Restaurants in Japan
In Japan,some restaurants and attractions are charging higher prices for foreign tourists compared to locals to manage the increased demand without overburdening the locals.
In Japan,some restaurants and attractions are charging higher prices for foreign tourists compared to locals to manage the increased demand without overburdening the locals.
American historian and professor Allan Lichtman,77 in 2024 has a long history of rightly predicting the outcome of American elections.For the last 11 elections he has successfully predicted the winner of every election, except the one in 2000 when George W.Bush defeated Al Gore.
However his prediction for the 2024 election winner turned out to be wrong.He had predicted that Kamala Harris would score a narrow victory over Donald Trump.However,on November 5,2024,Donald Trump ended up defeating Kamala Harris in the presidential election.
So much for pundits.
Singer Taylor Swift threw her support behind Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. Campaign and endorsed.Now Swifties are disappointed because Donald Trump won the 2024 election.
When red pandas feel threatened,they will stand up straight and extend their claws in an attempt to look more intimidating.
The King Abdel Aziz Festival in Saudi Arabia features a camel beauty contest where Botox and facelifts are banned.
Dogs curl up when they sleep to protect their organs and stay warm.It's an instinct.
If you add too much salt to a dish while cooking,you can remedy the situation somewhat by adding yogurt to the dish or squeezing lemon juice into it.Lemon juice and yogurt can make an oversalted dish taste less salty.
Many psychologists and psychiatrists as well as academics had said that Donald Trump is a malignant narcissist, apower-obsessed man who is unfit to be American president and that he is dangerous to democracy.Despite that Donald Trump defeated Hilary Clinton to become American president in 2016 for the first time.
On November 5,2024 Donald Jefferson Trump beat Kamala Harris to become American president for the second time.
Many,many voters disregarded the opinions of psychologists,psychiatrists and academics to vote for Donald Trump anyway.
Why should voters and the public take the opinions of psychologists and psychiatrists so seriously? Many psychologists and psychiatrists should stop being so self-important.
Sitting in the back of an airplane makes you 40% more likely to survive a crash.
Masabumi Hosono(1870-1939) was the only Japanese passenger on the ship Titanic that sank in 1912 and he actually survived the sinking of the ship.He lost his job because he was known as a coward in Japan for not dying with the other passengers.He was ostracized for not going down with the ship.
Hosono and another Titanic survivor had disguised themselves as women in order to sneak aboard a lifeboat.
Hosono died painlessly in his sleep in 1939.
Talk about Hosono's survivor guilt.
In April 2019,a poacher hunting rhinos in south Africa was trampled to death by an elephant.Then his body was eaten by a pride of lions.
There are refrigerators full of beer scattered throughout Europe that can only be opened with Canadian passports.
Elephants bury their dead and will revisit graves generations later.They've even been known to bury humans that have passed away.
Nearly half the gold ever mined in human history has come from one place Witwatersrand basin in South Africa.
Jackie Chan's father was a spy and his mother was a drug dealer.They met through an arrest.
America's "Big Four"rival pizza chains -Domino's,Papa John's,Pizza Hut and Little Caesars-all buy their cheese from the same man:James Leprino.His company sells 1 billion pounds of cheese each year.
The first man-made biological leaf,known as the Silk Leaf,was created by Julian Melchiorri.It utilizes chloroplasts extracted from plant cells,embedded in a silk protein matrix.This innovative material can absorb water and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen through photosynthesis,just like a natural leaf.What an amazing breakthrough.A bit scary though.
Rex Bell Jr,son of silent film actress Clara Bow sadly died in 2011 at the age of 76 after a battle with cancer.
Rex Bell Jr grew up in Las Vegas.
Under United Kingdom law, whales and dolphins are considered 'royal fish's and are protected under the crown estate .
In ancient Babylon,walnuts were considered food for the nobility,while commoners were forbidden to eat them,lest they suddenly become wiser.
Legendary music producer Quincy Jones has died at the age of 91 in his Bel Air home.What a loss!
Bubble wrap was originally intended to be used as room wallpaper.However,it eventually became one of the most popular ways to package products.
Elephants are so afraid of bees that the mere sound of buzzing is enough to make an entire herd flee.They have even developed a special rumble just to warn each others if bees are nearby.
A Californian couple named Helen and Les Brown were both born von December 31,2018.They were married for 75 years and both lived to the age of 94 until they both died in 2013,one day apart.
