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If you had five mango and two bananas in one hand and two mango and four bananas in the other hand. what would you have? Solution: Very large hands. Why is 6 so much afraid of 7 ?

1. THEY MAKE US DIFFERENT The human hand is almost unique in the animal kingdom, only apes’ hands have a similar structure. And, one of the things to know about your hands is the thing that sets us (and the apes) apart from other animals with paws/hands: our opposable thumbs.  This means that our thumbs and fingers can work together, enabling us to do a huge number of far more complicated and sophisticated things with our hands than other species. (P.S. Koala bears also have opposable thumbs.) 2. DEM BONES, DEM BONES There are 27 bones in the human hand. There are also numerous tiny sesamoid bones – which differ in number person to person – that appear in the hand’s tendons. Of the 27 bones, 8 are the carpals (the wrist bones), 5 metacarpals which connect the fingers to the wrist and the 14 phalanges of the thumb and fingers. To make them all knit together, there are 29 joints and at least 123 named ligaments. 3. PALM READING The palm and the skin on the und

Flight attendant training doesn't get tougher than this - as female stewards undergo military training including WRESTLING and hauling logs.

A principal has been suspended after rapper Fetty Wap recorded a music video featuring drug references and a pole dancer at a New Jersey high school, according to a report.

A seagull was dyed bright orange after he plunged into a vat of chicken tikka masala at a food factory in Wales.

Scientists have discovered that snails solve complex decisions using just two brain cells, in a discovery that could help engineers develop energy efficient robots. By attaching electrodes to the brain circuitry of freshwater snails that were on the hunt for food, researchers learned the molluscs used only two neurons when they found a tasty lettuce. Scientists discovered that snails used controller and motivator neurons to feed back information to each other to decide whether or not to eat. The first brain cell let it know it had discovered food and the second cell decided whether it was hungry. But if no food was in front of the snail this part of its brain circuitry shut down, saving energy. University of Sussex Professor George Kemenes, who led the research, said "What goes on in our brains when we make complex behavioral decisions and carry them out is poorly understood. "Our study reveals for the first time how just two neurons can create a m

Here’s your new study routine: Hit the books. Wait a little while. Then, hit the gym. New research suggests that physical exercise can help people retain information if it happens at the right time  namely, a few hours after you learn the info, when new memories are getting stabilized in your brain. The study’s authors, who include researchers from Scotland’s University of Edinburgh and the Netherlands’ Radboud University, divided 72 people into groups and then had them all complete a memory task. Immediately afterward, one group of participants were asked to exercise on spinning bikes for half an hour.  Another group were asked to wait four hours and then exercise. A third group weren’t asked to exercise at all. Two days later, the participants returned to the lab for a follow-up memory test. The people who’d waited four hours and then exercised performed about 10 percent better on this new test than people in the other groups. The boost in memory was