Ttwo pieces of metal can weld together with no heat or other substances present!

         In space, two pieces of metal can weld together with no heat or other substances present!

             Normally if you want to join two pieces of metal together, you use heat, or some sort of chemical process to do it. However, when metal is in a vacuum (like in space), two different pieces of metal will weld together with no other external force present.

            It's called Cold Welding and it was dicsovered in the 1940s. And it might sound very impracticle, but it's become extremely useful in nanoconstruction, tiny parts can be joined without the bulk of adhesives or melting.

A Roman couple have been holding hands for 1500 years!

        Not only that, but they were probably buried looking into each others’ eyes. The couple were from the town of Mutina, now known as Modena, and were buried around the year 500 AD.  

        The bodies were found positioned next to each other with the male on the left and the female on the right. They are holding hand and the female’s skull faces towards where the male’s would be, however his skull is badly damaged.   

        Not much is known about the couple, except that they were married and, due to where and how the bodies were buried, were probably not very wealthy. The remains will go on display in a local museum later this year.   The eternal lovebirds weren’t the only ones found at the site. 3 mutilated skeletons were also excavated. One was a teen.  

      Some of the archaeologists say they were slaves executed by their master, however others believe they were murder victims due to the slash wounds they were found to have

Twenty years ago a Japanese farmer created cubed watermelons!

         People love watermelon, but their shape is a pain. They roll around in the fridge or on the counter. People have been struggling with the problem for years. Attempting to cut the watermelon can be dangerous and difficult, if you haven't learned proper watermelon cutting techniques.
         An innovative farmer on the island of Shikoku off the southwestern coast of Japan came up with a solution to the watermelon dilemma. He came up with the idea to make cube shaped watermelons that would easily fit in the refrigerator and be stored. Farmers grew the watermelons in glass boxes and the fruit automatically assumed the same shape.  
       Today the cubed melons are grown, hand-picked, and shipped all over Japan. The special melons are more partial to the wealthy and fashion conscious citizens of Tokyo and Osaka, Japan.
        Each melon sells for 10,000 yen, which equals to about $83 per watermelon! It is double or triple the amount of a normal watermelon in Japan.

Bored and lonely parrots go crazy and pull out their feathers!

   An estimated 50 percent of pet birds engage in “over-preening”, but certain species of parrots are significantly more prone to this problem. Those at particular risk are birds that travel in large flocks when they live in the wild.   
     These birds get lonely without a lot of social interaction.  Without another bird, or at least a person, to keep them company, they behave like a lost wild animal. They get anxious, develop behavioural problems, and yes, pull out their feathers and even pick at scabs. More nomadic bird species like Amazon parrots or macaws are at less risk of this.

There was a prehistoric horse that was the size of a small dog.

          

                Eohippus aka hyracotherium lived between 55 
and 45 million years ago. They averaged 60 cm in length and weighed around 36 pounds. This prehistoric animal has actually been classified in the palaeothere family, which makes it not only an ancestor of modern horses, but also early relatives of rhinoceroses and tapirs.  

           Later on another, now extinct, descendant of hyracotherium called propalaeotherium came about. These animals were even smaller, some only 30 cm (less than 1 foot) in length! These tiny, cat-sized horse-like animals have no modern descendants.

Elephants actually talk to one another

          Elephants actually talk to one another, yet their frequency is so low humans can't hear it.

          This form of communication is called infrasound. Scientists have discovered that these signals from elephants can travel for miles, but humans can only detect them with special equipment. They have also been working on translating the messages from the elephants by using a spectrograph.

A four-year-old has her own art exhibition in New York City!

        This fact will definitely reignite the debate about what art really is - does the product of a kid playing with paint really constitute fine art? The parents of 4-year-old Aelita Andre definitely think so. The precocious Australian artist has reportedly been toddling around on canvases since she was 9 months ago! Now that she’s all grown up at the age of four, 3 of her paintings have sold for $27,000!

        She also has her own art show, “The Prodigy of Color”, at the Agora Gallery in NYC. The twenty-four works on display are priced anywhere from $4,400 to $10,000 a piece. The gallery’s director, Angela Di Bello, actually chose her artwork before she knew the painter’s age! She thought the pieces displayed “great colors, great movement, great composition, and were very playful”, then she found out they had been produced by a child!

