CogniVerse Explorers

11/11/2023

10/11/2023

Freshwater snails are one of the world's most deadly animals because they transmit the organism that causes schistosomiasis (aka bilharzia), which is, in and of itself, one of the deadliest parasites on the planet. In 2014, nearly 230 million people were infected, with 200,000 deaths each year.

10/11/2023

Many of the cookies consumed during the Victorian era were funeral cookies. These cookies were fed to mourners after dough was allowed to rise on the chest of the deceased. It was believed that the dough "absorbed" the qualities of deceased.

09/11/2023

Laurence Tureaud named himself professionally as Mr. T because he hated how his father, uncle, and brother who returned from Vietnam, were disrespectfully called "boy" by whites. He wanted the first word from everybody's mouth to be "Mister" when speaking to him.

07/11/2023

One person in four is a 'supertaster', who experience the sensation of tasting more intensely. Supertasters have a high density of taste cells on their tongue but are likely to have a distaste for beer.

05/11/2023

The youngest person ever to be diagnosed with early-onset dementia was just 6 years old. She died at the age of 21.

05/11/2023

05/11/2023

American astronauts on the ISS can vote in elections from orbit by secure email.