Useless Trivial facts

Crushed insects are used to colour many foods. Red E120 (cochineal) is made from bugs. Widely used in confectionery, juices, yogurt and makeup.
 
Birds and animals have magnetite in their brains using the magnetic field of the earth for navigation. If there is a change in the field their sense of direction changes.
 
Penguins are the easiest animal to anthropomorphise.

(trivial fact I just made up)
 
ego2spare said:
a beam of light can go around the earth 7x in one second.
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Maybe.....

The effects of physical interactions are usually incorporated into the quantum theory by including the corresponding terms in the Hamiltonian. Here we consider the effects of including the gravitational potential energy of massive particles in the Hamiltonian of quantum electrodynamics. This results in a predicted correction to the speed of light that is proportional to the fine structure constant. The correction to the speed of light obtained in this way depends on the gravitational potential and not the gravitational field, which is not gauge invariant and presumably nonphysical. Nevertheless, the predicted results are in reasonable agreement with experimental observations from Supernova 1987a.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-06-physicist-slower-thought.html#jCp
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:)
 
JulieW said:
ego2spare said:
a beam of light can go around the earth 7x in one second.
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Maybe.....

The effects of physical interactions are usually incorporated into the quantum theory by including the corresponding terms in the Hamiltonian. Here we consider the effects of including the gravitational potential energy of massive particles in the Hamiltonian of quantum electrodynamics. This results in a predicted correction to the speed of light that is proportional to the fine structure constant. The correction to the speed of light obtained in this way depends on the gravitational potential and not the gravitational field, which is not gauge invariant and presumably nonphysical. Nevertheless, the predicted results are in reasonable agreement with experimental observations from Supernova 1987a.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-06-physicist-slower-thought.html#jCp
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:)
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"can" ;)

but i did this test last night, it was like 12 or something.
 
In 2003 Alice Shirrell Kaswell solved the age-old problem 'Which came first the chicken or the egg' once and for all.

She mailed an egg and a live chicken in separate packages from Cambridge, Massachusetts to New York City, following the US postal service's advice on the mailability of adult chickens.

The chicken arrived within 48hours 51mins, followed by the egg 11hours 6mins later.

She concluded that the chicken came first, and the egg second.

Her research was published in the brilliant Annals of Improbable Research (www.improb.com) who also published the reply of an outraged reader.
 
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