1. Mosquitoes love cheese
Bart Knols in the Lancet published a 1996 research on “Human Odor, Malaria Mosquitoes, Limburger Cheese”. This research shows that Anopheles.gambiae has a keen preference for biting human ankles and feet. These mosquitoes also liked Limburger cheese, according to the research. This cheese is a sour fromage with many similarities to the smell of human feet. This cheese is a clear example of many things, doesn’t it?
2. Do woodpeckers get headaches?
Ivan Schwab, an eye doctor, published a paper in 2002 that detailed the psychological characteristics of woodpeckers. These traits helped them to avoid damage to their brains, bleeding, detached eyes, and brain injury when they hammer into trees at 20 times per second, 12,000x per day.
3. Which flea jumps higher? Which flea can jump higher?
Fleas have the ability to leap high and excel in all aspects of animal life. Researchers from France’s Ecole Nationale Veterinaire de Toulouse did a thorough research to find which species would prevail over the cat- and dog-friendly varieties. The research carefully recorded the leaping efforts by a variety of flea species. Research shows that dogs are more agile than cats. Fleas in dogs can be more severe than those in cats.
4. Beer bottle Vs Human skull
A University of Bern research team answered the bizarre question: “Are empty beer bottles more sturdy than full ones? And does their fracture threshold break the skull?” They concluded that a full beer bottle would have 70% more energy than an empty.
5. The propulsion parameters for penguin poop
Victor Benno MeyerRochow set out to answer the following question: What is the internal pressure that penguins create for poop firing? He published his 2003 paper, “Pressures caused by penguins poops – Calculations on avian waste disposal”. The researchers were able find out that penguins could use pressures up 60 kPa (kilopascals) to expel their bodily waste.
6. The beauty of beautiful humans is what chickens want
Magnus Enquist, Liselotte Jasson, Stefano Ghirlanda and Liselotte Zilda answered a question likely never asked before in 2002. How beautiful are chickens? They found that 6 chickens trained in the art of showing male and feminine faces ranged from average to extreme. The same test was later administered to a group 14 (human) students. Surprisingly this experiment confirmed human sexual preferences. It was also shown that preferences for human sexual pleasure are not based on facial adaptations. They are a result of general nervous system properties.
7. It is possible for bad memories to be erased and good memories to be kept
Are you familiar with the film Eternal sunshine for the spotless mind? It is a similar story. In 2013, Miller along with his team published, “Selective, Retrieval-Independent Disruption of Methamphetamine-Associated Memory by Actin Depolymerization”. By inhibiting the formation in brain of a certain molecule, bespoke amnesia could be attained in mice. It is possible to eliminate bad memories in the near future.
8. Nature of navel fluff
Georg Steinhauser, a researcher and chemist published in 2009 a paper called The Nature of Navel Fluff. He collected 503 samples of navelfluff. The hair takes small fibers out of clothes and channels them to their belly button. We now know where all that “fluff” comes!
9. The effects that cocaine has on honeybees
Gene Robinson, an Entomology and Neuroscience Professor, presented a 2009 paper entitled “Effects from cocaine on honeybees dancing behavior”. These papers revealed that honeybees with mildly altered behavior by low doses were able to make behavioral changes. These levels caused bees exuberant dancing and increased food intake. They exaggerated their bounty.
10. Fruit bat fellatio
This topic was explored by a group from the UK and China in 2009. Fruit bats can prolong the time it takes to conceive. Female bats weren’t passive during copulation. They performed oral sex. The interesting thing about this discovery was the fact that fellatio is a longer-lasting method of sex.
11. Gay dead duck sex
Erwin Schrodinger, an Austrian scientist, pointed out the absurdity in newly discovered quantum theories in 1935. He was sixty-six years later. A Dutch ornithologist observed a male duck performing a 75 minute rape on a dead male duck. The duck had been flung into a glass window. “First case of homosexual necrophilia among mallard Anas platyrhynchos”
Kees Moeliker’s strange experience.
12. Are taxi drivers more intelligent than other drivers?
London’s blackcab drivers need to undergo at least three years of preparation in order to pass the final exam. Eleanor Maguire decided to investigate the memory feet. In 2000, Maguire’s study found that taxi drivers had larger anterior hippocampi. This area is responsible for spatial recall. A second study by Dr. Katherine Woollett showed that trained taxi drivers are better at recalling landmarks.
13. Robots can have sex and love
This thesis was written by Daniel levy, a British international master of Chess. He also earned a PhD. He believed that human-robot love and marriage, as well as consummation, would become “inevitable” before 2050. His thesis covered topics such as sociology. Psychology. Artificial intelligence. Robotics.
14. Penile zipper entrapment can be avoided with a better method
This painful topic was researched by Dr. Satish Chaudra Mishra, Charak Palika Hospital, New Delhi. He discovered that most common methods to fix this problem were too complicated or took too much time. His research paper revealed that the safest, fastest, most painful, and least expensive method to undo this problem is to use wire cutters with a pair of scissors.
15. Rectal foreign bodies
James R. Starling and Dr. David B. Busch, both from Madison, Wisconsin, conducted research on the topic. They examined two cases involving patients who had self-inserted a variety of anal objects. They found 182 foreign body parts that could be considered harmful. These were dull knives or saws. In 1995, the Ig Nobel Prize was awarded to this research for its literary merit.
