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Rats laugh when you tickle them! And they love it

           Scientists have decided something strange, 

after trying to tickle some animals - especially rats.

        When the scientists started to tickle rats, they used a machine that detects high pitched frequencies and makes them audible to our weak human ears.               

      
        These recordings showed that the rats were making noises while being tickled. This noise was laughter!  

         
      Everyone loves being tickled! Scientists found that after tickling rats, the rats would begin to enjoy the person's company more.  

          
      They would start to play with the trainer's hands, and constantly follow the hand wherever put theirs!  Read more at OMG Facts

Scientists have decided something strange, after trying to tickle some animals - especially rats.
When the scientists started to tickle rats, they used a machine that detects high pitched frequencies and makes them audible to our weak human ears.
These recordings showed that the rats were making noises while being tickled. This noise was laughter!
Everyone loves being tickled! Scientists found that after tickling rats, the rats would begin to enjoy the person's company more.
They would start to play with the trainer's hands, and constantly follow the hand wherever put theirs!

Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/Videos/Rats-Laugh-When-You-Tickle-Them-And-They/59632#fsbIbvAQkRUotkqZ.99

Scientists have decided something strange, after trying to tickle some animals - especially rats.
When the scientists started to tickle rats, they used a machine that detects high pitched frequencies and makes them audible to our weak human ears.
These recordings showed that the rats were making noises while being tickled. This noise was laughter!
Everyone loves being tickled! Scientists found that after tickling rats, the rats would begin to enjoy the person's company more.
They would start to play with the trainer's hands, and constantly follow the hand wherever put theirs!

Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/Videos/Rats-Laugh-When-You-Tickle-Them-And-They/59632#fsbIbvAQkRUotkqZ.99

Scientists have decided something strange, after trying to tickle some animals - especially rats.
When the scientists started to tickle rats, they used a machine that detects high pitched frequencies and makes them audible to our weak human ears.
These recordings showed that the rats were making noises while being tickled. This noise was laughter!
Everyone loves being tickled! Scientists found that after tickling rats, the rats would begin to enjoy the person's company more.
They would start to play with the trainer's hands, and constantly follow the hand wherever put theirs!

Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/Videos/Rats-Laugh-When-You-Tickle-Them-And-They/59632#fsbIbvAQkRUotkqZ.99

A 2-year-old boy had weight loss surgery!

A 2-year-old Saudi Arabian boy is the youngest person ever to get a bariatric surgery. 

         He got his stomach stapled because he was too obese at 73 pounds and had health complications as a result.  The boy's parents had already tried to keep his weight down. He was 47 pounds at 14 months old. Earlier attempts to control his weight had proven futile.  The boy was suffering from sleep apnea and bowing of the legs. Doctors decided on an irreversible surgery in which they removed the outer part of his stomach.  The boy lost about 15% of his body weight two months after the surgery. He eventually got down to a normal BMI. However, some doctors think this might result in vitamin deficiencies later on.  

       Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/Interesting/A-2-year-old-Boy-Had-Weight-Loss-Surgery/58917#WO6seuOqalz5bPUC.99

A 2-year-old Saudi Arabian boy is the youngest person ever to get a bariatric surgery. He got his stomach stapled because he was too obese at 73 pounds and had health complications as a result.
The boy's parents had already tried to keep his weight down. He was 47 pounds at 14 months old. Earlier attempts to control his weight had proven futile.
The boy was suffering from sleep apnea and bowing of the legs. Doctors decided on an irreversible surgery in which they removed the outer part of his stomach.
The boy lost about 15% of his body weight two months after the surgery. He eventually got down to a normal BMI. However, some doctors think this might result in vitamin deficiencies later on.

Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/Interesting/A-2-year-old-Boy-Had-Weight-Loss-Surgery/58917#WO6seuOqalz5bPUC.99

A 2-year-old Saudi Arabian boy is the youngest person ever to get a bariatric surgery. He got his stomach stapled because he was too obese at 73 pounds and had health complications as a result.
The boy's parents had already tried to keep his weight down. He was 47 pounds at 14 months old. Earlier attempts to control his weight had proven futile.
The boy was suffering from sleep apnea and bowing of the legs. Doctors decided on an irreversible surgery in which they removed the outer part of his stomach.
The boy lost about 15% of his body weight two months after the surgery. He eventually got down to a normal BMI. However, some doctors think this might result in vitamin deficiencies later on.

Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/Interesting/A-2-year-old-Boy-Had-Weight-Loss-Surgery/58917#WO6seuOqalz5bPUC.99

Diseases from dirty water kill more people than war each year.

A third of the world’s population lack sufficient access to safe drinking water and sanitation to meet their basic needs. This means that a third of the world’s population is at high risk for arsenicosis, cholera, fluorosis, malaria, and a plethora of other diseases.

          Dirty water causes the death of over 170 million people each year. This can be compared to 10 jumbo jets crashing each year. This death toll is greater than that of all forms of violence, including wars. In fact, unclean water and poor sanitation are the second largest cause of death for children.

There's a SPA in Japan where you can bathe in coffee, tea and wine!

          Although you probably don't wanna drink any of them, a Japanese hotspring in Hakone, Japan lets you get into what is basically a giant cup of coffee, green tea or wine.

Since the park is mostly natural hotsprings, they have to brew the coffee and pour it in the pools. The spa also has a giant teapot and a giant wine bottle from where those liquids come from.

  Check out some more pics of this awesome place. http://en.ilovecoffee.jp/posts/view/38

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.