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Interesting facts about Ants

superhuman strength . Ants are ridiculously strong. They have the ability to carry between 10 and 50 times their own body weight! The amount an ant can carry depends

The Ordovician Wansheng: an amusement park that puts vertigo to the test

This Chinese theme park is called Wansheng Ordovician and is an authentic torture-style test for anyone suffering from vertigo, as Insider's vision teaches us. The

The meteorological phenomenon that turns the sky into a sink

This time-lapse recorded by Peter Maier, from Switzerland, captures the exact moment in which a microburst of water over a lake occurs. The phenomenon is due to

You can not slow down a bullet with a magnetic field, but the attempt is cool

When a magnet interacts with a piece of copper, copper produces a magnetic field opposite to that of the magnet. This induced magnetic field is what slows the fall

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According to the author of the video, ReubenMRU, what at first glance (minute 1:24) seems to be a waterfall under the sea in Mauritius, is only perceived from a

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When it rained for two million years Nor are we going to complain that this spring is being especially rainy: at the end of the Triassic, between 234 and 232 million

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A surprising equality and other absurd but correct calculations I saw Twitter pass this equality, which at first glance is somewhat peculiar and even surprising:

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This video from AsapScience some years ago that explains some auditory illusions, like the McGurk effect (a phenomenon capable of modifying what the ears hear depending

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On September 21, 1956, pilot Tom Attridge fired a four-second burst with the 20-millimeter cannon of the Grumman F-11 Tiger he was testing while slightly stinging.

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The video Which is stronger: Glue or tape ?, by Elizabeth Cox, makes a quick review of the history of glue and adhesives that (to my surprise) seem to have been

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For a long time Mount Olympus on Mars held the highest mountain title we know in the solar system. Its height, measured with the laser altimeter of the Mars Global

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Why many pencils are yellow? Apparently many pencils are yellow as a result of an ingenious marketing trick. In 1889 the Austrian company Hardtmuth introduced a

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It snows over 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, well It is not exactly snow but dust particles and ice in the surroundings of comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as well

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On February 20, 1824 William Buckland published the first data about Megalosaurus, a large carnivorous animal that had part of a lower jaw, some vertebrae, fragments

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This simple interactive map of Our Wold in Data shows the world divided into two groups: those of those countries that are above the average population density (in

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This simple interactive map of Our Wold in Data shows the world divided into two groups: those of those countries that are above the average population density (in

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According to Wikipedia, shyness among trees is a phenomenon observed in some tree species in which the canopy of leafy trees do not touch each other, forming a canopy

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The longest straight road in the world: 263 km More than two hours driving in a straight line 263 km. The stretch of highway between Haradh and Al Batha, in Saudi

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This video corresponds to the first 3D model of snowflakes melting in the atmosphere. Developed by scientist Jussi Leinonen of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

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This vaulted lava fountain was photographed during the eruption of Mauna Ulu at the Kīlauea volcano, in Hawaii, in October 1969. The eruptions lasted until 1971.