INTERESTING FACTS

1. The sun makes up more than 99% of the mass of the solar system.
2. Humans can distinguish between at least a trillion smells.
3. Almost every element in your body was made in an exploding star.
4. An asteroid in our solar system has rings, like Saturn.
5. There might be another Earth-sized planet in the outer solar system.
6. A narwhal’s tusk is filled with nerves.
7. Each of a tarsier’s eyeballs is as big as its brain.
8. If you shuffle a pack of cards properly, chances are that exact order has never been seen before in the whole history of the universe.
9. Adults have fewer bones than a baby.
10. Humans can’t breathe and swallow at the same time.
11. There are about 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in a human body.
12. There are about 86 billion neurons in an average human brain.
13. Every atom in your body is billions of years old.
14. There’s a type of mollusc called a chiton that can make its own magnetic teeth.
15. Bees sense a flower’s electric field and use it to find pollen.
16. Beaked whales can hold their breath for over two hours.
17. Mantis shrimp can punch at 80 kilometres per hour.
18. The universe might be a hologram.

19. There’s a gas cloud in the constellation of Aquila that contains enough alcohol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
20. Looking at stars is basically looking into the past, because of how long it takes the light from them to reach us.
21. Dung beetles can use the Milky Way to navigate.
22. The Milky Way has four spiral arms, not two.
23. If you cry in space the tears just stick to your face.
24. During the ice age, 32,000 years ago, a squirrel buried a seed. Now the seed has been used to grow a flower.
25. We’ve found over a thousand planets outside our solar system just in the last 20 years.
26. There’s a planet where it rains glass, sideways.
27. The world’s oceans contain 20 million tons of gold.
28. If the oceans dried out, the salt left over would cover the continents to a depth of 5 feet.
29. There are more cells of bacteria in your body than there are human cells.
30. There’s a species of jellyfish that is essentially immortal.
31. Ladybirds can fly at speeds up to 60 kph.
32. There’s a 3.5-inch aluminium sculpture on the moon.
33. Scientists have found a tiny crystal of zircon that is 4.4 billion years old.
34. You can listen to what interstellar space sounds like.
35. It takes a photon, on average, 170,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface.
36. Then it takes just 8 minutes from the sun’s surface to your eyes.
37. A Mars-sized object crashed into Earth 4.5 billion years ago, chipping off a chunk of rock that became the moon, and making the Earth’s axis tilt slightly.
38. 111,111,111 × 111,111,111 = 12345678987654321.
39. Our first ancestor to walk on land was a four-legged fish called Tiktaalik.
40. Teenage brains really are different to adult ones.
41. There are roughly 2 pints of water in every cubic foot of soil on Mars.
42. You can use a blue whale’s wax earplug to work out its life history.
43. There’s a mammal in Australia that has sex until it disintegrates.
44. An orgasm can clear your sinuses.
45. There’s a mantis that can camouflage itself to look exactly like an orchid.
46. There’s an insect that has gears.
47. Life expectancy has doubled over the last 150 years.
48. Atoms are mostly empty space.
49. If you removed all the empty space from the atoms that make up all the humans on Earth, the remaining mass could fit inside a sugar cube.
50. In the history of the Earth, we’re closer to Tyrannosaurus rex than T. rex is to stegosaurus.




                                           


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LOST WRECKEDS

Many of us have heard the story of Robinson Crusoe. This is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and is often considered the first novel ever written in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the alleged author, whose name is eponymous with the title of the novel, describing his survival and life after the wreck was on a tropical island off the coast of Venezuela today, while encountering native inhabitants of America, captive and sailors revolt before being rescued.

We like to think that today, when we have the GPS, cell phones, satellite phones, Internet, wireless, etc., to be wrecked is almost impossible, because someone will see us anyway. But here it is not so. We present some interesting and bizarre stories about "modern castaways" who "lost" on purpose (or not) of the modern world and have lived solitary lives in deserted areas and islands. Maybe some people really love it!

The fisherman who was lost at sea for 13 months!

At the beginning of 2014, Jose Salvador Alvarenga found in an atoll in the Marshall Islands (in the Pacific Ocean east of the Philippines), after drifting on a small fishing boat for 13 months. He began his journey in Mexico, more than 9,000 km away. Some have questioned the veracity of his story, but it seems to be true.

