Some of the statements on this list are so wild that we did a double-take... and then a deep dive into a world of fascinating but fake-sounding facts.
Many of us have heard of auras, but who knew that humans actually glow? The light we emit apparently fades when we take our last breath. The fact that we glow was already discovered back in 2009. But a new study conducted by scientists from the University of Calgary and published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, looked into what happens to that light at the end of the tunnel we call life.
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The phenomenon of glowing comes down to the emission of something called biophotons, and it doesn't only occur in humans. The researchers studied mice and revealed that all living things, including plants, emit a faint light up until their last minutes.
“The fact that ultraweak photon emission is a real thing is undeniable at this point,” said the study’s senior author, Dan Oblak. “This really shows that this is not just an imperfection or caused by other biological processes. It’s really something that comes from all living things.”
As the New Scientist reported, monitoring this signal could one day help track forest health or even detect diseases in people.
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They're basically just bigger targets.
Another mind-blowing and potentially unbelievable fact on the list was the one about shuffling a deck of cards. Specifically that there are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms in the solar system.
It sounds wild but this has been backed up by experts at McGill University who report that "there are somewhere in the range of 8x1067 ways to sort a deck of cards. That’s an 8 followed by 67 zeros."
According to the university's site, "even if someone could rearrange a deck of cards every second of the universe’s total existence, the universe would end before they would get even one billionth of the way to finding a repeat."
It adds that no matter how many card games you've played, even if you're a professional blackjack dealer, there are too many ways to arrange 52 cards for any randomly organized set of cards to repeat itself in your lifetime.
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You literally need and depend on bacteria inside your body to perform functions your body cannot perform on its own. .
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What about someone saying we should google "cosmic latte"? Well, okay then. Challenge accepted.
One of the articles that came up was published on the BBC's Science Focus. The title, The Universe has an average colour – and it’s called cosmic latte, says it all. What might have been dismissed as nonsense, is in fact, fact.
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According to the site, a 2002 study found that "the light coming from galaxies (and the stars within them) – alongside all the visible clouds of gas and dust in the Universe – when averaged, would produce an ivory color very close to white." And this color is called... you guessed it: ‘cosmic latte’.
Apparently the Universe's ‘beigeness’ is due to the fact that there are a few more regions that produce red, yellow and green light than those that produce blue.
"Averaged over the entire sky, however, this beige colour is diluted and appears almost, but not entirely, black," explains Science Focus.
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They were so incompetent 2 were caught in days and the others only just managed to escape via submarine after sinking their yacht.
Using trade, the French Govt then blackmailed the New Zealand Government into releasing the captives.
England (NZ’s founder) refused to support them and then the USA turned against NZ because of NZ’s no nuks stand. All this drove NZ to have an independent foreign policy so they no-longer automatically follow anybody else’s lead.
So much for relying your friends and allies and history now repeating with the US giving the finger to the whole world except former enemies!
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There are theories though that some animals can see them visibily even without those presenting conditions, which would be funny, if our pets are just thinking we're goofy striped animals.
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