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Across all the European countries fighting in WWII, only three national capitals were never occupied: Moscow, London and Helsinki.
Blow flies are the first kind of insect attracted to an animal carcass following death.
I just noticed... I managed to get more comments than Chef without really spamming
But to be fair, he was not active at all in here...
The term "honeymoon" comes from the Middle Ages, when a newly married couple was provided with enough honey wine to last for the first month of their married life.
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To survive the cold of winter months, many insects replace their body water with a chemical called glycerol, which acts as an "antifreeze" against the temperatures.
There are nearly as many species of ants (8,800) as there are species of birds (9,000) in the world.
Well i had over 1K comments without spamming
Dustin is just too much inactive
The male silk moth is estimated to "smell" chemicals of female silk moths in the air at the ratio of a few hundred
True flies have only one pair of wings, and sometimes, none at all. A hind pair of "wings" is reduced to balancing organs called halteres.
There are about 91,000 different kinds (species) of insects in the United States. In the world, some 1.5 million different kinds (species) have been named.
La Sagrada Familia, in Spain, will take longer to complete than the Great Pyramid of Egypt.
@FrankZ how often do you see the "spam protection" message?
A sapiosexual is a person who is sexually attracted to intelligence in others.
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Kummerspeck (‘grief bacon') is German for the weight put on from eating too much when feeling sorry for yourself.
Vladimir Nabokov, a famous Russian author, collected butterflies and actually named as a new subspecies the Kamer Blue Butterfly from the pine barrens of the Northeast United States.
The London Underground trains were originally steam powered.
A particular Hawk Moth caterpillar from Brazil, when alarmed, raises its head and inflates its thorax, causing it to look like the head of a snake.
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow caught fire in 1977. Sensitive information was stolen by several firefighters who were also KGB agents.
About one-third of all insect species are carnivorous, and most hunt for their food rather than eating decaying meat or dung.
I've been next to it, but the queue to get inside was just too long... and I think, entrance fee was like 20€ or smth lile that...
Spain has more tourists than residents. 75 million people visited Spain in 2016, while only 46 million people live there.
That sounds kewl, any photos for the same?
Malaria. The foremost disease carried by insects is malaria, involving a Plasmodium protozoan that is transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles. Malaria is the most deadly Arthropod-borne disease in the world, affecting some 250 million people in the world, with as many as 2 million deaths annually. In the United States, a few cases of malaria occur each year, but only in individuals who have traveled in diseased areas of foreign countries.
Arboviruses. These diseases are caused by viruses that are biologically transmitted by the bite of mosquitoes. There are about 28 viruses of major public health importance that are transmitted by a variety of mosquitoes. Dengue and Yellow Fever are transmitted by mosquitoes in the genus Aedes. There are several kinds of Encephalitis, and these are transmitted by mosquitoes in the genera Aedes and Culex.
In 2012, a cat named Orlando beat top investment bankers in a year long investment competition, which he chose by throwing his favorite mouse toy at a grid to select companies to invest in.
Plague. Fleas are the vector for the plague (or black death), which infects man as well as rats and other rodents. There are three forms of plague that occur in humans: bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. The bubonic type, in the form of the bacterium, Yersina pestis, is transmitted by fleas. The disease is passed as fleas regurgitate plague bacilli when biting, when flea feces are scratched into the skin, or when the host ingests an infected flea. The plague has killed millions of people in history, especially in the 14th and 17th centuries. In 14th century Europe, the great pandemic resulted in twenty-five million deaths. The plague is still a problem to society, with some 5,000 cases annually.
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decided that tomatoes were vegetables.
Enteric diseases. There are many bacterial diseases that are transmitted by some form of fecal contamination of food or water, either directly or indirectly. House flies are a primary agent in transmitting these diseases, and do so mechanically. Typhoid Fever (Salmonella typhi) is a well-known enteric disease, and affects humans worldwide. Cholera is another enteric disease of great importance. Shigella, causing dysentery and diarrhea, and Escherichia coli, causing urogenital and intestinal infections, are widespread enteric diseases.