Interesting Facts For Curious Minds: 1572 Random But Mind-Blowing Facts About History, Science, Pop Culture And Everything In Between

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Lot of fun. Would be great guest bathroom book as it is interesting and informative that can be “digested” in short increments.

Sound waves generate heat when they travel and are absorbed by materials. You can yell at your soup to warm it. What is it? The go-to podcast to learn everything about spying on other people online, while avoiding to be spied on Brazilian legend Pele claims he scored over 1,200 goals in his career, though not all were officially recorded. Earth’s poles are moving. This magnetic reversal of the North and South Pole has happened 171 times in the past 71 million years. We’re overdue a flip. It could come soon, as the North Pole is moving at around 55 kilometres per year, an increase over the 15km per year up until 1990. You might think that stars are all the same, but each star is a different colour depending on its temperature.Some animals display autistic-like traits. Autistic traits in animals include a tendency toward repetitive behaviour and atypical social habits.

Most maps of the world are wrong. On most maps, the Mercator projection – first developed in 1569 – is still used. This method is wildly inaccurate and makes Alaska appear as large as Brazil and Greenland 14 times larger than it actually is. For a map to be completely accurate, it would need to be life-size and round, not flat. Cubs start learning to hunt when they are around one year old but typically stay with their pride until they are about two or three years old.No, some random lizard didn’t do anything exasperating. The common basilisk is called the Jesus Christ lizard for its ability to run or walk on water. They do this through manipulating water surface tension through the special construction of their feet. Alternate universes possibly exist.

A horse normally has more than one horsepower. A study in 1993 showed that the maximum power a horse can produce is 18,000W, around 24 horsepower. Lions are known to be very social animals, often seen grooming each other or napping together in the shade.Mount Everest isn't the tallest mountain on Earth. Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa in Hawaii, the twin volcanoes, are taller than Mount Everest due to 4.2km of their heights being submerged underwater. The twin volcanoes measure a staggering 10.2km in total, compared to Everest’s paltry 4.6km.

Lions are powerful carnivores, meaning they primarily eat meat, and their diet consists mainly of large herbivores. Earth’s rotation is changing speed. It's actually slowing. This means that, on average, the length of a day increases by around 1.8 seconds per century. 600 million years ago a day lasted just 21 hours. There are more bacterial cells in your body than human cells. The average human is around 56 per cent bacteria. This was discovered in a 2016 study and is far less than the earlier estimates of 90 per cent. As bacteria are so light, however, by weight, each person is over 99.7 per cent human. Mercury, not Venus, is the closest planet to Earth on average. On average, Mercury is 1.04 astronomical units (AU) away from Earth compared to the 1.14 AU average distance between Earth and Venus. One AU is equal to the average distance between the Earth and the Sun. Venus still comes closest to Earth as part of its orbit around the Sun, however. Andrew Keen became famous in the 2000s for his scathing criticism of internet culture and its deleterious effects on how expertise is perceived – in some ways prophesying many of the problems dogging cyberspace today. His podcast is less focused on that and more concerned with the future of capitalism at large. Keen, a bluff Brit whose accent verges on the Mid-Atlantic, conducts with panache interviews with luminaries of all stripes, from Yanis Varoufakis to Talking Politics's David Runciman.

Flamingoes aren’t born pink. They actually come into the world with grey/white feathers and only develop a pinkish hue after starting a diet of brine shrimp and blue-green algae Protons look like peanuts, rugby balls, bagels, and spheres. Protons come in all different shapes and sizes, with their appearance changing based on the speed of smaller particles within them: Quarks. The Sun makes a sound but we can't hear it. In the form of pressure waves, the Sun does make a sound. The wavelength of the pressure waves from the Sun is measured in hundreds of miles, however, meaning they are far beyond the range of human hearing. All mammals get goosebumps. When your hair stands on end, tiny muscles contract at each hair's base which distorts the skin to create goosebumps. This process is called piloerection and is present in all mammals. Hair or fur is used to trap an insulating air layer. Full Book Name: Interesting Facts For Curious Minds: 1572 Random But Mind-Blowing Facts About History, Science, Pop Culture And Everything In Between