When the summer heat gets unbearable, you just turn on your air conditioner for near-instant relief. At least that’s what you do here in America. In many places of the world, though, having an AC in your home is a luxury that very few people are privileged enough to have. Yet, in many of the …
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Do you know these fun facts all about cheetahs? A cheetah’s muscular tail helps control their steering and keep their balance while they’re running fast, almost like a boat’s rudder. A cheetah’s typical stride is about 21 feet long. Cheetahs live in Eastern and Southern Africa. Including its body and tail, a cheetah can grow …
These fun facts about Mars may surprise you. You’ll have to let me know which fun facts surprised you! A Martian day is called a sol. The southern hemisphere of Mars has lots of highland as well as lots of craters. Mars’s gravity is only about 38% as much as Earth’s. Mars is the second …
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Genetic modification has done a lot to benefit humanity. It has given more plentiful crops, like corn and rice, and even medications, like bacteria-produced insulin. Not every genetic experiment has been a great success. For example, you can look at the one that turned cuddle hamsters into ultraviolent psychos. And then there are those genetic …
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What do you know about these rainbow fun facts? Did you know Earth is the only planet that experiences rainbows? The shape of a rainbow isn’t an arc, but instead a full circle. From the ground, we only see a semi-circle. You’ll sometimes see a double rainbow, also called a secondary rainbow. A double rainbow …
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If you know all of these spring fun facts, that would be surprising. Like do you know which mammal travels furthest each year? The day and night are similar in length to the point of being almost equal during the spring equinox and the word equinox comes from the Latin words meaning “equal night.” April …
Some animals are shockingly intelligent. They can learn to use tools, solve complex environmental puzzles, and remember stuff for longer than humans can. They can even learn to obey traffic lights — in their own way. Dr. Vladimir Dinets, a zoologist from New Jersey, has discovered a young hawk that has developed a unique hunting …
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Fossils can tell us so much about what life was like on ancient Earth. For example, a few footprints are enough to know that one rainy day, one of the first land animals was playing around with a friend. Some fossils, though, leave everybody scratching their heads. Life has taken many forms over four billion …
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Life originated in Earth’s oceans some 4 billion years ago, but it took a hot minute for it to crawl onto dry land. The first creatures started flopping around on land some 400 million years ago, and they didn’t start truly walking until some 318 million years ago. Or that’s what the general understanding has …
Considering that your brain activity is what makes you you, you might think it’s a fairly stable organ. But that’s not true at all. Your brain changes over your life — a lot. And sometimes, even seemingly innocuous small things we do every day physically alter our brains. Some of them change your brain for …
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