unbfacts: The appendix does have a purpose. It stores samples of good bacteria so they can repopulate your digestive system in case they are wiped out entirely by diseases such as diarrhea. Source

unbfacts: In 2017, two students in Scotland entered an art gallery and found an empty table on which they placed a pineapple to see if people would take it for art. When they returned four days later, the pineapple was covered with a glass protection structure. Source

unbfacts: Although it’s hard to believe, 73% of Japan is made up of mountains and rugged terrains forcing 93% of the population to live in the cities. This is the reason for the high population density in its cities. Source

unbfacts: The saying that a rainbow contains seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet” is a myth. These are actually just the colors of the visible spectrum. Rainbows contain upward of one million colors. They’re just invisible to the human eye. Source

unbfacts: Millennial dads are spending three times as much time with their kids as their fathers spent with them. Back in 1982, 43% of fathers admitted they’d never changed a diaper. By 2000, that number had fallen down to about 3%. Source

unbfacts: Joan Murray survived an 80-mph skydiving fall thanks to landing on a mound of fire ants. Their bites are believed to have given her a rush of adrenaline which kept her heart beating. Source

unbfacts: HMOs are a type of sugar molecules found only in human breast milk. They are not digestible by the infant child. Instead, they feed the “good” intestinal bacteria, thereby increasing the health of the infant’s intestinal microbiome. Source