Facts & Quotes™💡

Believing that it was an aphrodisiac, many Ancient Roman women would mix gladiator sweat into their face cream. #funfact

Avocados should have gone extinct thousands of years ago but were saved by Aztec farmers #funfact

Smellfungus (noun): Someone who can always find fault or something to criticize #funword

We spend about one-third of our life either sleeping or attempting to do so #funfact

Doing yoga just once or twice a week can boost brain performance. Researchers have found that yoga appears to have a positive effect on critical brain areas “responsible for memory and information processing, as well as emotional regulation.” #funfact #brain #yoga

“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”✨ - E.E. Cummings #quotes

Avocados should have gone extinct thousands of years ago but were saved by Aztec farmers #history

“Kaizen” is a Japanese productivity philosophy It states that one should always be thinking of ways to improve their methods instead of constantly doing things the same way #word_of_the_day

Loving someone in only your love language and not theirs is like cooking steak for a vegan because you love meat. #love

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Oxygen is required for combustion, and hydrogen is a flammable gas, but together they make water – which puts fire out #science

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”✨ - Martin Luther King, Jr. #quotes

Cigarette butts are the most littered, environmentally-toxic item in the world #knowledge #rank

Bees can become depressed, displaying altered levels of dopamine, serotonin, and octopamine, just like humans. #animals #bees

The average person yawns about 20 times per day #funfact

​​What is the Gel that is applied before an Ultrasound Scan? Have you ever had an ultrasound scan? Perhaps if you have a baby, you would have tried it. Do you remember? Before ultrasound scanning, one thing is prepared. It is the gel. The gel is applied to the scan area, before contacting the ultrasound probe to your body. Ultrasonic waves generated from the probe are reflected from the boundary of the tissue, and the probe receive reflected waves to make an ultrasound image. However, the larger the difference in acoustic characteristics between the two tissues, the stronger the reflection and the stronger the echo (white on the screen) appears. The acoustic properties (resistance) of each tissue are related to their density, which is greater in order of bone> soft tissue> fat> air. Therefore, if you apply ultrasonic probe without gel, 99.9% of ultrasonic waves are reflected at the boundary of air-soft tissue (body). Ultrasound image should show the difference between the tissues in the body (normal-lesion, etc.), not the difference between the air and body. To solve this situation, the gel is used. In other words, when the acoustic resistance of the two media is made equal by using gel, ultrasonic waves are transmitted to body without reflection. The other purpose of the gel is the role of lubricantion, which moves the probe smoothly when performing a ultrasound scan. If the gel is not used, it may be stiff and the patient may feel pain.

Social media has not made the world dumb. Social media has just shown us how dumb the world really is. #thoughts

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“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”✨ - Ralph Waldo Emerson #quotes

A 'contronym' is a word that can mean one thing or the exact opposite Ex: "Dust" can mean 'to remove dust' or 'to cover with dust' #word_of_the_day