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Trust in yourself that no matter what arises. According to your history, you've handled things before, and so you'll do it again. #tips

People watching can help increase empathy and your understanding of human behavior/social dynamics. #knowledge

Chewing gum can help reduce stress and improve cognitive performance. #lifehack

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4 THINGS TO DO SOONER 1. Love yourself 2. Trust your inner calling over outside opinions 3. Spend less time being angry and more time healing 4. Reserve your energy for people who you never need to perform for #tips

After mating, hens store the male's semen and periodically release driblets of it throughout the month to fertilize multiple eggs. #animals

People who regularly point out grammar mistakes tend to have "less agreeable" personalities. #psychology

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Sometimes the only way to save someone is to walk away. Your love may be the crutch they lean on, causing them never to know how to stand tall on their own. #love

A single bat can eat up to 1,200 mosquito-sized insects in an hour Bats eat an average of 6,000 to 8,000 insects every night. #animals

90% of all money, or more than $50 trillion, lives entirely on computer servers — while the total value of coins and banknotes is less than $6 trillion. #weird

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Top social media by monthly users: Facebook - 2.9 billion YouTube - 2.5 billion WhatsApp - 2 billion Instagram - 2 billion WeChat - 1.3 billion TikTok - 1 billion Telegram - 700 million Snapchat - 635 million Twitter - 556 million Pinterest - 445 million #tech

​​How are Seedless fruits produced? Normally, a fruit forms after pollination of a flowering plant when the female ovary is fertilized by male pollen. Fertilization causes seed development. The fruit is actually the ovary that swells around the seed. Natural genetic mutations may cause fruit to develop in some plants without fertilization and therefore without producing seeds. This characteristic, development of fruit without fertilization, is called parthenocarpy. Today’s seedless fruits and vegetables started with this natural mutation, followed by human recognition that seedlessness was an attractive trait. Then humans found ways to propogate that plant to preserve that characteristic. Seedlessness has several attractive features. Seedless oranges, grapes and watermelons are less messy and more enjoyable to eat. Eliminating cucumber seeds eases digestion issues for many people.  And seedlessness lengthens shelf life since seeds tend to encourage the fruits’ deterioration to hasten their dispersal into the world. There are several mechanisms depending on the type of fruit. Pineapple, for example, always forms fruit but only forms seeds if pollinated. More interesting are plants like watermelon and banana that are sterile because they contain the wrong number of chromosomes. "Normal" organisms contain 2 copies of each chromosome (diploid) but many plants naturally double up their chromosome count to become tetraploid. This affects the gene expression somewhat but generally doesn't affect reproductive ability. However if you have 3 copies of each chromoshome (triploid) the plant can be sterile. In Cavendish bananas (the main variety sold today) this happened by natural mutation over 500 years ago, and every banana tree of this type produced since then is essentially a clone created by planting a cutting. In the modern era, we have artificially bred triploid versions of some fruits such as watermelons and oranges to make them sterile and seedless. This was done by chemically inducing tetraploidy in the plant to produce a viable 4x-chromosome version (which is fairly easy), and then crossing that with a diploid 2x-chromosome version. The resulting offspring have 3 copies of each chromosome and are sterile. This can be repeated as often as needed to produce a new generation of the plant, but obviously spreading the plant via cuttings or grafting is simpler and easier.

Trusting your intuition is an act of self-care, and ignoring it is an act of self-betrayal. #tips

People with mild-to-moderate depression can have more realistic perceptions of their abilities, limitations, and make more accurate judgments about the outcome of unforeseen events. #psychology

Drinking a cup of coffee in the morning can improve your mood and increase mental alertness. #health

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