Hair and fur are chemically indistinguishable.
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There are plants without chlorophyll. How do they survive? They host fungi (don't think of mushrooms, think of micelia) among their roots so the fungi break the large organic molecules into smaller ones they can use. Then the fungi absorb a part of them and the plant the rest. Like the rest of plants which use other plants as hosts (but still they have chlorophyll), these plants are not symbiotic with the fungi, they are parasits of them. One beaufitul example of these plants is the phantom orchid.
What makes octopus and squids ink so dark and capable of darken so much water is melanine - the same molecule which gives colour to our eyes, hair and skin. In certain cultures, the ink is used to make a sauce to eat the squids with (squids in their ink).
The smallest insect of the world is a parasitic wasp, only visible through microscope. It's so small that there are entire families of bacteria larger than it. Speaking of large bacterias and unicellular organisms, some are visible to the naked eye.
Caenorhabditis elegans, usually referred as c. elegans, is a simple nematode. It's an eutelic organism, meaning that every member of the species has the same number of cells. Some species of tardigrades (water bears) are also examples of eutelic organisms. The case of c. elegans is special because it's one of the most and better studies organism in biology, to the point that it was the first organism entirely simulated in a computer, with each of its 959 cells doing their tasks and interacting with nearby cells (simulation still improving). The simulated c. elegans is the common hermaphrodite gender; there are no females in this species, tho a few specimens are males, also eutelic but with a different number of cells: 1033.
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If you have mononucleosis, your spleen may explode.
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I want to find one you don’t know and saw facts about saliva and tongues below which gives inspiration lol You can’t taste food without saliva (because food has to be dissolved to be detected by taste buds). You can apparently test it out by wiping your tongue before eating something :) although I haven’t tried that. Maybe today.
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There are no blue birds. There are only birds that appear to be blue because of a phenomenon called light scattering, but their feathers are actually brown thanks to the pigment melanin.
Tiny pockets of air in their feathers absorb all wavelengths except blue, which is reflected. If you took a feather from a blue bird and backlighted it, you would see its true color, brown, because you wouldn't be seeing any reflected light.
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Sloths don't fart from their butts. Gasses are absorbed into their blood stream and are breathed out.
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Let's talk "sugar".... h-e-a-v-y sugar!
A teaspoon of sugar neutron star... would weigh 6 billion tons
A neutron star is the remnants of a massive star that has run out of fuel. The dying star explodes in a supernova while its core collapses in on itself due to gravity, forming a super-dense neutron star. Astronomers measure the mind-bogglingly large masses of stars or galaxies in solar masses, with one solar mass equal to the Sun’s mass (that is, 2 x 1030 kilograms/4.4 x 1030 pounds). Typical neutron stars have a mass of up to three solar masses, which is crammed into a sphere with a radius of approximately ten kilometres (6.2 miles) – resulting in some of the densest matter in the known universe.
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Haha! Yeah! I think I needed more sugar in my coffee... or perhaps just more coffee! :)
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Humans have pigmentation similar to the lines, splotches and swirls you see on cats. it's just not in our visual spectrum.
Known as "Blaschko Lines" other than certain skin conditions, you need a UV light to see the patterning.
https://unbelievable-facts.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/lines.jpg
Another fun one...
Trees dont grow from pulling up nutrients from their soil, but grow from the inside out, by breathing in co2, and sequestering the carbon in it's cells as building blocks. This is how you get rings on trees, and why mainly only the outer layer of a tree trunk is alive.
Also, every leaf tip has a vein that travels down the branch, just under the outer layer of bark in the cambium layer, and out to a root tip.
So for every root tip you cut you're killing that leaves source of micro nutrients. For larger roots, think of like it killing the internet connection to thousands of "homes" at a time. In this case, those homes being the leaves.
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seahorses, pipefishes and seadragons are the only animals where the males get pregnant
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Karen Wetterhahn died in 1997, months after exposure to a few drops of diethyl-mercury that got absorbed through her rubber gloves that were thought to be safe.
The event and her death lead to stricter safety protocols (turned the chemical got past out most of the gloves in seconds) and changes in NMR spectroscopy where it was used as a calibration standard.
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There is no scientific distinction between a tortoise and a turtle as an identifier of different subspecies. Also turtles and tortoises have cloacas so they basically have an all purpose hole for peeing pooping and cumming and their fluids often are mixed together before they're released. Have a nice dinner!
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the fastest route between two points isn’t a straight line. It’s an isochronous curve.
https://www.you tube.com/watch?v=eBc827pwKf0
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If you do an online search for "Planck black holes," you should be able to learn about the Planck Constant, maybe a bit of quantum physics, and black holes.
May your mind be in it's prime but flexible enough to switch to it's evens when finding patterns. Also, imaginary numbers are our friends.
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Here, I bet u didn't know it yet.
Electrical energy doesn't flow in wires
Instead, energy is transmitted by the electric and magnetic fields around the wire. So, if you taught by your teacher that energy flows inside a wire, that's a lie. Wanna proof?
First, "Tesla's invention burnt because he flows the electricity on the ground". Tesla dreamed for Earth's "free electricity" and when he put a light-bulb on the ground near the Tesla coil, it light up without a wire. <-- This is a sign that Tesla wanted to make 'Free Energy' for the world, businessman hated it! That's why back to my statement, his invention burnt into the ground.
