It is known as the world’s driest desert, because in its interior region the extreme cold freezes the water vapor out of the air.
Annual snowfall is equal to less than 5 centimeters of rain. Antarctica is also the only place in the world not claimed or owned by any country.
The bird, Cher Ami, delivered 12 important messages during the war. He was shot through his breast and managed to land. American soldiers found one of Cher Ami's decapitated legs with a message! The message on the bird's leg was from Major Whittlesey, whose battalion was isolated from the other American soldiers. Based on that information, the isolated soldiers were safely brought back behind American lines! In all, the message saved the lives of 194 soldiers! For more on the heroic bird, click the Source!
The change of temperature when an athlete leaves a cold water tub back to room temperature helps relieve the muscles much better than any heating devices.
The tub can house more people than other therapies to have optimal care for athletes. The ColdTub is designed like a hot tub, but with cold or ice water for therapy uses.
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Bette Nesmith Graham was a secretary but always wanted to be an artist. When she made mistakes she would use some tempera water based paint to correct her mistakes. It was an instant success with her fellow secretaries and everybody wanted to buy some from her. She used her kitchen as a laboratory to improve the product using mostly her electric blender.
The product was so good that her boss never noticed she was using any of the then called “Mistake Out”. The only day she couldn’t fix her mistake she got fired. This allowed her to focus only on her new business called “Liquid Paper”. By 1967, it had grown into a million dollar business. Graham died in 1980, six months after selling her corporation for $47.5 million. Her son, Michael Nesmith was the drummer of the famous band “Monkees” and the inventor of MTV.
Updating the theory thought by Frigyes Karinthy and popularized by the “6 degrees from Kevin Bacon theory,” that there is a separation of 6 degrees between any two people in the world, Facebook data scientist Lars Backstrom discovered the separation is almost half as small!
After scanning through Facebook's 721 million users and excluding celebrity/miscellaneous fan pages, Backstrom was able to come up with 3.74 people. 99.6% of all random user pairs were connected by 5 people while 92% were connected by 4 people. To read more on the math of separation, click the source below!
