Memory can be easily distorted.
The car crash experimenters found that the use of different verbs affected the participants’ memories of an accident
2014
Liechtenstein & Uzbekistan, the only double landlocked countries in the world.
A country is "double-landlocked" when it is surrounded only by landlocked countries
2020
The Bone Wars. In the late 1800s two Rival Paleontologists Sought to Disgrace each other.
Both paleontologists were ruined financially, but their efforts led to the discovery of 136 new species of dinosaurs.
Ed O'Neill used to make Birthday phone calls to Fans of ‘Married With Children’ In Character.
In true Al Bundy nature, he only called them collect.
2015
Physicist Lene Hau lead a team in 2001 that was the First to Completely Stop a beam of Light.
Later experiments included turning light into matter, and then matter back into light.
2020
Astronauts can’t burp in space.
The lack of gravity in space means the air in astronaut’s stomach doesn’t separate and rise up from ingested food.
2018
Thomas Jefferson made pasta popular in the U.S.
Of the numerous extraordinary contributions Thomas Jefferson made to the United States of America, one that is often overlooked is his legacy of gourmet cuisine and sustainable horticulture.
2014
Not all wine is vegan.
traditionally producers have used a variety of aids called ‘fining agents’. The most commonly used fining agents were casein (a milk protein), albumin (egg whites), gelatin (animal protein) and isinglass (fish bladder protein).
2011
A large percentage of asteroids are pulled in by Jupiter’s gravity.
Many of the asteroids that are potentially harmful to Earth, the long period comets, tend to be sucked into Jupiter’s gravity field
2016
John Stuart Mill.
advocated strongly for the preserving of individual rights and called for limitations to the power and authority of the state over the indiv
2016
According to mathematics, white holes are possible, although we have found none.
A white hole is a hypothetical region of space-time which can’t be entered from the outside, although matter and light can escape from withi
2020
pens won’t work in space.
Normal pens work by gravity pulling the ink towards the pen’s nib. As there’s no gravity in space, the ink doesn’t get pulled to the nib.
2020
When Monopoly players Started with twice the money as their opponents.
they began to act rudely towards other players and argued that they used strategy and skill to achieve victory
2013
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
Kangchenjunga, the tallest mountain until a survey of Everest, has never been fully climbed.
The first people to reach the top stopped short of the summit because they promised the ruler of Sikkim to keep the sacred mountain intact
2020
Light travels from the Sun to the Earth in less than 10 minutes.
The Photons emitted from the Sun’s surface travel at the speed of light to reach our eyes in only 8 minutes and 20 seconds.
2013
Scientists Scanned the Brains of Bullies and Found they are Physically Small.
People who exhibited anti-social behavior as teenagers but not as adults showed no such abnormalities. Good news for reformed bullies, bad news for lifers.
2020
Only two ships have been sunk by submarines since WW2.
the INS Khukri during the Indo-Pakistani War and the ARA General Belgrano during the Falkland Islands war.
2020
Crackers are worse for your teeth than sugar.
Tooth decay is caused by acid-producing bacteria in your mouth that feast on carbohydrates, be it sugar from candy or starch from wholesome foods such as bread
2007