Second, if you make a really long wire/cable to light up a bulb it will take a matter of second to light up, no matter how long is your cable. Because the energy itself transfers from the electromagnetic around the wires to the light-bulb.
Third, if the energy only flows inside the wire, we won't discover radio signal.
[EXTRA: since you are into sounds]
FACT:
When traveling through water, sound moves around four times faster than when it travels through air.
Sounds have patterns
(it was proven by sounds resonance experiment.) Proof? -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJAgrUBF4w
Also, fact. I am a 'social studies' dude that love sciences and electricity :)
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This is wrong, so very wrong. Electricity is the flow of electrons through a conductor, which given a high enough voltage could be any matter. The extreme voltage of the Tesla coil is so great that given no other path it forces the electrons in materials that we normally consider to be an insulator to break their atomic bonds. The extreme voltage of the Tesla coil is why the electricity is able to travel through the air, a material that is normally considered an excellent insulator.
Interestingly enough electrons in a wire travel extremely slow, a speed that is measured in millimeters per hour. The reason a lightbulb will light almost instantly is because of propagation. Think of a long tube filled with balls, if you add another ball to the tube it will almost instantly push another out the other side. The speed of propegation is slower than the speed of light, but it can get close to it given a highly conductive material such as silver or gold.
Electricity is NOT an electromagnetic field. Electrons have mass and are a particle. An electromagnetic field is actually made up of photons. They don't have mass, but they behave like both a wave and a particle they can still be used to transfer energy to a conductor without the need for an actual connection. We use this in electric motors, as well as wireless chargers, transformers and to send signals in the form of radio waves.
Although the flow of electricity through a conductor will create a magnetic that field it is generally insignificant and more of a nuisance ( electromagnetic interference) when the goal is to transfer energy from one end of the conductor to the other. The only time it benefits us is in the form of a radio wave that's used for communication or if we create a strong enough field to be used in a motor or a wireless charger/transformer.
Anyways electricity is an awesome subject, if you find it interesting I'd encourage you to study the field. :-)
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Yay! I thought the owner talk about mine :D Really love to know that someone notice this and comment :)
Hmm yeah, i finally found a video that can represent theory number 1 => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIhgxav9LY
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I feel this video is kind of disingenuous, What he's done is changed the laws of physics to prove his point. First he removes resistance and then sets the bar for lighting the bulb to the ridiculously low of any amount of current. It's kind of like saying any human can simply step outside one day and jump to the moon, if we remove gravity from the equation.
So lets start with the most egregious requirement; that any amount of current will light the bulb. Well if that's the case the light would never shut off as a small amount of current always leaks through a switch, even when it's off. The other reason is that he's created a dipole antenna with those long wires and is transferring an extremely small amounts energy though an electromagnetic field, which the antenna is converting back to electricity.
Even without his battery being connected the light bulb would always remain on because of EMI that's always present throughout the universe. The wires wouldn't even need to be connected for this to occur.
If his scenario was adjusted to have a more realistic light bulb that needs a significant amount of current to light his experiment would fail because we'd still be waiting for the significant amount of electricity to reach it through the wires.
Returning resistance to the equation would also stop it dead in it's tracks as the ridiculously small amount of current transferred to the dipole antenna that he's created wouldn't be enough to travel through the resistance to get to the bulb..
So yeah, we can transfer energy through electromagnetism, but it would never be enough to light the bulb, at least not the way that he's doing it. So all he's proven is that electromagnetic fields exist and are capable of transferring significant amounts of energy (which can be converted to electricity) over extremely short distances or (relatively) insignificant amounts of energy over great distances.
If you'd like to understand more about why his rigged thought experiment works, I'd suggest looking into how antennas and transformers work.
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My favorite scientific fact is if you put a chicken bone into a jar of vinegar for a couple days and then take it out the bone can be bent like rubber. Why it did that I had no idea but I did that as a science experiment as a kid, and it's still my all time favorite "This is crazy!" thing from my life. XD No need for WL btw. I just saw "Science fact" and I wanted to share that. XD Now that I am an adult though I know it's because of the acidic property of the vinegar and the calcium from the bones being displaced into the water. A similar thing happens with a boiled egg where it becomes like a rubber ball. Haha.
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Some animals, mostly invertebrates, have blue blood. This is because instead of hemoglobin which is iron-based, they have hemocyanin, which is copper based. Hemocyanin also has a few different aspects to it, for instance, where hemoglobin attaches itself to red blood cells, hemocyanin floats around in blood freely. It also carries oxygen better in low oxygen environments like in the deep sea.
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Dino fact: The colors of multiple non-avian dinosaurs are known, for example the four winged Microraptor had black iridescent feathers, and one spiky dino called Borealopelta was reddish-brown.
2nd dino fact: Velociraptor didn't look like what you see in movies. They were most likely nocturnal, they mainly hunted smaller animals, they didn't hunt in packs, and they were feathered and much smaller then the popular movie versions. You've probably heard of those last two.
The raptors in Jurassic Park were actually based on Deinonychus, a larger relative of Velociraptor and the only one that has some evidence of possibly hunting in packs. Deinonychus were also feathered though.
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