reach 1 billion people. The next billion came only 123 years later, in 1927.

Source: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world-july-dec11-population1_10-27/

May 24 2016
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Money, Natural World

Fact #1107: It costs between $30,000-85,000 to climb Mount Everest. The permit alone costs $11,000.

Source: http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2015/12/21/everest-2016-how-much-does-cost-to-climb-mount-everest/

May 13 2016
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Animals, Natural World

Fact #1100: A human and a fruit bat are more similar to each other than a Mexican Burrowing Toad is to any other amphibian.

Source: http://www.edgeofexistence.org/amphibians/species_info.php?id=1355

May 10 2016
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Natural World, Science

Fact #1097: There is a type of hypothetical stellar remnant called a Black dwarf stars. They are hypothetical because not enough time has passed to confirm their existence observation.

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

May 09 2016
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Natural World, Places

Fact #1096: Venus Flytraps are only native to a 60-mile radius around Wilmington, NC.

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

May 02 2016
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Natural World, People, Places

Fact #1091: After crackdowns on more mainstream drugs like alcohol and heroin, people in India turned to scorpion stings to get high.

The high starts painful, but transforms into an illusionary floating feeling that lasts up to 8 hours with “shots” going for between 75 to 125 rupees.

Source: http://www.scotsman.com/news/world/new-drugs-craze-has-a-scorpion-sting-in-the-tail-1-1393049

 

Apr 27 2016
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Natural World, Science

Fact #1088: Emotions and facial expressions are so closely related that people who have had Botox treatment sometimes have difficulty experiencing happiness/sadness.

Source: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/45697-treating-laughter-lines-leaves-patients-feeling-more-depressed

Apr 01 2016
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Natural World

Fact #1070: If the story told in the animation “Finding Nemo” was real, when Nemo’s mother and siblings got eaten, Nemo’s dad would have developed female gonads and formed a breeding pair with Nemo.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_hermaphroditism#Protandry

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