The decline of the woolly mammoth could have increased temperatures by up to 0.2 °C (0.36 °F) at high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere.
Humans have been harming the environment for thousands of years.
2020
South Korea to Implement "Green New Deal" after Ruling party's Election Win..
The plan includes large-scale investments in renewable energy and a carbon tax.
HIV's Patient 0.
AIDS ‘patient zero’ is believed by scientists to have lived in Cameroon Africa, and contracted the disease around 1908, after hunting a chimp and being infected with SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus)
2011
Internet trolls are likely to be sadists.
Studies found that the link between sadism and Internet trolling is so strong that trolls could be described as “prototypical everyday sadi
2014
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
Eskimos use refrigerators to stop their food from freezing.
Since the climate is very cold in the places where Eskimos reside, food can develop freezer burn easily if left unprotected
2020
The Potato and Tomato are both Native to Peru. Though commonly associated with Eurasian culinary traditions.
Both plants were unknown to the eastern hemisphere until 500 years ago.
2019
Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, is half the size of Pluto.
The same surfaces of Charon and Pluto always face each other, which is known as mutual tidal locking
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
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
11% of US working age adults are on antidepressants.
Overall, 16.7 percent of 242 million U.S. adults reported filling one or more prescriptions for psychiatric drugs in 2013
2013
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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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
In “As We May Think” (1949), Vannevar Bush imagines the “memex”, a desk-like device where people could search through a library of articles.
This is why we created pointpress
1949
