What is the most amazing or shocking thing you know that most people don't?
These are a few things which very few know1.Why should one end of the toothpick is designed to be like this?We can actually use it like this2.This is car …see the black colour flaps in middle of the pictureThey ensure that you are able to shut the cardoors without much effort. How, you ask? Located behind the rear bumper, these devices allow the air to escape from the car when the doors are being closed, preventing overpressure inside the car. Without them, you’d have trouble closing the last door and it will hurt the ear drums3.ANOTHER ONEJames Chadwick who discovered NeutronsWas a student of Ernest Rutherford who discovered Protonswas a student of J. J. Thomson who discovered Electrons.All of them got Nobel Prizes4.This one tooMost of the people use this symbol incorrectly.In general cases, they use this emoticon as a sort of person holding his hands for prayer or to request someone or in Indian terms, doing “NAMASTE”.But, the truth is this symbol stands for 2 people doing a high-five.5.Do you know,A person can develop Green Blood. Something like this-Yup it happens.Sulfhemoglobinemia is a rare condition when a person starts developing green Blood5.Japan police do nothingYes…you heard that right…due to an extremely low crime rate in Japan, Japanese police literally do nothing. On an average, there is less than 1% chance of crime for every 100,000 people in Japan.There was only one incident of murder last year in Japan. Yes just one!6.This one for very useful and impIf you are running out of time,and you have just 15 mins to left for officials or college and u have a 0 percent battery…no problem..put your phone on airplane mode , it will charge at double the speed…most probablyof you will have good amount of battery7.The most important oneIf you want to downlaod anything from any site witout any external downloader here is a trick.Go to that page.Press ctrl+shift+i or right click and select Inspect Element.Select the Network tab and refresh the page & play the video to get content status.You can sort the content by TYPE (tab), to easily get the video link at the bottom under the NAME(tab).Double click the video link. Voila, your download will start.Works fine …Kindly do follow below link for amazing facts about foodhttp://Instragram.com/food_safet...just add "ss" before 'y' in www.youtube.com.Kindly do upvote
Were the Ancient Greeks and Romans white?
Steve Theodore gave an excellent answer. I would add that a Roman (or Greek for that matter) would not really have understood this question in the sense that it's asked.There were certainly Roman citizens with fair skin (the sun-deprived residents of Londinium) and there were Roman citizens from Africa with very dark skin. But modern racial categories can't be applied to antiquity. The closest Roman categories would be place of origin (Spain versus Africa, for example) and citizenship versus non-citizenship, with citizenship being the most important category by far. Citizenship or slavery in ancient Rome didn't correspond to racial categories.If you mean to ask the more specific question of "were Romans of unmixed Latin descent 'white' in the modern sense derived from 19th century Scientific racism" then sure, I guess you'd consider them to be part of the Mediterranean race, but they were "white" in the same sense as Israelites, Egyptians, and North Africans. I am pretty sure that the Latin people's of Italy wouldn't have considered themselves to be more closely related to a "white" group like the Celts than to North Africans. They certainly thought of themselves of being West Asian in origin, Aeneas having come over from Troy.As far as genetics, you could perhaps link the Latin Romans to the Haplogroup R1b descent group, which is pretty European/white as far as it goes, but also has strong clusters in Africa and Asia. You could also link them to the Haplogroup J-P209, which looks a lot more West Asian/East African. Of course, I would argue that genetics isn't really a great resource of racial identity, since race is made up.Calling an Roman or Greek "white" is like calling Cato a libertarian. I sort of see what you're going for, but the term just doesn't fit.
What are some interesting facts about birds?
Flamingos pair for a lifetime. Some stay with their mates for 50 years or moreMost male birds do not have a penis, but the Argentine Lake Duck’s penis can extend 17 inches, the longest of any bird known. Even funnier is that the duck itself is only about 16 inches tallOstriches have the largest eye of any land animalMost birds do not have bladders to store urine to make them more lightweightA bird’s lungs compose about 1/5 of its body. To give you an idea, human’s lungs compose only 1/20 of their bodyOwls cannot swivel their eyes. Instead, they move their heads completely around to see straight behind themThe most talkative bird in the world is the African grey parrot. One parrot could say over 800 words. Most species of parrots can learn only 50A bird’s feathers weigh more than its skeletonThe ostrich is the only bird that willingly takes care of other females’ eggsThe heart of bird beats 400 times per minute while resting and up to 1000 beats per minute while flyingHummingbird is the smallest bird which measures around 5 cm and weighs 3 grams can fly backwardsPenguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the airThe Peregrine Falcon, when in its hunting dive can reach a maximum recorded airspeed of 389 km/h (242 mph)An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mphA woodpecker can peck twenty times a second(that’s insane)Ostriches are flightless birds but they can run up to sixty miles per hour(almost as fast as a tiger)The shell of an ostrich egg is about six times thicker than a chicken egg and an adult human could stand on one without it crackingKiwi birds are blind, so they hunt by smellChickens that lay brown eggs have red earlobes. There is a genetic link between the twoCrows have the largest cerebral hemispheres (brains), relative to body size, of any bird family