Actually, if you were completely naked you would lose the same amount of body heat everywhere. It’s just that your head is less likely to be covered.
Even from low Earth orbit the wall is extremely hard to spot and there are other monuments that are much easier to see. This myth is hundreds of years old, however, so it’s not hard to understand why people would have thought something like this.
Although it may seem this way especially when you see those old windows that seem to be really wavy, glass doesn’t “flow”. Its an amorphous solid.
The truth is that we detect all the tastes on every part of our tongue to roughly the same extent.
Wrong again. People have known since Greek times that we live on a large spherical ball.
Although it can appear blue with the right lighting it is actually dark red.
While they do change color, its actually due to physiological and emotional changes.
The total number of senses varies depending upon the scientist you’re asking. Nociception and proprioception are two examples of “extra” senses, but one things is for sure…we have more than five.
Most people think it’s because of your smell but this is wrong. Baby birds don’t get abandoned just because a human touches them.
Ok, so if you measure height above sea level, Mt. Everest really is the highest. If you measure from base to summit though, it would be Mauna Kea in Hawaii. It’s just that most of it is under water.
Scientists say there are probably 3 million rats in London. That’s about 1 rat every 150 feet…still pretty far.
No, it won’t cause arthritis but after a long time studies show it may lower grip strength.
According to studies at the University of Arizona door handles have the least bacteria in the room. They are too dry and hard for bacteria to survive.
Your fish is actually pretty smart and researchers at the Institute of Technology in Israel have trained them to do some crazy things.
Your fish is actually pretty smart and researchers at the Institute of Technology in Israel have trained them to do some crazy things.
No they don’t. Although they may fall off cliffs during migrations to areas they are unfamiliar with, the suicides are just a myth.
Actually, it does. You’ll need a duck and a tunnel if you don’t believe us.
This myth comes from the fact that after death skin recedes from the body making fingernails and hair appear longer.
It only weighs a gram and would meet air resistance so it may hurt a bit but it certainly wouldn’t kill you.
Even if you picked it up in a fraction of a second, that bit of food would already be infested with bacteria.
Although it’s a technicality, those little things you see aren’t beans…they’re seeds.
While most species do use echolocation to navigate, they aren’t blind at all.
Actually pure water is quite bad at conducting electricity. The water we are familiar with is just contaminated with minerals and other things that really do conduct electricity.
Ostriches never stick their heads in the ground at all. When they feel threatened they flop over and play dead.
While common knowledge says they can only see gray, scientists recently proved that they can actually see shades of blue, yellow, and green as well.
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