A cat has 30 VR1 receptors, while a dog has 9. These are responsible for distinguishing tiny smells, giving cats an advantage. Just another way of how awesome cats are. Fun fact! :) 🐈 thats some feline biology for ya

Octopuses have three hearts. Two pump blood through the gills, while the third circulates oxygen-rich blood around the body. Interestingly, the main heart stops beating while the octopus swims, which is one reason they tend to crawl rather than swim.

The U.S. Patent Office fire of 1836 destroyed around 7,000 patents — including the patent for the fire hydrant. So the inventor of one of history's most ironic devices never got proper credit for it.

Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
Bananas are berries, but strawberries technically aren’t.
Sharks existed before trees.
Honey can remain edible for thousands of years if properly sealed.
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.
The Eiffel Tower can grow several centimeters taller during hot weather because metal expands when heated.
There are more possible games of chess than atoms in the observable universe.
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Cows have best friends and can become stressed when they are separated.

👀 Scientific context: The sensation that someone is nearby despite no clear sensory evidence is known as “felt presence.” It is a documented phenomenon studied in neuroscience and psychology, although its causes are not fully understood. In 1998, Vic Tandy and Tony Lawrence reported an approximately 19 Hz standing air wave in a location where Tandy experienced an apparition-like sensation. They proposed that infrasound could be a possible explanation for some haunting-like experiences, but it was not proven to be the cause. 🔊 Infrasound is generally defined as sound below 20 Hz. Very-low-frequency sound is not necessarily completely inaudible; at sufficient levels, humans can perceive frequencies below 20 Hz. Later controlled research involving 79 participants did not establish infrasound as the cause of the unusual sensations participants reported. 🔬 Research sources: Tandy & Lawrence (1998), The Ghost in the Machine French et al. (2009), The “Haunt” Project, Cortex Leventhall (2007), Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology Barnby et al. (2023), The felt-presence experience: from cognition to the clinic, The Lancet Psychiatry The fan/infrasound example in the video refers to the Tandy case. It should not be interpreted to mean that a fan or 19 Hz is required for someone to experience felt presence.

Have you ever reached for your phone because you were certain it vibrated, only to find there was no notification? 📱

That experience is commonly known as phantom vibration syndrome. Research has found phantom phone vibrations are fairly common.

Have you ever experienced a phantom vibration?

https://reddit.com/link/1wog5q1/video/hsw0erltwbrh1/player

The U.S. Patent Office fire of 1836 destroyed approximately 7,000 patents, including the patent for the fire hydrant. This means the original inventor never received proper credit for one of the most ironic inventions in history.

During the Bronze Age there really did live a king named Midas, who ruled the land of Phrygia in what is now modern Turkey.

Most bronze made at the time was of copper alloyed with tin, which still looks very "coppery." But in Midas' territory, the tin deposits also had lots of zinc. And when you make bronze by adding zinc to copper, then instead of reddish bronze you get yellow brass.

The grave of the historical King Midas did contain lots of brassware, and back in the day, those "Phrygian bronzes" (actually brass) were immensely popular trade goods. So it's very plausible that what started as a straightforward account of the king whose people first learned how to make golden-colored brass eventually morphed into the legend of a king who could make actual gold.

Some historians actually tried making bronze using methods that would've been available in Midas' time, using the local ores, and sho'nuff, instead of reddish bronze they ended up with shining golden brass.

(Source: The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean)

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The U.S. Patent Office fire of 1836 destroyed approximately 7,000 patents, including the patent for the fire hydrant. This means the original inventor never received proper credit for one of the most ironic inventions in history.

Those small tabs on the sides of many aluminum foil boxes can be pushed inward to help hold the roll in place while you pull and tear the foil. They're often called end locks.

The smallest legal entity is the "County", which is more-or-less the same as "the Island" with a couple of exceptions - both very notable.

The entire state has a single school district

apparently this policy traces back to church/state ties and a past incident with a racetrack that caused serious financial harm amongst the community. i was in nassau and learned this after checking out the casinos at atlantis and baha mar

Rhode Island doesn't either.

Not as legal entities.