Hey there, everyone!

I am here to announce a new thing I will be doing this year called "Learn-A-Week 2013", where every week of this year I will be posting a new random fact so that people may be able to learn interesting facts they never knew before and become smarter!

I will also be doing a theme for each month so as to make better organization of my facts.

I hope that you will all enjoy my Learn-A-Week 2013!


Month 1: Food Month
Week 1: Apple cores contain seeds called "pips", and you must never ingest these seeds, for they contain the poison cyanide, which can lead to vomiting.
Week 2: The pips of a cherry contain a dangerous substance called "hydrogen cyanide", and ingestion of the pips may lead to vomiting, breathing difficulties, and kidney failure.
Week 3: Jell-O is actually made from animal bones, specifically cow and pig bones, and hooves, all of which are boiled down and dissolved to form the gelatin mold.
Week 4: Brazil nuts are the most radioactive food on the planet, containing concentrations of radium 1000 times higher than any average food.
Month 2: Plant Month
Week 1: Hydnellum Peckii is a type of fungus found in North America, Europe, and several Asian countries. Also called the "bleeding tooth fungus", this plant secretes a bright red juice out of its body.
Week 2: Welwitschia Mirabilis is a type of desert plant that can live for over one thousand years. It is found in the African countries of Namibia and Angola.
Week 3: Actaea Pachypoda, or "white baneberry", is an eastern North America plant whose berries resemble eyeballs, with the berries being highly poisonous. The "eyeball berries" also give this plant the name "doll's eyes".
Week 4: The Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest individual flower in the world, and it emits an incredibly foul smell; comparable to the smell of rotting flesh, which is how it obtained the nickname "corpse flower".
Month 3: Health Month
Week 1: Despite what you may have heard over the years, you should never hold your head back whilst having a nosebleed. This is because the blood from your nose can go into your stomach, which can make you sick and even throw up. So, remember to always hold your head forwards instead of backwards when having a nosebleed.
Week 2: If you chew your food slowly while eating, it is possible for you to lose weight faster, because taking your time to chew, taste, and swallow your food makes it so your stomach can send signals to your brain faster, letting your brain know when it has had enough to eat.
Week 3: The human body is home to 1,000 different species of bacteria, and even though that may sound revolting, it's nothing to fret over, as a person's body builds up immunity to these diseases, so they will not cause harm to your body.
Week 4: To keep from digesting itself, your stomach coats itself with a layer of mucous every two weeks, which is immune to the dissolving effects of stomach acid.
Week 5: Whenever you flush a toilet, make sure to put the lid down first, because if the lid is up, germs can be sent flying six feet away every time the toilet is flushed!
Month 4: Disease Month
Week 1: Colds are not actually caused by cold weather; they are only more common during cold weather because people stay inside more often.
Week 2: Anthrax affects both animals and humans, and comes in different strains, so symptoms can range from vomiting blood to extreme difficulties with breathing. There exists effective treatments and vaccines for this disease, with the first effective vaccine being created by Louis Pasteur in 1881.
Week 3: The disease called Malaria is a type of disease that is transferred through mosquitoes, as the insects carry the disease in their bodies, and when they suck the blood of a host, the disease is transferred through the mosquito's proboscis and enters the bloodstream of the host. It causes around 1 million deaths annually.
Week 4: Influenza(more commonly known as "The Flu") in an infectious disease of birds and mammals caused by influenza viruses. Symptoms include coughing, chest pains, fever, sore throat, fatigue, and general discomfort. It causes up to half a million deaths annually, and in 1918, a variation of influenza called "The Spanish Flu", killed between 60 and 100 million people across the world.
Month 5: Weather Month
Week 1: Despite popular belief, lightning can indeed strike in the same place twice, and even during the same storm. The top of the Empire State Building alone is struck by lightning around 100 times a year.
Week 2: Mammatus Clouds are vastly elongated cloud formations, taking on curvaceous, lumpy, or smooth shapes and can extend for hundreds of miles. They are often indicators of severe weather that will follow in their wake.
Week 3: Catatumbo Lightning is a strange atmospheric phenomenon that only occurs over the mouth of the Catatumbo River, where the river empties into Lake Maracaibo. There are lightning flashes appear almost nonstop, going on all year long, and there can be up to 200 flashes per minute.
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