Fact of the Day:
Up to 4 billion meteoroids fall to Earth each day.

Quote of the Day:
"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."
- Pearl S. Buck

 

Fact of the Day:
The FBI has caught 94 percent of the fugitives featured on the list; and of that 94 percent, 30 percent were found after ordinary citizens saw the list and recognized one of the fugitives as someone they knew.

Quote of the Day:
"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes."
- Pablo Picasso

 

The blue whale is as long as a 10-story building and has a heart the size of a small car.

 

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
-Douglas Adams

The wavy lines of a zebra blend in with the wavy lines of the tall grass around it. It doesn't matter that the zebra's stripes are black and white and the lines of the grass are yellow, brown or green, because the zebra's main predator, the lion, is colorblind.

 

"The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain."
-Kahlil Gibran

Energy drinks became popular in Asia long before they reached the United States. In 1962, Japanese pharmaceutical company Taisho released its Lipovitan D drink. Lipovitan D contains taurine, the same ingredient found in many of today's energy drinks.

 

I thought that red bull was borrowed from thailand?

 

Your fact was right here's the Wiki page. I learnt a little of this while I was in Cesky Krumlov as it is nearby Česk

 

"A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Instead of having a central place to gather oxygen (i.e. lungs) and a transport system (i.e. heart, blood) to deliver the oxygen to all of the cells of the body like humans, insects have a system of fine branching tubes called a tracheal system that delivers the oxygen directly to each cell in the body.

 

I know the feeling.

 

"We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can."
-Will Rogers


A one-way mirror has a reflective coating applied in a very thin, sparse layer -- so thin that it's called a half-silvered surface. The half-silvered surface will reflect about half the light that strikes its surface, while letting the other half go straight through.