Dragonflies have advanced vision and brain function that allow them to predict their prey's path,making them highly effective hunters.With nearly a 95% success rate,they are among the most skilled predators in nature!
Pea crabs are miniature crabs that spend their whole lives inside oysters,clams and mussels.
Cats can become addicted to tuna and refuse to eat anything else,becoming what's known as tuna junkies.
Coral reefs,often called the "rainforests of the sea",are incredibly diverse ecosystems.They cover less than 1% of the ocean surface but support about 25% of all marine species.
NEMO-33 is the world's deepest swimming pool located in Brussels,Belgium.The maximum depth of the hole is 34.5 meters.
Taiwan has become the first country in the world to offer wi-fi connectivity to its citizens and all its foreign tourists.
Psychologists overdiagnose diagnose anxiety and depression in people as far as I am concerned.Any one who is referred to many psychologists for a specific problem is diagnosed with anxiety and depression.Sometimes the person just has physical health problems, problems with housing or landlords,has problems at their job because of a😝bad boss or stressful work environment,financial problems or huge debt load.Some people have emotional problems from divorce or relationship breakup.
Sometimes all that is needed is to solve the person's underlying problem and offer concrete help.But psychologists label people and needlessly medicalise conditions because their jobs depend on it.Only sometimes psychologists offer concrete help to people.
Not everyone wants to endlessly analyse thoughts,feelings and emotions and many people with problems do not have mental illness.It is not a good idea to get people to depend too much on psychologists.Many people need a better social support network or specific help from individuals and organizations.
Actually psychiatrists are worse than psychologists;not only do they overlabel people but they also prescribe psychiatric drugs at the drop of a hat and those drugs often have serious side effects.
Japan's Kansai Airport,has not lost a single piece of luggage in 30 years,as of 2024.
Dressed to Chill(2006)-song by Marion Meadows.
This underrated but beautiful tune needs more air play on radio stations.
Scientists believe that 99 per cent of the Earth's gold is buried thousands of miles below the surface and only 1% has been mined.
The biggest container ship in the world The Evergreen "Ever Ace" can carry up to 23,992 containers.
One of the most common reasons for strong-smelling pee is dehydration.Everyone's urine has ammonia in it.The more hydrated you are,the less concentrated the ammonia is.But when you're dehydrated,the ammonia concentration is stronger -and so is the smell.
Hence by drinking more water one can usually make one's urine less strong-smelling.
Otters have a pocket in their skin where they store their favorite pebbles,which they use to break the hard shells of mollusks for food.
China has a theme park "the kingdom of the little people" that is run by dwarfs! Established in 2009,the plan was to create a secure workplace for people with dwarfism,often marginalised in China's superstitious society.
Antarctica, which is about four times the size of India,has so much ice that if it all melts,the average sea level around the world will rise by about 230 feet.This means the water could reach up to a 17-story-building on the seashore.
Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Alligators can climb trees.They like to bask on rocks,but if there are no rocks available,they"ll climb a tree and bask on a branch instead.
In order to discover that penguins sleep more deeply in the afternoon, scientists crept up on sleeping king penguins at different times of the day and poked them with a stick until they woke up.
Avocados never ripen on trees.Avocados only start to ripen once they are picked,allowing them to last longer on the tree.
Specifically for the Nazis,Coca Cola decided to make a fruit flavored soda when there was a shortage of syrup,and that is how Fanta was invented.
Once viewed as a poor man's food,lobsters were so abundant in colonial America that it was served to prisoners and servants.Revolting against its frequent servings, prisoners dubbed it "the cockroach of the sea",highlighting its humble origins.
Ants cannot chew their food.They move their jaws sideways,like scissors,to extract the juices from the food.
Seahorses dance together for over 8 hours before mating.During the dance they hold each other's tails,swim in unison and change color.
Porch pirates are increasingly stealing parcels delivered by Amazon ,from the front steps of people's homes.Porch pirates sometimes wear hoodies and their faces become unrecognizable.
Porch pirates sometimes replace packages with decoys.
Cats can get pregnant by multiple fathers simultaneously.This is why kittens from the same litter can look so different.
Switzerland is the only country in the world that is capable of keeping its entire population in bunkers in the event of a disaster.
