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11-27-23, 01:43 PM | #3046 |
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Some animals have the ability to detect tsunamis, such as elephants, flamingos, dogs, and other creatures.
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11-27-23, 02:18 PM | #3047 |
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Kea parrots spread warbles when they’re in a good mood, making them the first known non-mammal species to communicate with infectious laughter.
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11-27-23, 02:32 PM | #3048 |
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Two people will never see the same rainbow. This is because every human sees colors a different way. The same shade of red you see might be a completely different shade for your brother or sister.
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11-28-23, 12:39 PM | #3049 |
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The word “rainbow” in Latin is arcus iris or arcus pluvius, which pretty much means a “rainy arch”.
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11-28-23, 03:24 PM | #3050 |
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So. The Rainbow flag means rainy arch flag.
Now what's the meaning of Arch in this context? Something resembling an arch in form or function? especially : either of two vaulted portions of the bony structure of the foot that impart elasticity to it. I'd think the elasticity part is important. |
11-28-23, 04:10 PM | #3051 |
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Unlike the flag an actual rainbow has no clear color borders, but rather a smooth transition.
A rainbow also does have an infrared and an ultraviolett component, but of course we cannot see either. |
11-29-23, 07:55 AM | #3052 |
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Australia is wider than the moon.
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11-30-23, 01:39 PM | #3053 |
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Over the course of her sixty-three-year reign, Queen Victoria survived eight assassination attempts.
She was not amused
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11-30-23, 01:53 PM | #3054 |
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Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ears by 700 times.
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11-30-23, 03:33 PM | #3055 |
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According to some testing, it appears that a horse can generate about 5.7 Horsepower
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11-30-23, 05:18 PM | #3056 |
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The most famous serial killer of the Victorian age was and is Jack the Ripper, but he killed only five (canonical) to seven (probably) people.
The worst English mass murderer during the Victorian age very likely was a woman, Mary Ann Cotton, who killed 21 people, including three of her husbands (for the insurance money) and eleven of her 13 children, poisoning them with arsenic. She was hanged on March 24th, 1873. |
12-01-23, 07:19 AM | #3057 |
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The Eiffel Tower gets taller in the summer.
When the iron heats up, the tower can be up to 15 centimeters (6 inches) taller due to thermal expansion.
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12-01-23, 01:14 PM | #3058 |
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Paul Weitz was the first person to take a shower in space. It was aboard Skylab 2. Even though the shower only used 2.8 liters of water, the shower took him two and a half hours to complete.
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12-01-23, 01:26 PM | #3059 |
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Human teeth are the only part of the body that can’t heal themselves.
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12-01-23, 02:17 PM | #3060 |
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Madam C.J. Walker is thought to be America’s first self-made female millionaire. Born to sharecroppers in 1867, she made her fortune selling beauty products for black women.
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