75+ Amazing Facts I Just Found Out the First Time Ever

well you've probably noticed that the colder it is outside the louder the snow crunches under your feet it happens because when the snow compresses teeny ice greens rub against each other the lower the temperature the greater the friction between the ice grains and the louder the crunching sound is hey yes no can you hold it down over there thanks adult cats only meow to communicate with us humans kittens can meow at their moms but grown cats don't interact with each other this way scientists have even found that these animals are great manipulators when it comes to cat human dialogue cats can change the pitch of their meows so that they sound more like crying babies they've long figured out that this way they get more food and attention a reindeer's eyes change color from gold in the summer to baby blue in the winter such a color shift improves the animal's vision because it influences the way the light gets reflected through the retina escalator brushes weren't designed to clean our shoes they were invented for much more important safety reasons you see escalators tend to break when people stand too close to their edges between the side of an escalator and the wall there's a gap it's almost unnoticeable but if something like a piece of clothing gets inside it may get stuck in the maze of motors and gears then the escalator can not only break down but also damage the foreign object escalator brushes prevent such accidents by scaring you away from nearing the gap as soon as you feel the bristles on your leg you instinctively move away just one bolt of lightning will provide enough energy for a two-slice toaster to work for 84 000 minutes it's also enough time to cook almost 100 000 slices of toast really getting goosebumps when you're frightened goes back to the times when you could only fend off a predator if you look scarier than your opponent when you get goosebumps all the tiny hairs on your body stand up supposedly making you bigger and more intimidating yeah that works for me roosters can be exceptionally loud and the question is how do they not go deaf if this thundering noise is coming right out of their beaks simple they have a natural mechanism that works as built-in earplugs once a rooster opens its beak and gets ready to crow its auditory canals close off and no sound can come in that's not quite fair isn't it airlines have minimized the space allotted to our gluteus maximus from a comfy 34 inches per seat to a tight 29. candy's confusing some familiar favorites have shrunk over the decades here's a word for when the amount you buy shrinks but the price remains the same shrink-flation but what do you call it when just the price shrinks a bargain not only have library fines been shrinking some libraries have ditched them all together ironically this made their losses shrink too people return more books when they aren't penalized as you age it's harder to lose weight everywhere except the brain after age 40 we lose about five percent of our brain weight a decade we shrink each day that we spend walking or sitting the pads between our vertebrae get compressed by the weight of all the spine above them but these pads puff up again while we sleep until we hit 40 when those discs stop plumping up like they used to on average men will lose about an inch and women will lose two inches not the gum we chew with our teeth but the gums holding them together as we age our gums recede giving the impression that our teeth are getting longer hence the expression long in the tooth a microsoft study found that while people had an average attention span of 12 seconds in the year 2000 it's now dropped to 8 seconds that's less than a goldfish they will focus for 9 seconds the ads we watch are designed to shrink once shot commercials get cut into a variety of shorter lengths after you've seen the one minute version expect a 45 second 30 second and a 15 second version to follow 15 seconds is plenty because the time we need to pick up media cues has also shrunk that's why the action in old movies seems so slow throughout the 1900s product jingles for brands like coke and pepsi were written as songs complete with verses and bridges today the 30-second version of a commercial is the most common show it's simply not enough time for the whole song but you can still fit in we are farmers around 360 million years ago there was so much oxygen in the air that the earth was home to giant insects some of them could spread their wings up to 28 inches in length that's a big bug the word okay stands for all correct yup 200 years ago it was fashionable to go around and misspell things for fun when a newspaper editor wrote all correct with an o and a k somebody picked it up our hands and toes wrinkle when we spend time in the water in order to improve our grip when trying to get wet or submerged objects before trees appeared on earth the land was overtaken with giant mushrooms that could reach 24 feet in height that's as tall as a giraffe before lobsters became a delicacy that only rich people could afford they were considered a low-quality food that was only served to the poor a few hundred years ago even fishermen use lobsters to bake fish and fertilize their crops hey camels have three eyelids to protect their eyes from sand two of the eyelids have eyelashes and the third one is a thin membrane