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
Scientists Attached Stilts to the Legs of Ants to Prove that they Return to their Nests by Counting their Steps..
The regular ants walked right to the nest and went inside. The ants on stilts walked right past the nest and got lost.
Eating fast food regularly has the same impact on the liver as hepatitis.
One month of eating fast food can cause significant changes to your liver
2013
The red food dye for Skittles is made from boiled beetles.
The extract was used from the Middle Ages until the 19th century to make crimson dye. Now it is used as a coloring for yogurt and other food products
2020
The Icelandic language has changed very little from its roots.
Modern Icelandics can still read texts written in the 10th Century with relative ease.
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
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.
They’re often afraid to participate in activities that many would characterize as fun, or of being happy.
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
Humans DNA is 40% the same as bananas.
think of human DNA as a blueprint of a ranch home and banana DNA as that of a colonial-style home. In each house, a bunch of things are similar but the end products are both quite different.
2019
Astronauts Return from Months in Space to Earth Changed by Pandemic..
"It's a little bit difficult to believe that we are truly going back to a different planet."
You can find peanuts in dynamite.
Water is a consumable food product, and as such, it is subject to laws requiring expiration dates on all consumables
2010
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.
A Danish company Modified a Version of Plant, that Changes from Green to Red when being near Landmines.
This is done by the nitrogen dioxide gas released from landmines.
2004
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.
HIV's Patient 0.
AIDS ‘patient zero’ is believed by scientists to have lived in Cameroon Africa, and contracted the disease around 1908, after hunting a chimp and being infected with SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus)
2011
The Nazi's Attempt to Build a Sun Gun.
A 100-meter-wide mirror in space that reflects sunlight onto the enemy, burning cities and boiling reservoirs
2020
The Sputnik virophage is a parasite of a parasite of a parasite.
It's a parasite of Mamavirus, which infects Acanthamoeba, which can infect humans.
2020
Sweet drinks can cause dementia.
studies have shown that people who drink one or more artificially sweetened drinks per day were almost three times more likely to develop dementia.
2017
