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13/12/2022

Balloons trivia: 29 facts about the child toys

Balloon toys are very popular as they are commonly used on children’s’ parties.

13/12/2022

In 2007, a swath of land in northern Canada was found to have unusually low gravitational pulls. The reason for this, according to Science magazine, is because nearly 20,000 years ago, the weight of massive ice glaciers "caused some of the rock beneath to compress and sink, and in the process displace the underlying semifluid mantle."

13/12/2022

They may not actually fly, but there are some things that are magical about reindeer—specifically, their changing eye color. While their eyes are golden in the summer, they shift to dark blue in the winter to "increase the scatter of reflected light," which accounts for their seasonal vision sensitivity, according to ScienceNews. Amazing!

11/12/2022

When most people think of rainforests, they picture massive jungles filled with trees and critters. However, somewhere in the Sargasso Sea sits the so-called "floating rainforest" that consists not of dense vegetation on land, but of seaweed under water.

According to Smithsonian magazine, each strand of brown Sargassum marine algae can grow to be the length of a school bus. When they become matted together in the water, the masses—or "forests"—of algae can be as large as several football fields. The seaweed is not only impressively long and large, but also provides the perfect place for a diverse collection of animals to live—not unlike an actual rainforest!

11/12/2022

When a bee takes nectar from a flower, the tiny creature stores it in its "crop," an enlargement at the back of its esophagus, where the nectar mixes with enzymes. "A nectar-foraging bee returns to the hive and pumps out the nectar to a receiving bee," says now retired extension apiculturist Eric Mussen of the University of California, Davis.

08/12/2022

There are some pretty extraordinary creatures living down in the deep sea. Take, for instance, the Antarctic blackfin icefish. Not only does this creature lack scales and have transparent bones, but it's also unique in that it doesn't have red blood cells or hemoglobin pigments for transporting oxygen, causing the fish to have a very unique characteristic: white blood.

06/12/2022

Cyber Monday 2017: 10 sick television bargains that will drive you crazy! -Save up to 70%!

Let me guess. It's Cyber Monday 2017 and you're looking to buy a cheap tv. Luckily for you, you've come to the right place! We've (somehow) managed to narrow down the bargains and list the best ones…

06/12/2022

37 facts about hot dogs!

The hot dog is a common street food which is considered really tasty and is famous in many countries around the world.

06/12/2022

Obviously, peanuts are a tasty snack—as long as you're not allergic to them, that is. But did you know they can also be used to make dynamite? When extracted, peanut oil can be turned into glycerol, which can then make nitroglycerine, an unstable explosive substance used in dynamite. In a safer state, glycerol is also used for soaps, creams, and various food products.

06/12/2022

The Cat in the Hat was published in 1957 and used a mere 236 words to tell the quirky feline's fantastical story. However, the book's author, Dr. Seuss, topped that feat with even fewer words when his publisher, Bennett Cerf, bet him that he couldn't write a book using 50 words or less. Green Eggs and Ham hit bookstores three years later and uses exactly 50 words.

04/12/2022

NASA has found some pretty incredible things in space, and that includes a floating reservoir of water that holds the equivalent of 140 trillion times all the water that's in Earth's oceans. What makes it even more amazing is the fact that the reservoir surrounds a giant black hole.

More than 12 billion light-years away from Earth, the reservoir is more proof "that water is pervasive throughout the universe," says Matt Bradford, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.