that acts as a wiper that cleans dirt from the eyes unlike regular eyelids the membrane layer closes horizontally we blink almost 30 000 times per day if we were to count how long our eyes remain closed it would equal a half an hour the infinity sign is actually called a lemna skate and no matter how big a number you think of it's always closer to zero than infinity the rarest blood type isn't a b negative but something called rh null blood in the last 50 years only 43 people were found to have it because it's so difficult to find it's considered the golden blood and it's worth as much as the precious metal you know rain has no scent but that lovely smell that we sniff when it rains comes from bacteria that live in the soil rain also gets the smell from plant oils and minerals released from the soil a man named steve feltham holds the guinness world record for the longest time spent looking for the loch ness monster he camped at loch ness for over 28 years i hear that when he was tired you could see him dragging old mattresses are notably heavier than the new ones because of the stuff they collect during their lifetime this debris is flaked off skin dust mites human and animal hair sand soil pollen and many more things you probably don't want to hear about now seahorses pair up for life and often travel around together holding each other's tails by the way it's the male that carries the couple's eggs you know about albinism but what about its opposite melonism melanistic animals have too much dark pigment in their skin feathers or hair and unlike their light-colored counterparts they look almost black the word facetious has five vowels in alphabetical order if you consider why a vowel then the word facetiously has all six and in case you're wondering almost is the longest english word with all its letters in alphabetical order the cougar is a guinness record holder because it has more names than any other animal it's known as the panther mountain lion puma and 40 other english 25 native north american and 18 native south american names here kitty niagara falls has moved back about seven miles in the past twelve thousand years due to erosion at the base luckily the rate of this process has reduced over the past few decades and the waterfall might eventually stop moving and stay where it is now the first watermelons were extremely bitter or simply bland they were originally cultivated in africa just for their water content if you recycle a single glass jar you'll have enough energy to keep your tv running for four hours astronauts claim that space smells like a searing steak or barbecue exactly this odor hangs around after someone finishes a space walk other astronauts say space smells like heated metal storm clouds may seem to turn dark but it's just an illusion thin clouds on a sunny day let the light through and scatter all the colors of the light spectrum this makes us perceive the clouds as white but the thicker clouds are and the more water they contain the less light they transmit thus they look darker leaves don't really change colors they just lose their green pigment the green usually masks the other colors red orange and yellow so without it those warmer hues become visible and leaves lose this green pigment chlorophyll in the fall because there's less sunlight the chlorophyll can turn into food your own body makes bug bites swell and itch when a mosquito breaks your skin your immune system perceives the insect saliva as a foreign substance and starts making histamine that stuff sends more blood to the bite which causes the area to swell histamine also sends a signal to the nearby nerves making you itch zebras probably have their stripes as protection from bug bites the stripes seem to dazzle the insects and they can't make a controlled landing they either come in too fast and try to avoid the collision at the last moment or they bump into the zebra and bounce off most salt in oceans and seas comes from land rainwater which is a bit acidic flows over rocks and erodes them the water collects the dissolved salt and other minerals but is still drinkable at this point once it gets to the ocean some minerals get removed from the water but not the salt additional saltiness comes from underwater volcanic activity and hydrothermal vents now rain makes you drowsy because the sky is overcast and without sunlight your body produces melatonin the very hormone that makes you sleepy at night the rhythmic rain sound is comforting and creates so-called pink noise which decreases your brain activity and improves your sleep quality the ocean isn't blue per se it just seems like it its trademark bluish hue appears because the water absorbs all colors from the warmer part of the light spectrum yellow orange and red this works like a filter that leaves behind the blue green color we can see now your dog licks you because it makes them feel good it releases endorphins in the animal's body making your pooch feel safe comfortable and happy it also relieves most of the stress your pet feels plus licking is one of the ways your doggie can show you affection now cats regularly lick themselves to prevent skin oils from gathering on their fur but it also makes their coats less waterproof than let's say a dog's that's why when cats get wet their fur becomes very heavy and they don't like it one bit your stomach it growls when you're hungry because