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Bones stop growing after puberty and muscle and fat cells also stop dividing. But cartilage – that’s the plastic-like stuff in ears and noses – continues to grow until the day you die. Not only does cartilage grow, but the earlobes elongate from gravity. And that makes ears look even
The Magic Circle is a British organisation, founded in London in 1905, dedicated to promoting and advancing the art of stage magic. Anybody over 18 can apply to join but you have to be proposed and seconded by existing members and will face an interview to determine your skills. Charles,
The “Special” tone available to users of Nokia phones when receiving SMS (text messages) is actually Morse code for ‘SMS’. Similarly, the “Ascending” SMS tone is Morse code for “Connecting People”. The “Standard” SMS tone is Morse code for “M” (Message).
Ants, like all objects falling through the atmosphere, have a terminal velocity that depends on their shape, size, and mass. An ant picks up speed as she falls through the air. The air, in turn, resists her movement with a force proportional to the square of her speed. Eventually she
When light hits an object, the object reflects some of the light. The wavelengths of reflected light determine what color you see. It has been estimated that humans can distinguish roughly 10 million different colors, although the identification of a specific color is highly subjective, since even the two eyes
In the eighties, while NASA researchers were exploring the idea of using algae as a way to create oxygen in outer space through the process of photosynthesis, they found that certain types of algae contain a couple of essential fatty acids that are present in human breast milk — Docosahexaenoic
It may have been April Fools’ Day, but Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne were not joking around when they came together on April 1, 1976, to form Apple Computer Inc to sell the Apple I personal computer kit. The kits were hand-built by Wozniak and first shown to
The sea otters regularly float in groups known as rafts not only when they sleep but also while eating and resting. A raft can range from two to several hundreds! As they go about rafting, they all hold hands so as to stay together in their group. The sea otters
Your skin is composed of several layers. The layer you can see is called the epidermis. It is composed of cells made of keratin, a hard substance that also forms your hair and nails. The individual cells are called keratinocytes. New keratinocytes grow at the lowest level of the epidermis,
The skeleton of an elephant’s foot is angled, with a large pad of fat and connective tissue at the heel. The angled foot structure means that elephants walk on their tiptoes with their body weight evenly distributed across the fatty/connective tissue at the heel.