Facts & Quotes™💡

The average dog can understand more than 150 words #funfact

“Don’t limit your challenges, challenge your limits.”✨ #quotes

Boobytrap spelled backward is "Partyboob" #funfact

Looking at pictures of loved ones can reduce mild pain by about 40% and relieve severe pain by nearly 10%–15% #psychology

​​No one knows for sure how the element antimony got its name, but one theory is that it comes from the Greek for ‘monk-killer’ due to its poisonous nature and many early alchemists being monks. #funfact

After surviving 33 days lost at sea, a man finally landed ashore by chance on Namdrik Atoll in the Marshall Islands There he discovered that his uncle, believed to have been lost at sea 50 years prior, had washed ashore on the same atoll and started a family #weird

​​The Burj Khalifa is so tall that, with a high-speed elevator, you could see the sunset from the ground floor, then ride to the top and watch the sunset again. Located in Dubai, the skyscraper has been the tallest building in the world since 2009. #funfact

There is a floating cat sanctuary in Amsterdam called De Poezenboot. #funfact

When we scratch an itch, we inflict low-level pain on ourselves, which temporarily makes the itch go away. #funfact

Suffering often comes from resisting an emotion. While it may initially seem counterproductive, it's much more effective to sit with it. When you can observe the emotion from a distance and accept it, it loses its charge. #tips

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“Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness.”✨ - Marie Forleo #quotes

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of the word ‘football’ to describe the game was in 1424, in an act forbidding it. #funfact

​​How does Odomos work? If you read the details of Odomas you will find that it contains chemical repellent N,N-Diethyl benzamide along with natural repellent i.e. eucalyptus oil and citronella oil. Moreover, the research suggests that mosquitoes locate the host on the basis of visual, olfactory and thermal sensors. To be specific, the carbon dioxide emitted by humans attracts the mosquitoes from long distance for the localisation of its host and body moisture acts as a short range attractant which is also related to body temperature. Therefore, the repellent must be targeting one of these factors which blocks the approach of insects to its host. Number of research on the mode of action of these chemical repellents revealed a possible blockage of sensitivity of olfactory receptor present in the antennas of mosquitoes.

An estimated 2.5 billion people are living with poor vision because they don't have eyeglasses #weird

Even though they speak no language, baboons can learn when a four-letter word is real English, or nonsense based on the arrangement of its letters. One of the first steps in reading. #animals #baboons