There are more Godzilla movies (28) than James Bond movies (22)!

            These are also two of the longest movie series ever. The first James Bond film came out in 1962, making the series nearly 50 years old! The first Godzilla film came out in 1954, so they’ve been making Godzilla movies for almost 60 years! Neither series is over yet either. In fact, new installments in both the Godzilla and James Bond series are slated for 2012 releases.

          The Godzilla film will be in 3-D!  We’ve only counted “official” releases for these series. Technically, there are 29 Godzilla movies if you wanted to count the American movie directed by Roland Emmerich (I'd rather not). There’s also 24 James Bond films if you count the 1967 James Bond parody film Casino Royale with comedian Peter Sellers as Bond and if you count Never Say Never Again, an unofficial James Bond film starring Sean Connery.

Penguins can drink salt water!

        Penguins are pretty awesome, so it shouldn’t be a big surprise that they are capable of drinking and ingesting salt water right? Well, that’s 2/3 right; yes penguins are awesome, yes they are capable of drinking salt water, but no, they can’t ingest salt water. 

        They are able to drink salt water because their supraorbital gland filters excess salt from the blood stream, which is then secreted in a concentrated fluid from the nasal passages. 

        This mechanism was designed to allow penguins to live in the coldest places, like the North and South Pole; both of which are completely surrounded by salt water and usually freeze any fresh water they come into contact with.

As those places melt, so do the penguin’s homes, and soon enough they themselves disappear. Efforts are being made by environmentalists and individuals to ensure that this animal keeps getting to be awesome and to filter excess salt from their blood streams.

Cows listening to music give more milk!

     Having your utter pulled constantly can get a little bit stressful. Sometimes all you need is some nice, classical music to help you relax and “get the juices flowing.” So when farmers play classical or soft music in the cowshed, they receive about 1 extra pint of milk from their cows.

          Some of the most popular hits are Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony and Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over a Troubled Water.
          Some farmers have even tried using this yield-increasing method on chickens. Supporting this practice is a study carried out by the LCAH Dairies in Linconshire and Bishop Burton Agriculture College in Humberside.

Researchers found that a cow’s milk yield rose by 3% a day when slow music, rather than fast or no music was playing. 

        They came to the conclusion that in much the same way that music helps humans relax, it also helps animals relax. The group is now seeking further funding to continue their research on animal musical therapy.

Despite their name, no centipedes have 100 legs

           Yes, the prefix centi- does mean “one hundred,” but this is more to imply “a large number” than to be taken as meaning an exact figure.

         In fact, most species of these insects possess 35-39 pairs of legs.

         They can have anywhere from 15 to 179 body segments, with one pair per section. The legs on the segment directly behind a centipede’s head contains a pair of poison-tipped legs ending in sharp claws that are optimized for hunting!

The ancient Greeks knew the earth was round

       It all started as a philosophical concept developed by the Greeks around the 6th century BC. It wasn’t until the 3rd century BC when Hellenistic astronomy came to the conclusion that the earth was in fact physically spherical. 

          At first, there was no real explanation of how the Greeks came up with this conclusion, other than their observation on the change of the stars when they traveled. 

           Pythagoras and Plato taught their students that the world was round but they had no justification or proof. The round Earth theory didn't get a proper explanation until Aristotle (384-322 BC) made three important observations: 

• Every portion of the Earth tends toward the center until by compression and convergence they form a sphere. 
• Travelers going south see southern constellations rise higher above the horizon; and 
• The shadow of Earth on the Moon during a lunar eclipse is round. 

          This knowledge was then passed from generation to generation. It was then spread to the eastern world where they thought that the earth was a flat disk floating in an ocean surrounded by a spherical sky, as explained by the Mesopotamian mythology.

A wallet has been made that only opens to the owner's fingerprint.

        

        Not only will pickpockets be unable to open your wallet, but they will also trigger an alarm! This wallet has a bluetooth alarm. If your wallet moves more than 5 meters from your cell phone, an alarm will go off. This would also be an effective way to make sure you don't lose your wallet, and to drive you crazy!

           This wallet is also super-durable, making it hard for a desperate thief to crack it open. Good thing too: the wallet itself costs $825, likely more money than you will ever be carrying around in it!

