Einstein and socks were never friends.

This is really funny – the most famous scientist, Albert Einstein never wore any socks.

About the Christmas tree displayed in Trafalgar squre in London.

The Christmas tree is an annual gift to the UK from Norway since 1947.The Norwegian spruce given is a token of appreciation of British friendship during World war II from the Norwegian people.

How good does the Greyhound breed of dog see?

The greyhound is one of the very old breed of dogs commonly found in North America.It has a better eyesight than any other breed of dog.It is commonly characterized by its gentle nature.Featured also is its long and sportive legs,deep chest and flexible spine.

Britain's fiirst escalator.

Britain's first escalator was installed in Harrods in 1878

What you didn't know about the ducks quack.

                    
      The ducks quack doesn't echo.Reason(s) is yet to be discovered.

The deepest mine in the world.

The deepest mine in the world is the East  Rand mine in South Africa, which goes to a depth of about 3,585 meters.

Who invented the can for preserving food and when?

 Peter Durand was a British mercant  who is widely credited with receiving the first patent for the idea of preserving food using tin cans.He invented tin can preservative in 1810.

Soldiers all over the world salute with their right hands.

  A salute is a common gesture among soldiers all over the world and is widely made with the right hand.It is an act used to show a sign of respect,confidence and trust among soldiers.The salute portrays a soldier's pride and capability in his career and unit.In the military,when saluting,the eyes and the head are carried upright firmly.And the subordinate makes the salute first.

What you probably didn’t know about molecules in a teaspoon.

If you take all the molecules in a teaspoon of water and line them up end to end, in a single file, they would stretch 330 billion miles.

2015 most populous country in each continent.

-North America:

     United States – 321,921,000

-Africa:

     Nigeria – 182,202,000

-Europe:

     Germany _ 81,197,500

-Australia:

      Australia – 23,912,000

-Asia:

       China – 1,372,340,000

-South America

        Brazil – 204,969,000

-Antarctica – No indigenous country.

Like you knew there are no turkies in Turkey.

     There are no turkies in Turkey.

How did Jean-Claude Van learn English?

Jean Claude V. Damme learnt to speak English by  watching the cartoon 'The Flintstones'

Furniture and fabric eaters.

Furniture beetles lay their egg in the crevices of damp wood. When the eggs hatch, the larvae (called woodworm) eat their way to the surface, making tiny tunnels.

Clothe moths eat feathers, fur and wool. They live in damp, dark places such as the cupboards and old chests and they lay their eggs on clothes or old carpeting.

Woodlice like to eat damp paper. They breathe through gills on their legs. The gills must be kept wet, so woodlice live in damp places.

Carpet beetles lay their eggs amongst carpet fluff. When the larvae hatch they are called ‘woolly bears.’ They eat feathers, dead insects, fur and wool.

Strange but true.

The biggest animal found on inland Antarctica is the housefly.

The Antarctic notothenia fish has a protein in its blood that acts like antifreeze and stops the fish freezing in icy sea.

Penguins are so well insulated by fat that they overheat when they are active.

They have to stand with their beaks open to cool down.

The Adelie penguin can leap four times its own height to get from sea to land.

Kidney transplant – what you didn’t know about it.

When you get a kidney transplant, they usually just leave your original kidney in your body and put the third one.

The Beyoncé fly.

 Researchers have name a housefly  Beyoncé.

The Scaptia beyonceae housefly which was first collected in 1981 (singer Biyonce's birthday) was first found in far North Queensland and widely considered a pest.

It was also reported that the fly has been named in recognition of the unusual gold  hairs in its abdomen.

How do snakes hear?

Snakes actually have no ears, but they have a sound- sensitive tongue. This is the reason why they have to keep sticking out their tongues at intervals to respond to sounds in their environment.

NASA confirms that Water is Flowing on Mars

New findings from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.
Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO, researchers detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where mysterious streaks are seen on the Red Planet. These darkish streaks appear to ebb and flow over time. They darken and appear to flow down steep slopes during warm seasons, and then fade in cooler seasons. They appear in several locations on Mars when temperatures are above minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 23 Celsius), and disappear at colder times.“Our quest on Mars has been to ‘follow the water,’ in our search for life in the universe, and now we have convincing science that validates what we’ve long suspected,” said John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “This is a significant development, as it appears to confirm that water — albeit briny — is flowing today on the surface of Mars.”

correspondence:http://nigerianuniversityscholarships.com

The youngest known mother was 5 years old.

