Due to gender imbalance, by the year 2020, 24 million Chinese men will be unable to find a spouse. |
Ancient myth: If your right ear itches, someone is speaking well of you. If your left ear itches, someone is speaking ill of you. |
Nomophobia is the fear of being without your cellphone or losing your signal. |
Female lions do 90% of the hunting. |
Puppies are born blind, deaf and toothless. |
Athazagoraphobia is the fear of being forgotten and or ignored by someone in which you care about. |
Rich people in China often hire body doubles to serve their prison sentences. |
Mosquitoes survive collisions with raindrops by clinging to the droplet and riding it for a while. |
The tallest tree in the world is located in a remote area of the Redwood National Park in California. It is a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), that goes by the name Hyperion. The tree stands at 379.7 feet or 115.72 m tall and was discovered in the year 2006 (month of August) by two naturalists going by the names Michael Taylor and Chris Atkins. |
That smell after rain is caused by bacteria called actinomycetes. |