9 Animals That Are Just Lazy Combinations of Other Animals. Remember the first time you saw a platypus as a kid and for a moment refused to believe that nature would really create an animal that looks like a duck had sex with a beaver? Well guess what, the world is actually full of bizarre mashup creatures like that, some of them hilarious and some of them terrifying, all of them looking like the result of a very drunken night of interspecies animal sex. #9. Deer + Mouse = Chevrotain Shiliru via Smithsonian This picture is almost like some sort of visual illusion: Cover the lower half of the photo with your hand and it looks like a perfectly normal squirrel-size rodent, but focus on its hoofed legs instead and it's hard not to imagine it being the size of a deer.
The truth is somewhere in between: The chevrotain, or mouse deer, is the world's smallest hoofed mammal. Stanley Kaisa Breeden / GettyHunting season probably doesn't concern you too much when a stiff breeze can shatter your legs. University of Aberdeen "You know what this could use? #8. 10 Ancient Cities Still Around Today. History I am fascinated by ancient history and the cities in which history played out.
While the vast majority of the famous places from the past are now gone, a number still remain – some small and others huge. This list takes a look at ten ancient cities that are still functioning today. I have chosen a day shot and a dusk or night shot for each city. There are definitely some great tourist destinations in this list. Plovdiv Founded: Pre 400 BC Plovdiv is in modern day Bulgaria. Jerusalem Founded: 2000 BC Jerusalem is one of the oldest cities in the world and it is considered a holy city by Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. One of the four great ancient capitals of China, Xi’an is now the capital of the Shaanxi province.
Cholula Founded: 500 BC Cholula is in the Mexican state of Puebla which started out as a pre-columbian city. Varanasi Founded: 1200 BC Varanasi (also known as Benares) is in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Lisbon Lisbon is the largest city and the capital of Portugal. Athens. 25 Fascinating and Fun Factlets. Facts Facts, facts, facts – we can’t get enough of them!
This list looks at facts that are both fun and fascinating and, hopefully, largely unknown to most of our readers. They are generally tidbits of information that are not going to help you in your daily life, but they might give you something to talk about at a party. Feel free to add more to the comments. 1. Dracula is the most filmed story of all time. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 75 percent of Japanese women own vibrators. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 10 Fascinating Facts About Color. Our World It’s in everything we touch, taste, smell, and feel. It evokes emotion without asking for prior thought. It can be the focus of our careers, the way we live, the choices we make, and the fun we have. We are all familiar with color and its basic concepts, but did you know… Men and women see the color red very differently While those of us who are estrogen producers tend to see maroon, cardinal, and crimson, men typically just see red.
Silver will save your life When purchasing that brand new vehicle and finding yourself overwhelmed by the 18-page book of options, your best bet is – and forever will be – to go with silver. Pink soothes the nerves Rowdy prisoners and combative patients? Bright colors will win you friends Colors are responsible for 62-90% of our first impressions of one another. Blue is the most common favorite color Blue is the most favored color in the world, with purple being a distant second. Colors can be frightening Yellow makes you hungry. 10 Little Known Relatives of Famous Animals. Animals Ok, enough with the prehistoric beasties for now. This list is about living animals that are interesting on their own, but are seldom mentioned, and always overshadowed by their more famous, closest relatives. Enjoy! Although well known to Egyptians in ancient times, and to pygmies since prehistory, the Okapi’s existence was only confirmed and accepted by western science in the 20th century.
At first, scientists thought it was some kind of forest dwelling zebra, because of the stripes on its legs, but now it is known to be the closest and only living relative to the giraffe! Just like the giraffe, the Okapi is an usually peaceful vegetarian with a very long, bluish gray tongue that comes in handy to clean its eyes, ears and nostrils… both inside and out. The proteles or aardwolf is the least known member of the Hyenidae family, the one that includes the infamous spotted or “laughing” hyena. 5 Famous Space Missions That Almost Ended In Disaster. #2. NASA Shrugs Off a Severely Damaged Classified Spacecraft In 1988, a spacecraft code named STS-27 was launched. Virtually nothing is known about its objectives, as it was an extremely classified Department of Defense mission. What we do know, however, is the way it almost became the biggest rain of top secret shrapnel in the history of space travel -- and how NASA couldn't have cared less.
After that whole "moon" thing, they sorta got sloppy. During launch, a piece of foam came off one of the solid rocket boosters of STS-27 and went right into the heat shield tiles that coated the bottom of the shuttle. As similar accidents had happened before, the crew knew to suspect a problem and, once in space, took a camera-equipped robotic arm to check out the damage. That is not the mustache of a man prone to melodrama. He gravely informed NASA of the situation -- only to get a skeptical "No, man, that's just a trick of the light" back. Fall apart, indeed. #1. GettyThe Jacuzzi went up on EO-5.