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

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Leucippus was the first to reject religious explanations. According to him, every event has a natural cause. What? Step inside the walls San Quentin State Prison for a podcast exploring every facet of life behind bars Lionesses, the female lions, do most of the hunting for the pride and work together to take down large animals like zebras and wildebeests. This was okay. There were a ton of subjects and a lot of facts. Nothing too original, but there should be something to interest everyone. In the second book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, top-secret training continues into summer for aspiring spy Ben Ripley—and so does the danger.

PDF / EPUB File Name: Interesting_Facts_For_Curious_Minds_-_Jordan_Moore.pdf, Interesting_Facts_For_Curious_Minds_-_Jordan_Moore.epub Ants don’t have lungs. They instead breathe through spiracles, nine or ten tiny openings, depending on the species. Want to impress your friends and family with both useful, worthless but undeniably interesting facts? Although it has striped markings like zebras, the okapi is most closely related to the giraffe. In fact, the okapi and the giraffe are the only two living members in the family Giraffidae. Because of its resemblance to zebras, the okapi is also called zebra giraffe. 405/500 Lions are the only big cats that live in groups called prides, consisting of several related females and their young, along with a few male lions.Martial artists who smile before the start of a match are more likely to lose. This could be as a smile can convey fear or submissiveness. Interesting Facts For Curious Minds gives you the answer to all these and many, many more questions that I know have crossed your mind from time to time. This book is divided into 63 chapters by topic for your convenience, bringing you a nice mix of science, history, pop culture, and all sorts of stuff in between. Each chapter contains 25 concise yet engaging factoids that are sure to make you think and at times laugh. The world's tallest man was Robert Wadlow from Michigan, America. He measured 8 feet and 2 inches (or 272cm). Strong winds on Mars can create huge dust tornadoes called dust devils over half a mile wide and high. The T.rex likely had feathers. Scientists in China discovered Early Cretaceous period tyrannosaur skeletons that were covered in feathers. If the ancestors of the T. rex had feathers, the T. rex probably did, too.

Your brain is constantly eating itself. This process is called phagocytosis, where cells envelop and consume smaller cells or molecules to remove them from the system. Don’t worry! Phagocytosis isn't harmful, but actually helps preserve your grey matter. 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. Football teams wearing red kits play better. The colour of your clothes can affect how you’re perceived by others and change how you feel. A review of football matches in the last 55 years, for example, showed that teams wearing a red kit consistently played better in home matches than teams in any other colour. Most ginger cats are male. There are roughly three ginger male cats to one ginger female. This is because the ginger gene is found on the X chromosome, meaning female cats would require two copies of the gene to become ginger whilst males only need one. The fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. The 36-letter word was first used by the Roman poet Horace in the first century BCE to criticise those writers with an unreasonable penchant for long words. It was American poet Aimee Nezheukumatathil, possibly afraid of their own surname, who coined the term how we know it in 2000.

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Interesting Facts For Curious Minds: 1572 Random But Mind-Blowing Facts About History, Science, Pop Culture And Everything In Between by Jordan Moore – eBook Details Animals can be allergic to humans. Animals can be allergic to our dead skin cells – dander. These allergic reactions can be just like ours, too, including breathing difficulties and skin irritation. Male lions can weigh up to 550 pounds (250 kilograms), while females are generally smaller, weighing around 350 pounds (160 kilograms). Platypuses sweat milk. This is because it doesn't have teats. Milk appears as sweat on a platypus, but it's an aquatic mammal so it doesn't actually sweat at all.