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17/07/2023

Pinch your elbow skin as hard as you can. Chances are, you can barely feel it. There’s actually a name for the extra loose skin at the joints of our elbows. It’s called the Weenus, otherwise known as olecranal skin. There are parts of the skin with different nerve endings and elbow skin has fewer pain detectors than others.

09/07/2023

Cover one eye with the palm of your hand and see what happens. Usually, both pupils will dilate or constrict simultaneously. In dim lighting, our eye pupils dilate, or in other words, open wider, for more light to come in. Once you step into bright light, the pupils will contract.

02/07/2023

In a farming technique used since the 1800s, rhubarb can be transplanted, once it has grown in the open for about two years, to complete darkness. In the darkness, the rhubarb grows so fast that it can be heard making ‘popping’ and ‘stretching’ noises.

18/06/2023

In 1972, Harrison “Jack” Schmitt thought he was traveling to the moon to live out his greatest dream of walking on a foreign celestial body. Little did he know that he would be the very first earthman to be verifiably allergic to an alien material, moon dust.

11/06/2023

Since the tracking of health apps, apple watches, and fitness tracking, there has been a craze over reaching 10,000 a day.

29/05/2023

There’s a famous expression; to kill two birds with one stone. Since dinosaurs are technically the ancestors of birds today, and experts now believe that dinosaurs even had feathers, if you really think about it, the asteroid that caused the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs was technically the highest amount of birds ever killed with a stone.

21/05/2023

We don’t know what we would think if we passed this washed-up spinal column on the beach. Believe it or not, this is the true size of a whale’s spinal column. Their spinal column starts are their head and ends at their tail. They happen to be some of the biggest and heaviest mammals on this planet, so the sheer size doesn’t surprise us.

18/05/2023

Hyenas live in matriarchal societies with the leaders being a singular female who ascends to the top of the clan through physical strength and cunning. Once the matriarch has taken their place atop the pyramid, it is up to them to protect and care for the clan.

08/05/2023

The power of a good movie

30/03/2023

Best spots for travelers in Hokkaido, Japan

19/03/2023

There is a McDonald’s on every single continent in the world. Well, except Antarctica. McDonald’s is the most popular fast food chain and if there were a market in Antarctica, rest assured McDonald’s would be there. There is no McDonald’s in Antarctica because of its sparse population that mainly consists of penguins and fish.

12/03/2023

Are you late for birthday preparations? We have solutions.

Can you decorate for a birthday party quickly?

27/02/2023

Bubble Wrap was first invented in 1957 by American engineers Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes as a kind of futuristic wallpaper. Their idea was initially a failure, but in 1960 they repurposed their invention into a masterful form of packaging and so bubble wrap was born.

16/02/2023

Do you have some space that you really have no clue what to do with? Here are some tips.

Make the most of your space