Since 1936, the Haribo factory has let children pay for gummy bears with acorns and chestnuts; the most up-to-date exchange rate for 1kg of sweets is 10kg of chestnuts or 5kg of acorns. The nuts are then used as feed at wild animal parks.
A dihybrid cross describes a mating experiment between two organisms that are identically hybrid for two traits. A hybrid organism is one that is heterozygous, which means that is carries two different alleles at a particular genetic position, or locus. The dominance relationship between alleles for each trait was already known to Mendel when he made this cross. The purpose of the dihybrid cross was to determine if any relationship existed between different allelic pairs.
It can take a photon formed in the heart of our sun over one million years to reach the suns surface and escape, and only eight minutes to reach earth once it does.
Over one billion neutrinos pass through your thumb nail every second.
The largest black hole discovered so far is more than forty billion times the mass of our sun.
@Zaphod42 So when you cast a shadow with your body, you stop many photons from hitting the earth only a few feet from its destination after a journey of a million years. How cruel!
@NerdyPotato Think of it from the photons position! They move at the speed of light, and time stands perfectly still at that speed. So from their perspective the moment of creation and the moment of death are the same moment!
Also, in Iceland they have a smartphone dating app that lets you “bump" phones, and emits a warning alarm if you are too closely related, to avoid accidental incest.
@bijouxbroussard Iceland has a population of 320,000 where most everyone is distantly related, inadvertently kissing cousins is a real risk. A smartphone app called Íslendinga-App is there to help Icelanders avoid accidental incest. The fact that Icelanders use a patronymic naming system, children do not adopt a family name for a surname, which also makes knowing people’s relatives difficult. In Iceland, they adopt the first name of their father followed by “dóttir”, which means “daughter” or “son” for their last name.
Instead of much of the world adopting the metric system, we may have been much better off changing our number system from the universally used Hindu–Arabic numeral system, to a more friendly base 12 system, which while including 2 additional factors with only two more unique single digit numbers, would revolutionize engineering by simplifying fractions of thirds to a non repeating.
The code to go straight to fighting Mike Tyson in Mike Tyson’s Punch Out on NES is 007-373-5963. I have somehow kept this useless piece of information in my memory for over 30 years, ever since playing it as a kid.
