AirMax Facts

Research says, men spend a year of their life staring at women🥀

These organic burial pods will turn your body into a tree after you die.

Capsula Mundi is an egg-shaped pod through which a buried co**se or ashes can provide nutrients to a tree planted above it.

A full body is placed in the fetal position and surrounded by natural cloth. That pod is placed in the ground for natural burial.

One of the benefit of this is that If a tree grows from the tree burial pod, that tree will absorb carbon dioxide, help filter pollutants from the air, and serve as a food source and home to wildlife🥀

Hypatia the Greek Philosopher Skinned Alive with Seashells

Hypatia was one of the most important intellectuals of Byzantine Empire in the 4th Century, and she was also a woman.

Her story is both inspiring and terrifying.

Hypatia was born around 355, when the Roman empire had just split, leaving Alexandria in a disconnected state of religious and social unrest.

Members of all religions - Christians, Jews, and pagans - were now living together in perpetual strife.

Over the next few decades, their constant clashes would wipe out even more of the library's contents as they struggled to define their new boundaries.

The Egyptian city of Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC - about 600 years before Hypatia was born.

Alexandria became a culturally sophisticated region of the world in a rather short amount of time.

It was not only a beautiful city, but it held the Library of Alexandria, which contained more than half a million ancient scrolls.

The city overflowed with artifacts and became a place where intellectualism could thrive, despite the ever-present degree of ignorance, slavery, violence, and religious strife.

Alexandria offered man the opportunity to pull himself from the muck of fear, and embrace something larger than himself through the power of thought.

And in the case of Hypatia, women as well.

Hypatia was a thinker of the highest order, a teacher, and an inventor - but she was also a pagan and was not afraid to speak her mind in a landscape of religious separatism, conflict, and fear.

Being a woman of intelligence, beauty, and strength could not save her from the shocking end she would meet at the hands of her own people.

During a dangerous time when science and religion were often pitted against one another, it was precisely her knowledge and fearlessness that would place a target 🥀

Voronia Cave, the closest point to the center of the Earth. One of Jules Verne's most desired dreams, as published in his novel “Journey to the Center of the Earth” in 1864, was to enter the interior of the Earth. Although the Veryovkina Cave will not take us to such depths, it does allow us to get as close as we know to the center of the planet. Veryovkina Cave, about 2212 meters deep, is the deepest cave in the world. It is located in the pass between the Krepost and Zont mountains in the region of Abkhazia, a self-declared independent state that is officially considered part of Georgia. In 1968 the cave was discovered by speleologists from the city of Krasnoyarsk, who were able to reach a depth of 115 meters. Already in 1986, a new group from Moscow and led by Oleg Parfenov managed to reach the considerable depth of 440 meters. Since 2015, a series of new incursions by the Perovo-Speleo group determined that the cave was deeper, reaching new and better marks repeatedly until reaching the record of 2,212 meters in March 2018 and recording an underground tunnel system of more than 6,000 meters🥀

A Prison cell in Norway

Hedviga Golik (1924–1966), was a resident of Zagreb, Croatia, who died of unknown natural causes alone in her apartment. Her body remained undisturbed for forty-two years until her remains were discovered when authorities broke into her house in an attempt to track down the current owner in May 2008🥀

While filming Rocky IV, Sylvester Stallone asked Dolph Lundgren to try to knock him out for real. Lundgren hit him so hard that he was sent to the hospital and was in the ICU for 9 days🥀

2,000 year old human torso of an Irish man that was found in a bog back in June of 2003.
The remains were naturally mummified and preserved so well that scientists were able to even determine his last meal after analyzing the contents of his stomach: wheat and buttermilk. For at least 4 months prior to his death, he was shown to have a meat rich diet. Based on the length of his arms, he was estimated to have been 6 ft 6 inches (1.98 m) tall which would have been extremely tall for that time period.

The man also had manicured nails which has led to speculation that he was not engaged in manual labor and was someone of high status. His body is currently on display at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin🥀

Charles B. Tripp, the armless man and Eli Bowen, the legless man, riding a tandem. ca. 1890s. While the pair posed for promotional photographs one of them spotted a tandem bicycle. In no time at all the two gents not only mounted the bicycle-built-for-two, but rode off together laughing as boys would. The photographer quickly snapped the pair mid-ride🥀

In 1996, an unidentified 3-year-old boy slipped away from his mother, climbed over a barrier, and fell into the Gorilla Enclosure.

Due to the 20 ft fall, the boy broke his hand and suffered a deep laceration to his face. Seven gorillas inhabited the enclosure. Gorillas are known to be fiercely territorial animals.

They will fight to the death to defend their families. However, one of the gorillas, called Binti Jua, meaning “daughter of sunshine” went over to the boy and cradled him in her arms, all while her own young child was on her back.

She then went over to the edge of the enclosure and waited for the zookeepers to come and collect the child. Binti handed the child over peacefully before returning to the rest of the gorillas. Binti received worldwide praise and received regular treats for the next few weeks.

The boy and the mother have never been identified, but the boy did stay in a hospital for 4 days.