A snake with a foot was found in China.

      Dean Qiongxiu found a snake with a "claw" or a "foot" crawling around on the floor. Naturally, upon seeing such an unusual specimen she beat it to death with her shoe, and kept the snake preserved in a bottle of alcohol.

               The snake has been sent to the Life Sciences Department at China's West Normal University in Nanchang for an autopsy, so we can figure out how this mutation happened.

There’s a forest in Japan famous for suicides!

           It’s called Aokigahara, or the Sea of Trees and every year nearly 100 people hang themselves among its dense trees. The forest lies at the northwest base of Mount Fuji and because the trees are so densely packed, there is a renowned absence of animals or wind, resulting in an eerie silence. 

           The forest has always been linked with demons and death throughout Japanese mythology. Every year, usually around March, people walk into the forest with a rope and little else to find a tree to end their life. The forest is so densely packed however, that the government has admitted there are most likely many bodies that are never found. 

            In 1960 the novel “Nami no Tō” consisted with two lovers ending their lives in the forest and ever since suicide rates have skyrocketed. The government has begun placing posters in both Japanese and English throughout the area urging people to reconsider; yet many do not. Every year the government sends a search body of police to find the hanging bodies and has ceased publishing the figure to deter others from following suit.

A snail can sleep for 3 years....

      It is no secret that snails need moisture to stay alive. Because many snails live in dry climates, they have developed a few tricks to survive through dry spells. One of them is extremely long hibernation. 

Even though some snails can even dig underground to get away from the dry air, this might not be enough to keep them alive.

          If the situation is too hot and dry, snails can find a place to hibernate for up to three years until the climate is more suitable for them. Because snails can live for fifteen years, this is a good portion of their life, but not as much as other living things. 

Here's some other facts about snails and how they manage to gather up all the moisture they need to survive:

• Snails are mostly nocturnal, so that the light of day doesn’t burn them out as badly. 
• Because they are hermaphrodites, they don’t need to worry about finding a mate in the dry air. 
• The opening of the snail shell is covered with a slimy gel that prevents much air passage.

Scientists have found soft tissue on dinosaurs that is nearly 70 million years old!

      A Tyrannosaurus rex was recently found in Montana with a shattered leg bone. As paleontologists studied the specimen, one scientist did something that was slightly out of the ordinary. Dr. Mary Schweitzer took fragments of the bone and submerged them in acid in her laboratory. 
       What she discovered was astonishing. The specimen contained bits of tissue, red blood cells, and more. Before this, it was thought impossible that these elements would survive this long. This is the first observation of its kind and scientists around the world are baffled by the findings. 
      The findings could potentially lead to new insights on how dinosaurs evolved, how their muscles and blood vessels worked, and could even settle the debate on whether the animals were warm-blooded, coldblooded –or both.
 Why was this information just discovered? Scientists say it’s so difficult to find and procure the bones in the first place that most did not even think to destroy them in acid! No word on whether they'll be able to get enough DNA out of this tissue to create a theme park, though.

A Russian woman gave birth to 69 children!

     

               

             In the 1700s there was a woman who birthed 69 children. She completely holds the record for most children born to one woman. In total, she had 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets!

            Out of the 69 children, 67 of them survived past their infancy. This information has been in circulation since the 1800s, and there have been doubts about how true the claims are. Nevertheless, the information presented was good enough for the Guiness Book of World Records to include this woman in their record books.

A river shoots red fireballs into the air

        A river in Thailand randomly shoots red fireballs into the air. No one knows why.

        About 70 - 100 km downstream from Vientiane, capital of Laos, the Mekong River does something really strange. At night, the river produces red fireballs that rise up into the air and disappear without making any noise. The balls are usually small, but some have been observed to be the size of basketballs. While it might seem mysterious and remote to most of us, the area along the river is heavily populated with homes and roads, and people have gotten used to it.

          People from the area confirm to witnessing the fireballs their whole life and that their parents and grandparents did too. So far there is no scientific explanation for the phenomenon. There are, however, myths about the fireballs have been formed over the years. The most famous is of a naga, dragon or snake, which crawled through the mountains where the Mekong is now. The naga continues to pass through the area, but now underwater, and like a good dragon it spits fireballs into the air from the river bottom.

