Topic: Interesting Facts

[Skhilled (OP)]

6 Interesting Facts About Ears

https://www.interestingfacts.com/ear-facts/Y-b_NUDItwAIzNH0

[Ken]

Time moves faster at higher altitudes.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/64483c23e288640009916fbf

Good one. 
I did not know that.

[Ken]

The Length of Earth’s Days Has Been Mysteriously Increasing, and Scientists Don’t Know Why

Atomic clocks, combined with precise astronomical measurements, have revealed that the length of a day is suddenly getting longer, and scientists don’t know why.

This has critical impacts not just on our timekeeping, but also things like GPS and other technologies that govern our modern life.

Over the past few decades, Earth’s rotation around its axis – which determines how long a day is – has been speeding up. This trend has been making our days shorter; in fact, in June 2022 we set a record for the shortest day over the past half a century or so.

But despite this record, since 2020 that steady speedup has curiously switched to a slowdown – days are getting longer again, and the reason is so far a mystery.

[Skhilled (OP)]

Yeah, I've read something about this awhile back and not surprised.

Some believe (as I do) the earth is a living being and is why it keeps changing and evolving...which would make a lot of sense. But scientists can't explain why yet. IMO, they may never will... If you think about it, a lot of living things live off of other things. So why shouldn't the earth (or other planets) be the same way?

[Ken]

Yeah, I've read something about this awhile back and not surprised.

Some believe (as I do) the earth is a living being and is why it keeps changing and evolving...which would make a lot of sense. But scientists can't explain why yet. IMO, they may never will... If you think about it, a lot of living things live off of other things. So why shouldn't the earth (or other planets) be the same way?

I've long  thought the 'Mother Nature' would eventually get tired of we humans raping and pillaging her surface as well as trying to ruin her oceans and sky's that she just simply kill us off. Of course if you believe in the Bible, as I do, we probably won't have to wait that long. 

[Skhilled (OP)]

Yuppers!

[Skhilled (OP)]

I remember reading this some years ago...

A Belgian citizen put his country up for sale on eBay in 2007.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61d35bbe134cf900086b088d

[Skhilled (OP)]

6 Amazing Facts About Purple

https://www.interestingfacts.com/purple-facts/ZEcnsDgK3gAHvMmd

Oysters can change sex multiple times during their lives. *I'm not sure if I want to eat a bisexual oyster... LOL

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6450888f37ccfd0009bbaa18

[Skhilled (OP)]

The longest nonstop animal flight was 11 days.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/645bd07b757e64dc8d621026

Silly Putty was developed during World War II as a potential rubber substitute.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61f8603de504fe0008c65ef5

[Skhilled (OP)]

The special word for the smell of rain:

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61ef51d6781f4d000883e2c3

[Ken]

... this is to me, a very interesting read. I read the whole article and found it to be very well written and taught me a lot that I did not know.

8 Billion People: How Different the World Would Look if Neanderthals Had Prevailed
 

Neanderthal reproduction in Trento Museum of Natural History. Luca Lorenzelli/Shutterstock

In evolutionary terms, the human population has rocketed in seconds. The news that it has now reached 8 billion seems inexplicable when you think about our history.

For 99% of the last million years of our existence, people rarely came across other humans. There were only around 10,000 Neanderthals living at any one time. Today, there are around 800,000 people in the same space that was occupied by one Neanderthal. What’s more, since humans live in social groups, the next nearest Neanderthal group was probably well over 100km away. Finding a mate outside your own family was a challenge.

Neanderthals were more inclined to stay in their family groups and were warier of new people. If they had outcompeted our own species (Homo sapiens), the density of population would likely be far lower. It’s hard to imagine them building cities, for example, given that they were genetically disposed to being less friendly to those beyond their immediate family.

[Skhilled (OP)]

I'll have to read it when I get some time. Been really busy with CZ theme now that I have a team. 

I haven't read it yet but the world must've been very harsh back then. Probably almost everything was about survival. Gathering enough food to eat as well as trying not to be eaten. LOL I wouldn't want to live back then.

[Skhilled (OP)]

Modern humans have been on Earth less than 0.01% of the planet’s existence.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/61f8425be504fe0008c656dd

[Skhilled (OP)]

The oldest known musical instrument may be a Neanderthal flute.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/645bcabf189c9c21ac629476

[Skhilled (OP)]

The human skull never fully stops growing.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/645c105720c826421cf438a0