Released in 2010, The Social Network is a film that chronicles the creation of and drama surrounding Facebook in its early days.
Actor Jesse Eisenberg plays the role of Mark Zuckerberg in the film
2010
In 2007, Hong Kong researchers Warned the "Presence of SARS-CoV-like Viruses in Bats.
Together with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China this was a time bomb
2007
The Need For Better Desalination.
According to the United Nations, water supply shortages will affect billions of people by the middle of this century
2019
EF Schumacher, Green economist.
Schumacher's 1973 book Small is Beautiful rewrote the rules by questioning whether the objectives of western economics were desirable
2020
Saint Lucia is the only country in the world named after a woman.
certain territories may be named after women such as the Virgin Islands but Saint Lucia is the only sovereign state among them
2018
The boa constrictor that has reproduced asexually.
This is only the third confirmed case of virgin births from a single female within any vertebrate lineage.
2020
Samuel J. Seymour, a five-year-old boy who witnessed the Lincoln assassination.
At 96 Seymour was a guest on the TV show. he felt bad for Booth, thinking Booth had fallen out of the box
2020
Portuguese Man o’ War is actually Not a Jellyfish..
It’s actually smaller organisms that can’t survive on their own and work together to function as one animal.
in 1974, a trainee who failed to become a US Army pilot stole a helicopter.
He intended to personally surrender to President Nixon, and landed on the South Lawn of the white house
2020
Ben, the Elephant that waited for the Doctor.
After being shot by poachers Ben walked to and patiently waited outside a medical lodge for 5 hours.
2016
Robbers Cave Experiment.
This experiment, which studied group conflict, is considered by most to be outside the lines of what is considered ethical
2008
in 1979, it snowed in the Sahara desert for 30 minutes.
Even Chile’s Atacama Desert(the worlds driest) experienced significant snowfall when a cold front from Antarctica made a rare trip over the Andes
2016
Mike Tyson once offered a zoo attendant 10,000 dollars to let him fight a gorilla.
Tyson got his chance to own powerful animals and wrestle with them in years to come.
2020
Selfies kill more people than sharks.
Between 2011 and 2017, at least 259 people died taking selfies, compared to just 50 people killed by sharks in the same period.
2019
The Yankee Stadium Hex.
a construction worker and Boston Red Sox fan buried a Red Sox jersey underneath the stadium with the objective of placing a "hex" on the Yan
2020
Despite the methodological limitations, the finding that 50 of the 64 reviewed studies revealed an association between diet and AD incidence offers promising implications for diet as a modifiable risk factor for AD.
but most studies show diet is promising for Alzheimer's
2016
The findings of this review highlight the therapeutic potential of combination of nutritionally adequate diet and physical activity in preventing or delaying the symptoms associated with AD pathology.
Diet and Exercise seem to reduce Alzheimer's Disease
2017
Not all wine is vegan.
traditionally producers have used a variety of aids called ‘fining agents’. The most commonly used fining agents were casein (a milk protein), albumin (egg whites), gelatin (animal protein) and isinglass (fish bladder protein).
2011