At the end of every October, a festival is held in celebration of the mysterious fireballs. Tens of thousands show up every year, but the balls are random and some years aren’t even witnessed during the festival.

Wedding of two snakes - Nearly 1,000 people in Cambodia attended

        Chamreun, a 16-foot, 200 lb python tied the knot with her groom, Krong Pich, a smaller male python. The marriage was held in Village One in the Kandal province near Phnom Penh, drawing a crowd of nearly 1,000 humans. The wedding ceremony was intended to bring about good luck for the village.

       The ceremony lasted for 2 hours, complete with Buddhist monks blessing the newlywed snakes, live music, and the wedding guests showering them with flowers.

There's a town in Italy that doesn't get sunlight for 84 days a year.

            A town in Italy that doesn't get sunlight for 84 days a year. They've solved this problem with a giant mirror   

        The little town of Viganella is located amidst the Italian side of the Alps. During the winter time, the shift in the sun's pattern makes it so that it never clears the 1600 feet tall mountain that's close to the town. This means that for 84 days, they do not get any sunlight. The townspeople end up suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder, a type of mild depression. 

            To solve this, the government installed a massive mirror on the side of the mountain. It measure 26x16 feet and is computer controlled to follow the trajectory of the Sun. The result is that starting in 2006, the town was able to celebrate the first winter sun in 600 years!

A tiny animal that it could stay alive in space

      There’s a tiny animal that can survive in such extreme environments that it could stay alive in space.

     They’re called tardigrades, but are more commonly known as moss piglets or waterbears. They are small water-dwelling animals with eight legs and their name means “slow walker.” However, what is amazing about these creatures is that they can live in environments that would kill almost any other animal. Some can survive temperatures close to absolute zero and as high as 300 degrees Fahrenheit.

       They can endure over 1,000 times more radiation than other animals and go over a decade without water. These creatures are so amazing that recent studies have found that even when sent into the vacuum of space they returned alive!

An earthquake can shorten the length of a day.

        On February 27, 2010, an earthquake in Chile that registered an 8.8 on the Richter scale may very have shortened the length of a day on Earth. Researchers computed the change to be as much as making a day 1.26 microseconds shorter. In addition, the quake also shifted the Earth on its axis. The Earth's axis moved 2.7 milliarcseconds (which is actually a unit of angular measurement, not time). That's the equivalent of about 8 centimeters or three inches.[Omg facts]

Parrot parents name their children!

          

                  Parrots perhaps more than any other animal are knows for their amazing communication skills in which they can mimic human speech. However, scientists have discovered that their communication skills are even more impressive than previously thought.

         Parrots actually name their children a signature call, which they use to communicate with them later! Where do parrot “names” come from? It’s actually very similar to human names. Parrots give their offspring the distinctive sound to address them before the children can even chirp themselves!  [OMG Facts]

The longest place name in Europe is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch!

     Ever heard of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll-gogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch? It’s located in Wales, and is comprised of over 3,000 inhabitants, 76% of whom speak fluent Welsh.

      It’s more commonly known as Llanfair PG because of the ridiculous length of its name, and translates from Welsh to, “St. Mary's Church in a hollow of white hazel near the swirling whirlpool of the church of St. Tysilio with a red cave.” The name of this town holds the European record for the longest place name at fifty-eight characters! .. [OMF Facts]

Printer ink is more expensive than blood!

         While a printer is relatively cheap compared to what you might expect, printer companies make a majority of their money on the ink! Over the life of just one printer, you’ll most likely pay over 500% of the price of the printer on just refilling ink cartridges.

      A traditional ink cartridge of 42ml costs around $30, for just plain black ink, while the Red Cross charges $200 for 500ml of human blood. This means that while blood comes out to 40 cents per ml, ink costs 71 cents. [OMG Facts]

The entire musical recordings of Michael Jackson have been stolen!

         About 50,000 music files were illegaly downloaded from the Sony Music servers by hackers. The files were the entirety of Michael Jackson's back catalog. Among the files stolen were unheard studio sessions from some of his biggest albums, like Thriller, and Bad.
       There was also an unreleased collaboration with Will.I.Am. The attack on Sony is just the latest it has suffered by hackers. Last year the Playstation Network was down for a period of time.
        This might be one of the costliest ones, though. Sony paid $250m for the catalog back in 2010.

