You learn something new everyday: what did you learn today?

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International politics history. Studying to get my second degree!

For silence to become awkward in a social situation, it takes only about four seconds.

The Eiffel Tower was almost relocated to Canada in 1967.

Shirley Temple didn't like the drink that was named after her. She found it too sweet.

70 percent of people who have lost a limb have experienced "phantom sensations" after the fact.

To not leave my lens in too long no matter what. It starting to irritate my eyes now.

Yesterday: Moray eels have two sets of jaws, one at the front of the mouth to grip prey and the other at the back of the throat that can come forward to tear at the prey.

Today: Green lacewings can bite hard enough for a human to notice (and yes, I learned that by experience - it didn't hurt that much but was definitely noticeable).

I learned a few days ago that it's really easy to burn your body hair with hot air rising quite far above a candle's flame, as long as the place is not exposed to the wind. I wonder to what extent being covered in greasy filth after a few days sweating a lot and not showering may've helped.

I've learned how a certain family member felt, that I was somehow underweight, when in fact, my weight range is normal

In ancient Egypt, if a woman thought she might be pregnant, doctors would recommend she take a pregnancy test by planting a wheat and a barley seed. She had to urinate on them each day. If the seeds sprouted, she was pregnant. If the barley grew, it was supposed to mean the baby would be a boy, and wheat meant it would be a girl. She would be advised by the doctor to also pray to Hathor, the goddess of fertility.

Ancient medicine is pretty fascinating. Not that I would recommend it on modern day ailments of any kind.

Eminem was so severely bullied in school that his mom didn't sue the school where he was a student at.

Instead, she sued his city's school board.

Male bedbugs mate with and impregnate the females by piercing their bodies and then inserting sperm like a hypodermic needle into the wound. There is actually quite a number of small creatures that do this, but it sounds like something out of a horror movie.

In 2008, The Leaning Tower Of Pisa stopped moving after a ten-year renovation project that cost about $40 million.

I learned that a new species of dinosaur was recently discovered in the state of Utah, which goes to prove the more we explore the greater our knowledge becomes, for the way I see it, is that there are tons of dinosaur species which had existed and we have not documented them all just like many of the other things that exist on this planet.

Lactose intolerance is by far the more common state of adult humans while its tolerance is the product of a mutation.

A candle's flame is essentially transparent. Don't believe me? Try illuminating it with another bright light source in an otherwise dark room: the flame doesn't cast a visible shadow. You may notice the flicker caused by refraction in the rising hot combustion products and surrounding air dragged along, but it's not limited to the region taken up by the visible flame.

On the other had, it can't be completely transparent, or it wouldn't glow at all. In order to give off thermal radiation, an object has to absorb some fraction of incoming light; it can't transmit or reflect it all.