15 Ice-Cold Facts To Beat The Summer Heat

“Where The Wild Things” was about horses, until the creator realized he couldn’t draw them.

In a distant future where the earth was ravaged by war, and humanity was reduced to a few scattered tribes in the mountains of the north, an old man sat alone at night on his hill overlooking the plains. A great fire burned in front of him, and he was holding his sword aloft as if it were an offering to some dark god or spirit of the night that would grant its protection to him and his people. The old man wore a leather vest, but had no weapons with him, only the sword. The firelight glinted off its edge, and it looked almost red. As the man gazed into the flames, he suddenly heard a voice behind him that sounded like many voices in one. The words from the voice came slowly but clearly to the man's ear.
The voice told him, speaking in that utterly calm, slow, methodical voice, a list of fifteen facts. That list went...


 

Pressure phosphenes are the stars you see when you rub your eyes.

Very Well Health

The First TV Commercial

WJCT

Papua New Guinea has 850+ languages.

Britannica

A shrimp-like creature makes itself metal armor.

PLOS One

Benjamin Franklin was a swimming enthusiast.

US History

The sunset on Mars is blue.

NASA

“Where The Wild Things” was supposed to be about horses.

The Guardian

You can extract peanut oil to make dynamite.

Irish Times

Tic Tacs get their name from the sound of their container.

TicTac

Water in Space

NASA

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