Figs can contain dead wasps.
Female wasps lay their eggs in male figs that we don’t eat, but sometimes the wasp will accidentally enter a female fig
2020
11% of US working age adults are on antidepressants.
Overall, 16.7 percent of 242 million U.S. adults reported filling one or more prescriptions for psychiatric drugs in 2013
2013
It is hypothesized that water movement reduced the local ethylene concentration on the root surface and consequently inhibited root hair development of sorghum seedlings grown in the mat system.
In 1986, the night before the Challenger shuttle exploded, Allan McDonald, the Director of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor Project, Refused to Sign the Launch Recommendation over Safety Concerns..
The resulting improvements led to 110 shuttle missions in which the boosters came back pristine.
The Chicken Gun, a compressed-air cannon used to fire dead chickens at aircraft components.
It simulates high-speed bird strikes during the aircraft's flight.
2020
The Likov family Lived in the Siberian wilderness completely isolated for 40 years.
When they were discovered in 1978 they were unaware that World War II had taken place.
2013
The minimum sound threshold a human ear drum can detect is 1x10^-12 watts/square meter. To put in perspective just how sensitive that is, if.
To put in perspective just how sensitive that is, if our ear drum was the size of England, it could detect the weight of a banana on it.
2020
Stairs go counter-clockwise because of castle defenses.
Since most people are right-handed they were able to hold the railing with their left and the sword with their right.
2020
Abnormal “Heatwave” to Enter the Arctic Region this Week,.
As the warm air moves into the North Pole, it pushes out the colder air, into North America.
In 1998, Sony accidentally sold 700,000 camcorders that could see through people’s clothes.
The cameras had a special lens that use's infrared light to use as night vision.
2016
The Rarest natural Hair color in the World is Red. Only 1-2% of the World has Natural Red Hair.
Second is blond, with 3%, then brown/brunette, with 11%, and finally black with 75-85%.
2020
A fitness app accidentally revealed the location of military bases around the world.
The app uses GPS to track users activitity, this information was used create a heat map
2018
In 1993 there was a Proposal to build an Advertising Billboard in Outer Space that would Appear roughly the same Size and Brightness as the moon.
The project didn't meet funding and inspired a bill to ban all advertisement in outer space.
The international law states that it is legal to kill any enemy soldier regardless of function or rank.
Even if that soldier is not a combatant or is on leave. Killing civilians is forbidden even if they are actively involve in the military effort.
2010
