World's most Interesting Facts

  Yeah that's cool so let me define the actual fact behind it  Penguins are cool, but there is one fact about them that might surprise you  and it is all to do with Antarctica. Everybody knows that Antarctica is made  up of ice and glaciers, but it seems that all of that ice is not the direct result of  nature, at least not in the sense that you would have perhaps been expecting. Instead, it has been estimated by scientists that approximately 3% of the ice  that exists in Antarctica is actually made up of penguin urine. To be honest, it  does make some kind of sense when you consider the huge number of  penguins that are on the continent and they need to pee somewhere. Also, it’s  cold so all of that liquid is indeed going to freeze up, but it then gives you  some kind of an idea as to how many penguins have existed in Antarctica, if  they have been able to have such a profound impact on the actual geograp...

The History of Tea There are literally hundreds of varieties of tea leaves around the world, but do  you know when and where it was ‘invented’? Of course, thinking that tea was  invented is a strange choice of words, but there is a particular legend  surrounding the drink that will kind of explain what is meant by the use of  that individual phrase. To understand the legend, we have to go to China, which may not come as a  surprise to  many. The year is approximately 2737 BC (4756 years old)  and  we are   in the  presence of the Chinese Emperor. They say that the Emperor was sitting by an open window with a bowl of hot  water by his side. A wind picked up and, via a miracle, it blew some tea  leaves in through the open window and it landed in the bowl of hot water. Whether or not the Emperor was initially aware of this, he still went on to  take a drink and was taken aback by the taste that he ex...