The Bajau people of Borneo live almost exclusively on boats and experience “land sickness” when they come ashore!

Their nickname is the “sea gypsies.” They mostly live on house boats or houses on stilts built over coral reefs in the ocean. Some of their best free divers can go down 20 meters and stay for a few minutes. Studies have shown that the Bajau children have impressive eyesight underwater, because their eyes have adapted to the liquid environment! Their diet consists mostly of fish, so free diving is very important for them. [OMG Facts]

In the first American automobile race, the winning car’s average speed was 7mph!

[OMG]. The first automobile race was in Chicago in 1895 and sponsored by the newspaper. Six cars took part in the race and Charles Duryea won. The first automobiles were only introduced two years prior to the race.

The race took place in order to promote the automobiles and boost newspaper sales. The winner received $5,000! That is roughly equal to $139,000 today. Eighty-three cars originally entered the race, but only six actually showed up for it. The cars either couldn’t make the trip to the race or weren’t ready in time for it. After over 7 hours of racing going 7mph, Duryea won.

In the 1950s, the United States planned to drop a nuclear bomb on the Moon.

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OMG Facts] At the time, the US was lagging behind the Soviet Union in the space race (For example, they sent a man into space before the US did.) Exploding a nuclear weapon on the moon was a way to one-up the Soviet Union. They planned on nuking the Moon as a PR stunt, and they wanted to make sure the explosion could be seen from Earth!

This was part of a top-secret Air Force project, "Project A119" which was called "A Study of Lunar Research Flights". Details of the 1958 plan were made public in 2000 by Dr. Leonard Reiffel, the physicist who ran the project. He had worked on the project with famous astronomer Carl Sagan.

Sagan may have also disclosed some of this top-secret information when he applied for the prestigious Miller Institute graduate fellowship to Berkeley. At the time, Sagan thought that a nuclear explosion could reveal whether there was life on the Moon.

The explosion likely would have ruined the face of the "Man on the Moon". Thankfully, years later they decided to send Neil Armstrong to the Moon, and not a nuclear bomb.

"Checkmate" in chess is actually "Shah Mat," Persian for "the king is defeated" or the "king is helpless".

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[OMG Facts] - Chess is a REALLY OLD GAME. The earliest evidence of chess dates back to the year 600 AD in Persia. "Shah" is the title of the royal Persian monarch, so naturally the King in chess was called the Shah. To win chess, you have to defeat the King, by attacking it and making it unable to move. This is called the "Checkmate" or "Shah Mat", literally, "The King is defeated". Mat is a Persian word for "defeated", "helpless", or "at a loss", all pretty good descriptions for a checkmated king.

Millions of chess enthusiasts wrongly assume that "Checkmate" actually means "The King is dead". Chess made its way from Persia to Europe through Arabia and "mat" is an Arab word for dead, so this is a likely source of the confusion. The King in chess can't be "killed" anyway, so "defeated" makes a lot more sense.

The Statue of Liberty was originally brown!

[OMG facts ] It's because of the copper the statue is made out of. Copper is initially brown, yet when it begins to oxidize, it changes color. The traditional green color we see today is extremely different from what we would have seen when it was initially built.  Since it was built right on the water however, it would have oxidized relatively quickly, and because it was built in 1886, we don't have any color photographs to show what it would have looked like. 

The reason the metal changes color is because of the moisture and elements it is subjected to. After arriving from France brown, the head of the statue of liberty would have begun to change as rain, salt, and moisture bombarded its copper exterior. As the copper interacts with these elements it slightly changes, forming a different form of basic copper consisting of a different color.

OMG Facts - Feeding hens certain dyes, their egg yolk color changes. Green eggs and ham, anyone?

 The Color of a chicken egg's yolk is dependent on the diet of the hen that lays the egg. Certain kinds of corn can make the yolk look more orange or yellow, and peppers can make the yolk look red. In the US, people expect their egg yolks to be lighter, but in parts of Europe, people expect the yolks to look more of a darker yellow.

If the yolks can't become yellow naturally through the hen's diet, farmers may use synthetic dies to change the color.

A Technical fact...........

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A real life....