Knowledge & Facts
Découvertes quotidiennes et faits surprenants sur le monde.
Two photographers aimed their camera at a galaxy 2.5 million light-years away, went to sleep, and woke up to this.
Photo of a robber fly (L) next to a normal mosquito for size comparison (R).
Raindrops trigger puffball mushrooms to "smoke" by blasting clouds of millions of spores into the air.
Epic camera transition during F1 Singapore broadcast
A 1,000-year-old mass grave of 24 women and children discovered in Peru. Examination of their skulls revealed they all died from blunt-force trauma, inflicted by ancient copper- and stone-headed clubs.
TIL that the Cincinnati OH Public Library system is the second largest in the nation, by both collections and circulation, only behind the New York Public Library
en.wikipedia.orgNew flash flood in Nepal, just over an hour ago. Lord please help them.
India surpassed the US to become the world’s 2nd-largest market for annual solar capacity additions
A massive landslide blocked a Himalayan river in Nepal today, triggering a sudden, devastating flash flood that wiped out bridges and homes downriver.
Incredible close up footage of a fast flowing river of lava rushing from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano
ELI5 the anti MP3 push from 2002
Okay so I was watching The I.T. Crowd and there was a sticker that on the door that says “MP3 is not a crime” and I looked it up and I couldn’t really understand anything I was reading (maybe it’s been a long day).
The articles reference something called Napster, legal battles, consumer rights in music media, MP3s (remember those?), MUSIC (the organization, ig?), and I couldn’t understand much of the words or the situation.
Anyways, would love a simplified explanation because it does seem fairly interesting and, from what I did pick up, something relevant as video game companies stop making physical copies of games so that no one really “owns” what they buy.
TIL Board games can reduce your risk of dementia. Monopoly, Scrabble, Risk – take your pick. Board games can keep your brain healthy as you age, protecting your brain from cognitive decline and reducing your risk of neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia
sciencefocus.comTIL one of the Oxford English Dictionary’s most prolific contributors cut off his own penis
theguardian.comTIL the record for most words learned by a bird is held by not an African Grey or a Cockatoo, but a Parakeet named Puck who had a confirmed vocabulary of 1728 words
guinnessworldrecords.comELI5: Einstein’s theory of relativity, how does the biological time change??
Title basically, i just watched interstellar for the first time yesterday, and while i can understand the theory itself, i don’t understand how the biological time changes. For example, lets say i’m someone in space where 1 hour there is 10 years on earth, my organs would age 1 hour yet on earth for someone they will age 10 years? Like are organs, cells, our body bounded to a “general/universal” time where they age almost at the same rate for all humans but somehow differ when in different places of space or what?
Sorry if i’m not making it clear but this has been something i always thought about ever since i heard of the theory lol