According to Alvarenga, he went fishing one day in December 2012, along with a companion, but was caught in a storm which destroyed the engine and left it adrift for 13 months. His companion, fisherman Ezequiel Cordoba survived. Alvarenga said the younger man died four weeks after their trip, because it was not able to drink turtle blood and eat raw fish. Alvarenga was reunited with his family in El Salvador and continues to face health problems because of the journey.

Family surviving tortoise blood while lost at sea for 38 days

In 1971, Robertson family boarded their yacht Lucette in Falmouth harbor, Cornwall (Great Britain) to Galapagos Islands when disaster struck. Their boat was hit by a net killer whales, and thus was destroyed in minutes. The family took refuge on board a boat, yacht hung. They had just enough water for 10 days, and the only food available was a bag of onions, a box of biscuits, 10 oranges, six lemons and half a pound of glucose sweets. When supplies ran out, the family drank turtle blood to survive.

navigate around the world. After 18 months of travel, they reached 300 km

Lyn Robinson, mother and wife of the family, was a nurse, and so devised a technique to keep hydrated with rainwater collected in the boat. She knew that the water that was contaminated with the blood of turtle would be poisonous if it were taken orally and insisted that her family take enemas using a scale tubes.

On 23 July 1972, the family was recovered from a Japanese ship nearby.

New Zealander who has lived her dream of becoming a castaway in the South Pacific

New Zealander Tom Neale lived on a coral atoll of Suwarrow in the Cook Islands (in the Pacific Ocean) to 16, into three periods between 1952 and 1977.

Neale had this dream (of being a castaway) for over 30 years before his dream come true at the age of 51 years. After meeting with writer Robert Dean Frisbie, it told more about Suwarrow, and became fascinated by this atoll, knowing that it will become "home" to. In October 1952, Neale and gathered food, tobacco, various tools and two cats and boarded the island. He lived in buildings abandoned by the army during the Second World War. Neale has adapted to life on the island quite easily and fed on fish, crabs, shellfish, eggs, coconut, tree of bread, bananas and various vegetables.

Neale lived on the island until 1977, when cancer forced him to return to the mainland. He died eight months later. His grave is in the cemetery in Cook Islands, opposite the airport.

Inuit woman who survived alone on an island in the Arctic for two years

Ada Blackjack was an Inuit woman who was "stranded" on Wrangel Island (uninhabited) in northern Siberia.Wrangel Island. Hunger and despair, three members of the expedition had left the camp in January 1923, traveling 1,000 km on the frozen Chukchi Sea in Siberia, for help and foods. Only Ada and a crew member (ill) were left behind. Ada was taught how to hunt the man left. Scouts were not seen again, and in April 1923, Ada was left alone after the death of the man who caregiver. Ada was eventually saved.

On September 16, 1921, Blackjack was one of five settlers who went on an expedition to

Nicknamed "Robinson Crusoe woman" Ada hate the media circus around her and chose to live a quiet life. Eventually, she moved back to the Arctic, where he lived until the age of 85 years.

Castaway living in a national park

David Burgess, aged 63, is a castaway "voluntary", but its way of life was threatened by local officials who said that was installed illegally in Exmoor National Park (Great Britain), after asking property rights in land. For nearly three decades, Burgess lived in the park in a makeshift hut that one has built. He sleeps on a mattress of dried leaves.

In December 2011, David and park officials have reached an agreement that would allow the man to stay in his hut in the Exmoor National Park. It is somewhat questionable how "wrecked" is Burgess, as he goes to live with his friends in Exeter (a nearby village) during the harsh winter months.

Man who spent 60 days on a desert island with only a camera

Former British Army captain Ed Stafford, spent 60 days on a deserted island in the South Pacific, armed with only a camera. Discovery Channel aired a show with his experiences, titled "Goal and wrecked by Ed Stafford".

When Stafford was abandoned on the island, I had to learn about local plants, about different methods of fishing and hunting. The first day, he found a cave in which to sleep, snails for food and coconuts to drink. Stafford took two weeks to make the fire, after identifying suitable timber. Then he was able to kill a wild goat, which he skinned it, cut it and cleaned it. Capra gave food for the entire week.

Stafford says the biggest difficulty he encountered on his journey was facing isolation. Luckily for us, the journey of the island has been registered.

