Today I found out the difference between discrete and discreet. Simply put, “discreet” describes showing “reserve, prudence, or cautiousness” in one’s behavior or speech. “Discrete”, on the other hand, means “distinct, separate, or unrelated”. A quick and easy mnemonic to remember the difference is to see that in “discrete”, unlike “discreet”, the “e’s” are separated and the definition itself is […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn About Gold Fish’s Memory Text Version Goldfish are one of many types of fish that will not stop eating if there is food available, regardless of how full they are. As such, overfeeding domesticated versions of the fish can easily kill them by blocking their intestines. This isn’t as much of a […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and More Interesting Astronomical Facts Text Version It takes approximately 225 million Earth years for our solar system to make one trip around the Milky Way.
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Today I found out what nougat is made of. There are three main types of nougat: white nougat; brown nougat; and German nougat. White nougat is made primarily from whipping egg whites, sugar, nuts (usually almonds, pistachios, or hazelnuts), and honey together. Brown nougat is made in a very similar fashion as white nougat, except generally without the egg whites […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for the Sources and to Learn More Interesting Astronomy/Earth Related Facts Text Version Along with orbiting around the sun at 66,600 mph, the Earth is also rotating at its axis at about 1,070 miles per hour. So you are simultaneously hurtling around the sun at 66,600 mph while sitting on a rock that is spinning at 1,070 […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and Other Interesting Blood and Body Related Facts Text Version Veins are very close to the surface of skin, which helps them play a role in heat dissipation. Due to this closeness to the surface, they are very visible through the skin. This near-surface location is largely why veins often appear blue despite the fact […]
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##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why Blood Turns Dark Red, Not Blue When De-oxygenated Text Version Cyanide poisoning works by not allowing the body to use oxygen. So the blood remains oxygenated after it passes through your body and back to the lungs. Thus, it causes the body to suffocate, even though the lungs are working properly.
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##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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##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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