It’s late at night as you crawl into your comfy bed and pull the blanket up to your ears. But just as you’re about to fall asleep, it begins. From somewhere, you can’t quite tell where, emanates a repeating, bassy thumping. It resonates in your walls, filling your bedroom until falling asleep becomes just a …
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What do you think of the stupendous starfish? Did you know they can live up to decades in the wild? Starfish are also known as sea stars and they aren’t even fish. How many of these starfish facts do you think you know? Human activities like coastal development, overfishing and population are increasingly threatening the …
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These cat facts will probably surprise you. Like do you know why cats groom themselves or better yet the benefits to them as their grooming? Cats may purr to self-soothe. The sometimes purr when behavior, since they make this noise when they’re ill or distressed, as well as when they’re happy. Cats will refuse food …
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When Friday night rolls around, many people like to welcome the weekend with a stiff drink, a joint, or something else. But getting buzzed off of psychoactive substances isn’t a human-only trait by any means. Animals, too, have been observed getting drunk or high by consuming various plants or other critters. Whether they do it …
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Arachnophobia, claustrophobia, anatidaephobia… Phobias of all kinds are relatively common issues that people around the world struggle with. But the thing about phobias is that they evolve with the times. For example, there wouldn’t have been any aerophobic people (that is, those scared of flying) before the advent of hot air balloons and airplanes. With …
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Serena Williams has discovered how magical breast milk is and she’s using it on her face. This is the story. Williams became a mom again back in August and after welcoming her second daughter, Adira River, she decided to use her lactation supply to the fullest and even tried it out on herself. In a …
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Old graveyards and other ancient burial sites are treasure troves for archeologists in every sense of the word. Both the human remains and the goods they were buried with can tell us a lot about our ancestors. The Tainiaro gravesite in northern Finland is one of the largest and northernmost Stone Age burial grounds. As …
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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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