Curiosities and Interesting Facts

A few days ago I was browsing the Internet and saw a photo of a zebra; an animal that is known to have emerged a long time ago from the same species as horses, but nevertheless they have their bodies covered with fur that repeatedly alternates between white and black, so […]

Surely not many times have you asked yourself what is the point of your fingers wrinkling when in the water, since it is quite banal information that almost no one cares about. Still, it is a curious fact, and today I am going to explain it to you briefly. To begin with, it is interesting to know that humans

Just in the previous entry of "Did you know..." I talked to you about the way and quantity in which words appear in any written language, however when it comes to speaking it is a little different, since only a minimum of words are used , thus fulfilling the Pareto Principle, where the 20% of the

George Zipf was a philologist-linguist whose work focused primarily on the statistics of language, both English and many others. He noticed that the second most used word in a book, essay, web page, etc. appears very commonly half as many times as the most used, while the third most used word

1.- It is the most advanced country in the world in terms of acceptance of homosexuality. 2.- It is the third most visited country in the world. 3.- It has the most expensive restaurant in the world (Sublimotion). 4.- He has the record for cocaine consumption in Europe. 5.- It is the country that donates the most organs on the entire planet.

I don't think the explanation is very difficult to understand, but it is not so intuitive as to know without knowing the theory, so there are mainly two reasons. The reason for the lower weight is (or are) the engines, which push the plane forward allowing the wings to fulfill their function. The other reason, the

Also known as "The Just Cup" is an invention attributed to Pythagoras and which presents an unusual feature in conventional cups: If you fill the cup more than three quarters (approx.), the entire contents of the cup fall out. the bottom, and the container is completely empty. This is not

It is inevitable that every person and even every mammal scratches daily, but... Why does our body suddenly itch sometimes? This itchy sensation appears only on the surface of the epithelial tissue and even generates mild anxiety, which warns us of a certain stimulus that the dermis interprets as a

The Pokémon Go App was launched on July 6, 2016, and from then until the end of the month it was downloaded 130,000,000 times, and in 70 different countries it was the most downloaded application of the month. Another impressive fact is that after 20 days of its launch, the game had already raised 100,000,000 dollars, and

Study carried out by the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay, setting all the new data proportionally to the data of the planet with its 7.53 billion inhabitants. According to the researchers, there would be 50 men and 50 women, 74 would be adults and 26 minors, in addition to the fact that 51 of the 100 inhabitants would live

Can you imagine having such an incredible voice that you manage to piss off four professionals because they think you appeared on the show by lip-syncing? This happened to Aida Nikolaychuk on Ukraine's X Factor show, where the judges were so outraged that they stopped her performance and forced her to sing a cappella.

There are 52 cards in a poker deck. So if you place them all face down on top of each other, there are 52 possible cards that can be first (on top of the pile). Whatever the first one, there will be 51 possible cards that could be the second, and 50 that could be the third, 49 that

Did you know that you can rearrange the letters of the name "William Shakespeare" to form the phrase "Here I was like a Psalm"? Psalm is a set of verses from the Bible of King James I of England and VI of Scotland. In verse number 46, the 46th word from the beginning of the verse is “Shake.”