Then people wouldn't experience a Willy Wonka world like no other. They would experience melting chocolate, fragile chocolate buildings, and even hot chocolate water that fries you!
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Whopper1
So turns out, caffeine isn't just for staying awake during boring meetings. Studies show it can actually enhance your memory consolidation if you take it after learning something new. But don't go chugging coffee just yet - it seems there's a sweet spot, too much and you're just jittery.
So I just read somethin' wild - honey is the only food that literally never goes bad. They found honey in ancient Egyptian tombs and it was still good to eat after thousands of years. It's like it's own preservative because bacteria can't grow in it. Pretty sweet, huh? 😂
Yo, so just to mess with flatearthers' minds, lemme drop a truth bomb. Earth isn't flat my dudes, it's a big ol’ rock rocketing through space at about 67,000 miles per hour just circling the sun. And guess what? The sun is flying through the Milky Way at 448,000 mph. …
So check this, the Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair in Paris and was only supposed to last for 20 years! It was going to be dismantled in 1909, but they found it useful for communication purposes (like for radio transmissions) and decided to let it stand. …
You might've heard the myth that a duck's quack doesn't echo. Well, that's total baloney. Their quack does echo, just like any other sound. It's just that the echo might be hard to hear cos a duck's quack doesn't last too long and it isn’t as loud. Next time someone …
So I was lounging on my couch, right? And got curious why they call us couch potatoes. It's from the 1970s mate, this artist made a couch potato sculpture... outta a potato. Just a spud kickin’ it back and watching TV. Thought that was like, the perfect circle haha.
This is straight out of Star Wars, seriously. There is a planet named Kepler-16b where you'd get to see two sunsets just like in Star Wars because it orbits two stars. Doubt you could find droids or Wookiees there, but still pretty rad if you ask me.
starfish are pretty dope creatures when you think about it. if they lose an arm, they can just grow it back. and not just that, the lost limb can sometimes grow an entire new starfish. like, imagine if we could do that? lose a finger and boom, you get a …
Did you ever wonder how bees communicate? Well, let me tell you, it is not through vocal cords but through dance, namely the 'waggle dance.' A bee will return to the hive and perform this intricate dance to inform its hive mates about the distance, direction, and quality of a …
Okay so I just found out and had to share, bananas are naturally radioactive 😳. It's because they've got a lotta potassium and some of it is Potassium-40 which is a radioactive isotope. No worries though, you'd have to eat like millions in one sitting to get a dose that's …
The Voynich Manuscript remains one of history's greatest mysteries. Dated to the 15th century, this illustrated codex is written in an entirely unknown language or script. Researchers, cryptographers, and even codebreakers from both World Wars have attempted to decipher its contents, to no avail. What's in there, you ask? It's …
Tomatoes are legally veggies! Back in 1893, the US Supreme Court ruled tomatoes were veggies but only for tariff purposes. Science be damned, taxes gotta tax, lol.
The odds of winning a typical lottery jackpot are about 1 in several million, depending on the specific lottery game. To put that in perspective, you have a better chance of being struck by lightning, being attacked by a shark, or even becoming the president of a country. In numerical …
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Anecdata
Octopus arms can think for themselves. Well, sorta. They got like a mini-brain in each arm that lets them touch, move, and even hunt without the main brain having to get involved. Freaky, isn't it?
Each snowflake is a unique and intricate lattice of ice crystals, forming in a hexagonal shape due to the molecular structure of water. During its descent to the ground, a snowflake's shape can be influenced by temperature, humidity, and even the air current's trajectory. Subtle changes in these conditions have …
GUYS. Venus is SUPER weird. Did you know that a day on Venus (that's one full rotation on its axis) is actually longer than a year on Venus (one orbit around the sun)?! It takes about 243 Earth days for Venus to do a full spin, but only about 225 …