Category: Trivia
Maria Ylagan Orosa: The Pinay chemist you should thank for banana ketchup (and so much more)
(Updated on August 16, 2021) On November 29, 1892, Filipina food technologist and pharmaceutical chemist Maria Ylagan Orosa was born. A…
FlipFact (October 22, 2019): Is the world’s largest caldera located in the Philippine Rise?
FlipFact of the Day: The world’s largest known caldera (a volcanic feature formed after a volcano erupts and collapses) may actually…
FlipFact (October 2, 2019): Does the color red really make bulls angry?
FlipFact of the Day: The color red doesn’t make bulls angry. In fact, they’re color-blind to it. It’s not the…
FlipFact (October 1, 2019): What Diwata-1, the Philippines’ first microsatellite, has been doing in space
FlipFact of the Day: Diwata-1 has taken thousands of images from space, all of which are free and accessible to…
FlipFact (September 30, 2019): How Europe used chicken heads to outfox its rabies problem
FlipFact of the Day: Europe once had a massive rabies problem… which they solved by air-dropping vaccine-loaded chicken heads to…
FlipFact (September 29, 2019): Does coffee really help you sober up when you’re drunk?
FlipFact of the Day: Contrary to conventional wisdom, coffee can’t sober you up when you’re drunk. While coffee does have…
FlipFact (September 28, 2019): Did Agapito Flores invent the fluorescent lamp?
FlipFact of the Day: Agapito Flores did NOT invent the fluorescent lamp. Despite what your old science textbook may have…
FlipFact (September 27, 2019): The fluffy mystery of Ōkunoshima
FlipFact of the Day: There is an island in Japan full of rabbits. There is a small island in Japan…
FlipFact (September 26, 2019): What was Operation Teapot?
FlipFact of the Day: In 1955, the United States conducted Operation Teapot, in which they set off nuclear bombs near…
Which living structure is visible from outer space?
FlipFact of the Day: The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s biggest structure made of living organisms, and can be…