your digestive muscles are contracting to sort of warm up in preparation for the coming meal they continue to contract even after you eat you just can't hear it anymore because the food in your stomach is muffling the sound now no one knows for sure why we call it black friday probably because stores now open in the middle of the night but originally it was likely used to describe all the heavy traffic depending on this day a hippo skin gives off a red oil that protects the animal from sunburn yes you could say hippos use sunblock only their unnatural spf doubles as an antibiotic cream too now moose have such sensitive antlers that they can feel a fly landing on them there are real flying dragons in the rainforest of southeast asia but if you're expecting a massive fire breathing reptile soaring over the poor townspeople tough luck it's a tiny little lizard about the size of your hand and it doesn't really fly it glides over a short distance or falling with style you might know of poisonous plants and venomous reptiles and arachnids but there are poisonous birds too the toxins in their bodies feathers and skin make it dangerous for predators to eat them starfish can cover their prey with their stomachs and eat it outside the body then they simply bring their stomachs back inside well that's handy their relatives see cucumbers can do the same party trick except they leave part of their guts behind to scare their attacker it's okay the missing parts quickly grow back crows and ravens are the smartest and sneakiest birds on earth a raven will follow one another long enough to find out where the other guy is hiding his food then the sneaky stalker takes it for himself but the brainiest of them all is the new caledonian crow it makes complex tools like hooks and spears to get insects out from their hidey holes in trees and branches a koala's fingerprints are almost identical to human ones dolphins have highly developed communication they call each other by name that is each dolphin responds to a specific sound mostly they say stop calling me flipper a bird's feathers weigh more than its skeleton so there the most fearless beast on earth that really doesn't care is the honey badger they have virtually no enemies because they're not afraid of anyone one honey badger can take on a whole pack of lions and come out unscathed these hardcore honey lovers are also resistant to snake venom so yeah there's that their cousin the european badger builds extensive underground burrows called sets they have tunnels and room-like offshoots for everybody foxes and rabbits are welcome to share the home as long as they abide by these strict hygiene rules the praying mantis has an ear between its legs the insect uses it as a sonar kind of like bats sea turtles are constantly crying they're not sad or anything the weeping is only because they excrete excess salts from the body through tears the black swift is a mysterious bird that lives eats and even sleeps in the sky they don't land for months at a time which is why so little is known about them the distance they fly over a lifespan is like going to the moon 14 times fish can fly too thanks to their wing-like fins flying fish can soar a distance of about 600 feet almost as long as two football fields they need flight to escape from predators a google is a number followed by 100 zeros i dare you to write that down counting the zeros one by one a computer term there's a bug in the system emerged in 1946 when an actual moth got trapped inside a relay calculator at harvard squirrels accidentally plant millions of trees every year because they forget where they bury their egg corn oh that's nuts a rainbow that happens at night is called a wait for it moonbow they're mostly white and very rare the first microwave was invented by percy spencer in 1945. the engineer received only two bucks for his discovery that's equivalent to thirty dollars today a giraffe's neck can reach up to six feet in length yet it contains the same number of bones as the human neck in 2009 a team of scientists went on an expedition to loch ness lake to locate the famous monster to their surprise they found more than 100 000 golf balls instead tim storms holds the guinness world record for the deepest voice he reached notes that were so low only elephants could hear how many words for snow do you know the scottish have 421 words for the cold fluffy stuff some of them are fifal spitters and snowpalther now i want to watch the scottish tv weatherman i'll bet that's entertaining the skin of a polar bear is actually black but because its fur is clear that's right it ain't white and the strands are hollow they scatter light this creates the illusion that it's white like fifal just like our fingers our tongue has its own unique print we also have around 000 taste buds and each of them has an average lifespan of 10 days i'm tasting a pattern here in the english language if you spelled out all the numbers you'd have to count up to 1 000 before you came across the letter a try it in 1815 indonesia's mount tambora had the biggest volcanic eruption in human history it lasted two weeks it created an ash layer in our planet's atmosphere and 1816 became the year without a summer a day wasn't always 24 hours four and a half billion years ago it was only four hours that was because the moon was

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