You can find anything you want on the Internet. Answers to any questions, shortcuts, solutions – any information you need. Interesting Facts However, it’s so much cooler to impress you friends with your knowledge even without peeping at the screen of your gadget! For example, did you know that reindeer change the color of their eyes from gold in summer to blue in winter. These animals may be best known for fictional Rudolph’s glowing red nose, but it turns out, their eyes are quite fascinating too!
80 Interesting Factssameshrink-flation but what do you call itwhen just the price shrinksa bargain not only have library finesbeen shrinkingsome libraries have ditched them alltogetherironically this made their losses shrinktoopeople return more books when theyaren’t penalizedas you age it’s harder to lose weighteverywhere except the brainafter age 40 we lose about five percentof our brain weight a decadewe shrink each day that we spend walkingor sittingthe pads between our vertebrae getcompressed by the weight of all thespine above thembut these pads puff up again while wesleepuntil we hit 40 when those discs stopplumping up like they used to on averagemen will lose about an inch and womenwill lose two inchesnot the gum we chew with our teeth butthe gums holding them togetheras we age our gums recede giving theimpression that our teeth are gettinglongerhence the expression long in the tooth amicrosoft study found thatwhile people had an average attentionspan of 12 seconds in the year 2000it’s now dropped to 8 secondsthat’s less than a goldfish they willfocus for 9 secondsthe ads we watch are designed to shrinkonce shot commercials get cut into avariety of shorter lengthsafter you’ve seen the one minute versionexpect a 45 second30 second and a 15 second version tofollow15 seconds is plenty because the time weneed to pick up media cues has alsoshrunkthat’s why the action in old moviesseems soslow throughout the 1900sproduct jingles for brands like coke andpepsi were written as songscomplete with verses and bridges todaythe 30-second version of a commercial isthe most common showit’s simply not enough time for thewhole songbut you can still fit in we are farmersaround 360 million years ago there wasso muchoxygen in the air that the earth washome to giantinsects some of them could spread theirwings up to 28 inches in lengththat’s a big bug the wordokay stands for all correct yup200 years ago it was fashionable to goaround and misspell things for funwhen a newspaper editor wrote allcorrect with an oand a k somebody picked it upour hands and toes wrinkle when we spendtime in the waterin order to improve our grip when tryingto get wet or submergedobjects before trees appeared on earththe land was overtaken with giantmushrooms that could reach 24 feet inheightthat’s as tall as a giraffebefore lobsters became a delicacy thatonly rich people could affordthey were considered a low-quality foodthat was only served to the poora few hundred years ago even fishermenuse lobsters to bake fishand fertilize their crops heycamels have three eyelids to protecttheir eyes from sandtwo of the eyelids have eyelashes andthe third one is a thinmembrane that acts as a wiper thatcleans dirt from the eyesunlike regular eyelids the membranelayer closeshorizontally we blink almost 30000 times per day if we were to counthow long our eyes remain closedit would equal a half an hourthe infinity sign is actually called alemna skateand no matter how big a number you thinkof it’s always closer to zerothan infinity the rarest blood typeisn’t a bnegative but something called rh nullbloodin the last 50 years only 43 people werefound to have itbecause it’s so difficult to find it’sconsidered the golden bloodand it’s worth as much as the preciousmetalyou know rain has no scent but thatlovely smell that we sniff when it rainscomes from bacteria that live in thesoil rain also gets the smell from plantoils and minerals released from the soila man named steve feltham holds theguinness world record for the longesttime spent lookingfor the loch ness monster he camped atloch nessfor over 28 years i hear that when hewas tiredyou could see him dragging oldmattresses are notably heavier than thenew onesbecause of the stuff they collect duringtheir lifetimethis debris is flaked off skin dustmiteshuman and animal hair sand soilpollen and many more things you probablydon’t want to hear aboutnow seahorses pair up for life and oftentravel around together holding eachother’s tailsby the way it’s the male that carriesthe couple’s eggsyou know about albinism but what aboutits oppositemelonism