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Are you brave enough to go through the world's most dangerous airports?
From challenging runways to difficult approaches & landings, these airports will make your heart race

Fasten your seatbelts!

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Did you know that blue lava & green lava actually exists? It's not a myth or a Photoshop creation

Here is a colorful thread on the 'colors of lava' 🌋 🧵

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A fun example of relative motion!
Even though the tractor is moving, the person jumping on the trampoline is not moving relative to the tractor 🚜, and has the same velocity as the tractor relative to the ground!

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Ready for some surf and turf?

Did you know that there are waves which have a square shape?

Here is a thread 🧵 dedicated to some of the unique & fascinating waves found on earth 🌊🏖️

#bigwavesurf"

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Scoville scale measures pungency of peppers, recorded in Scoville heat units

It is named after American pharmacist Wilbur Scoville, whose 1912 method, organoleptic, is a subjective assessment derived from the capsaicinoid sensitivity by people experienced with eating hot chilis

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Anglerfish waits patiently in the depths of the deep sea to lure in their next meal

They wiggle & "angle" a rod-like extension of their dorsal spine that protrudes from their head & emits light

Once prey comes close, it snags them, using its large, pointy teeth to chomp them up

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Scutigera coleoptrata, also known as the house centipede, is a centipede species originating in the Mediterranean region

It commonly lives in human homes & hunts on other insects
This video shows how it molting

Source: https://t.co/nHZQpSxQ92
Read more: https://t.co/yTkMsuJSTt

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Monarch butterfly's metamorphosis from a caterpillar to a fully grown butterfly!

Source: https://t.co/vbaMp8rlGA

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@Rainmaker1973 @NightLights_AM @Rainmaker1973 your content is inspiring and always has the relevant credits. Even if no solution is found, please continue the work

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@nj_tantan The video is from Nature on PBS: https://t.co/jOdNBvYNnB

You can read more here: https://t.co/Mc2pOVXZCz

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Octopuses usually change their skin color for camouflage or for communication but during sleep, environmental factors no longer trigger this
Researchers inferred that the color changes during sleep results from independent brain activity, maybe a dream!

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Illusion of the day!

The individual parts in the image are only changing color, but the image appears to wave!

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The retina has about 1 million nerve fibers carrying signals to the brain and is actually a part of our central nervous system

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Ice Needles are usually formed when water rises through the soil in a capillary action & encounters sub-zero air, therby freezing on contact

However, this is one example of ice needles being formed as water comes out of a lake

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How sound travels from the ear to the brain

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Global Economy crossed $ 100 Trillion for the first time in 2022

These were the top 10 economies by GDP in 2022

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The hose pipe example video was not playing. This is the video

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Cymatics - A word you probably haven't heard, but would love seeing it in action

Particles dancing to the sound
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Cymatics - A word you probably haven't heard, but would love seeing it in action

Particles dancing to the sound
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