  The couple performed a social experiment to live as castaways

It was in 1982, when Lucy Irvine (25 years) and her husband, Gerald Kingsland (49 years) started Tuin Island, off the coast of Indonesia, to live as castaways. The two had to be based on trust to survive, given the natural environment difficult. When drought struck the island, the two nearly starved and were rescued by residents of neighboring islands. After this unique experience, she said: "The whole experience has served me well. She allowed me to discover and learn a discipline that I did not know I had a part. But do not think I would try again. For me, it was a unique thing. "




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Do you know how the pigeons orient ?

For years, scientists have been surprised by a seemingly inexplicable phenomenon: racing pigeons, known for their seafaring skills, get lost when they were released in a region of the U.S. state of New York.

Now, new research decipher this mystery. The study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology suggests that birds use low frequency sounds to guide and in the region of U.S. birds can not hear anything.

Study author Dr. Jonathan Hagstrum from USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) states that birds create "noise maps" of the surroundings. Other researchers, however, say that Hagstrum's theory is controversial and there is much debate on how the birds manage to navigate so effectively.

This mysterious phenomenon has been discovered in the '60s, when Bill Keeton Professor at Cornell University wanted to understand the extraordinary skills of racing pigeons, which can return home even when they are released in locations that did not have never visited.

To this end, Professor of pigeons released from various locations in the U.S. state of New York. To his surprise, when the birds were released near Jersey Hill, near Ithaca, they became disoriented and flew at random. Professor Keeton repeated the experiment several times, the effect is the same. The only time the birds were able to fly naturally was on 13 august 1969, when they were able to return home.

Now, the doctor found Hagstrum explanation for this mysterious phenomenon.

"Birds flying with a compass and a map. The compass is usually the position of the Sun or the Earth's magnetic field, but the map was not identified in past decades. I have found that birds use sound as a map, using them to position themselves in relation to their home, "says Hagstrum.

Pigeons, says the researcher, "using infrasound" - very low frequency sounds that can not be heard by humans.

"Sounds originate in the ocean. Intersecting waves of the ocean and the atmosphere creates the sounds and the earth. This energy can be detected anywhere on Earth, even in the center of a continent, "says Hagstrum. The researcher believes that when birds are released from an unknown place, they try to identify, infrasound, "footprint" of the home signal, then using it to navigate.

Infrasound can be affected by changes in the atmosphere. Therefore, Dr. Hagstrum studied data collected over time to compare the temperature and wind structure in places where pigeons were released by Professor Keeton. Using these data, Hagstrum has calculated how sound would travel from the "house" pigeons at Jersey Hill.

"Structure of the temperature and wind structure of the atmosphere were such in that area of ​​New York that the sound did not reach Hill Jersey," said the researcher. Therefore, birds were unable to hear, so that they could navigate and fly at random.

"On 13 august 1969, the troposphere has been a phenomenon that has turned the sound back to the ground, so it has come to Jersey Hill" Hagstrum said.

Dr. Hagstrum believes that these disorders may explain infrasound and other mysterious events that have affected racing pigeons, for example a race across the English Channel, which took place in 1997 when over 60,000 birds have left the trail.

The researcher acknowledged that the idea is controversial, noting that "does not mean that we have demonstrated unmistakably that is exactly, but I started a new idea which, in my opinion, is the best explanation for these phenomena, as explained events in Jersey Hill ".

Other researchers have launched different ideas on pigeon orientation, suggesting that birds use smell, visual cues, Earth's magnetic field, or a combination of these factors.

Tim Guilford, a professor at Oxford University, says that "despite the fact that there are few details on which scientists disagree, we know from the experimentally obtained ample evidence that, as a rule, access to atmospheric odors is usually necessary and sufficient to explain the navigational abilities of birds. It is also possible to use the sun as a compass (on sunny days) and a magnetic compass (cloudy days). "When birds become familiar with the environment, they begin to depend on topographic features for navigation, forming and favorite tracks," Guilford said.

Professor Guilford's method Hagstrum says that is "interesting" and noted that exploration of new ideas is a valuable thing. However, Guilford concluded that "the large number of other mechanisms evidence for me to believe that it is unlikely to be secret infrasound navigational abilities of birds."

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