melanistic animals have toomuch dark pigment in their skinfeathers or hair and unlike theirlight-colored counterpartsthey look almost black the wordfacetious has five vowels inalphabetical orderif you consider why a vowel then theword facetiouslyhas all six and in case you’re wonderingalmostis the longest english word with all itsletters in alphabetical orderthe cougar is a guinness record holderbecause it has more names than any otheranimalit’s known as the panther mountain lionpumaand 40 other english 25 native northamericanand 18 native south american names herekittyniagara falls has moved back about sevenmilesin the past twelve thousand years due toerosion at the baseluckily the rate of this process hasreduced over the past few decadesand the waterfall might eventually stopmoving and stay where it isnow the first watermelons were extremelybitter or simply bland they wereoriginally cultivated in africajust for their water content if yourecycle a single glass jaryou’ll have enough energy to keep yourtv running for fourhours astronauts claim that spacesmells like a searing steak or barbecueexactly this odor hangs around aftersomeone finishes a spacewalk other astronauts say space smellslike heated metalstorm clouds may seem to turn dark butit’s just an illusionthin clouds on a sunny day let the lightthrough and scatter all the colors ofthe light spectrumthis makes us perceive the clouds aswhite but the thicker clouds areand the more water they contain the lesslight they transmitthus they look darker leaves don’treally change colorsthey just lose their green pigment thegreen usually masks the other colorsred orange and yellow so without itthose warmer hues becomevisible and leaves lose this greenpigment chlorophyll in the fallbecause there’s less sunlight thechlorophyll can turn into foodyour own body makes bug bites swell anditchwhen a mosquito breaks your skin yourimmune system perceives the insectsaliva as a foreign substanceand starts making histamine that stuffsends more blood to the bitewhich causes the area to swell histaminealso sends a signal to the nearby nervesmaking you itch zebras probably havetheir stripes as protection from bugbitesthe stripes seem to dazzle the insectsand they can’t make a controlled landingthey either come in too fast and try toavoid the collision at the last momentor they bump into the zebra and bounceoffmost salt in oceans and seas comes fromlandrainwater which is a bit acidic flowsover rocks and erodes themthe water collects the dissolved saltand other mineralsbut is still drinkable at this pointonce it gets to the oceansome minerals get removed from the waterbut not the saltadditional saltiness comes fromunderwater volcanic activityand hydrothermal vents nowrain makes you drowsy because the sky isovercastand without sunlight your body producesmelatoninthe very hormone that makes you sleepyat night the rhythmic rain sound iscomfortingand creates so-called pink noise whichdecreases your brain activityand improves your sleep quality theocean isn’t blueper se it just seems like it itstrademark bluish hueappears because the water absorbs allcolors from the warmer part of the lightspectrumyellow orange and red this works like afilter that leaves behind the blue greencolor we can seenow your dog licks you because it makesthem feel goodit releases endorphins in the animal’sbody making your pooch feelsafe comfortable and happy it alsorelieves most of the stress your petfeelsplus licking is one of the ways yourdoggie can show you affectionnow cats regularly lick themselves toprevent skin oils from gathering ontheir furbut it also makes their coats lesswaterproof than let’s say a dog’sthat’s why when cats get wet their furbecomes very heavyand they don’t like it one bit yourstomachit growls when you’re hungry becauseyour digestive muscles are contractingto sort of warm up in preparation forthe coming meal they continue tocontract even after you eatyou just can’t hear it anymore becausethe food in your stomach is muffling thesoundnow no one knows for sure why we call itblack fridayprobably because stores now open in themiddle of the nightbut originally it was likely used todescribe all the heavy traffic dependingon this daya hippo skin gives off a red oil thatprotects the animal from sunburnyes you could say hippos use sunblockonly their unnatural spf doubles as anantibiotic cream toonow moose have such sensitive antlersthat they can feel a fly landing on themthere are real flying dragons in therainforest of southeast asiabut if you’re expecting a massive firebreathing reptilesoaring over the poor townspeople