Interesting Contents Archive

From 1999 to 2009, the National Wildlife Strike database in the USA logged 879 collisions between white-tailed deer and aircraft. (h/t @mary_roach & @dgquarterly)

Missions that last longer than six months are especially hard to recover from. https://t.co/W0vdSIhzsL

The vehicles will be equipped with flight, temperature and gas sensors as well as cameras. https://t.co/ebggMHJjWL

From now on, people will always be reachable. https://t.co/0VsqPrTXWd

They can tilt at the touch of a button. https://t.co/pf9fGhovwy

How does modern medicine soften the pain? https://t.co/QI1QwPeM0A

The most expensive chicken nugget ever was sold in 2021 for $99,997, valued because it looked like a character from the video game Among Us.

This cloud formation of a boy riding a giant bird, photographed yesterday in Saudi Arabia

Have you ever watched "Space 1999"? No? You really should. https://t.co/P44KA8FZRe

A magical material stuck between a solid, a gas, and a liquid. It has multiple uses and has found itself in many different situations. https://t.co/IYdescySxk

Without biting midges, we wouldn’t have chocolate: cocoa plants are pollinated by them.

The only time a safe contact was made with the restricted North Sentinel Island, 1991

Yes, time’s relative here. https://t.co/7EQJRDCdTV

This cat that lives at the parking lot at my job has extra toes

The project focused on the coasts of the mainland U.S. and Puerto Rico is now ready find unmapped shipwrecks. https://t.co/NFEYVEhplT