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If you had to choose between helping a tortured friend out of their misery & getting 1 million dollar all for yourself, which one would you choose? We all know that a lot of people out there will choose money. However, Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal from the University of Chicago had discovered that rats are able to learn and willing to set-free their cage-mate. And unlike most human, this rat seems willing to help even when it got nothing in return. The researcher even try to distract the rat by using chocolate but the rat still keep it focus to save the trapped cage mate. However, lab rats helping each other weren’t actually a new discovery. Back in 1959, Russell Church, a psychologist had train a rat to press a lever to get food. The psychologist then connects the lever to another cage that contains another rat. If the first rat pushes the lever, it will get the food but the rat in the other cage will get a painful electrical shock. What happen next is amazing, after realizing ...

Today post is going to be about cats. Why? because cats is awesome. =D There are 33 different breed of domestic cats in the world Just like human finger print, each cat has a unique ridget pattern on their nose. A cat can express her love to you by quivering her tail when she’s near you. Keep your distance if you see your cat is trashing her tail. It’s a sign that she’s in a bad mood. Sir Isaac Newton, the person who discovered the principles of gravity, is also the inventor of the cat door. Your cat will communicate with you more if you talk to her a lot. Dog can only make 10 vocal sounds while cat can make 100, which are 10 times more than dog. Americans spend about 4 million dollars a year on cat food. Most cats don’t have eyelashes When a black light shines on cat urine, the urine will glow in the dark. house cat spends approximately 10,950 hours of their life purring.

Due to prenatal scans and people in China prefer to have a son instead of a daughter. In 20 years, there might going to be 30-50 million unmarried men in China. Prof Li Shuzhuo of the institute for population and development studies at Xi'an Jiaotong University said that a normal human birth ratio should be 106 males for every 100 female. However, in China the amount of male had increase to 118. Which mean in the next two decade, there could be 30 to 50 million men having trouble finding a female. Why this happen This situation accure because in Chinese culture, a men will continue the family line. When a women get married, she will join her husband family and not the other way around. Chinese people also prefer to have a boy because they want to have someone to take care of them when they're old. This had cause the amount of men in China to exploded. Most expert are worried that too many unmarried men might going to cause problem such as sexual violent, prostit...

There are so many different types of apples in the world that it would take almost 20 years for a person to try them all if s/he eat one new type of apple everyday. According to the book, Cook's Wisdom, there are 7000 type of apples in the world. Most common type of apples such as Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Gala, and McIntosh can be found in the U.S. Modern farming and production of apples that seem to be mass producing only certain type of apples might be the reasons why a lot of people didn't realize that the variety of apples is actually this much. Some type of apples are best eaten raw while some other a better use for baking. Despite the mass amount of varieties, only a few type of apples are commonly use in cooking and massively consume by consumers. Source : Weldonowen

Some area in Scotland and Japan switched to blue street light. As a result, crime and suicide rate in the area are decreasing. In year 2000, a blue street light was introduced in Glasgow, Scotland to improve the city landscape. The number of crime in the area are getting lower after that. Similar thing happen in Nara, Japan when the police started to set up blue street light around the neighborhood. The crime rate is reduced by 9 percent. The Japanese also switched the light on the ends of platforms at Gumyoji Station in Yokohama to blue. As a result, there are no new suicide attempt was reported. There might be several reasons for this, some of the reasons might include : The unusual color cause people to be a lot more alert and caution. Blue light might make people feel calmer compared to red and yellow. Blue light usually associate with police, making people feel like the area is watched more strictly by law enforcement units. It is still unknown if the crime and s...