toughluckit’s a tiny little lizard about the sizeof your hand andit doesn’t really fly it glides over ashort distanceor falling with styleyou might know of poisonous plants andvenomous reptiles and arachnidsbut there are poisonous birds too thetoxins in their bodies feathersand skin make it dangerous for predatorsto eat themstarfish can cover their prey with theirstomachs and eat it outside the bodythen they simply bring their stomachsback insidewell that’s handy their relativessee cucumbers can do the same partytrick except they leave part of theirguts behind to scare their attackerit’s okay the missing parts quickly growbackcrows and ravens are the smartest andsneakiest birds on eartha raven will follow one another longenough to find out where the other guyis hiding his foodthen the sneaky stalker takes it forhimselfbut the brainiest of them all is the newcaledonian crowit makes complex tools like hooks andspears to getinsects out from their hidey holes intrees and branchesa koala’s fingerprints are almostidentical to human onesdolphins have highly developedcommunicationthey call each other by name that iseach dolphin responds to a specificsoundmostly they say stop calling me flippera bird’s feathers weigh more than itsskeleton so therethe most fearless beast on earth thatreally doesn’t careis the honey badger they have virtuallyno enemiesbecause they’re not afraid of anyone onehoney badger can take on a whole pack oflions and come outunscathed these hardcore honey loversare also resistant to snake venomso yeah there’s that their cousin theeuropean badgerbuilds extensive underground burrowscalled setsthey have tunnels and room-likeoffshoots for everybodyfoxes and rabbits are welcome to sharethe home as long as they abide by thesestricthygiene rules the praying mantis has anear between its legs the insect uses itas a sonarkind of like bats sea turtles areconstantly cryingthey’re not sad or anything the weepingis only because they excreteexcess salts from the body through tearsthe black swift is a mysterious birdthat liveseats and even sleeps in the sky theydon’t land for months at a timewhich is why so little is known aboutthem the distance they fly over alifespanis like going to the moon 14 times fishcan fly toothanks to their wing-like fins flyingfish can soar a distance of about 600feetalmost as long as two football fieldsthey need flight to escape frompredatorsa google is a number followed by 100zerosi dare you to write that down countingthe zeros one by onea computer term there’s a bug in thesystem emerged in 1946when an actual moth got trapped inside arelay calculator at harvardsquirrels accidentally plant millions oftrees every yearbecause they forget where they burytheir egg cornoh that’s nuts a rainbow that happens atnight is calleda wait for it moonbow they’re mostlywhite and very rarethe first microwave was invented bypercy spencer in 1945.the engineer received only two bucks forhis discoverythat’s equivalent to thirty dollarstodaya giraffe’s neck can reach up to sixfeet in lengthyet it contains the same number of bonesas the human neckin 2009 a team of scientists went on anexpedition to loch ness laketo locate the famous monster to theirsurprisethey found more than 100 000 golf ballsinsteadtim storms holds the guinness worldrecord for the deepestvoice he reached notes that were so lowonly elephants could hear how many wordsfor snow do you knowthe scottish have 421 words for the coldfluffy stuffsome of them are fifal spitters andsnowpalthernow i want to watch the scottish tvweatherman i’ll bet that’s entertainingthe skin of a polar bear is actuallyblack but because its furis clear that’s right it ain’t white andthe strands are hollowthey scatter light this creates theillusion that it’s whitelike fifal just like our fingersour tongue has its own unique print wealso have around000 taste buds and each of them has anaverage lifespan of 10 daysi’m tasting a pattern here in theenglish languageif you spelled out all the numbers you’dhave to count up to 1 000 before youcame across the lettera try it in 1815indonesia’s mount tambora had thebiggest volcanic eruption in humanhistoryit lasted two weeks it created an ashlayer in our planet’s atmosphereand 1816 became the year without asummera day wasn’t always 24 hours four and ahalf billion years agoit was only four hours that was becausethe moon was
The change in eye color helps reindeer eyes capture more light during dark winter months in the Arctic.
80 Interesting Facts
- 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
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