Recognizing These Natural Disaster Warning Signs Will Save Your Life

There is an extremely high chance that they will either punch a hole through the ice with their foot, or they’ll just fall right through and get drenched. Help your friends out, try to prevent them from making dumb decisions.

Choppy Waters

Although keeping yourself out of dangerous situations is easiest when you physically avoid them, but if you must swim in the ocean on a day where the conditions are suboptimal, at least heed these warnings. Keep an eye out for long stretches of disturbed water, especially on days where the waves are rolling into each other. If you do see a channel of disturbed water stretching out past the shoreline, stay out of the water. 

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The More You Know

  • In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart attack mid-race but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.
  • A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time.
  • Grasshopper Mice have evolved to turn scorpion venom into a pain-killer. They now prey on scorpions.
  • The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
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