Recognizing These Natural Disaster Warning Signs Will Save Your Life

This will show the predator that you are not an easy meal, and it will likely back away. However, the best course of action is to always carry bear spray with you if you’re hiking in an area that is known to have predatory bears in it. 

Dying Canaries

A surprisingly accurate way to determine if an area is safe to be in is whether a canary can enter and exit without either passing out or dying. This is pretty unethical, but this was how miners were able to determine whether there were natural gas deposits in places where they were excavating. 

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The More You Know

  • In 1966 and 1967, soldiers testing Agent Orange in Canada were told the chemical was completely safe and sprayed it on each other to cool off.
  • The word "muscle" comes from a Latin term meaning "little mouse."
  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
  • Martin Luther King Jr. had a C in public speaking.
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