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The Man Of 1000 Insect Stings

(via Great Big Story) Justin Schmidt is an entomologist who studies stinging insects. Through the course of his work, he

(via Real Clear Science) The human body is incredibly resilient. When you donate a pint of blood, you lose about

(via Listverse) Think plants are just boring green things that we use for food and decoration? Humankind has grown up alongside

(via Mental Floss) It’s likely happened to you before: You start rubbing your eyes and almost immediately begin seeing colors,

(via Grunge) Life in the 21st century is hard enough, but just imagine how much more stressful your commute would be

(via Oddee) Rain. That liquidy stuff that keeps plants growing, ruins the car wash you just got and delays your

(via Atlas Obscura) After two centuries of binomial nomenclature, scientists are nowhere close to running out of things to document.

Are parrots just good at imitating sounds or is there something else that separates them from other birds?

(via Real Clear Science) The human body is incredibly resilient. When you donate a pint of blood, you lose about

(via Smithsonian) The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, the first museum in the world to display a fully intact, preserved

(via mental_floss) To celebrate a belated World Penguin Day (which was April 25th), here are a few fun facts about

(via Great Big Story) Ernestine Shepherd defies nearly every physical stereotype for an 80-year-old woman. For one thing, she’s ripped.