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Sw33tCandy NF2G
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Tue Jun 15, 2021 9:34 am

Calm before storm

It's not just an old wives' tale: under the right conditions, the calm before the storm really does exist. As a storm draws in warm, moist air — its fuel — from the surrounding atmosphere, it leaves a low-pressure area behind. Air is carried up into the storm cloud, and some of it is forced upwards by powerful drafts. These updrafts remove the hot air and push it out over the sides of the highest storm clouds, which can be up to 16 kilometers (10 miles) high. As the air then descends, it becomes warmer and drier and therefore more stable. It blankets the region below and stabilizes the air contained within, causing people within that region to notice a calm before the storm.

Roni
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Wed Jun 16, 2021 2:19 pm

Martin Luther King and Anne Frank were born in the same year

Sw33tCandy NF2G
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Wed Jun 16, 2021 4:28 pm

Your dog can smell your feelings. In fact, your dog’s sense of smell is approximately 100,000 times better than yours. So it shouldn’t be shocking that they can in fact, smell things such as fear. When a human is fearful, they perspire, and a dog is easily able to pick up on this change....... Got to love them :dog

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Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:09 pm

The Olympic flag's colors are always red, black, blue, green, and yellow rings on a field of white. This is because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.

iana
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Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:03 am

In the 19th century, golf balls were made of a leather pouch stuffed with feathers and were often called “feathery” balls.

Sw33tCandy NF2G
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Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:00 pm

A year on Earth isn’t 365 days: It’s actually 365.2564 days. It’s this extra .2564 days that creates the need for a Leap Year once ever four years. That’s why we tack on an extra day in February every four years – 2004, 2008, 2012, etc. The exceptions to this rule is if the year in question is divisible by 100 (1900, 2100, etc), unless it divisible by 400 (1600, 2000, etc).

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Sun Jun 20, 2021 10:49 am

Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time.

Sw33tCandy NF2G
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Sun Jun 20, 2021 2:04 pm

There are over 40,000 different types of plants in the Amazon Rainforest

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Tue Jun 22, 2021 5:00 am

Children of identical twins are genetically siblings, not cousins.

Cousins whose parents are identical twins share 25 percent of their DNA, instead of the usual 12.5 percent. While full-siblings share 50 percent of their DNA, half-siblings share 25 percent. That's why, though children of identical twins are legally cousins, they are genetically the equivalent of half-siblings.

ijOjO uK
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Tue Jun 22, 2021 5:59 am

CountryDude89 (11877186) wrote:Children of identical twins are genetically siblings, not cousins.

Undecided (185859185) wrote:Children of identical twins are genetically siblings, not cousins.

Cousins whose parents are identical twins share 25 percent of their DNA, instead of the usual 12.5 percent. While full-siblings share 50 percent of their DNA, half-siblings share 25 percent. That's why, though children of identical twins are legally cousins, they are genetically the equivalent of half-siblings.

Oh wow! That's surprising.

ijOjO uK
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Tue Jun 22, 2021 6:03 am

Umbrellas were once only used by women.

Sw33tCandy NF2G
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Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:57 am

Here is a fun memory fact how players begged BVG to save the game. I loved how so many daily would fight to have the game saved ..

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Wed Jun 23, 2021 4:12 am

Aww. ^^ that brings back memories. :hug:

Fact: A woman who lost her wedding ring found it 16 years later on a carrot in her garden.

A woman in Sweden lost her wedding ring while cooking for Christmas in 1995. She looked everywhere for it, and even had her kitchen floor pulled up hoping she could find it. But she wouldn't see it again until 2012.

While gardening 16 years later, the woman found the ring around a carrot that was sprouting in the middle of it. The only explanation was that the ring must have been lost in vegetable peelings that were turned into compost. Clearly, composting isn't just good for the environment.

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Wed Jun 23, 2021 8:40 am

A blind man and his guide dog hiked the Appalachian Trail ....According to the Washington Post, for eight months during 1990 a blind man named Bill Irwin hiked the Appalachian Trail with his guide dog, Orient helping him along the way. Dogs truly are man’s best friend. :dog

iana
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Fri Jun 25, 2021 6:51 am

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

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Fri Jun 25, 2021 9:42 pm

Dolphins sleep with one eye open

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Sat Jun 26, 2021 6:20 am

Cotton candy was invented by a dentist.

Dentist William Morrison and confectioner John C. Wharton invented machine-spun cotton candy in 1897. It was first introduced at the 1904 World's Fair as "Fairy Floss." Then, another dentist, Josef Lascaux, reinvented the machine in 1921. He came up with the name "cotton candy," which replaced "fairy floss."

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Sat Jun 26, 2021 7:43 am

There's a LEGO bridge in Germany that you can walk across.

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Sat Jun 26, 2021 8:41 pm

The best place in the world to see rainbows is in Hawaii.

Sw33tCandy NF2G
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Sun Jun 27, 2021 6:30 am

^^ I'd love to see that, road trip to Hawaii

"New car smell" is the scent of dozens of chemicals.