Categoría Oddities

What is the hottest pepper in the world?

It is currently the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T, developed at an Australian company in April 2011 based on a fruit from Trinidad and Tobago. This kind of laboratory “improvement” is common: peppers are easy to grow, have abundant seeds, and…

How does a flea circus work?

This show left the audience very curious precisely with this question: how to train insects to jump off trampolines, walk on tightropes and even be shot from cannons? It shouldn’t be easy! In Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries,…

What are monsoons?

These are winds that change direction according to the seasons, carrying moist air from the ocean to the continent in one season and dry air from the land to the sea in another. The phenomenon occurs in approximately 25% of…

What is the oldest text in Portuguese?

It’s a text from 1175, called Notícia de Fadores, but it’s hard to understand! The similarity with current Portuguese is very little. Even the way the patrician wrote the lyrics is complicated! But linguists identify several elements in it that…

What are black masses?

They are rituals that mimic Catholic celebrations, but the worship is for Satan. Since the 3rd century there have been groups that perform distorted versions of the Christian mass. In the Middle Ages, the accused were Jews or women who…

6 Animal Streaks You Always Mistake

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How was the Rio-Niterói bridge built?

The work can be divided into three main sections, which were built simultaneously: the bridge itself, over Guanabara Bay, the access roads in Rio de Janeiro and the access roads in Niterói. “The most complex part, of course, was the…

How is a psychopath diagnosed and treated?

ILLUSTRATIONS Andre Toma WHAT BODY SIGNS INDICATE PSYCHOPATHY?The metabolism of someone prone to this disorder behaves differently than that of a healthy person. Brain: Prefrontal areas of the brain, where moral judgments roll coldly, have little activity in a normal…