Facts & Quotes™💡

The shortest commercial flight in the world is in Scotland The flight goes between two islands in Orkney, Scotland, and lasts about 47 seconds #funfact

​​The male Darwin’s Frog (Rhinoderma darwinii) from South America incubates the female’s eggs in his vocal sac. They live in there as tadpoles for six weeks before he coughs them out into the world. #animals #frogs

“Courage is like a muscle, we strengthen it by use.”✨ - Ruth Gordo #quotes

A boulevard is a wide city street with trees on both sides A lane is a narrow road often found in a rural area A drive is a long, winding road that has its route shaped by its environment, like a nearby lake or mountain #word_of_the_day

​​​How Does A Phone Battery Percentage Display Work? The job is typically delegated to a device called a coulomb counter. This is built into the battery management system in the phone. The base principle is just to count how much energy is going in and out of the battery to guess how much is left. It’s pretty much like putting an ammeter (a tool that measures electrical flow) on the connection to the battery. It’s hard to do this without wasting power, and it’s even harder to predict how a battery will discharge over a variety of circumstances. Extra heat, higher discharge and old age will all waste power inside the battery in ways that the coulomb counter can’t easily measure. So, in addition to just measuring the flow, a coulomb counter watches the battery’s voltage (the total electrical “pressure”) to take a guess as to how much power is left in the battery and learn it’s capacity as it ages. This is complex too, because chemical reactions hold the energy, and that voltage is just a side-effect that suggests maybe how much energy is left in the battery. The voltage fluctuates a lot depending on other factors, such as discharge rate (sometimes call the “C” Rate).

Hitting the snooze button can cause your body to experience 'sleep inertia' and leave you feeling even more tired #lifehack

Because of its use in holy communion, the Vatican has one of the highest per capita consumption of wine of any country. #countries #vaticancity

Boner (noun): A foolish or careless mistake #funword

The use of emojis affect our corresponding brain areas and can trigger emotions. #funfact #brain

Great white sharks are colour-blind and attracted to certain shapes. That’s why hungry sharks sometimes attack people: when swimming or paddling surfboards, we look like sea lions or seals to them. #MarineLife #sharks #animals for more...

Female bed bugs don't have vaginal openings, so males must stab them in the abdomen with their penises #animals #bedbugs

Every child is an amateur scientist until they have their curiosity destroyed by the adults. #thoughts

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“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.. The most certain way to succeed is always to try one more time”✨ - Thomas Edison #quotes

A tree with darker leaves than the surrounding trees can indicate that a dead body is buried beneath it #lifehack

Dwelling on your problems, mistakes, and weaknesses increases your risk of mental health problems #psychology

​​It is possible to see colours that can't exist, such as blue darker than black or red brighter than white. Chimerical colours can be produced by staring at one colour until your cone cells are fatigued, and then briefly looking at another, as below. #funfact

Gökotta (Swedish): To wake up early to go outside and listen to the birds sing #funword

A rat is more likely to help a trapped rat if it's joined by other rats that are also willing to help #animals #rats

A standard microwave oven uses more energy to power its digital clock than it does to heat food #funfact