##EMBED## Click Here to Read More Interesting Body Facts Text Version Bone cells burn about 2.3 Calories per kilogram. If you are a man, on average about 15% of your body mass is made up of bone. For women, that number is around 12%.
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Today I found out why championship football games are called “bowls”. In 1901, the Roses Association sponsored a college Tournament East-West football game between Michigan and Stanford. In this game, Stanford quit in the third quarter, being down 49-0. For the next 15 years, this annual event stopped featuring football, rather featured other events such as chariot racing. However, in […]
Read moreTop Five Most Visited Articles in January: 1.Why Zippers Have YKK on Them [Jan. Visitors: 39,324 | Posted On Jan. 5, 2010] 2. The Woman Jack Nicholson Thought was His Sister was Actually His Mother [Jan. Visitors: 22,544 | Posted On Nov. 29, 2010] 3. Dragonflies can fly up to 60 mph [Jan. Visitors: 19,544 | Posted On Jan. 3, […]
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Myth: The Super Bowl is watched by over a billion people every year. This myth seems to get spread around by the media every year around Super Bowl time, as well as by fans themselves. For this amount of people to watch the Super Bowl, about one out of every seven people on the planet would have to tune in. […]
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Today I found out the rights to the game Tetris were originally owned by the Soviet Union. The game was created by Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov, with the assistance of Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov who ported it to an IBM PC, and was released on June 6, 1984. At the time, Pajitnov was working at the Dorodnicyn Computing Center, which […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn if It is Really Possible to Swallow Your Tongue or Not Text Version As you age, the number of taste buds you have tend to diminish. An average child is born with about 10,000 taste buds. An average elderly person only has about 5,000. This is partially why many kids hate vegetables […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and More Daylight Saving Facts Text Version Daylight saving time once single handedly thwarted a terrorist attack, causing the would-be terrorists to blow themselves up instead of other people. What happened was, in September 1999, the West Bank was on daylight saving time while Israel was on standard time; West Bank terrorists prepared bombs set […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and More Interesting Facts About Marie Antoinette Text Version Marie Antoinette’s last words were “pardon me sir, I meant not to do it.” She had accidentally stepped on the foot of the executioner and was apologizing for it.
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Today I found out that no two people in this world have identical fingerprints, not even identical twins. You would expect identical twins to have the same fingerprints as they are monozygotic, which means that they develop when a single fertilized egg splits in two, leading to two embryos. As they both came from the combination of the same egg […]
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Today I found out how people swallow swords. But, don’t try this at home! If you always considered swallowing swords a gimmick, you may be surprised to find out that is not always the case. Besides the gimmicky acts where special trick swords are used or when performers prepare for the event by swallowing a metal tube, this amazing feat […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why You Can’t Tickle Yourself Text Version It turns out, the panic response when a tarantula is crawling on your leg or the like is exactly what is happening when you are getting tickled. The body’s response to being tickled is panic and anxiety. It is thought that this is a defense […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources Text Version The type of spelling error based on a mishearing of a word or misunderstanding of its context, such as with “just deserts”, which is often misspelled as “just desserts”, is called an eggcorn.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn About Where the Term “Pipe Dream” Comes From Text Version “Operation Pipe Dreams” was a 2003 nationwide United States investigation which targeted business selling drug paraphernalia. In the end, hundreds of businesses and homes were raided nationwide. Fifty-five people were charged with trafficking of illegal drug paraphernalia and eventually fined and generally […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn How Many Senses Humans Have, which is Much More than the Traditional Five Text Version Cattle tend to align themselves north-south, which leads some researchers to believe they have a strong magnetoception sense.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn What Causes Ice Cream Headaches Text Version The scientific name for an ice cream headache is “sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia”. This basically just means “nerve pain of the sphenopalatine ganglion”.
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn How Deaf People Think Text Version Deaf people typically clap by striking their hands together only when surrounded by hearing people. Otherwise, they use the more expressive motion of raising their hands and twisting their wrists rapidly to “clap”.
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Myth: Tang was invented for the NASA space program. In fact, Tang was actually invented by chemist and occasional playwright William A. Mitchell in 1957 while he was working for General Foods. General Foods introduced Tang to the public in powder form in 1959, but it wasn’t popular initially. This changed when NASA decided to use it in 1962 during […]
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