Interesting facts - Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest?

There are many things in life that we have not discovered yet. Only a quarter of the Sahara desert is sand, bees can fly higher than Mount Everest, test the durability of phones with a butt-shaped robot,... are interesting facts that books have never seen. mention.

McDonald's used to make broccoli flavored bubbles

Not surprisingly, efforts to get children to eat healthier have been unsuccessful. Fail for the simple reason, kids don't like the taste of green vegetables.

Some fungi have the ability to control animals' minds

The tropical fungus Ophiocordyceps infects the central nervous system of ants. When the fungus was in the ants' bodies for nine days, they had complete control over the host's movements. They force the ants to climb the tree, then convulse and fall to the cool, moist soil below, where the fungus thrives. Once there, the fungus waits until midday to force the ants to bite a leaf and kill them.

The first oranges weren't oranges

The original oranges from Southeast Asia were a hybrid of mandarin and grapefruit, and they were actually green. In fact, oranges in warmer regions like Vietnam and Thailand stay green until ripe.

Scotland has 421 words for "snow"

That means we have 421 interesting facts about snow. Some examples: Sneesl (to touch ni o) (to initiate rain or snow); feefle (swirl) (swirl); flinkdrinkin (light snow) (light snow).

Samsung tests phone durability with a butt-shaped robot

People always keep their phones in their back pockets, that's why Samsung made a robot shaped like a butt and even put on jeans to "sit" on the phone to make sure the phone can withstand it. pressure.

Peanuts are not technically nuts

They are legumes. According to Merriam-Webster, a nut is only a nut if it is "a dried fruit or nut with a hard shell or a shell and a separable inner kernel." That means walnuts, almonds, cashews, and pistachios are also not nuts. They are seeds.

Tatu skin is bulletproof

In fact, a Texas man was hospitalized when a bullet he shot at a Tatu bounced back and lodged in his jaw.

Firefighters use wetting agent to wet water

Chemicals lower the surface tension of plain water, so it's easier to spread and soak into objects, which is why it's called "wet water".

Octopus lays 56,000 eggs at once

The mother spends six months protecting the eggs she doesn't eat. Baby octopuses are the size of a grain of rice when they are born.

Cats have fewer toes on their hind paws than their front paws

Like most four-legged mammals, they have five toes in the front, but their hind feet have only four. Scientists think that four-toed hind claws can help them run faster.

Kleenex (liquid) tissues were originally used for respirators

When there was a shortage of bandages during World War I, the Kimberly-Clark company developed a thin, flat cotton substitute that the military had been trying to use as a filter in respirators. The war ended before scientists perfected the material for the respirator, so the company redeveloped it to be smoother and softer, then marketed Kleenex as a tissue.

Blue whale eats half a million calories in one bite

These 457,000 calories, 240 times more energy than the whale uses to scoop the krill into its mouth.

Small pocket in jeans designed to hold pocket watches

The original pair of jeans only had four pockets: a tiny one, plus two more in the front and just one in the back.

Turkeys can blush

When turkeys are scared or excited, like when males see females they're interested in, the pale skin on their heads and necks turns bright red, blue, or white. The skin on their beaks, known as "snoring", also turns red.

Most Disney characters wear gloves to keep the animation simple

Walt Disney may have been the first to put gloves on his characters, as seen in 1929's The Opry House starring Mickey Mouse. Aside from being easier to animate, there's another reason Disney chose the gloves. Disney told his biographer in 1957, "We didn't want him to have a mouse hand because the character was oriented more like a human."

The man with the deepest voice in the world can make sounds that humans can't hear

A man named Tim Storms can't even hear notes eight octaves lower than the lowest G on a piano, but elephants can.

Thanks to 3D printing, NASA can essentially send "email" tools to astronauts

Getting new equipment to the Space Station usually takes months or years, but new technology can have tools ready within hours.

Only a quarter of the Sahara is sand

Most of the Sahara is covered with gravel, although it also has mountains and oases. And it's not the biggest desert in the world, it's Antarctica.

Ingrown banana

Or technically, we peel them back. Naturally, they grow outward from their trunks, but that means their stalks are actually pointing towards the sky. As they get bigger, the balls turn toward the sun, forming that particular curve.

There were active volcanoes on the moon when the dinosaurs were alive

Most volcanoes may have been dormant a billion years ago, but new NASA findings suggest there could still be lava flows that were active 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs were still moving.

Dogs can smell scent with their left nostril

Dogs usually start sniffing with the right nostril, then keep it there if the smell could signal danger, but they will turn to the left to find something pleasant, like food or a mate.

Avocados are named after their reproductive organs.

Indigenous peoples of Mexico and Central America used the Nahuatl word huacatl (a-qua-catô) to refer to both "testicles" and "avocados". The fruit was originally marketed as "crocodile pear" in the United States until the current name was preserved.

Humans have only two body parts that are constantly evolving.

People's noses and ears are getting bigger and bigger, even when the rest of the body's growth has stopped.

The origin of the phrase "Xmas" is from the Greeks.

