Autism is not actually on the rise.
Studies have shown that the apparent increase in cases stems from changes in how physicians define โautismโ
2015
Clockwork Orange was so controversial in the UK that Kubrick requested Warner Brothers withdraw the movie.
up until Kubrick's death in 1999 it was very difficult to watch the movie legally in Britain.
2020
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 corned beef sandwich was smuggled into space.
A corned beef sandwich is exhibited at the Grissom Memorial Museum in Mitchell, Ind., to "memorialize the infamous sandwich" on Gemini 3.
2018
An Eco friendly Variation to Standard Cremation - Hydro Cremation..
The process utilizes a mix of water and sodium to break down the soft tissue of a body and the bones are pulverized to be given to the family. It doesn't utilize formaldehyde, nor does it relase green house gas
In Japan, chefs have to train for over two years in order to qualify to serve Pufferfish.
Two years of training followed by a test which a third of applicants fail.
2012
Peter Van Inwagen.
Presented a famous challenge to free will. If we assume that evrything has a cause (that is, we accept Determinism), it means our current actions also has causes in the past - and these causes has other causes that occurred prior to them. We can easily see that this goes ad nauseam until we reach causes which occured before we were born. This means that our current actions are dictated by factors beyond our control, meaning we have no free will to act.
1975
in 1918, Alice Catherine Evan warned that raw milk should be pasteurized.
met with skepticism because she was a woman. During the 1920s, scientists around the world made the same findings
2020
Enceladus, one of Saturnโs moons, reflects 90% of the Sunโs light.
The icy surface reflects sunlight and temperatures reach as low as -201ยฐ Celsius
2020
William Safire's speech if Apollo 11 became Stranded on the Moon..
"Mission Control would use their euphemism, 'close down communication,' and the men would have to either starve or commit suicide,"
2019
Tried to commit suicide by jumping off the 86th floor but was blown back onto the 85th floor by a gust of wind.
On December 2, 1979, Elvita Adams failed to end it all.
2020
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
Cauliflower comes in multiple colors.
White cauliflower is by far the predominant type of this cruciferous vegetable, but purple, orange, and green varieties also exist.
2020
Individuals who work in fields that have a high risk of financial instability tend to prefer more redistribution compared to their lower-risk peers with similar levels of income. 2006
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
Physicist Lene Hau lead a team in 2001 that was the First to Completely Stop a beam of Light.
Later experiments included turning light into matter, and then matter back into light.
2020
Scottish scientists were awarded ยฃ250,000 in funding to breed sheep who fart less.
They will attempt to create more animals who have the least impact on the environment
2019
