Humans likely hunted the remaining populations of Wooly Mammoths to extinction.
Apparently modern humans are just a worse version of the native primitive humans.
2020
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
Scientists Attached Stilts to the Legs of Ants to Prove that they Return to their Nests by Counting their Steps..
The regular ants walked right to the nest and went inside. The ants on stilts walked right past the nest and got lost.
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
Trees are able to communicate with each other.
They do this by chemical, hormonal and slow-pulsing electrical signals. They will also help other trees by sending them nutrients through their roots.
2018
The importance of a motherβs love for healthy childhood.
as experimented In a series of controversial experiments during the late 1950s and early 1960s
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.
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
Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere.
This is because of surface tension, which is an imbalance of intermolecular attractive forces.
2013
Clockwork Orange was so controversial in the UK that Kubrick requested Warner Brothers withdraw the movie.
up until Kubrick's death in 1999 it was very difficult to watch the movie legally in Britain.
2020
if she is still reigning by 2024, Queen Elizabeth II will become history's longest-reigning monarch.
Reigning for a total of 72 years, 3 months and 3 weeks
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A 100 year old paternity test.
In 1927 Nan Britton claimed to have had a child with US Pres. Warren Harding. In 2015 Ancestry.com confirmed that Britton was telling the t
2020
in 1979, it snowed in the Sahara desert for 30 minutes.
Even Chileβs Atacama Desert(the worlds driest) experienced significant snowfall when a cold front from Antarctica made a rare trip over the Andes
2016
The highest mountain discovered is the Olympus Mons, located on Mars.
Its peak is 16 miles high, making it nearly 3 times higher than Mount Everest
2020
Samuel J. Seymour, a five-year-old boy who witnessed the Lincoln assassination.
At 96 Seymour was a guest on the TV show. he felt bad for Booth, thinking Booth had fallen out of the box
2020
David Lewis.
Was a prominent analytic philosopher. One of his most influential ideas revolved around the concept of possible worlds.
Lewis believed there is an infinite number of possible worlds, each different from our own to different degrees. An important feature of these possible worlds is that we can compare them based on their relative distance from our real world.
This feature was the basis for many of Lewis's theories - for example, Lewis believed that event A is a cause of event B if and only if, in the closest possible world where A didn't occur, B didn't occur either.
1986
People who Post their Fitness routine to Facebook are More Likely to have Psychological Problems..
According to the researchers, the primary goal is to boast about how much time you invest in your looks.
Facebookβs founder Mark Zuckerberg has green-red color blindness. That's why Facebookβs main color is blue β he sees it in its full richness. 2020
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