- More than half of the oxygen you breathe comes from marine photosynthesisers, like phytoplankton and seaweed.
- In 2001, Pizza Hut became the first company in the world to deliver its food to outer space, they paid a million dollars to send a salami pizza to the International Space Station (ISS).
- Beekeepers wear white beekeeping suits because white is the least attractive to an angry Honey Bee. Honey Bees become mad when they feel threatened and animals that are a threat to the hive are not white.
- Caffeine is the coffee plant’s natural defence mechanism. It leaches into the surrounding soil as leaves from the plant drop and is decomposed into the soil. Since caffeine is toxic to other plants, it prevents other plants from growing around the coffee plant and competing for sunlight.
- Water is not colourless. The pure water has a slight blue colour that becomes a deeper green as the thickness of the observed sample increases. The blue hue of the water is an intrinsic property and is caused by selective absorption and scattering of white light.
- The main reason why Mickey, Donald, Pinocchio & other early Disney characters wear gloves is that it was easier to animate them. Walt Disney told his biographer that the gloves also exist for another reason “We didn’t want him to have mouse hands because he was supposed to be more human”
- In 2006, a woman farted on a plane and tried to cover up the smell by lighting matches, causing an emergency landing and an FBI investigation. Although she was not charged in the incident, she was also not allowed back on the plane.
- Apple purchased the iPhone.org domain name in 1999, eight years before the official introduction of the iPhone.
- When Medieval monks would fast for religious reasons they would sometimes drink lots of beer instead of eating food since drinking did not count as “food”.
- The north star is 4000 times brighter than our sun. The light we see when we look at the north star was generated in 1587, and it has been travelling through space for 434 years to reach us.
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