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@sciencegirl It’s scary to go into the water when you’re at the beach.

A massive saltwater crocodile patrols the waters off Devil’s Rock, Sri Lanka

The island of Socotra, part of Yemen, is often referred to as the “Galápagos of the Indian Ocean” because of its extraordinary biodiversity, with about 37% of its plant species found nowhere else on Earth, including the iconic dragon’s blood tree, which has a distinctive umbrella-shaped crown and produces a red resin that has been used for various purposes.

@mrwtffacts I can’t find any information that she filed a lawsuit. I don’t understand. It would have been easy money for her.

In 2014, 23-year-old Ashley Gabrielle Huff was pulled over in Georgia. Police found a spoon with red residue and a field drug test said it was methamphetamine. Ashley swore it was just leftover Spaghettio sauce from lunch. Unable to pay bail, she spent a full month in jail, lost her job at Waffle House and missed her child’s birthday. A month later, the state crime lab finally tested it properly and confirmed it was nothing but tomato sauce.

@MyLordBebo For a very short time, it may even work, but it could damage the engine.

🛢️ DIESEL LIFE HACK - Vegetable oil is about €1.50 per liter - Diesel is about €2.50 per liter -> Obvious solution is to go to your local grocery store to fill up your car now!

@HumansNoContext Not only. The main reasons are different.

Is this why women live longer than men?

@amazing_physics Watch on the screen of the smartfon while recording.

“Imagine witnessing a launch like Artemis from your flight window 🚀 Would you record it or just watch?”

I ranked all EU capitals by road connectivity with all other EU capitals. For each capital, I took the shortest road distance to every other EU capital, summed all those distances, and ranked the cities from the lowest total to the highest. The lower the total distance, the better the location in relation to all EU capitals. Vienna is the winner. 1. 🇦🇹 Vienna - 28,392 km 2. 🇨🇿 Prague - 28,508 km 3. 🇭🇺 Budapest - 29,788 km 4. 🇸🇰 Bratislava - 29,910 km 5. 🇩🇪 Berlin - 30,097 km 6. 🇵🇱 Warsaw - 31,587 km 7. 🇩🇰 Copenhagen - 34,473 km 8.🇧🇪 Brussels - 34,585 km 9. 🇭🇷 Zagreb - 35,626 km 10. 🇸🇮 Ljubljana - 36,510 km 11. 🇫🇷 Paris - 37,158 km 12. 🇮🇹 Rome - 37,334 km 13. 🇳🇱 Amsterdam - 37,742 km 14. 🇧🇬 Sofia - 39,400 km 15. 🇱🇺 Luxembourg - 39,782 km 16. 🇷🇴 Bucharest - 40,101 km 17. 🇱🇹 Vilnius - 40,105 km 18. 🇸🇪 Stockholm - 41,008 km 19. 🇱🇻 Riga - 45,474 km 20. 🇪🇪 Tallinn - 48,821 km 21. 🇫🇮 Helsinki - 49,139 km 22. 🇮🇪 Dublin - 50,019 km 23. 🇪🇸 Madrid - 54,937 km 24. 🇬🇷 Athens - 56,998 km 25. 🇲🇹 Valletta - 63,609 km 26. 🇵🇹 Lisbon - 70,775 km 27. 🇨🇾 Nicosia - 75,719 km

@earthcurated I have only the ability to „smell rain” after it finishes.

Do people really have the ability to “smell rain” before it starts?

@InterestingSTEM I would be totally scared to touch even a non-venomous octopus.

A British man was playing with a small octopus on a beach in the Philippines without knowing it was a blue-ringed octopus, one of the most venomous in the world; its toxin can block nerves and cause paralysis in minutes.

@stats_feed More and more people will be unemployed. If politicians don’t do anything about it, there will soon be a really serious problem on a global scale.

Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge. Tech companies are cutting almost 1,000 jobs/day.

Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature, with a melting point of -38.83 °C (-37.89 °F). This unique property makes it useful in thermometers and barometers, but its toxicity poses significant health risks. For this reason, mercury thermometers are no longer allowed in many countries. In the EU they are banned since 2009.

@tommyswriting Peruvian Spanish is 4K.

For someone learning Spanish: Colombia 🇨🇴 Spanish - HD, crystal clear Spanish Argentina 🇦🇷 Spanish - it’s like Spanish had a baby with Italian and that baby has a lisp that sounds like “chhhh” all the time Dominican 🇩🇴 Spanish- 2x speed Spanish with 50% of the letters missing

@stats_feed But what is better for fuel saving - 55 or 65?

🚗 The most efficient speed you can travel in a car in terms of achieving the best fuel economy is 55-65 mph (88-105 kph).

@earthcurated @jjtrailwalker One of the most beautiful places I have ever been to. It was hidden so well that it was only discovered in 1911.

Lost in the clouds at Machu Picchu, where history whispers through the mountains.

@NightSkyToday And how much will be the flight ticket?

🚨:A company is planning to develop first hotel on the Moon by 2032. Rooms will start at $416,667 per night!

@stats_feed So you can breathe a sigh of relief if you’re attacked by a dingo.

🇦🇺 There's no rabies in Australia

@earthcurated Taking into consideration its high weight, an elephant would have to eat a few hundred or even more of these fruits to get drunk.

“Drunk” elephants are real—and the chaos is kind of adorable 🐘😂 When marula fruit ferments, it can produce alcohol levels similar to beer… and these gentle giants sometimes indulge a little too much.

Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, is still rising due to the ongoing collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates, although estimates vary. Some sources give about 4 millimeters per year, while others suggest closer to 1-2 millimeters annually. However, this uplift is not perfectly steady, because earthquakes, erosion, and other geological processes can temporarily speed it up, slow it down, or even cause short-term drops in elevation. Today, Mount Everest officially stands at 8,848.86 meters (29,031.7 feet) above sea level. Based on current uplift estimates, it may have been even 4 meters lower 1,000 years ago.

@earthcurated Is the lion in the picture in the wild or in captivity?

EXTREMELY RARE! The white lion stands out as one of the most stunning and unique animals on Earth

@MapsAfrican The strongest passport in the world - Singapore - of course allows visa-free travel to Ghana.

Visa-Free Countries for Ghana 🇬🇭 Passport Holders ✈️.