Lost facts

Random facts, random ideas. Life is full of things we don’t know yet.

Jun 13, 2017

29/31: Biggest Animals

This is an easy answer right? The biggest animal in the world is the blue whale, what can be bigger than that? Well, yeah it’s true. The blue whale is the biggest animal that ever existed according to what we know right now and the fossil records we have available at this moment. With a…

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Jun 8, 2017

26/31: How do plants know how to grow?

Have you ever wondered how do plants know what’s up and what’s down? It may sound kind of…

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Jun 7, 2017

25/31: Busiest air routes and airpots

Ever since aviation became a regular thing focused not only for business but also for tourism airplanes started going everywhere, air routes between the biggest cities became more and more demanded so more companies offered these routes. Every day millions of…

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Jun 6, 2017

24/31: The Dark Side Of The Moon

No, I’m not talking about Pink Floyd’s album, I’m talking about the real dark side of the moon, or far side as it’s also called. As everyone knows there’s one face of the moon we can’t see, never. How does it really look like?

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May 30, 2017

19/31: How I (sort of) overcame my fear to fly

If you’d met me a couple of years ago you would know that I was afraid of flying. Not at the point of having a crisis attack in the middle of the flight, but at the point of being very stressed during the flight. Now I can say that, while I’m not…

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May 26, 2017

15/31: Which country has the most satellites in orbit?

Finland just put its first satellite in orbit, becoming the 56th country with a satellite orbiting our earth. There are approximately 1100 functional satellites in orbit (including non-functional the number will go up to more than…