If you shave a guinea pig completely bald, it looks virtually identical to a miniature hippopotamus

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You know a group of lions is a pride and crows are a murder, but a collective group of pandas is officially called an "embarrassment of pandas."

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Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone.

Hot water rises in the middle, too extreme for most life, so it stays deep blue. it cools outward, different microbes take over: yellow Synechococcus, orange Chloroflexi.

Their pigments, not dyes, make the rainbow

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The Phobia that Trolls You

The official medical term for the fear of long words is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. The psychiatrists who named it quite literally chose to troll the people suffering from it.

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Augustus caesar
(born Octavian) became the first official Emperor of the Roman Empire in 27 BCE, marking the end of the Roman Republic.

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Gimme a drink!

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The Magna Carta
was signed by King John of England at Runnymede in 1215. It established the principle that everyone, including the king, is subject to the law

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Fascinating drone footage looking down into a volcanic eruption from above.

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The French Revolution
began in 1789 with the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris, leading to the overthrow of the monarchy and the rise of radical social changes across europe

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shrimp keep their hearts in their heads. Their vital circulatory organ is located right inside the cephalothorax, just behind their face.

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Training a golden eagle for hunting as part of Kyrgyzstan’s centuries-old berkutchi tradition, where eagles are trained to work alongside their handlers.

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Marie Curie
was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes (Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911) and remains the only individual honored in two different scientific fields for her work on radioactivity

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Zalipie, a village in southern Poland where homes are decorated with colorful hand-painted floral folk art.

The tradition is believed to have begun over a century ago as a way to cover soot stains from wood-burning stoves and has since become part of the village’s cultural identity.

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The Treaty of Versailles
, signed in 1919, officially ended World War I and imposed strict economic penalties and territorial losses on Germany, which heavily influenced the build-up to World war the second

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The female brain gathers information 5 times faster than the male brain.
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall
on November 9, 1989, symbolized the collapse of the "Iron Curtain" and paved the way for the reunification of Germany and the eventual end of the Cold War

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The American Civil War
was fought between the Northern states (the Union) and the Southern states (the Confederacy) from 1861 to 1865, primarily over the economic and moral issue of slavery

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Flowers can be an instant mood lifter. Brain chemicals such as Oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin are released when you have a positive reaction to flowers. These happy brain chemicals trigger feelings of bonding,excitement & genuine happiness.

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Hundreds of horses gallop across the Zhaosu Grassland in Xinjiang, guided by local herders.

This event, known as “A Thousand Steeds Galloping,” is a traditional horse-herding display that keeps the region’s long-standing horse culture alive.

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You grow so accustomed to your own body odour that you eventually don't realise that you have one. When you can start to smell a little bit of your odour then its gotten to the point where you need to seriously take a deep clean. Had to learn this the hard way.

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