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Who runs faster – a man or a horse?

a horse
a horse

Horse VS. human, who would win? well, we all know marathons and horse racing, but have you heard of marathons of people competing vs. horses?

Every year in June (excluding the COVID19 period) a competition is held in Wales called Man Vs. Horse – This is a 35 km race in which human runners compete with horse riders.
The inspiration for the competition came after a hotel owner heard a couple of drunk people from a beer in the hotel bar discussing the relative advantages of running humans over horses in mountainous terrain conditions; One suggested that over long distances in harsh terrain conditions, human performance might be equal o batter than the horse performance.
The owner, Gordon Green, was looking for a new business opportunity and decided to put the absurd idea to the test.
And so, in 1980 the first race got underway.

For 25 years the horses defeated the men, until in 2004 a man named Huw Lobb defeated the horse.
It took him two hours, five minutes and 19 seconds, and he won
£ 25,000 – a prize that grew every year by a thousand pounds until a man won a race.
Huw Lobb was an experienced but unprofessional amateur marathon runner. He works as a management consultant in his day job.

Till this day only two men have managed to beat the horse – in 2007 another man named Florian Holzinger won the race in two hours, 20 minutes and 30 seconds.

In recent years no less than 50 horses and 500 runners have participated in the eccentric competition.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon

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Scorpions Glow under UV Light

scorpion glows under a black light.
scorpion glows under a black light.

Scorpions glow under ultraviolet light.
There have been several hypothesis among scientists as to what evolutionary role does this “glow” play – but there is no definite firm answer. Another crazy fact is that even some Scorpion Fossils from millions of years ago still to this day – glow under blacklight.
It is pretty amazing if you stroll along in the desert with UV flashlight – Those sneaky little animals become all of a sudden quite conspicuous.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpion


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Pandas poop 40 times a day

panda eats bamboo
panda eats bamboo

The Giant panda poops up to 40 times a day because Pandas eat aaaallloooott of bamboo their gut bacteria (and structure) used to digest meat.
Somehow somewhere along the way pandas decided to stop being omnivores and just “go vegan” the only problem is that While eating bamboo they can only digests 30% Of what date and therefore they poop so many times a day.
Sometimes pandas even poop during their sleep and while eating (yuck).

Another interesting fact is that the panda poo, Is being used as manure to grow tea-plants which are actually considered the most expensive tea you can buy (The price sometimes reach up to 69,000$ usd per kilogram of tea bland that was grown with Panda poo).


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a Panda in Chinese is a Bear-Cat

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panda

Panda bears are extremely cute and the internet loves them dearly – almost as much as the internet like cats.
And here is the interesting fact – the word for “Panda” in Chinese is Big-Bear-cat. (Dà xióngmāo) 熊＝ bear & 貓 = cat.

So – wait, where does the word Panda come from? apparently the french are to blame.
“…When it was officially named in English, it became known as Panda, a word borrowed from French that is found to be connected to the Nepali word Ponya, which they used to describe their red panda. Before 1901, when it became Panda, the animal was simply known in English as Black and White Cat Footed-Animal…” Source: https://thenanjinger.com/magazine/the-supplement/whats-in-a-name-the-big-bear-cat/
P.S.
Did you notice the word “cat” in Chinese is is “mao”?
YES – it sounds like the cat’s Meow!


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How to say Great Dane in Danish

You know how in China “Chinese food” is just food?
Did you ever think about how Danish people call the Great Dane in Danish?

First, it is worth mentioning that Great Danes are actually not originally from Denmark. They’re from Germany.
Second by Guinness World Records the tallest dog who ever lived amongst us was a Great Dane named Zeus.
Zeus measured 1.118 meters (44 inches) – When Zeus was standing on his rear legs he reached a staggering 2.23 meters (7 ft 4 inches) tall! this dog should have played in the NBA.

And now, to the moment you were all waiting for, in the Danish language a great dane is a “Granddanois” which means Great Dane, but, in… French.
Wait, what?

Yes, the German dog which has a Danish dog’s name in the Danish language, is actually in French.
Why? well, until 1878 it was named “Englische Dogge” but the Germans would not have it – this is a dog that was mainly bred in Germany by German aristocracy, so they formed a special committee just for that pressing issue and came up with such an original name – from “Englische Dogge” to “Deutsche Dogge” but this was not the end of the story.
Due to “increasing tensions between Germany and other countries” as wikipedia puts it in a very polite way, the world wanted to call this dog in a different name, no committee required.

Thanks to a fancy french dude (with a very long name) “Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon”

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Buffon was mainly known for being the father of modern natural history (He wrote a encyclopaedic collection of 36 large volumes written 1755),
As he documented his many travels, in one of them he saw large dogs in Denmark, and named them “grand danois” – Great Dane.
The Danish name stuck – and in Denmark it stuck in Buffon’s original language French.

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Butterflies eat poop

butterfly eats poop
butterfly eats poop

Any 5 year-old can tell you that butterflies are beautiful creatures who drink nectar from the blossoming flowers, right?
so magical and pure… Well, it is true, but what is also true is that butterflies eat poop (just like the horsefly that we learned to hate), AND – not just poop! Butterflies are quite naughty – they get drunk, they eat dead bodies and… drinking tears of other animals.

So, yes… generally speaking, butterflies are a bunch of weirdos.

