In order to become an astronaut, you cannot be taller than 6'3" or shorter than 5'2". |
Baby hedgehogs are called 'hoglets'. |
Dogs stick their heads out car windows because of awesome overload of smells. Humans have only about 5 million olfactory receptors, while a dog has more than 225 million receptors. So to a dog, sticking his head out the window of a moving car is the equivalent of a human going from a standard television TV to a giant IMAX movie screen and trying to soak in all the colors and visuals that it entails. |
The word 'Android' refers only to a male looking robot, for one that looks like a female the proper term is 'Gynoid'. |
The less people know, the more they think they know. This is called the Dunning-Kruger effect. |
The grapefruit got its name because the fruit hangs in clusters on the tree, just like grapes. |
Internet trolls are defined as people who use the web "only to cause trouble and conflict. |
"Text neck" is the technical term for an injury commonly caused by hunching over cell phones. |
The Prime Minister of Portugal, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar preferred to honour the Treaty of Windsor signed between England and Portugal signed in 1386 and remained neutral by refusing to sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, which was the document allying Germany, Japan, and Italy during World War II. |
Splenda, an artificial sweetener is 600 times sweeter than sugar. |