You just tested it, didn’t you? Normally, when you hum, the air is able to escape through your nose to create the sound, and of course, it can’t do that when you’re holding it shut. This is one of the weird facts you can test out for yourself. Go ahead, try it. Beat the Chaser.
Before Abraham Lincoln was a politician, he was a wrestler. With over 300 matches to his name, Lincoln only lost once and was so successful possibly due to his height—he was 6 feet and 4 inches tall—or perhaps because, according to History, he "reportedly talked a little smack in the ring." Whatever his tactics were, they worked, which is why he was recognized with an "Outstanding American" honor from the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. They even once hosted an animatronic Abraham Lincoln.
There's a one in 4,400,000 chance of a left-handed person being killed using right-handed equipment.
It's not always easy being a left-handed person in a right-handed world. In fact, it can be downright dangerous. According to The Mirror, more than 2,500 people who are left-handed die every year due to an injury caused by using equipment designed for people who are right-handed. Apparently, "the right-handed power saw is the most deadly item."
You can figure out the color of a chicken egg by looking at the chicken's earlobes.
Yes, even though they don't have outer ears, chickens do have earlobes, and they vary in color, from white to much darker varieties. That's probably not that surprising, but the correlation between earlobe color and egg color certainly is. Chickens with white earlobes lay white eggs, while chickens with darker brown earlobes lay—you guessed it—brown eggs.
And this doesn't just apply to the most common egg varieties you'll find at the supermarket. Araucana chickens are known for their pale blue eggs—and sure enough, those chickens' earlobes are a similar hue.
You typically only breathe out of one nostril at a time.
Yes, your nostrils share the work when it comes to inhaling, but it's a little more complicated than you might think. Rather than both nostrils taking in the same amount of air when you breathe in, you actually inhale most of your oxygen through one nostril at a time. The active nostril actually switches every few hours. Don't believe us? Put your finger under your nose and test it yourself.
A museum displayed cheese made from the bacteria of celebrities.
The Food: Bigger Than the Plate exhibit at the Victoria&Albert Museum in London proudly displayed five types of cheese made from microbes collected from the armpits, ears, noses, and bellybuttons of British celebrities. "Suggs, the singer for the ska band Madness, best known in the U.S. for its 1982 hit 'Our House,' chose to be immortalized in cheddar," according to Smithsonian.
The purpose of the project was apparently to change how people think about microbes. Whether or not that goal was achieved, the exhibit surely had people looking at cheese a little differently.
I remember me mum and dad jumping up and down to Patrick Moore's April fools gag in the living room and me dad saying what a load of bol*oks it was not realising it was April fools , when i think about it i think us kids were jumping too
Boeing uses potatoes to test their in-flight Wi-Fi, as they reflect and absorb the signals similarly to people. The project is called Synthetic Personnel Using Dialectic Substitution- or SPUDS.
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You just tested it, didn’t you? Normally, when you hum, the air is able to escape through your nose to create the sound, and of course, it can’t do that when you’re holding it shut. This is one of the weird facts you can test out for yourself. Go ahead, try it.
Beat the Chaser.
Abraham Lincoln is in the wrestling hall of fame.
Before Abraham Lincoln was a politician, he was a wrestler. With over 300 matches to his name, Lincoln only lost once and was so successful possibly due to his height—he was 6 feet and 4 inches tall—or perhaps because, according to History, he "reportedly talked a little smack in the ring." Whatever his tactics were, they worked, which is why he was recognized with an "Outstanding American" honor from the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. They even once hosted an animatronic Abraham Lincoln.
There's a one in 4,400,000 chance of a left-handed person being killed using right-handed equipment.
It's not always easy being a left-handed person in a right-handed world. In fact, it can be downright dangerous. According to The Mirror, more than 2,500 people who are left-handed die every year due to an injury caused by using equipment designed for people who are right-handed. Apparently, "the right-handed power saw is the most deadly item."
You can figure out the color of a chicken egg by looking at the chicken's earlobes.
Yes, even though they don't have outer ears, chickens do have earlobes, and they vary in color, from white to much darker varieties. That's probably not that surprising, but the correlation between earlobe color and egg color certainly is. Chickens with white earlobes lay white eggs, while chickens with darker brown earlobes lay—you guessed it—brown eggs.
And this doesn't just apply to the most common egg varieties you'll find at the supermarket. Araucana chickens are known for their pale blue eggs—and sure enough, those chickens' earlobes are a similar hue.
You typically only breathe out of one nostril at a time.
Yes, your nostrils share the work when it comes to inhaling, but it's a little more complicated than you might think. Rather than both nostrils taking in the same amount of air when you breathe in, you actually inhale most of your oxygen through one nostril at a time. The active nostril actually switches every few hours. Don't believe us? Put your finger under your nose and test it yourself.
A museum displayed cheese made from the bacteria of celebrities.
The Food: Bigger Than the Plate exhibit at the Victoria&Albert Museum in London proudly displayed five types of cheese made from microbes collected from the armpits, ears, noses, and bellybuttons of British celebrities. "Suggs, the singer for the ska band Madness, best known in the U.S. for its 1982 hit 'Our House,' chose to be immortalized in cheddar," according to Smithsonian.
The purpose of the project was apparently to change how people think about microbes. Whether or not that goal was achieved, the exhibit surely had people looking at cheese a little differently.