Some Interesting Facts Of The Day…

 

What are some interesting facts?

 Some facts for you!

1. An egg looks like a crazy jellyfish underwater

2. There is enough DNA in an average person’s body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back — 17 times

3.You can prove Pythagoras' theorem with fluid

4. The average human body carries ten times more bacterial cells than human cells

5. The average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world in a lifetime

6. When Helium is cooled to almost absolute zero (-460°F or -273°C), the lowest temperature possible, it becomes a liquid with surprising properties: it flows against gravity and will start running up and over the lip of a glass container!

7. The known universe is made up of 50,000,000,000 galaxies. There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy. In the Milky Way alone there might be as many 100 billion Earth-like planets. Still think you’re alone?

8.The human brain takes in 11 million bits of information every second but is aware of only 40

9. Human saliva contains a painkiller called opiorphin that is six times more powerful than morphine.

10. As it grows, sweet corn makes a squeaking noise like two balloons rubbing against each other.

Hope you liked it!

Smile!!!

Sources

10 Quick Scientific Facts that Will Blow Your mind

Top 20 Amazing Science Facts - Listverse

40 Interesting Science Facts That Will Blow Your Socks Off

What are some interesting psychological experiments?

 This is called the Napkin Experiment.

Next time you have a party at work or home, try this and see for yourself.

The first time, put these common/regular napkins in a bunch for the guests to use.

Watch them abuse these napkins, just pulling them out as they please, in any numbers. Most people will take more than one. They will trash this napkin without care and get more as needed.

The second time, use these instead. Nothing really fancy here compared to the previous napkin - just a different, bright color.

Watch the difference this time. People will treat them as special, being careful to just pull one at a time. They will also preserve this napkin longer.

People automatically assign importance when something appears different or fancier than what they are used to.

This is also the same principle where well dressed people are usually treated better.

Be different, in a good way, to be treated special.

What are the most amazing and interesting facts you know?

 Here are the few things I came across,

• The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades – King David, Clubs – Alexander the Great, Hearts – Charlemagne, and Diamonds – Julius Caesar.

• The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.

• The male mosquito does not bite. Only in the female is the proboscis fitted for biting and blood-sucking. The mouth parts of the male are rudimentary and he could not bite no matter how hard he tried.

• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

• Right-handed people tend to scratch themselves with their left-hand. Vice-versa for lefties.
• If you keep a Goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

• The Eiffel Tower is six inches taller in summer than winter.

• Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.

• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
• Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), then multiply that number by 3. Every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number
• Edison’s first light bulb filament was made of cotton (1879)
• The deepest spot in the ocean is in the Mariana Trench at 11.7 km

What are the most interesting cultures in the world?

 This question is brutally difficult to answer, because there are so many cultures in the world and so many of them are amazingly fascinating and unique. So, I’ll try my best to narrow it down a top ten, in no particular order. Enjoy!

• The Himba. This semi-nomadic tribe, found in the deserts of northern Namibia, numbers about 50,000. The women wear goat leather crowns (Erembe) and cover their skin and hair with otzije, a reddish mixture of milk fat and ochre, which cleanses the skin and protects from the heat. It also gives their hair a bizarre, tentacle-like appearance. Their diet consists almost entirely of porridge and women are forbidden to wash with water (as it’s scarce) so they must use smoke from charcoals instead.

• The Sentinelese of the tiny North Sentinel Island (in the Andamans). There may be as little as 50 of them, and they are, in many ways, still in the Stone Age. They live almost naked (although the jawbones of deceased ancestors are sometimes worn) as hunter-gatherers, and have been isolated from other peoples for as much as 60,000 years. Notoriously, they are extremely hostile to outsiders, riddling helicopters with spears and killing an idiotic missionary in 2018. There has only been one peaceful contact in history.

