The first Olympics flag went missing for 77 years after the 1920 games until a 1920 olympian revealed he’d had it in his suitcase the whole time the original Olympics flag was missing for 77 years until 1920 Olympian Hal Haig Prieste revealed he’d had it the whole time. The year was 1920. The Summer […]
After Hurricane Katrina, an 20year old man with extensive criminal history named Jabbar Gibson stole a school bus and picked up around 70 stranded people and drove 13 hours from NO to Houston. The first bus to arrive at the Astrodome The first busload of New Orleans refugees to reach the Reliant Astrodome overnight was […]
Vitamin D is the only vitamin that is also a hormone and that a deficiency can lead to numerous mental illnesses such as depression and Schizophrenia An estimated one billion people worldwide have vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency. Individuals at high risk for vitamin D deficiency, include those living far from the equator, those with […]
When something burns up in atmosphere, it’s not due to friction. The heat is generated due to extreme compression caused by the Ram Pressure as the object forces its way through the atmosphere at high speed In physics, ram pressure is a pressure exerted on a body which is moving through a fluid medium. […]
In 1944, chemist Leandro Panizzon synthesized a new drug, Methylphenidate. His wife, nicknamed Rita, had low blood pressure and would take the drug as a stimulant before playing tennis, so he named it after her – “Ritalin” Methylphenidate (Ritalin) is a psychostimulant drug approved for treatment of ADHD or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, postural orthostatic tachycardia […]
We have Motion-induced blindness (just stare at the dot in the middle for 10 sec) Motion Induced Blindness (MIB) is a phenomenon of visual disappearance or perceptual illusions observed in the lab, in which stationary visual stimuli disappear as if erased in front of an observer’s eyes when masked with a moving background. Most recent […]
There’s a deep sea species that takes advantage of the fact that fish can’t see red light, and illuminates its prey with a beam of red bioluminescence so it can hunt with an effectively invisible beam of light The stoplight loosejaws are small, deep-sea dragonfishes of the genus Malacosteus, classified either within the subfamily Malacosteinae of […]
The whole Y2K doomsday scare will probably happen again in 2038 The year 2038 problem may cause some computer software to fail at some point near the year 2038. The problem affects all software and systems that both store system time as a signed 32-bit integer, and interpret this number as the number of seconds […]