The Gingko Biloba species of tree is 270 million years old. It rarely suffers disease or insect attack and was one of the only living things to survive the Hiroshima nuclear bombing. The trees healed quickly and are still alive today.
Ants cannot be seriously injured from impact with the ground after being…
Ants cannot be seriously injured from impact with the ground after being dropped from any height, because they don’t have enough mass.
The world record for fastest 1-mile run by a…
The world record for fastest 1-mile run by a 5-year-old is 6:33.
Herodotus wrote about fuzzy, dog sized ants living in India which dug…
Herodotus wrote about fuzzy, dog sized ants living in India which dug up gold to build ant hills. For centuries, people assumed it was made up. In the 1990s, scientist discovered a fuzzy marmot living in India that digs up gold whenever it burrows.
Sucking a king’s nipples was a gesture of submission…
Sucking a king’s nipples was a gesture of submission in ancient Ireland.
A woman driving to a Dave Matthews concert stopped to help a bicyclist…
A woman driving to a Dave Matthews concert stopped to help a bicyclist with a flat tire, who turned out to be Dave Matthews. She and her boyfriend got front row seats, backstage passes, and Matthews took them to dinner afterwords.
Robert Peace, a ‘black guy from the hood’ ended up graduating from Yale…
Robert Peace, a ‘black guy from the hood’ ended up graduating from Yale with honors in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, moving back to his ‘hood’ and teaching biology at his old highschool, engineering his own strain of Marijuana and getting killed over a drug deal.
Facts About King Tut
In the late 19th century little was known about the ancient King Tutankhamun, until his discovery by an English archaeologist Howard Carter on November 4, 1922 and he soon became the most famous Egyptian Pharaoh that ever lived. ‘The boy king’ as he was often referred to was only aged 9 when he became ruler, […]
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Why Do Dogs Lick You?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any dog within tongue-licking distance of a human being, if given half the chance, will lick them. My friend’s adorable springer spaniel doesn’t even care if he gets your skin or not, he’ll just lick your clothes. You stretch your legs out past where he’s sitting on the […]
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Bob Marley was seen as a “white man” in his native Jamaica, due to having…
Bob Marley was seen as a “white man” in his native Jamaica, due to having a British father, and he suffered racism and discrimination when growing up. One of Bob’s early romances had a brother who stopped the relationship as he “didn’t want no white man” in our family.