Science & Some Stuff
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth’s atmosphere
Nitrogen
Sailors in the 1800s told tales of this sea monster said to glow with eerie blue light and surface only before shipwrecks though no modern record of it exists.
Kaken
This 1973 sighting in Pascagoula, Mississippi, involved two men claiming they were taken aboard a “craft” by robotlike aliens with wrinkled gray skin
Pascagoula Abduction
In this country, it's considered polite to remove your shoes before entering someone’s home
Japan
In this country, people celebrate National Doughnut Day on the first Friday of June
Murica Fek Yea
Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic are the three main types of these natural materials
Rock
In 1977, astronomers detected a powerful narrowband radio signal from deep space that lasted 72 seconds and was labeled with this exclamation by the scientist who found it
Wow! Signal!
This South American country’s government released over 12,000 pages of UFO files, including reports of strange lights and unexplained craft in the sky
Chile
In this European country, people celebrate the New Year by jumping off chairs at midnight to "leap into the new year"
dENMAark
In Japan, this "dog festival" celebrates man's best friend with parades and costumes every August
Wan Wan Festival
When you cook pasta, this scientific process occurs as starch granules absorb water and swell, making the pasta soft.
Gelatinization (Technically it is Jello)
This Siberian crater, first discovered in 1949, is believed to be caused by a series of mysterious explosions from beneath the ground and is still expanding.
Patomskiy Crater
This famous 1947 incident in New Mexico sparked decades of UFO conspiracy theories.
Roswell crash
In a town in Italy, there's an annual festival where locals throw this pungent food at each other for fun
garlic
In this European country, people throw old furniture out of their windows to celebrate New Year's Eve
Italia
This phenomenon describes how light from distant galaxies shifts toward the red end of the spectrum as they move away from us
Redlight (No not glowing indians)
Written in the 15th century and discovered in the 1960s, this parchment describes a hidden treasure of immense value but has never been verified or recovered
Copper Scroll (Dead Sea Scroll)
This 1980 phenomenon involved radar operators at an Italian airport tracking unknown objects in the sky, baffling scientists for weeks
Mantell UFO incident
In this country, there's a tradition called "spooning the baby," where locals toss infants gently onto mattresses from a small height as part of a blessing ritual
India (Don't literally spoon children please)
In England, people race live ducks down a track every summer in a small festival called
THE GREAT DUCK RACE
This theoretical boundary marks the limit beyond which nothing not even light can escape the gravitational pull of a black hole.
Event Horizon
This mysterious book, written in an undeciphered script and filled with strange plant drawings, remains one of history’s greatest cryptographic puzzles
Voynich Manuscript
This area, sometimes called the "UFO triangle" in South America is notorious for frequent unexplained aerial phenomena
Brazil Colares
In this Southeast Asian country, it's considered extremely rude to point your feet at people or religious objects, and many temples provide special slippers to visitors
Thailand (Anti Feet people)
This Spanish festival involves throwing thousands of tomatoes at each other annually in August
La Tomatina