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dogs

  • Laika the dog, was the first living thing sent into orbit
  • Not mentioned was that Laika died within 7 hours of launch. This fact was only revealed almost 50 years later
  • A human’s scent membrane in the nose is about the size of a postage stamp. A dog’s is about the size of a handkerchief. It’s olfactory lobe is also 4 times that of a human. Thanx liz chell
  • It has been reported that some dogs are able to sniff out skin cancer. It’s in a journal on Lancet
  • Since you started reading these facts, 3000 puppies were born in the U.S.A
  • At birth, a dalmatian puppy is always pure white
  • Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian
  • Dogs and cats consume more than US$11 billion worth of pet food a year

black hole

  • Blackholes are not entirely black. They emit a radiation aura due to atoms being split. This causes an eerie glow around its edges
  • If Earth were to implode into a black hole, it would be the size of a tennis ball
  • Over billions of years, black holes become white holes and they spit out all of the things they sucked in. The atoms are completely jumbled, so no one knows what will ever come out. Theoratically they’ll also turn into a white hole. If you were unfortunate enough to fall within one, you would never actually hit — because time would stop at some point within the event horizon (space outside) of the black hole. Thanx De Composed

air

  • The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin. (But one also wonders how big a milk glass is… anyone?)
  • There is air in space, but very little of it. In fact, it is equivalent to a marble in a box 5 miles wide. Most of the gas is captured by the gravitational pull of other celestial bodies.Thanx M.Lerner