What do you think of these quotes about winter? If you hate the season, it’s almost over! “Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.” — George R.R. Martin “Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” — Tom Allen. This has …
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To keep your species alive, you need to have babies. For the most part, procreation follows the classic, tried-and-true method. If you don’t know what we’re talking about, go ask your parents about the birds and bees. Nature isn’t big on standardization, though, and some animals carry on their legacy in unusual ways. Some of …
We’re all doomed to die. No, that’s not teenage nihilism or Shakespearean introspection — it’s a fact of life. To illustrate this point, an estimated 99.9% of all species that have ever existed are long gone. Whether it is a plant or animal, big or small, any given species rarely survives past 15 million years. …
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No matter how mundane of a body part it is, at some point along the evolutionary line, it appeared for the first time. Something as basic as eyes, blood, or even brains stop existing if you go far enough back in history. The same goes for the butthole. An animal’s rear passage can be a …
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Do you know these national park fun facts? There are so many more that didn’t make this list, but how cool do these sound? The oldest park east of the Mississippi River is Acadia National Park. This park was also the first instance in which land was donated to the federal government. There are more …
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Some animals are carnivores, while others are content to munch on leaves and fruits. You can usually tell fairly quickly whether an animal eats plants, other animals, or both. Yet, sometimes nature throws a curveball at you. Certain animals do not eat at all what you’d expect. Perhaps they’re real gourmands who go only for …
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These crazy body facts might surprise you! Did you know you’re taller when you sleep at night? Your skeleton regenerates every 10 years so the bones you have will be brand new in about that time. As you age, the process takes longer and leads to your bones naturally thinning. Did you know about this …
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Whether they cultivate their muscles or minds, people have always sought to be faster, stronger, better. To achieve the peak of excellence, athletes and great thinkers both have resorted to various performance boosters, from anabolic steroids to gladiator sweat. However, you don’t need to take anything to do better, whether it’s in sports or academia. …
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Our oceans are delicate things. Their ecosystems are immensely complex, and even a small change in a single thing can cause a ripple effect that reverberates through the entire ocean. Such as the lack of whale poop. Indeed, whales’ gastrointestinal systems produce more than just precious (and revolting) ambergris. They also produce — surprise, surprise …
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Space launches are both incredibly expensive and potentially dangerous, so you’d imagine they’d be humorless, no-nonsense scientific affairs. And they are, for the most part, but the rockets may still carry something utterly unhinged. Ever since Sputnik in 1957, all manners of strange things have made it into Earth’s orbit and beyond. Some of them …
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