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Never Trust an Atom; They Make Up Everything.
As we wait for science to save our hides (again), a FactSlap homage to the peer-reviewed art:
- 41 new species are discovered by science every single day.
- Scientists finally concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes egg shells is only produced by hens.
- “Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia” is the scientific term for brain freeze.
- The average number of readers of any given published scientific paper is 0.6.
- A new scientific method called ‘toxineering’ turns venoms into painkillers.
- Scientists have developed a way of charging mobile phones using urine.
- Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds.
- Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, so we can live without breathing.
- A bolt of lightning is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.
Can’t Escape from the Common Rule
I was recently reminded of a phrase I hadn’t heard in a while: To have one’s cake and eat it too.
I’ve never understood that term. What else would you do with a cake you have? Wear it? Rent it bowling shoes? And while we’re at it, why do we still use “selling like hotcakes?” Were they once as socially hot as, say, the Furby?
Less questions. More answers:
- 90% of Chinese teenagers and young adults suffer from myopia (short-sightedness).
- The highest race horse speed ever recorded was 43.97 mph.
- 3 out of 4 teenage girls feel depressed after looking at a fashion magazine for only 3 minutes, according to a Cambridge study.
- 75% of all suicide attempts are by self-poisoning with drugs, and 97% of those cases survive.
- The average person pees six times a day.
- Intel employs a “futurist” whose job is to determine what life will be like 10-15 years in the future.
- More than $80 of every $100 of wealth created in 2017 went to the richest 1%.
- According to the Washington Post, Trump made 4,299 false or misleading claims in his first 558 days.
