Here are this week’s Life Pro Tips. 1. Never be cheap and cut corners, when buying shoes or mattresses… if you’re not in one, you’re probably in the other. 2. Be SUPER CAREFUL about how you speak to yourself. Here’s why. Your brain is always looking for evidence to confirm what you have told it.…… Read More »
Here are 5 things you should know. 1. If you are at the beach and are being pulled by a current into deeper water, swim parallel to the beach to the right or left, toward the white caps of the breaking waves to free yourself from the riptide. If you are caught by a rip…… Read More »
American surgeon William Beaumont, the “Father of Gastric Physiology”, researched human digestion by putting pieces of food on a string and poking them through an old gunshot wound in his handyman’s stomach. He pulled it out on regular intervals to check on how well it had been digested. The post 25 Kickass Random Facts List… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 293, click here. 1. A man guards his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 at the time of British Raj, India. 2. Indigenous children forced to pray to god in a residential school ran by the Canadian government and Catholic Church between…… Read More »
Hoba is the largest known meteorite that left no crater on Earth. Earth’s atmosphere slowed the object to the point of terminal velocity. Hoba meteorite is also the most massive naturally occurring piece of iron known at the Earth’s surface. The post 14 Interesting Facts About Iron first appeared on KickassFacts.com. Source
Mathematician John Edmund Kerrich passed his time in Nazi captivity by flipping a coin 10,000 times. The total percentage of heads and tails flips varied wildly at first but gradually converged around 50/50, providing a demonstration of the Law of Large Numbers. The post 25 Kickass Random Facts List #647 first appeared on KickassFacts.com. Source
We asked our regular contributors through e-mail What’s the cruelest “prank” you’ve ever seen? We got many interesting responses. Here are some of them. We have just copied and pasted their responses, not editing them in any way. 1. A friend of mine had a crush on his coworker, it was sort of an open secret.…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 292, click here. 1. US medic gives first aid to a wounded German SS soldier, France, 1944. 2. A young Russian boy points out German positions to Commander G. V. Gvozdev of the 11th Squad, 3rd Leningrad Partisan Brigade in a small village during the Siege…… Read More »