• The Dogon, which inhabit parts of Mali and Burkina Faso. Their population is centered around an enormous cliff of sandstone which stretches for some 150 kilometres, known as the Bandiagara Escarpment. In the shelter of this cliff, the Dogon build exquisite mud villages, and the language they speak represents a wholly unique branch of the Niger-Congo language family. They’re also known for their beautiful wooden masks, dances, and mysteriously sophisticated knowledge of the cosmos.

• The Ainu people of Hokkaido and the Russian Far East. In Japan, where the best part of them live, their culture was sadly suppressed following the Meiji Restoration as they were assimilated into mainland Japanese culture. These traditions, though much more uncommon today, are fascinating. Traditionally Ainu live as hunter-gatherers in reed huts, and worship nature gods (the bear is especially revered). Genetically, they are not closely related to any modern ethnic group.

• Papua New Guinea’s Chambri people. They are chiefly a fishing and bartering people, living on islands in the Sepik River. They’re known for their unusual gender roles, in which neither the women nor the men are dominant. They also revere the river’s crocodiles, holding festivals in their honour. To come of age, the boys must undergo a grotesque rite of passage where their back and chest are scarified (without anaesthetic) so that they are covered in “crocodile scales”.

• An unmissable choice - the Kazakhs. Most of what I say here is also true of their cousins the Kyrgyz, which have a very similar culture and could be substituted on this list. Traditional Kazakhs are nomadic herders and hunters which roam the Eurasian steppe. Perhaps most fascinatingly of all, many Kazakhs in Mongolia still practice the ancient tradition of hunting with trained eagles and other birds of prey.

• In Pakistan’s fertile Chitral Valley, you can find the unique Kalash people. Unlike most Pakistanis, the Kalash traditionally follow a polytheistic religion which has similarities to ancient forms of Hinduism. The women wear vibrant dresses, and there are many colourful and bizarre festivals (one involves sending a young boy to live with goats for a summer). Some speculate that they are of European descent, but genetic evidence shows that they’re 100% South Asians, albeit quite unique.

• Our first culture from the Americas - the Pirahã. This is an isolated hunter-gatherer people which dwells in the Amazon Rainforest. Their way of life is heavily based on direct, real-time experience - they keep no history and worship no deity. They have no formal leaders, do not preserve food, and they never make drawings. The Pirahã language is amazing, too - there are only 8 consonants and 3 vowels, and it’s spoken in whistles and hums. They have no words for colors or even numbers. Pirahã culture is human culture boiled down to its rawest, most natural form - simple but enough.

• Another easy choice for this list - the Bajau. Sometimes referred to as “sea nomads”, these people of the Malay Archipelago traditionally live almost entirely at sea. They dwell in houseboats, small fleets of which travel from place to place, and construct stilted villages in shallow seas. Their cuisine consists chiefly of fish and other marine life. Strangest of all, they are genetically adapted to be exceptional freedivers - spending up to 5 hours daily underwater, they’re more resistant to hypoxia, more tolerant of CO2 in the blood, and store more haemoglobin than normal humans.

• Finally, a broader group from India - the Naga people. This is an umbrella term for a variety of tribes found in Northeast India’s Seven Sisters and parts of neighbouring Myanmar. They’re diverse, but nevertheless similar in terms of culture. The Naga people often adorn themselves with colourful jewelry (including tusks, shell, bone and much more), and they speak nearly 90 different languages. They’re also some of the last people India which still practice entomophagy; the eating of insects.

So, those are the ten ethnic groups whose cultures I find most interesting. There were certainly others which I came close to being included - the Yakuts, the Quechuas, and various peoples from Oceania, for example - but I decided to keep it to these ten.

Also note that in this answer, I talk about the traditional lifestyles of these people. For most if not all of them, many individuals live a more modern, conventional life - sometimes the majority, in fact. The sad truth is that tribes like these are usually assimilated by the region’s dominant culture.

Anywho, thanks for reading, I hope you learned some new things, have a nice day.

