Sorry this isn’t actually a fun fact but when I discovered it I couldn’t stop thinking about it and had to share! Please share this and donate here: https://www.facebook.com/donate/291614992464329/10159129972526628/ Estimates of how much money it would take to end world hunger range from $7 billion to $265 billion per year, a recent UN report stated …
The word quarantine comes from quarantena, the Venetian for ‘forty’. This is because during the times of the Black Death (15th century) ships returning to Venice were ordered to remain on an island for 40 days( which is where we get the word ‘isolation’ coming from the latin ‘insula’ meaning island). Why 40 days? The …
Jordi Rocca of Michelin-Starred restaurant El Celler de Can Roca in Spain developed a cigar-flavoured ice cream. He describes how he first came up with the idea: One day, my teacher talked about how the air is important for an ice cream. It is very important that the air is completely clean. So the ice …
When astronaut Scott Kelly got back from his year-long stay on the ISS, he was technically 0.01 second younger than his twin brother Mark Kelly who stayed on Earth. This is because of the combined time-dilation effects of low-gravity and high-speed. 1.) The further away you are from Earth, the slower time passes, because there’s …
Some people love objects. Like really love them. It’s called Objectum-Sexuality, where people have a love orientation towards objects. Erika Eiffel was one such person and when she visited the Eiffel Tower in 2004 it was love at first sight. Four years later she had a commitment ceremony and changed her name to reflect the …
A unique species of Octopus in Northern Australia has been seen crawling on land. It walks along the rocks to transfer from one rockpool to another in search of crabs.
