Random Knowledge

When you say "touch", your lips don't touch. But when you say "apart", your lips do touch.

The first living creatures to go on a moon flyby were a pair of tortoises. After a nine-day mission they splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean.

My mum’s coworker’s tortoise survived half a year under the sofa outside the tank and with no one feeding it.

Weird fact, Babies can't shiver! They lack the muscle mass to do so, since well it's a baby. So they have something called Brown Adipose tissue instead which allows for internal heating through energy conversion. The more you knowww.

Plants can have a negative oxygen production! Although they produce oxygen through photosynthesis, they also take in oxygen for respiration. When there's no light, the plant can't do photosynthesis but still needs to respire, so it takes in oxygen without producing anyway - making the net oxygen production a negative number.

In the 1830s, tomato ketchup used to be sold as a medicine, claiming to cure ailments like diarrhea, indigestion, and jaundice. The idea was first proposed by Dr. John Cook Bennett, an American physician, in 1834, who is said to sell the recipe later in form of 'tomato pills'

Fun fact about Gardenia Flowers :
The gardenia is a flower that symbolizes purity and gentleness. However, this symbolism often depends on the color of the gardenia. For example, the white gardenia best fits this meaning. Another symbol of the gardenia is the secret love between two people (the poetic word for it is I dare you to love me) and also joy.

Thalassophile (plural thalassophiles) means someone who loves the sea. Whereas on the opposite end, someone who is scared of / is fear of water may be afraid of baths or showers, drinking water, large bodies of water, or swimming pools. is called Aquaphobia.

UV Rays decrease your blood pressure

Some penguin facts for the winter months:

Penguins actually have knee caps, they just don't often use them because it's more convenient to waddle.

Penguins have same sex couples that often adopt orphaned penguin eggs.

Avocados are a fruit, not a vegetable.

The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer, due to thermal expansion meaning the iron heats up, the particles gain kinetic energy and take up more space

The abacus comprises heaven and earth beads, worth 5 and 1 respectively.

Beads are manipulated with just the thumb and foreginger.