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Marie Curie is the only person to earn a Nobel prize in two different sciences.
Linus Pauling won for Chemistry and Peace. I guess Peace isn't a science, but still.
Crows hold grudges!
Crows can recognise faces and human behaviour. If you create a stressful situation with a crow it will warn others and it's offspring that you are a dangerous person. It will also remember if you are nice to it, so will recommend you to its family and friends :) Which is why the crows who visit my garden bring their babies to eat too xx
Potato chips cause more weight gain than any other food.
Detroit undercover cops in a drug ring once fought another group of undercover cops.
Dogs can smell cancer.
My cat can tell when something is wrong with my mother. My cat will come wake me up.
The heads on Easter Island have bodies.
So like they had committed murders before being placed there? Thrilling, tell me more!
America's first bank robber deposited the money back into the same bank.
Only in America folks. lol. Edit: I am an American so i do see the humor in all the roasts we get on BP.
The fire hydrant patent was lost in a fire.
Star Trek's Scotty stormed the beach at Normandy.
Born a Canadian he was in the Canadian Army and did indeed land at Normandy :)
The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
Legend states that the Unicorns natural enemy was the Lion and Englands' National animal is .. wait for it ... A Lion.
Germany uncovers 2,000 tons of unexploded bombs every year.
WW2 relicts. I remember an anecdote, where a railway station was temporarily shut down because of that. An English speaking couple was terrified and asked "Do they know, who planted the bomb?" The dry (and correct) answer was "Yup, the Royal Air Force"
The first person convicted of speeding was going eight mph.
A 70-year-old woman once completed seven marathons in seven days, across all seven continents.
Bees can detect bombs.
Cotton candy was invented by a dentist.
Why is there a buy now button am I the only one who can see it!!!??!
Your liver can regrow itself in three weeks.
It's only partially true, this (and I speak from experience). If you've got cirrosis (even if it's non alcohol related) your liver never quite recovers, and the 'dead' or hardened bits never regenerate / regrow. but the other bits will compensate so it's all good unless your whole liver shuts down, then you're basically buggered unless you can find a donor / get a transplant
The world's biggest tire producer is LEGO.
Most laughter isn't because things are funny.
In Germany, people help toads cross the road.
They build small fences at spawning season and dig in buckets. Toads end up in buckets, which are regularly (once or twice a day, I think) emptied into the next pond.
There's a town in nebraska with a population of one!
The Bermuda Triangle isn't any more likely to cause a mysterious disappearance than anywhere else.
Redheads aren't actually going extinct.
Correct, go to Ireland or the West of Scotland. Infected with redheads ....
Riding a roller coaster could help you pass a kidney stone.
For 100 years, maps have shown an island that doesn't exist.
Dogs actually understand some English.
No, they can understand languages. Stop making this so English centered.
Dogs understand the language that is being spoken to them, over time and with reinforcement. Not specifically English. When I worked in animal medicine, I knew a client who spoke only French to her dogs. There are also many MANY canines who are, for lack of a proper word, bilingual. They are spoken to in whichever language is their owner/handler's native but trained in Schutzhund, which is a German technique used typically for police and guard dogs. What this item actually means is that dogs have a high level of neuroplasticity and with reinforcement are able to recognize and recall language cues.
They understand the language that is spoken to them, think of it as when the teacher speaks in Charlie Brown and it makes more sense, their name, basic commands and the tone of voice used, etc :) x
They can understand ANY language they are taught. English is not at all special. Do you think a GERMAN Shepard was taught English in Germany? Come back to Earth...
Yeap. Dogs normally understand all in spanish but only some english and no turkish at all.
They don't understand any language, they interpret sounds that they hear repetitively to mean certain things that they have observed or been taught.
Well, I don't know if it's English so much as it is tone, inflection, and body language. My dog KNOWS when it's time for walkies or snacks. Don't gotta say jack. They know the language of the leash, the crinkling snack bags, and the can gently touching the countertop.
some of my friends are Dutch, and their dog knows her commands in Dutch. We can't tell her what to do because we don't speak Dutch.
It's not they understand a meaning of the word they learn that the word "hello" = friendly; "Let's go" = going for a walk ; dog's name = human wants attention. They don't learn the foreign language, they just assume it means X Fun fact: once i confused my pup who learned that no = bad, stop doing the thing. I said the word "nowhere", poor thing thought she's doing something wrong (it happened in my native language where the key word is more emphasised)
Just like a human infant, they understand whatever language you teach them.
If you click on the link the highlighted text literally reads "Dogs do not understand English or any other human-created language. They do understand words (or rather, sounds) in any language. After hearing “sit” many times, the dog associates it with a particular behavior and with some consequences; and will end up sitting more often than not when it hears that sound"
They understand a lot of words. English and whatever language they are spoken to in. We have had house rabbits for over 22 years. They can understand MANY words and phrases. Show jumping and agility training, too. Rabbits are super smart.
Cats understand every language and choose to ignore everything so.......
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Some of these "facts" are meaninglessly vague and lack context. Is there a translation issue? Or just laziness?
Laziness, I bet. I've never done so much Googling for a BP article in my life. Most of the vaguer ones now have links added in my comments.
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Some of these "facts" are meaninglessly vague and lack context. Is there a translation issue? Or just laziness?
Laziness, I bet. I've never done so much Googling for a BP article in my life. Most of the vaguer ones now have links added in my comments.
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