What are interesting (unnecessary to know) /fun facts that you know?

 Most things are born, get old, and die, but one type of jellyfish has a cheat code.

If it gets sick or stressed, it can hit a reset button. It turns its old cells back into baby cells and starts its entire life over from scratch.

Also, trees are talking to each other.

They use a massive web of fungi to share food and send out warnings if bugs are attacking. If one tree is dying, it’ll sometimes send its last bit of sugar through the roots to help out other trees.

The one that really sticks with me, though, is the struggle giraffes have during a storm.

Because they are so tall, they don’t have anywhere to hide when the weather turns bad. They just have to stand there in the middle of the open plains. They have the option to lie down, but that way, they are vulnerable to predators because it takes them a long time to get back up on their feet.

What are some interesting facts about everyday objects or concepts that most people don't notice?

 Have you ever noticed this on your Casio Scientific calculator ?

The area above display encircled by red color reads S-V.P.A.M .

S-V.P.A.M stands for Super Visual Perfect Algebraic method. Many scientific calculator models from Casio like fx-82MS, fx-90ES etc. come under S-V.P.A.M range.

S-V.P.A.M indicates that the calculator supports direct algebraic input and processing. For example, if we want to calculate $2^3+3^3$ so we can directly input this in Casio’s S-V.P.A.M calculators unlike other simple calculators where you manually have to calculate $2^3$ and $3^3$ and then add them. Not only that, we can permanently store numbers or answers in variables A, B, M etc. provided and use the variables instead of writing the whole number. For e.g. if variable A stores $2^3$ and B stores $3^3$ then we can write $A\times B$ in the calculator instead of $2^3\times 3^3$. The answer will be same. These are the features of S-V.P.A.M models.

Image source: My phone.

Calculator model shown: fx-82MS

EDIT: Asked in comments commonly, so writing it here.

How to store numbers in calculator?

I consider you are using fx-82MS.

Consider you did a calculation, say $24.3/56$ .

Now to store this answer in variable ‘A’ press

SHIFT + RCL(STO) +  A 

SHIFT is present in the top left. Press that. Now RCL(STO) button is present in the left end just 3 buttons below shift vertically. Press this and then above RCL(STO) button you will find buttons like (-), degree, hyp etc. These buttons have inscribed A, B, C on upper side. Press any button which has those variables of your selection. The answer will be permanently store and will look like this.

So, variable A has answer stored which you can use anytime and won’t have to calculate always. To get the value from a variable press “ALPHA” button which is next to “SHIFT” and the variable.

For example: ALPHA + A and press equal to 

So it will give value in A. You can make any math operation on A now. Like to multiply the value in A by 2 you can write “2A” by pressing

2+ALPHA+A+'=' 
 where A is "(-)" button. 

to get the value

P.S. These values are permanently stored in the variables until you store “0” i.e, clear the data in them. So, definitely you can store your important password or mathematical/physical constant values for exams without letting anyone know :p .

EDIT 2: Thanks Vinita Jagannathan and Audhithya S V (ஆதித்யா ஸ்ரீ வெ) for suggesting edit.

EDIT 3: Arpit Mishra (ଅର୍ପିତ ମିଶ୍ର) shared a very good piece of information by which one can store upto 80 numbers in CASIO scientific calculator (each upto 10 Digits). So, I am adding it here.

Assuming fx-82MS, just go to SD mode from mode button by pressing MODE+2 .

Now start calculation and after getting the answer, press M+ (add to memory) each time after calculation and clear the display and continue doing calculation pressing M+ each time getting answer.

In this way you can store upto 80 answers at a time and retrieve each of them pressing replay button up/down. This works even you put off the calculator.

Note that this works only in SD mode. If you change mode, all data from stack will get cleared off.

You can perform operations like sum of all numbers, sum of square of numbers or any statistical calculation by pressing SHIFT+1 or SHIFT+2 i.e, S-SUM/S-VAR button.