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A gun is used to start sprinters, instead of a flash, because you can react faster to a bang than to a flash. Physiology behind it: the cells in your auditory cortex can change their firing rate more quickly in response to a bang than your visual cortex cells can in response to a flash.
Counter intuitive since light travels faster than sound. Or does it?
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Would have never guessed re lemon vs strawberries.
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Then there is the mysterious bright pink Lake Hiller in Western Australia. Its startling colour remains a mystery and while scientists have proven it’s not due to the presence of algae, unlike the other salt lakes down under, they still can’t explain why it’s pink.
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WOW :k:
they must look for the reason :hmmm:
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A Chinese woman born in 1885 and still alive! - 127 year old, the oldest woman in the world.
Now you can tell she is that old…I first thought it was a statue!
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The pink lake is awesome!
On average, the human body contains 250 grams of salt, enough to fill between 3 and 4 salt shakers!
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^no wonder our sweat tastes salty 
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Has anyone of you shared the pic of dead sea?
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When hurricane Hannah separated two white tigers from their mother, Anjana came to the rescue. Anjana, a chimp at TIGERS in South Carolina , became surrogate mom and playmate to the cubs, even helping with bottle feeding, according to The Sun. But here’s the truly amazing part: Anjana does this all the time, having raised leopard and lion cubs.
In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth.
The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother’s cubs, perhaps she would improve.
After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only orphans” that could be found quickly, were a litter of weaner pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger.
I love reading stuff like this…it is so cute!
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Has anyone of you shared the pic of dead sea?
I don't think I have seen one on this thread yet...
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DEAD SEA
The **Dead Sea **“Sea of Salt”,also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West bank to the west.With 33.7% salinity, it is also one of the world’s saltiest bodies of water,This salinity makes for a harsh environment in which animals cannot flourish, hence its name.
The Dead Sea seawater has a density of 1.240 kg/L, which makes swimming similar to floating
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I wanna visit 
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^cool...I thought it is the SALTIEST out of them all....
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A leech has 32 brains. Aside from their 32 brains, leeches also have 3 mouths and each of which are filled with hundreds of teeth
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I don’t want to visit this place.There is no life in there 
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i wanna float:sid:
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okay Then GO N FLOAT
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it is good for health too..not jst floating!
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[size=2]The DEAD SEA Health and Beauty:
The Dead Sea is an incredible, unique source of vital minerals that help you achieve the fresh, young looking
skin you have always dreamed about Dead Sea products are enriched with minerals, 23% oxygen, sulfur, magnesium, calcium, sodium, and potassium- a winning combination that contributes to the health of your skin as no other products do.The “black mud” from the bottom of the Dead Sea is well known for it’s healing properties. Black mud can do miracles for your skin. the Dead Sea combination of mud, salt and sun has been particularly successful in treating severe skin complaints. Black mud stimulates the blood circulation and has been found effective in the treatment of rheumatism.
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