Ho scoperto l’Isola di Socotra, nello Yemen 🇾🇪.
Qui la natura e i suoi abitanti hanno sempre seguito le proprie regole. Circa il 30% delle piante cresce solo e soltanto su quest’isola e in nessun altro posto al mondo 🌿.
Il simbolo di questo luogo è l’Albero del Sangue di Drago (Dracaena cinnabari, già il nome è un programma 🐉). Se ne incidi la corteccia, la resina che esce è di un rosso sangue intensissimo 🩸. Si dice persino che sia proprio questo legno il segreto dietro ai violini Stradivari 🎻.
Fino a poco tempo fa, la popolazione locale viveva in un totale isolamento: non conosceva la scrittura e tramandava tutto oralmente, attraverso una lingua antica e unica al mondo 🗣️.
Mi piacerebbe andarci ✈️.

Conoscete altri luoghi strani?😱
📸Alex38

Ma si può essere così folli? 🤯 Nel 1996 un ragazzo di 21 anni, John Leonard, vide uno spot della Pepsi che mostrava un caccia militare AV-8 Harrier II da 32 milioni di dollari. Sul finale appariva una scritta: "7 milioni di punti Pepsi = 1 Caccia Harrier". ✈️💥 Ha studiato il regolamento e ha notato un cavillo fondamentale: l'azienda permetteva di acquistare i punti mancanti per soli 10 centesimi l'uno. Trovati degli investitori disposti a finanziarlo, ha fatto i conti: ha firmato un assegno da circa 700.000 dollari e ha preteso il suo jet da guerra! 💰🪖 L’azienda ha rifiutato, spiegando che si trattava solo di uno scherzo pubblicitario. Il poveretto non l'ha presa bene e li ha trascinati dritti in tribunale. ⚖️ Indovinate chi ha vinto?🤣
 Il giudice ha dato ragione alla Pepsi, stabilendo con una sentenza ormai storica che lo spot era chiaramente un'esagerazione iperbolica e che "nessun individuo ragionevole avrebbe mai potuto considerare quel video come un'offerta contrattuale reale". Trovatemi qualcuno di più stupo! 🤣

*by current estimates

The inventor was called Franz Reichelt and was a tailor by trade. He wanted to design a suit that could be used as a parachute for pilots, in the early days of human plane travel. After testing the suit on a number of dummies, Reichelt was so confident that he decided to try it out himself, and jumped off the lower level of the Eiffel Tower. It didn't go well.

Bonus: His win was only upheld as the nominal winner, Frederick Lorz, actively took a car for part of the length of the marathon, which was an even more severe breach of conduct.

The 36-letter word was first used by the Roman poet Horace in the first century BCE to criticise those writers with an unreasonable penchant for long words. It was American poet Aimee Nezheukumatathil, possibly afraid of their own surname, who coined the term as we know it in 2000.

Don José Doroteo Arango Arámbula, AKA Pancho Villa or "The Northern Centaur", was a mexican warlord during the rising against the dictatorship of Don José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori in the early 20th century.

Born in Durango in a family of hacienda pawns, he was in charge of leading the fight on the northern flank. Famously, despite his fierceness, origins and time, he despised alcohol. Being a brilliant tactician who had nothing but men to work with, he thought it made men stupid and reckless, and that it prevented them from being alert and ready.

The only times you would ever see the Northern Centaur enter a bar is when he visited the US, where he would order the recently invented strawberry smoothies, of which he was a huge fan.

Lysenkoism refers to a dark period in Soviet science when ideology completely overrode actual biology. Named after the Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko, it is the ultimate historical cautionary tale of what happens when political dogma dictates scientific truth.

Today, the word has become a broader term used to describe the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process to fit a political, ideological, or religious agenda.

Whenever data is suppressed, scientists are silenced, or unproven theories are legally mandated because they align with a specific political narrative, commentators will often refer to it as modern-day Lysenkoism.

🐝 Fun bee fact I learned today 🤣
Some bees can literally “buzz pollinate” flowers! 🌸🐝
Their wings can beat 200+ times a second 😳, and they can vibrate their flight muscles at a crazy-fast frequency while holding onto the flower, basically shaking the pollen loose so they can collect it.
So when you hear a bee going “bzzzzzz”, sometimes she’s not just flying around she’s basically using her entire body as a tiny pollen shaker. 😂🐝🌸
Nature is bloody brilliant.

My skunker Reverb in the pic

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Cats have blood type a, b, and ab. No O. No Rh factor.

Dogs don't have an Rh factor either, but they have their own blood system with 13 blood types.

In 2014, Lohan sued the game makers. She claimed the minor character "Lacey Jonas" and the blonde woman featured in promotional art and cover art were modeled after her.

The judges ruled that Grand Theft Auto V is a work of fiction and satire, protecting the game creators under the First Amendment.

It was developed in Scotland in the late 18th Century to help aid and speed up the process of symphysiotomy (widening the pubic cartilage) and removal of disease-laden bone during childbirth. It wasn’t until the start of the 20th Century that we started using chainsaws for woodchopping.