The youngest known mother was recorded to be only five years old.

Name : Lina Medina

Born : September 27,1933.

Nationality : Peruvian.

Spouse : Raul Jurado.

Age she put to birth : 5 yrs,7 mths,17 days.

China builds glass bridge.

China Builds first glass-bottomed Bridge in the world. China has just opened its first glass-bottomed suspension bridge, and being nearly 300 meters long and 180 meters up from the ground, it definitely isn’t for the faint of heart.
The high-altitude, transparent bridge opened this past Thursday in Zhangjiaje Grand Canyon in Central China’s Hunan province, according to Chinese newspaper, the People’s Daily. It is expected to be named the longest and tallest glass-bottomed bridge in the world.

The effect of the degree of the roast of coffee

 The lighter the roast of coffee, the more caffeine it contains.

America Wastes 2.3 Billion Pounds of Seafood Each Year

According to discovery.com,Nearly half of the edible seafood supply in the United States is wasted each year, according to new research from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future.

Of the 4.7 billion pounds of edible seafood that enter the United States each year, 2.3 billion pounds (47%) are never eaten. The majority of seafood losses -- as much as 63% -- occur at the consumer level, when seafood goes bad before it can be eaten and must be discarded. Up to 16% of losses occur during the retail and distribution process. Bycatch (the unintentional capture of non-target species by fisherman) comprises up to a third of seafood losses.
The wasted seafood contains enough nutrients to satisfy the yearly protein requirements for as many as 12 million individuals, researchers say.
Related: France Takes a Bite Out of Food Waste
While study authors concede that some waste is inevitable, they recommend limiting bycatch and selling seafood in smaller servings to reduce waste.
"It would generally be preferable for the fish that becomes bycatch to be left alive in the water rather than eaten, and due to seafood's short shelf life, it may be particularly challenging compared to other food items to get the remaining seafood eaten or frozen before it decays," Roni Neff, director of the Food System Sustainability & Public Health Program at Hopkins, says in a news release.
Relief for the harrowing amount of consumer waste could be on the horizon. Earlier this year, Scandinavian researchers introduced a freezing technique that has been able to keep organic salmon fresh for a month without the use of preservatives.
The research is published in the November issue of the journal Global Environmental Change.

Angel falls in Venezuela.

The Angel falls in Venezuela is the world’s highest water fall, at an elevation of 979 meters.

Dogs have about 100 different facial expressions

If asked how many facial expressions has dog, what would you answer?

Probably, twenty, seventeen, thirty, or something.

Funny and amazing enough, it is well to know that dogs have about 100 different facial expressions, most of them are made with the ears.

Some of them below:

Like you knew what actually happens to the eye while you sneeze.

It's so not seeming true that people don't realize that the eyes are never open while sneezing.

Seal on Whale's back.

According to Discovery.com ,Australian photographer Robyn Malcolm inadvertently captured a rare sight -- a fur seal riding on the back of a humpback whale.
Malcolm was on a whale-watching boat of the coast of Eden in southern New South Wales when the boat came upon a pod of humpback whales and other marine mammals feeding on small baitfish.
Malcolm told Fairfax Media in a interview that she saw amazing whales coming out of the water as they were feeding. There was a lot of activity and everything was happening so quickly that Malcolm didn't realize what she'd photographed until later.
"It was when I went back through the photos that I realized that I'd actually captured the seal on top of the whale," she said.
NSW National Parks and Wildlife whale expert Geoff Ross told the Brisbane Times that the last time he heard of such an unusual coupling was when a seal was trying to get away from a killer whale. "...the seal hopped on the back of the pectoral fins of a humpback whale," he said.
Malcolm also captured something else in her images that is highly unusual. The humpback whales are using a technique called bubble-net feeding, which scientists thought only occurred in colder waters.
With this method, whales coordinate with each other beneath a school of fish, circling them from below. As the whales rise, they blow bubbles, creating a wall of confusion that contains the fish.
In a separate interview, Ross told The Sydney Morning Herald, "That's the first time I've seen that happen in NSW waters."
For the untrained eye, however, the seal on the back of the whale is enough. It reminds us of other animals who've paired up to get from point A to point B, like the raccoon that rode a crocodile like a water ferry or the baby weasel that piggybacked on a woodpecker in flight.
Malcolm assured the Fairfax Media reporter that the image was not photoshopped, either. "I'm positive, because I don't know how to use PhotoShop. And I do still have it on the camera so I can prove it."