It’s (Supposedly) Over! Chicken Are Older than Eggs!

According to a recent research, the chicken came before the egg. This statement is supported by the results of the research. In order to have an eggshell, there is an absolute need of the protein named ovocleidin-17. It is an element found in the animal’s ovaries and without it there is no possible way to create an egg. The production of this protein is crucial to the creation of chick and their preservation before hatching. Thus, it is highly improbable to have an egg without a hen. Generally speaking, we still don’t know how a chicken could come out of somewhere else but an egg, so the eternal question still remains alive…

At least we now have some kind of an argument for one of the two points of view.
However, eggs have existed long before the hen and rooster. Reptiles such as dinosaurs even could be distant relatives, ancient forefathers of the current chicken, but we can’t be certain. For all the good reasons, the dilemma will live on, at least one more year.

Australians used to name their hurricanes after politicians they disliked

This tradition is said to have been started by a meteorologist by the name of Clement Wragge, who is often considered to be the father of modern meteorology. „Inclement“ Wragge, as he was often called, was the first person to do real weather forecasting „down under“. He was very outspoken and expressed his disapproval for certain politicians by naming tropical cyclones after them in his forecasts! This also marks the first time that names were used to classify weather systems.

Starting in 1953, the United States began naming tropical storms, which initially were all named after women. They later caved into pressure from feminists groups in 1979 to use men’s names as well. Currently, the duty of naming hurricanes and tropical storms is given to the World Meteorological Organization, an agency of the United Nations. The current system uses an alphabetical list. There is a storm name chosen for each letter of the alphabet, and as hurricane season progresses they go from an „A“ name to a „B“ name and so on. The WMO has 4 lists and reuses a list of names every 4 years. The more famous storm names are retired from their respective lists (thus, there was no „Tropical Storm Katrina“ in 2009).

The technical term for the pins and needles feeling you get when part of your body „falls asleep“ is ‘paresthesia’

This word comes from the base words ‘para’, which means “altered” or “abnormal”, and ‘aisthesis’, meaning “perception”. Most people are familiar with this sensation – it commonly occurs when a person has slept on their arm or left their legs crossed for too long. The feeling is caused by sustained pressure on a nerve. Paresthesia is typically fleeting, but if it lasts a long time or occurs frequently a medical condition is likely to blame. Chronic paresthesia can be caused by a neurological disease or traumatic nerve damage.