There are two different kinds of people. The ones, who can not wait to go to bed, love to sleep in whenever they can and just love their sleep, and the others, who can not wait to wake up again, stay up as long as possible before going to bed […]
Curiosity
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Did you ever hear a person playing an instrument perfectly? Someone who can listen to a song just once and play it right back? I was very fascinated by it so I started my research on what is called perfect pitch. Absolute pitch or perfect pitch is the ability to […]
We have all heard of records like the longest jump (8.95 meters) or the tallest person who ever lived (2.72 meters). But today’s article is not about world records, which are very well known. I will present the world records that I think are the funniest 10. 10:On place ten, […]
“Shellbacks”, “Polly Wogs” and “Sons of Neptune” – have you ever heard of these names? Two of them are actually “honorary” titles. Although it sounds rather funny, sailors who cross the equator for the first time, the “polly wogs”, earn the title of “shellbacks” because they have proved themselves to […]
Every time someone mentions the words “Mamma Mia”, it happens again: I can’t get the ABBA song out of my head. Mamma Mia, here we go again… sometimes it plays in my head over and over again, for hours and hours.Probably everyone has their own experience of earworms. Sometimes they […]
What is big?The average hight of a male is between 160 cm in southeast Asian countries to 183 cm in the Netherlands. For women, the average hight is between 152 cm in South Asia and Guatemala and 170 cm in Latvia. Are you big if you are taller than the […]
Don’t we all hate the feeling of old, dry bread in our mouth? After a few days, it is nothing compared to the fresh and tasty bread that it was when it was freshly baked. But why don’t we put our bread in the fridge if it gets old, like […]
Of course we don’t think about death all the time, but in the end it is always inescapable for humans to die, right? Fact is that the average life expectancy is rising, since it is documented. The people get older and older and at the same time stay fitter and […]
The human body is very complicated and fascinating You could even say it is one of the most amazing living forms on Earth. To convince yourself of the uniqueness of your body, you can continue reading and get to know five facts about the human body you probably don’t know […]
Sometimes we forget how small our knowledge of space actually is and how much more there is to discover. We know that the earth is more than 100 times smaller than the sun and that they are both part of our solar system. The solar system contains our star, the […]