We've all heard the adage "you're
more likely to get struck by lightning than to win the lottery." Sounds
grim. Apparently, it's also more likely that you will die on the way to buying
your lottery ticket than actually win the lottery.
Of course this all depends on your mode
of transportation to buy the ticket and the characteristics of the area where
you buy it and even your demographics. It is true that you are more likely to
die in a car accident than win though. The gist is that it's very unlikely that
you will win!
When jellyfish are
in the water, they can be a bit intimidating. Their tentacles can pack a
painful electrical shock. However, once they wash up on shore, they are
anything but intimidating.
It turns out that
jellyfish are 98% water. Most are transparent and bell-shaped. If they end up
on the beach, they will most likely evaporate in a few hours and mostly
disappear.
Jellyfish also
don’t have brains, bones or a heart. They do have rudimentary sensory nerves
though.
If you’re ticklish,
you know the automatic laugh response that occurs when you are tickled. This
can range from giggling to uncontrollable shrieks of laughter. However, your
body is actually responding with panic and anxiety.
This is actually
the body’s defense mechanism. It is believed that the response is meant to
protect you from dangerous things on your skin, such as poisonous insects. The
body needs to react quickly to this unanticipated touch and does so with a
panic response
A palindrome is a
word, phrase, number or other sequence of elements that has the same meaning
read forward or backwards. The word itself comes from the Greek roots palin
meaning “again” and dromos meaning “way” or “direction.”
Some examples of a
palindrome would be the name “Hannah” or the word “madam.” The word “racecar”
is also a palindrome. Forward or back, it still reads the same.
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