Animal behavioral experts claim Binti used her maternal instincts to look after the child. This may have been influenced by the fact that she had her own baby Gorilla with her at the time🥀

A female European Honey Buzzard Bird was fitted with a satellite tracking system in Finland recently and was of particular interest to locals because it spent the most recent austral summer around the town of Reitz in the Free State in South Africa. She left Reitz to start heading north on 20 April and on the 2nd of June, she finally reached Finland where she will probably spend the boreal summer before probably returning again next season for a visit in South Africa.
Here is an image showing the data received from the tracker which plots out the route that she took to head north... so, in just 42 days, she covered over 10 000 km at an average of more than 230 km every single day! Isn’t that just amazing...?!"
What is amazing is how she took a straight line north except for when she had to fly over water. (or Sudan)
Apparently she turned right at the source of the Nile and followed it. It is still fascinating that after that deviation she returned to the same longitudinal line she started on and continued until she reached her destination. Nature truly is amazing 🥀

In England, it is not uncommon to see "wavy" brick walls. Interestingly, the design uses fewer bricks than a straight wall. A straight wall that is just one brick thick is not sturdy enough to stand alone & can be easily toppled, so they generally have a thickness of at least two or more layers of bricks, & are also . regular intervals with vertical posts serving as buttresses. But a wavy "one-brick" wall stands just fine on its own due to the arch support provided by its shape, which combines both wall & buttress. Such a structure is called a "crinkle crankle wall" "the Old English version of "zig zag."🥀

Tomorrow Island (Big Diomede) and Yesterday Island (Little Diomede).
The Diomede islands are just three miles apart but the bigger island is almost one day ahead of its smaller neighbour (21 hours) because they sit on either side of the International Date Line which passes through the Pacific Ocean and marks the boundary between one calendar day and the next.
They sit in the Bering Strait between mainland Alaska and Siberia. Big Diomede is located on the Russian side while Little Diomede is on the US side.
The ice bridge that forms between the two islands in winter makes it possible, although illegal, to walk the short distance between them and 'travel through time'🥀

"When we pick up the phone, we say 'Hello' But what is 'Hello'?

It is not a greeting but rather the name of a person.
It is 'Margaret Hello,' the fiancée of the telephone inventor 'Graham Bell.'
It was the first word he said in the initial test of his invention,
and it has been used since then as the opening of any phone call worldwide."🥀

The great mathematician Archimedes was killed by a Roman soldier? It happened despite orders that no harm was done to it, at the site of Syracuse (214-212 BC). C. ).
“Do not disturb my circles”
These would have been the last words of the Syracuse inventor Archimedes (c 287-212 BC). C. ) when after the fall of his city under Roman power, a legionary, of so many who roamed the defeated city, killed him in search of loot.
Archimedes was one of the most famous scientists of the ancient world. He's probably best known for his 'Eureka' shout when he noticed the water level in his bathtub rose when he got in it. Archimedes' greatest contribution to mathematics was his discovery of formulas for areas and volumes of spheres, cylinders, parables and other flat and solid figures.
The methods he used predicted theories of integration that developed 1800 years later. He was also a pioneer in the science of hydrostatic, the study of pressure and fluid balance. The Archimedes screw developed by him as a means to raise water is still used for irrigation purposes today.
This genius died accidentally because there was a warrant to capture him alive🥀

The research vessel RV Flip is the only vessel in the world capable of shifting from horizontal to vertical position in the middle of the ocean.
Flip is not a small ship, it is about 108 meters long and weighs 700 tons
Engineers designed it to be able to move to a vertical position with 90 degrees straight, so that the front of the ship at the top is 17 meters high (i.e. a 5-storey building high) while at the bottom is submerged 91 meters long, i.e. that most of the ship is submerged underwater which helps the ship's stability and resistance to waves, the transformation process takes about 30 minutes, in which the seawater is pumped into huge tanks in the back of the ship, which makes it sink into the water to become the ship in a vertical position, and this ship is considered one of the most important ships in the field of scientific research of seas and oceans🥀

Men waiting in a line for the possibility of a job during the Great Depression in 1929🥀

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A woman is held captive in a wooden crate and left to die of starvation in a remote desert in Mongolia, 1913. It was capital punishment for committing adultery. Stéphane Passet was touring Mongolia and taking pictures in 1913, when he came across the Mongolian woman in a box. In the photograph you can see two bowls on the ground for water and food. She was given food and water not on a daily basis but in a way to prolong her suffering. In order not to alter the balance of local laws and civilizations of Mongolia, or in another words get himself in trouble, Stéphane Passet Left the woman in the box🥀

A Chinese startup company announced the invention of a new battery, and confirmed that it is capable of generating energy for a period of up to 50 years without the need to replace or charge it, and Betavolt Technology, which is based in Beijing, explained that its nuclear battery is considered the first of its kind in the world.

It contains 63 nuclear isotopes integrated into a small unit no larger than a coin🥀
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Credit: Discovery science✍🏻

9 yeard old girl April, carries her family on her back (over 425 lbs) in Muscle Beach, Cal, 1945🥀

The reason why most staircases in medieval castles were built to be extremely narrow and spiraling in a clockwise direction is:

Since medieval castles were built mainly as fortifications, staircases were designed to make it extremely difficult for enemy combatants to fight their way up.

Since most soldiers were right-handed, they would need to round each curve of the inner wall before attempting to strike, inevitably exposing themselves in the process. The clockwise spiral staircase also allowed the defenders to use the inner wall as a partial shield and easily allow them to swing their weapon without being hindered by the curvature of the outer wall.

The stairs were also intentionally poorly lit and built to be uneven, making it even more difficult for the attackers to gain any sort of balance or momentum during their fight up to capture the castle🥀

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