49% of Americans over 20 eat a sandwich every day.
this type of meal makes up a significant portion of Americans' daily diet. But quantifying exactly how sandwiches contribute to our diet isn't easy
2014
Hot chocolate tastes better out of an orange cup.
A new study finds that the color of the vending cup used to serve hot chocolate can alter its taste and smell
2013
Light travels from the Sun to the Earth in less than 10 minutes.
The Photons emitted from the Sunβs surface travel at the speed of light to reach our eyes in only 8 minutes and 20 seconds.
2013
In 2007, Hong Kong researchers Warned the "Presence of SARS-CoV-like Viruses in Bats.
Together with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China this was a time bomb
2007
Astronauts can grow approximately 5 cm in height when in space.
The lack of gravity in space causes the discs between the vertebrae to expand a little.
2013
There has never been a verified snow leopard attack on a human being.
They are very reclusive creatures, and even if they are disturbed, they are more likely to run away than to attack.
2012
Cursillos in Christianity is an apostolic movement of the Roman Catholic Church. It was founded in Majorca, Spain 1944.
The Cursillo focuses on showing Christian laypeople how to become effective Christian leaders over the course of a three-day weekend.
2020
Medical Waste.
Healthcare facilities like hospitals, dental clinics, nursing homes, physicianβs offices generate a large amount of medical waste daily
2020
Waldo, a grey parrot, lead singer of a death metal band.
Hatebeak doesn't tour/play live because it would be "absolute torture for the bird to experience decibels at those levels.β
2014
The Nazi's Attempt to Build a Sun Gun.
A 100-meter-wide mirror in space that reflects sunlight onto the enemy, burning cities and boiling reservoirs
2020
Individuals who work in fields that have a high risk of financial instability tend to prefer more redistribution compared to their lower-risk peers with similar levels of income. 2006
A large percentage of asteroids are pulled in by Jupiterβs gravity.
Many of the asteroids that are potentially harmful to Earth, the long period comets, tend to be sucked into Jupiterβs gravity field
2016
Mike Tyson once offered a zoo attendant 10,000 dollars to let him fight a gorilla.
Tyson got his chance to own powerful animals and wrestle with them in years to come.
2020
Liechtenstein & Uzbekistan, the only double landlocked countries in the world.
A country is "double-landlocked" when it is surrounded only by landlocked countries
2020
In rare cases, traumatic brain injuries can cause FAS, or foreign-accent syndrome.
This results in a patient's native speech taking on entirely new tone, or accent.
2016
In the 1995 Halloween episode of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson finds a portal to the mysterious Third Dimension behind a bookcase, and desperate to escape his in-laws, he plunges through. He finds himself wandering across a dark surface etched with green gridlines and strewn with geometric shapes, above which hover strange equations. One of these is the deceptively simple assertion that P = NP.
The biggest unsolved mystery in Computer Science explained, the question that will earn 1M dollars to the first person to prove the answer. If answered as yes, this question will change the world of Computer Science as we know it today.
2009