Ben, the Elephant that waited for the Doctor.
After being shot by poachers Ben walked to and patiently waited outside a medical lodge for 5 hours.
2016
CrazyPetFood.com was a pet food company based near Colchester & Chemsford in Essex. They provided all types of food & grooming tools.
Sadly, this company no longer exists.
2017
John James Audubon.
his seminal work, Birds of America, a collection of 435 life-sized prints, is still a standard by which modern day bird artists are measured
2020
In contrast, plants grown in nutrient solution produced more and longer root hairs in low P conditions.
Low Phosphorus solution makes longer root hairs?
We know more about Mars and our Moon than we do about our oceans.
We have fully mapped 100% of the surface of Mars and Earth’s Moon, whereas we have only been able to map roughly 5% of the ocean floor.
2009
The International Space Station circles Earth every 92 minutes.
In one day, the station travels about the distance it would take to go from Earth to the moon and back.
2018
The center of the Milky Way smells like rum & tastes like raspberries.
Discovered by the IRAM radio telescope, a chemical called ethyl formate which gives rum its distinct smell and raspberries their distinct flavor.
2020
Squirrels cause electrical disruptions commonly.
A squirrel took out the power to Nasdaq's trading computer and affected Twenty million trades. commentators noted that cyber attacks by human terrorists are rarer than disruption by squirrels.
2020
Unethical psychological experiments.
The Little Albert experiment is considered to be among the most unethical psychological experiments of all time.
2020
Osmotic shock or osmotic stress is physiologic dysfunction caused by a sudden change in the solute concentration around a cell, which causes a rapid change in the movement of water across its cell membrane.
The Icelandic language has changed very little from its roots.
Modern Icelandics can still read texts written in the 10th Century with relative ease.
2020
There is a planet half the radius of the Earth with a surface made up of diamonds.
55 Cancri e has a mass eight times that of Earth’s despite having half the radius
2020
Saint Lucia is the only country in the world named after a woman.
certain territories may be named after women such as the Virgin Islands but Saint Lucia is the only sovereign state among them
2018
