Portuguese Man oโ War is actually Not a Jellyfish..
Itโs actually smaller organisms that canโt survive on their own and work together to function as one animal.
the United States Army had a tactical deception unit called "Ghost Army".
during the WW2, soldiers, their job was to deceive the enemy by inflatable tanks, sound trucks, and fake radio transmissions
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."
In 1998, Sony accidentally sold 700,000 camcorders that could see through peopleโs clothes.
The cameras had a special lens that use's infrared light to use as night vision.
2016
pens wonโt work in space.
Normal pens work by gravity pulling the ink towards the penโs nib. As thereโs no gravity in space, the ink doesnโt get pulled to the nib.
2020
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
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
As part of military training recruits are sprayed with pepper spray and then required to engage in combat.
This is to familiarize them with the sensation and allow them to handle a real life situation
2015
There are more volcanoes on Venus than any other planet in our solar system.
There are more than 1,600 major volcanoes across the surface of Venus
2020
The international law states that it is legal to kill any enemy soldier regardless of function or rank.
Even if that soldier is not a combatant or is on leave. Killing civilians is forbidden even if they are actively involve in the military effort.
2010
The taste map of the tongue that people learned in school is nonsense.
Taste receptors for salty, sweet, bitter and sour are found all over the tongue.
2017
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.โ
2014
Halleyโs Comet will pass over Earth again on 26th July 2061.
The famous comet was last seen on 9th February, 1986 and only orbits the Earth once every 75 โ 76 years.
2020
Stars twinkle because light is disrupted as it passes through Earthโs atmosphere.
Their light must pass through pockets of Earth's atmosphere that vary in temperature and density
2012
Credited to save a billion lives and you probably don't know him.
Norman Borlaug, an American agronomist that developed new strains of crops which yielded 4 times as much food.
2020
The minimum sound threshold a human ear drum can detect is 1x10^-12 watts/square meter. To put in perspective just how sensitive that is, if.
To put in perspective just how sensitive that is, if our ear drum was the size of England, it could detect the weight of a banana on it.
2020
