Humans and most animals jump using muscles in their legs. But jumping spiders are some of the only creatures on earth that use blood pressure to launch themselves off the ground.
Someone who suffers from "anatidaephobia" believes that somewhere, somehow a duck or goose is constantly watching them
Greenland is very icy and Iceland is very green.
At age 17, Juliane Koepcke was sucked out of an airplane after it was struck by lightning. She fell over 2 miles to the ground still strapped to her plane seat and somehow lived. She then had to endure a 9-day walk through the Amazon jungle before eventually being rescued by loggers. She was the sole survivor of LANSA Flight 508 that killed 93 people in December 1971.
@pmvines Crows are known to scavenge carrion, which contributed to their association with death and thus the term "murder".
If you only have 2 crows, it's an attempted murder 🥁 🤣
Attempted murder because for any animal to be called its group name, you need more than two because with 2 it's just a pair.
Attempted murder lol I like that 😆 man crows are felonious
@lonelytauros Dammit you just made me search for the banned video of Frankie's Relax. Only for that I should flag your @$$
@lonelytauros My lack of trust of my fellow humans just deepened.
@lonelytauros More facts about spiders; Less facts about diapers.
The numbers may be slightly exaggerated but the victory was still remarkable
Gouldian finch chicks are equipped with phosphorescent beads along their mouths so that in the darkness of the nest, the adults can find them easier at feeding time.
The word helicopter is made from the prefix helico (helix) meaning spiral and pter (as in pterodactyl) meaning wing.
@lonelytauros that one about the lady in the airplane…😬! What courage, because if that was me… I may have went into cardiac arrest from the fall, or been in such shock I would have been walking through the jungle with the seat still strapped to me lol!!
P.S. I’m loving everyone’s facts!
It takes about 220 gallons of water to produce one large avocado.
A "water footprint" is a measurement of the total amount of freshwater used to produce a good or service, taking into account the water needed throughout the entire production chain, including the water used to grow the raw materials, manufacture the product, and even transport it, essentially representing the "virtual water" embedded in a product or activity; it's a way to understand the overall water impact of our consumption patterns, similar to a carbon footprint for carbon emissions.
It’s also something that changes based on farming efficiency, and countless other logistical factors.
Growing avocados in a more tropical climate doesn’t require as much water as trying to grow them in a desert.
An aperiodic monotile, is a polygon that can be rotated and/or flipped over in order to "tile a plane" with no gaps and no overlaps.
Tile theory, and the math behind it, is a deep, DEEP rabbit hole.
Fun though.
There is a quantity known as LD#/## (stands for lethal dose), where the # represents the % of people who die from some toxic effect within ## days, so LD50/5 would be 50% die within 5 days. There are LD doses for numerous effects. The LD50/* dose for water is about 2 gallons for a 180lb person (drunk in a relatively short time frame), all the way down to botulinum toxin (the same toxin used in Botox) at (estimated about 80 nanoliters for the same person.
The chance of stopping at a red light is inversely proportional to how eager you are to send a text.
many bird species, such as finches and cardinals, are known to eat spicy peppers and seeds without any apparent discomfort. This is because the capsaicin in the peppers does not bind to the birds' pain receptors, and therefore does not cause the same burning sensation that it does in mammals.
This is one reason why spicy peppers are often used in bird feeders to deter mammals, such as squirrels and raccoons, from eating the bird seed. The capsaicin in the peppers will not harm the birds, but it will help to keep the mammals away.
• Natalie Portman in Black Swan, trained for more than a year. She spent 5 to 8 hours practicing ballet to master the skill of a professional dancer.
• Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, locked himself in a London hotel room for six weeks to develop the personality and details of the Joker. He has perfected his laugh, tone of voice, and characteristic tics to capture the essence of a psycho.
• Christian Bale in The Machinist, lost about 28kg to play Trevor, arriving at only 54kg. A shocking transformation considering she went from a muscular physique (after filming Equilibrium in 2002) to an extremely slim figure.
• Robert de Niro in Taxi Driver, obtained a real taxi driver's license and spent several weeks driving taxis in New York, with shifts of up to 12 hours a day. This experience allowed him to understand the isolation and monotony Travis felt and capture the quirks of night passengers.
Shoes that were specific to left and right were not made until the Civil war.
@gem7 Very interesting fact that I did not know!
Mars was habitable for 200 million years longer than scientists previously thought.
The two highest IQ scores in recorded history belong to women.
Kansas City, Mo. has more fountains than any other city in the world with the exception of Rome, Italy.
@gem7 that's interesting, who are they? I've researched several sources and come up with all males in the top 5.
Marilyn vos Savant has an iq of 228 but I think there’s a guy who’s higher his name was William James Sidis and second would’ve been Christopher Hirata with a 225 iq fascinating nonetheless