10 Amazing Facts to
Blow Your Mind #1
1) There
exists a waterfall in Antarctica that is devoid of dissolved oxygen and
containing high levels of Sodium and Iron, that when flows and the water
interacts with Oxygen in air it turns Red making it look like its bleeding.
2) 30 feet
underwater, no red light is available. Thus you bleed green.
3) After
the extinction of the dinosaurs there was a species of turtle that was so large
it could eat a crocodile.
4) Corn
is a result of thousands of years of selective breeding by Native Americans. It
was bred from a wild grain called teosinte, which is only a few inches long and
barely edible.
5)
Spiders don't jump using muscles. Instead, they control the
blood pressure in their legs like a hydraulic system to propel them
upwards.
6) Fifteen
percent-of the air you breathe in metro station is human skin.
7)
Some Hiroshima survivors grew “black fingernails,” which were strange
rod-shaped fingernails that contained active blood vessels and bled
profusely when they broke off.
8) If
you have nerve damage to your hand, or other body part, it won’t wrinkle when
submerged in water.
9) In
1833 a meteor shower occurred that was so intense that “the frequency of
meteors was estimated to be about half that of flakes of snow in an average
snowstorm.
10) As
an experiment, Mass. transit police placed cardboard-cutout cops near two bike
racks in Cambridge. Bike theft dropped 67% in a month.
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