In choosing what language you would like Facebook to appear in, users could once choose βEnglish (Pirate)β.
Unfortunately for all ye internet buccaneers, Facebook removed this option.
2020
Astronauts Return from Months in Space to Earth Changed by Pandemic..
"It's a little bit difficult to believe that we are truly going back to a different planet."
Abnormal βHeatwaveβ to Enter the Arctic Region this Week,.
As the warm air moves into the North Pole, it pushes out the colder air, into North America.
Agricultural Pollution.
Agriculture contributes greatly to soil erosion and sediment deposition through intensive management or inefficient land cover
2020
The name for Hewlett-Packard (A.K.A HP) was decided in a coin toss.
in order to decide between Packard-Hewlett and Hewlett-Packard, they flipped a coin.
2020
It is hypothesized that water movement reduced the local ethylene concentration on the root surface and consequently inhibited root hair development of sorghum seedlings grown in the mat system.
High social anxiety = high empathy.
A study found that high empathy may make socially anxious individuals more sensitive and attentive to other peopleβs states of mind
2011
The average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world in their lifetime.
The circumference of the equator is 24,900 miles. If the average person lives until theyβre 80, they will walk about 110,000 miles in their lifetime.
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
in 1974, a trainee who failed to become a US Army pilot stole a helicopter.
He intended to personally surrender to President Nixon, and landed on the South Lawn of the white house
2020
Virginia Woolf.
Writing Mrs Dalloway, where she skewered the role of βthe perfect housewifeβ and sowed the seeds for the feminist movement of the 1970s
2020
The Yankee Stadium Hex.
a construction worker and Boston Red Sox fan buried a Red Sox jersey underneath the stadium with the objective of placing a "hex" on the Yan
2020
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
Your Favorite Foods May be Your Babyβs Favorite.
The flavors from the food a pregnant mother eats is transmitted into the amniotic fluid and swallowed by the baby
2001