Fun facts or trivia questions, it doesn’t matter what you call them. Do you know these? The world’s fastest growing plant is bamboo. Michael Jackson was called the Kind of Pop. A candle’s flame is hot and blue in zero gravity. In Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”, Petruchio’s manservant was called Grumia. The Guinness …
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If there’s one thing everybody knows about Australia, it’s the fact that the continent is sentient and just wants you dead. It seems almost every single living Australian creature is venomous to some degree. Ants, spiders, snakes, octopi, reptiles, and even the weirdly cute platypus are all venomous. We suspect even the Australians themselves might …
Museums and other archeological collections have a noble mission — preserving our past so that we won’t forget it. Usually, they carry out their task by collecting old objects and artifacts. But as museums themselves get older, their collections begin to fill with all kinds of ancient junk, like a hoarding grandma’s attic. Occasionally, some …
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Did you know that November is National Healthy Skin month? Because it is and these are all the natural ways that you can use to take care of your skin. Honey When you add honey to your skin, it draws moisture from the air and binds it. The added hydration will give your skin a …
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Here are more jellyfish fun facts for National Jellyfish Day! Can you hardly wait? Not only that, but box jellyfish can also move up to six meters per minute! The shelf-like shape of their bells allows them to catch and expel water more quickly than most jellies, which simply drift with the current. That is …
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What do you know about jellyfish? Today is National Jellyfish Day and a bunch of fun facts to go with it. Jellyfish do not have scales, gills, or fins like fish because they are not fish. They are 98% water. Jellyfish have one orifice that does the job of both the mouth and the anus. …
Picture yourself as an archeologist digging through the ruins of an ancient Neolithic city. Then, you find something. Slowly, from beneath sand and soil, you discover a statue. It’s a huge slab of stone carved into the shape of a giant man, more finely detailed than what you would’ve expected from the period. And the …
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The sun starts our days with natural light and we finish our days with manmade light. Here are a bunch of light fun facts. Light sources can be natural or manmade. The speed of light is exactly 299 792 km per second (when in a vacuum and not obstructed by the atmosphere. Optics is the …
We know them as puppies, kitties, and bunnies. Biologists and some other kinds of nerds know them as Canis lupus familiaris, Felis catus, and Oryctolagus cuniculus. The scientific naming system, or binomial nomenclature, helps researchers classify and organize different species. Developed by Carl Linnaeus in the 18th century, the system assigns each species a two-part …
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There are a lot of strange sounds in this world and only some of us can hear them. Is it you? Sounds on the Moon Obviously you’d have to be on the moon to have heard the music but did you think they were hearing music up there? Astronauts on the Apollo 10 mission got …
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