The flu virus can live on your skin for only five minutes, but can survive on paper currency for up to 17 days. Source

These sisters are so in sync, they had their babies within 15 minutes of each other. Both women started having contractions around the same time and gave birth at 8:12 am and 8:29 am on January 6, 2015, even though their due dates were several days apart. Source

Quiz- Can You Survive a Mission to the Moon?

Do you have the skills and the knowledge you’d need to make it to the moon? Take this quiz to test yourself and find out if you’re the next Buzz Aldrin.

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We are all made of stars. The atoms in our bodies, or within any organic matter containing carbon, were created in stars that lived over 4.5 billion years ago. Source

Slow-motion Video Proves Dogs Drink Water Differently Than We Thought

Species that live in the deep sea can become giants compared to their shallow-water relatives, but nobody knows exactly why. Deep-sea gigantism affects many species, including giant isopods, giant squid, and deepwater stingray. Source

In the 1920s and 30s, parents hung their babies outside apartment windows. Baby cages were invented so that infants living in crowded cities could get more fresh air and sunshine. Source

The lump in your throat when you’re upset is due to the fight or flight response. When an animal is threatened, the nervous system opens the throat to increase air flow. If you’re crying, swallowing is difficult because the throat tries to remain open, giving you the feeling of a “lump.” Source

We’re being unfair to blobfish.

Blobfish are only ugly because humans pull them out of the deep sea, yet we keep calling them names. Even though it’s all our fault, we voted them the World’s Ugliest Animal in 2013 - and they were up against some pretty hideous contenders, including the…

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France’s last public execution by guillotine took place in 1939. The beheading of Eugene Weidmann caused “hysterical behavior” in the crowd, and someone secretly filmed the whole thing from their apartment. Source

Zippers are the single most common cause of penile injury in U.S. adults. Between 2002 and 2012, over 17,000 American men ended up in emergency rooms because they got their penises caught in a zipper. Source

Earth is dominated by arthropods. Of all the living animals on our planet, 80% of them have 6 or more legs. Source

This clip hides a toolbox in your hair. The hair clip doubles as a multi-tool you can use as a wrench, ruler, flat-head screwdriver, and serrated cutting edge. Source

The Ebola virus wiped out every mother from the village of Joeblow, Liberia. The women died because they were the ones expected to care for the sick and bury the dead, which left the village’s orphaned children to take care of each other. Source

An inventor made a machine gun that folds and shoots paper airplanes. He displayed his creation in a YouTube video, which shows the inner-workings of the gun, and airplanes firing at a rate of about 1 per second. Source

A group of women called “The 9 Nanas” kept a secret for decades that not even their husbands knew. For 30 years, they met at 4 am and anonymously paid bills and bought clothes for people in need. Each care package came with a homemade pound cake and a note that read “Somebody loves you.” Source

We invented cell phones, flat screen TVs, the World Wide Web, and green ketchup before we started making regular ketchup in upside-down bottles. Source

The key to a longer life could be… porridge. One small bowl of porridge a day can reduce your risk of death by 5%. Harvard researchers followed 100,000 healthy people for 14 years and found that those who ate the most whole grains (porridge, brown rice, and quinoa) were more immune to illness and disease. Source

Google knows everything about you. This includes your phone number and call logs, emails, location, personal information, websites you visit, YouTube videos you watch, what device you’re using, and anything you type into their search engine along with the time, date, and your IP address - and it’s all recorded and stored in their database. Source

A HBO acaba de anunciar durante sua apresentação em um painel na Television Critics Association as séries Game of Thrones, Veep e Silicon Valley retornam no dia 12 de abril para suas respectivas novas temporadas. Como de costume, a série será exibida simultaneamente no Brasil (sempre as 22h). Segue o release que o canal enviou para os sites especializados:

HBO confirma que as novas temporadas de GAME OF THRONES, SILICON VALLEY e VEEP estreiam DOMINGO, 12 DE ABRIL, às 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT).

GAME OF THRONES começa sua quinta temporada de dez episódios DOMINGO, 12 DE ABRIL (9:00-10:00 p.m.). Baseada na série popular de livros “A Song of Ice and Fire,” de George R.R. Martin, o sucesso dos prêmios Emmy®-de fantasia conta a história épica da luta por poder em um vasto e violento universo. O elenco principal inclui o ganhador do Emmy® e Globo de Ouro Peter Dinklage, além de Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Kit Harington, Natalie Dormer, Maisie Williams e Sophie Turner. Os produtores executivos, David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Carolyn Strauss, Frank Doelger, Bernadette Caulfield; e co-produtores executivos, Guymon Casady, Vince Gerardis, George R.R. Martin.

BRACE YOURSELVES!

Gobekli Tepe, which is 6,000 years older than Stonehenge, may be the world’s first temple. It’s estimated to have been built before the invention of the wheel, the idea of farming, or the tools that could have constructed it. Basically, it shouldn’t even exist. Source

Most of the world’s oxygen comes from the ocean. About 70% of Earth’s oxygen is produced by phytoplankton, which also removes most of the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Source

We figured out how to travel to the moon before we learned to put wheels on our suitcases. Source

France has more time zones than Russia or the United States. Source

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The tiny dots you see when you look at the bright sky are actually white blood cells moving across your retina. There aren’t any blood vessels in the center of your field of vision, which is why you can’t ever look right at them. Source

Mice run on exercise wheels because they actually enjoy it. Wild mice with access to wheels will run for minutes at a time, even when there’s no food around. Source

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Switzerland’s military has remained neutral since 1815, but the entire country is rigged to explode. Thousands of demolition points are wired into bridges, highways, and railroads across the nation so that everything can be destroyed if invaders attack. Source

George Washington stopped the Revolutionary War to return a lost dog to the enemy. The terrier of a British general was found wandering the battlefield, and Washington ordered a cease fire. The US waved a truce flag, and both sides stopped shooting until the dog was successfully returned to the British commander. Source

If you die alone at home, your pets will eat you. Dogs might wait several days until they’re starved for food, but cats will likely eat you within a day or two. Source