The More You Know....

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The human eye can detect 10 million different colors.

 

[NEVolFan]

Thank you Al Gore.

 

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A group of ferrets is called a business.

I knew ferrets were suryus biznuss!

 

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This bird weighs about 5 grams....or about the same as 4-5 paperclips.

 

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Sand dunes at Sossus Vlei in Namibia’s Namib Desert.

Notice the trees at the bottom of the picture to get an idea of the scale of the dune.

 

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The high sugar concentration of honey kills bacteria by plasmolysis, meaning that honey never spoils.

 

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Some reptiles have a parietal eye (or third eye), like the small grey dot on the top of this carolina anole’s head. The parietal eye may be photo-receptive and helps with thermoregulation and the regulation of the circadian rhythm.

Creepy.

 

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A tropical rain forest has more kinds of trees than any other area in the world. Scientists have counted about 100 to 300 species in one 2 1/2-acre area in South America.

 

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Young male was holding a homemade explosive device. The fuse of the device was lit, and the patient was unable to throw it away before it detonated.

 

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Scientists have recently discovered a rare, solitary type of bee that makes tiny little nests by plastering together flower petals. Each nest is a multicolored, textured little cocoon - a paper-mache husk surrounding a single egg, and protecting it while it metamorphoses into an adult.

 

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Tree branches during Winter of 2010-2011 in East Tennessee.

Amazing!

 

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[Volz4lif3]

What we do without the Internet?

 

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Reasons why octopuses in general are really weird:

• some have three hearts
• and venomous saliva
• and a hidden parrot-like beak
• they can change the color and texture of their skin with incredible ease and speed (they are much better at it than chameleons)
• they have “intelligent arms” that don’t seem to need instructions from the brain to perform certain actions

 

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The rippling surface of a single layer of water molecules....

 

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This rock weighs 900 tons.

What a fatass.

 

[Behr]

What we do without the Internet?

Watch less porn.









Really cool pics and info Internet. Kinda ironic.

 

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With an adult body length of only 14 to 16 centimeters, and weighing as little as 4 ounces, the endangered pygmy marmoset is one of the smallest primates discovered. They are normally found in the rain forest canopies of South America.

 

[Unknown Muppet]

Sh*t. Am I actually learning something on the internet from The Internet? This is blowing my mind.

 

[Volz4lif3]

Sh*t. Am I actually learning something on the internet from The Internet? This is blowing my mind.

Mind blowing yes..

 

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A type of gastric brooding frog, the likely extinct Rheobatrachus vitellinus had—or has—a unique mode of reproduction: Females swallowed their eggs, raised tadpoles in their stomachs, and then gave birth to froglets through their mouths (pictured above).

Last seen in 1985, the Australian frog is one of the ten species that conservationists most hope to find during a first ever global search for lost amphibian species.

 

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I did a little of this when I was a Student Assistant in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at UT. Came across some pretty weird things that wound up in our traps.

 

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The porcupines found in North and South America are good climbers and spend much of their time in trees. Some even have prehensile (gripping) tails to aid in climbing.

A single animal may have 30,000 or more quills.

 

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This image of Centaurus A shows a spectacular new view of a supermassive black hole’s power. The X-ray jet in the upper left extends for about 13,000 light years away from the black hole.