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
As part of military training recruits are sprayed with pepper spray and then required to engage in combat.
This is to familiarize them with the sensation and allow them to handle a real life situation
2015
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
HIV's Patient 0.
AIDS βpatient zeroβ 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
Violent rival Gangs in South Africa call Truce to Help people during Pandemic..
The country has seen a 75% decrease in violent crime since the pandemic started
People who Post their Fitness routine to Facebook are More Likely to have Psychological Problems..
According to the researchers, the primary goal is to boast about how much time you invest in your looks.
Hot chocolate tastes better out of an orange cup.
A new study finds that the color of the vending cup used to serve hot chocolate can alter its taste and smell
2013
The Kurilian Bobtail Is A Natural Cat Breed Which Evolved In Isolation.
they are described As Clever And Gentle, And They Love Playing In The Water.
2020
Scientists Scanned the Brains of Bullies and Found they are Physically Small.
People who exhibited anti-social behavior as teenagers but not as adults showed no such abnormalities. Good news for reformed bullies, bad news for lifers.
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
Amazon aims to be carbon neutral by 2040.
Raising the stakes in the eco-friendly delivery wars, Amazon said it has ordered 100,000 electric delivery vans
2019
Michelangelo and Leonardo were commissioned to paint frescos in the same room. They hated each other, bickered, and neither completed their work..
Today you can walk around Florence seeing ghostly images of the two lost masterpieces.
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.
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.
A person with Pteronophobia is afraid of or disgusted by feathers. They may not even like feathered pillows or hats with feathers.
2020
The Chicken Gun, a compressed-air cannon used to fire dead chickens at aircraft components.
It simulates high-speed bird strikes during the aircraft's flight.
2020
The taste map of the tongue that people learned in school is nonsense.
Taste receptors for salty, sweet, bitter and sour are found all over the tongue.
2017
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.
Ed O'Neill used to make Birthday phone calls to Fans of βMarried With Childrenβ In Character.
In true Al Bundy nature, he only called them collect.
2015