Researchers in Botswana ran an experiment to reduce lion attacks on cows.They painted large eyes on some cow's backsides.After several years,there were zero attacks on the painted cows(eye -butt cows)and 15 attacks on the unpainted cows.
Gorillas hum while eating,and even sing,more often when eating their favorite foods.
Snakes can predict earthquakes.They can sense one coming from 75 miles away,up to five days before it happens.
Microsoft put a data centre under water, increasing sustainability by using water to cool servers.
The electric eel,a freshwater fish found in the Amazon River and it's tributaries,is a fish that produces currents of over "860 volts."
The baby blue whale is the fastest-growing mammal,with a growth rate of 95 to 113 kilograms per day from birth to about 12 months.
Elephants can "hear" through their feet detecting vibrations from distant sounds and potential threats.
A sea snail near hydrothermal vents thousands of feet below the ocean surface has a unique solution to navigating such a volatile home.It builds itself an armored shell out of iron.
Miss Thailand wore a gown made of soda tabs to honor her garbage-collector parents,symbolizing how beauty can be found in the discarded.
Crocodiles, despite their bulky and intimidating appearance can run at speeds of 20 to o 30 km/ hour.However,they can only sustain their speed for short bursts, typically when they are trying to capture prey or feel threatened.Over longer distances,they move much more slowly.
After only a 20 minute helicopter ride over New York city,autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire was able to draw the New York Skyline,in pen,just from his memory.
The jaguar is one of the few members of the cat family who can hunt well not only on ground,but also underwater.
Dolphins have two stomachs:one for storing food and the other for digestion,allowing them to manage rapid feeding and absorb nutrients efficiently.
Stephin Merritt (born 1965) is a singer,songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.He is the lead singer of the bands Magnetic Fields,The Gothic Archie's and Future Bible Heroes.He is known for his distinctive bass voice.His voice has an incredible range.
Merritt is vegan saying,'I ain't eaten an animal since 1983.'
I love his magnetic voice.However many people have never heard of Stephin Merritt and have never listened to his songs.
More people should request that radio stations play his songs.
One of the most common reasons for strong-smelling per is dehydration.Everyone's urine has ammonia in it.But when you're dehydrated,the ammonia concentration is stronger-and so is the smell.
Never Going Home to-song by David Guetta and Alesso.
The scary thing about Halloween is all of the plastic junk people proudly display around their homes.Plastic spiders,plastic pumpkins, plastic skeletons and fossil fuels made trinkets,transported 5000 km on a container ship from Asia will eventually end up in local landfills.If you are environmentally friendly and you put your plastic Halloween items in your city's recycling bin,they will be transported back to Asia by container ship only to be burned to generate power.
People should try to reuse many Halloween decorations for the next year.But alas that is often unpopular.Too many people love to declutter and just like to buy new Halloween decor every year.
Halloween is not an excuse to massacre the environment.
Great white sharks regularly meet up in the middle of the Pacific ocean in an area known as the White Shark Cafe.They meet there actually and nobody exactly knows why.
Q.What neutralizes the smell of urine?
Answer.Drink Cranberry juice.Cranberry juice increases the acidity of urine,which can reduce odor.
I love cranberry juice.
Ocean Spray Cranberry cocktail is very good and I enjoy drinking it.
Purple Goosefoot is native to mountainous regions in India.It is resistant to many pests and is very easy to grow.
Our fingers get wrinkly in water because wrinkled fingers would give us stronger grip,on slippery objects under water.
Ants can create living bridges by linking their bodies,enabling their colony to cross gaps.This extraordinary behavior highlights their teamwork and engineering abilities.
The Incas popularized quinoa as their "golden grain",vital for feeding armies and high-altitude communities.Its endurance and rich nutrients made it a cornerstone of the empire,sustaining and empowering Incan society.
In 2016 a lot of psychiatrists and psychologists reiterated that Donald Trump was a malignant narcissist and very dangerous and that he was not fit to be American president.
However Trump beat the odds and defied the polls to end up defeating Hilary Clinton and became the American president.
What the psychiatrists and psychologists said did not end up affecting the outcome of the election.Psychiatrists and psychologists often are self-important and take themselves too seriously. I am glad that many people ignore the opinions of psychologists and psychiatrists.If we all followed the opinions and recommendations of psychiatrists and psychologists what a boring world it would be!
In 1942,a man called the Phantom Barber would break into people's houses in Mississippi at night and cut their hair.