Butterflies have good eyesight within 10-12 feet, but any farther, things look blurry. They also must rely on ultraviolet colors (invisible to the human eye) to find mates and the right flowers.
Ninjas used a system called Goshiki-mai, meaning Five Colored Rice, in which rice grains were painted red, blue, yellow, black or purple in order to leave coded messages or trails.
Fact: On August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing over 140,000 people by the end of the year. This was a key event leading to the end of World War II.
Medieval People Drank More Beer Than Water
Due to unsafe drinking water, beer was the preferred daily beverage—even for children. It contained low alcohol levels but was safer than contaminated water.
Astronomers found white dwarf-main sequence binaries in young star clusters using machine learning and Gaia data. The 52 candidates provide insights into stellar evolution, Type Ia supernovae, and gravitational waves, linking early and late binary star p
The largest piece of fossilised dinosaur poo discovered is over 30cm long and over two litres in volume. Believed to be a Tyrannosaurus rex turd, the fossilised dung (also named a 'coprolite') is helping scientists better understand what the dinosaur a
Bite the Bullet: This phrase is believed to originate from the days before modern anesthesia when soldiers were given bullets to bite on during surgery to cope with extreme pain. This practice allowed them to focus on something else during painful proced