In Greek, the word "Christ" begins with the letter Chi, which looks like the X in the Roman alphabet.

Mercedes invented a car controlled by joystick.

The joystick on the 1966 Mercedes F200 controls the speed and direction, replacing both the steering wheel and the pedals. The car can also sense which side the driver is sitting on, so someone can control it from the passenger seat.

The giraffe's tongue can be 60 cm long.

Their bluish-black color is probably meant to protect against sunburn.

Once upon a time, Europeans were afraid to eat tomatoes.

Scholars believe that Hernán Cortés brought the seeds back in 1519 with the purpose of allowing the fruit to be used as a garden decoration. By the 1700s, aristocrats began to eat tomatoes, but they believed that the fruit was poisonous because people would die after eating them. In fact, the acidity from the tomatoes created lead in the peat plates of the ancients, so they would die from lead poisoning.

Humans are not the only animals that sleep.

Studies have shown that rats dream about finding food or running through mazes. Most mammals go through REM sleep, the cycle in which dreams occur, so scientists think they most likely dream.

Eiffel Tower can grow more than 15 cm in summer

Physical principle, High temperature causes metal to expand.

Frankenstein is a vegetarian

Victor Frankenstein's creature is actually vegetarian. Frankenstein and the Monsters are fictional characters created by Mary Shelley in her novel Frankenstein. In the novel, there is a passage, "My food is not human. I do not kill sheep and children for my food. Green vegetables and berries provide me with enough nutrients".

Medical errors are the leading cause of death.

According to a Johns Hopkins research team, 250,000 deaths in the United States are caused by medical errors each year. This makes medical errors the third leading cause of death in the country.

Sloths have more neck bones than giraffes.

Although far behind in body length, the neck of a sloth has more bones than a giraffe. There are seven vertebrae in the neck of giraffes and in most mammals, but there are ten in sloths.

Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest.

According to National Geographic, Bees can fly more than 9 meters above sea level. Fly higher than Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world.

The ancient Egyptians used dead rats to ease toothaches.

In ancient Egypt, people put a dead rat in their mouth if they had a toothache, according to Nathan Belofsky's book "Strange Remedies: A Shocking History of True Medical Methods Through the Ages". Rats were also used as a wart remedy under Elizabeth in England.

Humans have jumped further than horses in the Olympics.

The Olympic world record for the long jump, the human record far surpasses the world record for the longest horse jump. Mike Powell set a record in 1991 when he jumped 8.95 meters, and his horse Extra Dry set a record in 1900 when he jumped 6.10 meters.

The Terminator Scenario was sold for $1.

James Cameron is the award-winning director of films such as Titanic, Avatar, and Terminator. To get his big break with Terminator, he sold the script for $1 and with the promise that he would be able to direct the film.

Onions found in the eyes of an Egyptian mummy

Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses IV replaced his eyes with small onions when mummified. The rings and layers of onions are worshiped because people think they symbolize eternal life. This is consistent with the reason for mummification: for the pharaoh's body to last forever. Let's hope these fun facts don't apply to all practices used today.

Beethoven never knew multiplication or division.

Ludwig van Beethoven is arguably one of the greatest composers in the history of music. The famous pianist attended a Latin school called Tirocinium (small chirping). There he learned some math, but never multiplication or division, only addition. Once when he needed to multiply 62 by 50, he wrote 62 down a line 50 times and added it all up.

Japan has released the sushi-inspired KitKats.

For a while in 2017, the KitKat Chocolatory store in Tokyo made three types of chocolate bars that were inspired by sushi but "didn't taste like raw fish". The tuna sushi is actually raspberries, the seaweed is wrapped in pumpkin pudding, and the sea urchin sushi is actually Hokkaido melon with mascarpone cheese. All are made with puffed rice, white chocolate and a dash of wasabi.

Wild boar knows how to wash food.

National Geographic reports that at the Basel Zoo in Switzerland, zookeepers observed adult and juvenile wild boars picking up apples from the sand and carrying them to a nearby creek in the environment. them to wash before eating. Even wild boars dragged a whole dead chicken to the creek to wash it before eating it. One ecologist calls this a "luxury behaviour".

The British Empire is the largest empire in the history of the world.

According to the World Atlas, an empire "is a group of nations or peoples under the rule of a powerful government or an emperor of a territory usually larger than a kingdom". The Empire of Heroes was at its strongest in the 1920s when they ruled over 23% of the world's population. That's the equivalent of about 13 million square miles.

Penicillin was first called "mold juice".

Alexander Fleming is one of those bizarre scientists who accidentally made a scientific breakthrough. In 1928, the bacteriologist left a petri dish in his lab while he was on vacation and after he discovered that some of the liquid surrounding the mold had killed the bacteria in the dish. This is the world's first antibiotic. But before naming it penicillin, he called it "mold juice".

The MGM lion's roar is trademarked.

The opening scene of any film made by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio has a lion roaring at the audience. Although MGM has gone through many iterations of lion mascots, the sound of the roar has always remained the same. The company registered an "acoustic trademark" with the US Patent and Trademark Office in the 80s.

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