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What’s in sperm? Will Swallowing Make My Girlfriend Gain Weight? 26 Mar 2013 | 06:01 pm
There are many ingredients composing semen, and its makeup is the same from man to man. Here are a few of the constituent elements: vitamin C, calcium, chlorine, cholesterol, citric acid, creatine, ...
How many different chess games is possible to play? 12 Mar 2013 | 11:06 pm
At the beginning of a game, the white ones choose one between 20 possible moves. Next, the black ones have to pick from the 20 possible. So, in a chess game, after the first movement 400 different pos...
It would take 76 work days (8 hours a day) for the average person to read the Terms and Conditions they agree to in a year. 10 Mar 2013 | 10:52 pm
A couple of Carnegie Mellon researchers recently published a paper suggesting that reading all of the privacy policies an average Internet user encounters in a year would take 76 work days. Imagine sp...
How does lemon juice prevent apples from turning brown? 10 Mar 2013 | 10:35 pm
Apples turn brown because of oxidation. Oxygen in the air reacts with a natural substance in apples called phenolase and turns the surface brown. Mild acids like lemon juice can stop this reaction. ...
All breasts have the same number of nerve endings. 22 Jan 2013 | 09:37 am
The male or female breast/nipple/areola complex arises from a common mammary stem cell and develops similarly in the foetus and during infancy. At puberty the male’s breasts remain rudimentary but the...
There’s a doll that poops and says “Sniff sniff, I made a stinky!” 22 Jan 2013 | 07:51 am
Hasbro’s new Baby Alive doll lets you know when she’s made “poo” in her doll potty. Your beloved little girl can sit the doll on her pink toilet, press a purple bracelet and hear the magic words. The ...
Downloading 3,500 books to a kindle adds about one billionth of a gram in weight. In real books that’s about 2 tons. 22 Jan 2013 | 02:12 am
By Using Einstein’s E=mc² formula, which states that energy and mass are directly related, Prof Kubiatowicz calculated that filling a 4GB Kindle to computer storage would increase its weight by a bill...
10 fun and interesting facts you probably didn’t know 26 Sep 2012 | 11:21 pm
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17% of those who have a permanent tattoo regret getting it. 19 Sep 2012 | 10:35 pm
A poll showed that 19% of British people with tattoos suffered regret, as did 11% of Italian people with tattoos. The patients who regretted their tattoos typically obtained their tattoos in their lat...
Studies have shown that sarcasm enhances one’s problem-solving ability. An inability to understand it can be an early sign of brain disease. 18 Sep 2012 | 09:12 pm
Researchers from linguists to psychologists to neurologists have been studying our ability to perceive snarky remarks and gaining new insights into how the mind works. Studies have shown that exposure...
