Facts & Quotes™💡

​​The average female orgasm lasts twice as long as the average male orgasm #sexfact

​​Why Eyeballs Don’t Freeze At Subzero Temperatures? If our hands, toes, noses, and other body parts are susceptible to freezing and getting frostbitten, it might seem unusual that our eyeballs can survive the cold totally unprotected. But, unlike other bodily extremities, the eyes are constantly pumped with a strong supply of warm blood—even in the coldest situations. Furthermore, our eyes are nestled rather deeply in our heads where bone, tissue, and fat also help keep them warm. Essentially, it’s virtually impossible for the eyes to freeze as long as they are inside a warm, functioning body. Although it seems to defy logic that the wet, soft tissue of the eye wouldn’t immediately freeze when the thermometer drops below 32 degrees Fahrenheit, in truth, the explanation is quite simple. Our eyes don’t ice over because they are almost entirely encased in our warm, well-regulated heads. They are positioned more than halfway inside our noggins and protected by insulating bone, muscle, fat, and eyelids. Making the eye even less likely to freeze is the fact that it’s filled with numerous blood vessels which continually heat it up with the hot blood from our bodies. In fact, the primary blood source to the eye is the ophthalmic artery, which is a branch off the same, deep artery that supplies the brain. When in cold surroundings, the body diverts even more blood to the brain (and other vital organs) which, in turn, helps keep eyes even warmer.

Your brain continues to develop until your 40s #brain

​​The 86 billion neurons in a human brain are connected by 528,000 miles of fibre – enough to circle the Earth twenty times. #funfact

The word "stressed" is "desserts" spelled backwards #funfact

Rather than placing the currency symbol before the amount (e.g. $50.00) or after the amount (e.g. 50.00€), the Cape Verdean escudo puts the symbol as the decimal separator - as 50$00. #funfact

Hypnagogia (noun): The state between being awake and asleep #knowledge

​​SUSS-MIDDEN - a woman too tired or lazy to move #funword

Humans evolved uniquely large butts because its placement and size help us balance and walk upright #funfact

An ant will survive a fall from any height because its terminal velocity can never be high enough to kill it #animals

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“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.”✨ - Helen Keller #quotes

When twin males have kids with twin females, the children are genetically equivalent to siblings. #science

​​Why do Horses sleep standing up? Horses, like human beings, sleep in various degrees of sleep. They can doze or take a nap and experience Slow Wave Sleep (SWS), they also need Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep, the deep sleep in which dreams occur. Horses can doze or nap in the SWS stage, while standing, this is because of a unique quality of the equine skeletal system, to lock their limbs, specifically their rear knee-caps, allowing the skeleton to hold them upright without engaging the muscles. It is possible because of a special system of tendons and ligaments and is called as the Stay Apparatus in veterinary medicine. This mechanism has evolved in most prey-animals that live in predator rich regions. Horses due to their straight backs, cannot get up quickly if a predator approaches, before domestication horses sleeping upright gave them a swift advantage of escaping a predator compared to horses lying down to sleep. A horse will never lie down if they do not feel safe. Horses need REM sleep, from 30 minutes - 3 hours for their healthy functioning, most often these occur post midnight. Experts say that REM sleep occurs in short intervals of 10-20 minutes, a maximum REM cycle in horses is 45-minutes. They prefer to sleep during the day, and if you see a horse lying down or a group of horses lying down, you will also observe one horse standing up, guarding others and keeping an eye out for predators. Foals spend more time sleeping than adult horses, Older horses might have trouble sleeping because of joint issues as they age, or due to neurological disorder like Narcolepsy (a condition in which a horse suddenly falls asleep), Hypersomnia (excessive sleep or lethargy ) or REM sleep disorder (a horse wakes itself up with excessive body movements during sleep). Other reasons for horses not lying down to sleep are stress, not enough space to sleep, discomfort of a new place or due to a new horse being introduced to the herd.

​​What is Nano Fertilizer? How do Nano Fertilizers work? The word "Nano" comes from ancient Greek and means "Dwarf" (nanos means dwarf), used as a prefix "nano" denotes 10^9, that is "one-billionth", so a nanometer is equal to a billionth of a meter (1nM = 0.000000001), a single strand of hair is about 80,000 nanometer so you can imagine how small the nano scale actually is! A nanofertilizer, is any product that delivers nutrients to plants on a nano scale. There are three main routes of delivery at the nano scale - inside nanotubes or nanoporous materials, coated with a thin protective polymer film or delivered as particle and emulsions of nanoscale dimension (<100nM). Nitrogen is an integral nutrient source for food, biomass and fibre production in agriculture, however the Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE) by crops is very low, 50-70% of the nitrogen applied through conventional fertilizer is lost owing to leaching in the form of water soluble nitrates, emissions of gaseous ammonia and nitrogen oxides. Many attempts have been made to increase the NUE with little success paving the way to apply nanotechnology to solve this problem. In addition to increasing the NUE, nanotechnology has been used for controlled release of chemical compounds, improved yields by conventional fertilizers and used as bactericidal additives. Nanoparticles have high surface area, sorption capacity, and controlled-release kinetics.Nanostructured fertilizers can increase the nutrient use efficiency through mechanisms such as targeted delivery, slow or controlled release in responding to environmental triggers and biological demands. More research and funding is required to optimize these smart delivery systems and cater to the ever increasing food needs of billions of people worldwide.

PANGLOSSIAN - excessively optimistic. #funword

The Netherlands sends Canada thousands of tulip bulbs every year to thank them for their help in WWII. #countries #funfact

In 2017, a man didn't want to pay for a ticket to get into a Chinese zoo. While the rest of his family decided to buy tickets, he scaled the wall to get in. He ended up in a tiger enclosure and was promptly eaten. #others

People in open relationships are as happy and tend to be more trusting than those who prefer monogamy, according to a study from the University of Michigan. #relationship

Only one in 15 people who have ever lived are alive now. #others