Eating fast food regularly has the same impact on the liver as hepatitis.
One month of eating fast food can cause significant changes to your liver
2013
Michelangelo and Leonardo were commissioned to paint frescos in the same room. They hated each other, bickered, and neither completed their work..
Today you can walk around Florence seeing ghostly images of the two lost masterpieces.
Portuguese Man o’ War is actually Not a Jellyfish..
It’s actually smaller organisms that can’t survive on their own and work together to function as one animal.
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
'Captain Tom' a 99 Year old man, Raises more than $31 Million for UK Health service by Walking 100 Laps of his Garden...
Everyone can find a way to help
Heart attacks are more likely to happen on a Monday.
when data from over 156,000 hospital admissions for a heart attack over seven years were studied They discovered differences in heart attack timing.
2017
The Rarest natural Hair color in the World is Red. Only 1-2% of the World has Natural Red Hair.
Second is blond, with 3%, then brown/brunette, with 11%, and finally black with 75-85%.
2020
Strawberries are not berries, however Banana's are.
Like other berries, bananas are composed of three fleshy layers: the outer skin, the mushy middle and the innermost part with the seeds.
2017
In rare cases, traumatic brain injuries can cause FAS, or foreign-accent syndrome.
This results in a patient's native speech taking on entirely new tone, or accent.
2016
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
Amazon aims to be carbon neutral by 2040.
Raising the stakes in the eco-friendly delivery wars, Amazon said it has ordered 100,000 electric delivery vans
2019
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
Czech doctors Deliver Baby girl 117 Days after Mother's Brain-death.
Mother had suffered a severe stroke and became brain dead. After delivery, they disconnected the mother’s life support.
2019
Popcorn at the movies isn’t universal.
in Colombia, dried ants are popular. in Norway you can find Dried Reindeer Meat at the drive-in theater for snowmobiles
2016
Violent rival Gangs in South Africa call Truce to Help people during Pandemic..
The country has seen a 75% decrease in violent crime since the pandemic started
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
Simonetta Di Pippo is the current Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs.
She is the designated person to act as an ambassador to extraterrestrials.
In 1993 there was a Proposal to build an Advertising Billboard in Outer Space that would Appear roughly the same Size and Brightness as the moon.
The project didn't meet funding and inspired a bill to ban all advertisement in outer space.
Food tastes different when you’re flying.
The combination of dryness and low pressure reduces the sensitivity of your taste buds to sweet and salty foods by around 30%
2020
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.
They need social interaction to be happy, so owning a single guinea pig is considered harmful to its well-being
2020