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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2016/03/14/butterflies-behaving-badly-what-they-dont-want-you-to-know/

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The Glasshead Fish

The Glasshead Fish
The Glasshead Fish

The Barreleyes (A.k.a the The Glasshead Fish) is one of the most mysterious marine creatures known to science.
Its length is no more than 15 cm, and it lives at a depth of about 2.5 kilometers.
The body of the fish is completely transparent gelatin that allows us to see his internal organs.
The translucent skull is not just an interesting fashion statement, but a vital feature for the fish. Because of his see-through skull cap, he can absorb the little light that sleeps to this abyss. There are two black circles that look like cute eyes, well, Contrary to what had been thought in the past, these are not the eyes but it is the fish’s nostrils. The eyes are the pair of green balls that are in his skull cap which named the fish Barreleyes due to their barrel-shape. The light comes through his transparent skull and the eyes of the fish can rotate 90 degrees, so it can look up.
Its source of food is jellyfish, but in this case jellyfish are only the source and not the food itself – the fish feeds on the plankton around jellyfishes bodies, and it does not harm the jellyfish themselves.
The gelatin that makes up his body is very soft, and a slight contact with any object is enough to tear this layer and kill the fish, so the seabed is probably the only safe place where it can dwell.
The existence of the fish has been known since 1939, but until 2004, only the dead bodies were found via fishing nets. The only (so far – 2017) shot of a live Barreleyes fish was taken by marine biologists Bruce Robison and Kim Reisenbichler which took the video by an unmanned, undersea RC robot.

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Dolphins name each other

Dolphins-call-each-other-by-name
Dolphins-call-each-other-by-name

Scientists discovered that each dolphin gives itself a name in the form of a sound-pattern which is unique to him and then publishes it among the pod (a pod usually is around 12 members). In this way, dolphins call each other distinctly. a dolphin who wants to call his friend, will whistle the name of the pod member and in response the pod member will whistle his name back to confirm that he is present and heard the call. Names are often used when dolphins are in large groups, such as when several pods meet in the ocean, they exchange whistles in order to introduce themselves and get to know each other. More names are used when one of the dolphins moves away from the pod. In this case, the other dolphins call the dolphin so it will not go too far or to look for a missing pod member. It also turns out that dolphins are able to recognize that they have been called even when the voice is produced by someone other than a dolphin!
 This discovery was made by a group of scientists who were on a boat (off the east coast of Scotland) and recorded the sound while a dolphin announced his presence, the researchers then Responded with the same whistle as a response to the call.

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Koala bears have chlamydia

koala bears have chlamydia
koala bears have chlamydia

Next time you visit Australia, think twice before you hug a fluffy koala bear.
WHY? well… you might be infected with a sexually transmitted disease.
In recent years more than half of the koala population in Australia is assumed to be carrying chlamydia And it turned out to be a type of chlamydia that people could get infected with as a result of a close contact with Koala urine-remains.

Not convinced yet that Koalas are to be kept away from? well let us talk about the brain of the koalas, which is very small. How small? Brain-to-body ratios are among the lowest in mammals, occupying only about 61% of their skull space. The rest is just brain fluid. This may not be the worst evolutionary decision, because koalas tend to fall a lot of trees, TALL trees – which is a big cause of death for Koalas. So the brain fluids actually help deal with this risk factor. Of course, maybe if koalas were smart enough not to fall out of trees, their exclusive living environment, then they wouldn’t need so much brain fluid… but well, thats life for the stupid koalas.

So koalas are stupid – how stupid ? They are not capable of advanced thought processes like other mammals.
In fact, they are so stupid that you can present them with a plate full of eucalyptus leaves – the ONLY food koalas eat – and they won’t recognise it at all as food, just because it’s not connected to the tree. Seriously, researchers have done this, these animals don’t recognise their only source of food.

The eucalyptus leaves are poisonous and Koalas are almost the only animals that are interested in them. Koalas are able to digest the eucalyptus leaves due to prolonged chewing & thanks to a unique bacterium in their gut. But here’s the problem – koalas are not born with this bacterium, but they acquire it.
How do they do it?
They eat poop.

When a baby Kuala comes of age when & starts eating eucalyptus leaves instead of mommy’s milk, he orally stimulates his mother’s anus until she fills a bacterial stool, which the baby Kuala will gobble with pleasure. Literal koalas eat shit to acquire the ability to digest poison.

The second part of eating eucalyptus leaves – prolonged chewing is also senseless. Here’s another fun fact about koalas: their teeth erode as they chew eucalyptus leaves. Unlike other herbivores who have found ways to deal with this problem (for example, rodents whose teeth never stop growing), koalas simply ignore this and can die from hunger after their teeth erode completely.

EXTRA FACT – The boys of “one direction” band were photographed hugging a koala that seemed to have urinated on them.
After the picture were taken they got tested – Test results have never been published.

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The Japanese Penguin who went to the market

The Japanese Penguin
The Japanese Penguin

In a Japanese village lived a cute penguin called “Lala”, who walked every morning alone, to the local market with a backpack to collect fish. The villagers who knew Lala well would help him load the fish into the bag (also in the shape of a penguin). In 1996, when Lela was 10 years old, a film crew set out to document him in his daily routine as he walked to the fish market and back home.


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