Let’s fix that!<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\nThis week, while Darcy is exploring the Nile River with her socialite buddies, I decided to take the bull by the horns – so to speak – and create my own “Site of the Week” again. So here it is…<\/span><\/p>\nPart #2 of “TC’s Amazin’ Stuff.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Humans can distinguish at least 1 trillion<\/b> different odors, making our sense of smell far more sophisticated than previously thought.<\/span><\/li>\n
- If you laid all the blood vessels in an adult human body end-to-end, they would stretch for about 60,000 miles<\/b>\u2014enough to circle the Earth more than twice.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Crows can recognize human faces and can hold “grudges” against specific people for years, even teaching their offspring which humans to avoid.<\/span><\/li>\n
- It takes a sloth up to 30 days<\/b> to digest a single leaf. They can actually starve to death on a full stomach if the weather is too cold for their gut bacteria to work.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Astronauts consistently describe the smell of outer space as a mix of seared steak, hot metal, and welding fumes<\/b>.<\/li>\n
- Parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile have gone over 400 years<\/b> without a single drop of rain.<\/li>\n
- Humans are literally made of “stardust.” Almost every element in our bodies was forged in the heart of a dying star.<\/li>\n
- Greenland sharks can live for over 400 years<\/b>. There are sharks swimming today that were born before the Mayflower landed.<\/li>\n
- A fungus among us: The largest living organism on Earth is a honey fungus in Oregon; it covers over 2,385 acres<\/b> of forest.<\/span><\/li>\n
- A single average cumulus cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds<\/b> (roughly 100 elephants).<\/li>\n
- That “fresh rain” smell is actually called petrichor<\/b>, caused by soil bacteria called actinomycetes.<\/li>\n
- Forks were once seen as “sacrilegious” in Italy because they were “artificial hands” and therefore an insult to God.<\/li>\n
- Humans actually have stripes called Blaschko’s Lines<\/b>, but they are invisible to the naked eye and only show under UV light.<\/li>\n
- Statistically, you are more likely to be killed by a falling vending machine<\/b> than by a shark attack.<\/span><\/li>\n
- A human can be their own fraternal twin. This happens when two embryos fuse in the womb, resulting in a person with two different sets of DNA<\/b>. Some people have discovered this only after failing a maternity test for their own biological children.<\/li>\n
- Deadly Laughter:<\/b> In 1962, an “outbreak” of contagious laughter in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) lasted for nearly a year, forcing the closure of several schools. It was a case of Mass Psychogenic Illness.<\/li>\n
- Eye Teeth:<\/b> There is a rare medical procedure called Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis<\/i>, where a person\u2019s tooth is implanted into their eye to restore sight. The tooth acts as a support for a prosthetic lens.<\/li>\n
- About 2 billion years ago, in what is now Gabon, Africa, a uranium deposit reached “criticality” and functioned as a self-sustaining nuclear fission reactor<\/b> for hundreds of thousands of years\u2014entirely by accident of nature.<\/li>\n
- In 897 AD, the Catholic Church put a dead Pope on trial<\/b>. The corpse of Pope Formosus was exhumed, dressed in papal robes, and cross-examined by a successor. He was found guilty.<\/li>\n
- During Prohibition, the U.S. government ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols<\/b> to discourage people from drinking. It is estimated that over 10,000 people died from drinking the “chemist\u2019s concoction.”<\/li>\n
- In 1518, hundreds of people in Strasbourg started dancing uncontrollably<\/b> for weeks. Some died from strokes and heart attacks. To “cure” them, the city built a stage and hired musicians, thinking they just needed to “dance it out.”<\/li>\n
- A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 68 years straight<\/b> (1922\u20131990). He hiccuped an estimated 430 million times before they randomly stopped one year before he died.<\/li>\n
- Nintendo was founded in 1889<\/b>. For context, Jack the Ripper was still making headlines, and the Ottoman Empire was still a functioning world power.<\/li>\n
- The 1904 Olympic Marathon:<\/span><\/b> This race was pure chaos.<\/span> The “winner” drove 11 miles in a car; another runner was chased a mile off-course by aggressive dogs; and the actual winner was kept going by his trainers injecting him with <\/span>strychnine (rat poison)<\/span><\/b> and brandy.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Auto-Brewery Syndrome:<\/b> There is a medical condition where the fungi in your gut ferment carbohydrates into ethanol.<\/span> People with this syndrome can become legally drunk<\/b> just by eating a bowl of pasta or a slice of cake.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
And a sweet little bonus for all of you older lovers out there…<\/span><\/p>\nCouples\u2019 Heartbeat Synchrony:<\/strong>\u00a0 Amazing but true! When two people who have been together for a long time sit near each other, their heart rates and breathing patterns actually begin to synchronize. They literally become “in tune” with one another.<\/span><\/p>\nAin’t that sweet??<\/span><\/p>\nIf you missed Part #1 of TC’s Amazin’ Stuff, y’all can read it here.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWe hope you’ve enjoyed TC’s Amazing Stuff – Part 2!\u00a0 Thanks for reading and sharing!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TC’s Amazin’ Stuff – Part 2 So, every week, Darcy and\/or I search for a freeware pick or site pick to feature in our weekly newsletter. Yeah, it’s basically a non-technical technical newsletter for non-technical people who use Windows. We feature computer tips, how-tos, freeware picks, computer advice, and a lot of other stuff, as most of\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,4168],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31855"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31873,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31855\/revisions\/31873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}