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unusual facts about humans



AI-complete

Machine translation, therefore, is believed to be AI-complete: it may require strong AI to be done as well as humans can do it.

Algaemia

In humans, it has been observed to be caused by Prototheca wickerhamii.

Allan Blair

Allan Walker Blair (1900 – 1947) was a professor at the University of Alabama's medical school who is best known for allowing himself to be bitten by a black widow spider in order to investigate the toxicity of its venom in humans.

Bar jack

Archaeological evidence from San Salvador Island in the Bahamas demonstrates this species has long been targeted by humans for food, with the native Indians of the region often taking the bar jack for consumption, although it was of lesser importance than reef fishes such as parrotfishes and groupers.

Beyond the Stars

This science fiction drama centers on Eric, teenage son of a computer scientist who worked for the Apollo program which sent the first humans to the moon.

Black softshell turtle

Originally native to the lower Brahmaputra River, the only population ever reliably known consists of 150-300 turtles in a manmade pond which is part of the Hazrat Sultan Bayazid Bastami (also transliterated "Bostami" or "Bustami") shrine at Chittagong, where they are dependent on humans for survival.

Captive Primate Safety Act

Rep. Rob Bishop argued against the bill during the floor debate, noting it would cost $4 million annually and do nothing directly to prevent chimpanzee attacks on humans; he also noted such attacks are relatively rare.

Confirmation code

CAPTCHA - a computing scheme used to identity an entity as a human being and not a program, employing the current differences in text recognition capability between humans and computers.

Cyclin A

A single cyclin A gene has been identified in Drosophila while Xenopus, mice and humans contain two distinct types of cyclin A: A1, the embryonic-specific form, and A2, the somatic form.

Dermatophilus congolensis

Dermatophilus congolensis is a gram positive bacterium and is the etiologic agent of a disease called Dermatophilosis (sometimes called Mud fever) in animals and humans, a dermatologic condition that manifests itself with the formation of crusty scabs that contain the microorganism.

Disc protrusion

A disc protrusion is a disease condition which can occur in some vertebrates, including humans, in which the outermost layers of the annulus fibrosus of the intervertebral discs of the spine are intact, but bulge when one or more of the discs are under pressure.

Earthsearch II

When rejected by the suspicious humans, the Angels resort to sabotage on a planetary scale, using terraforming equipment from the Challenger to melt Paradise's polar ice caps and thus raise the sea level in an attempt to get their former crew to rejoin them on the ship.

Empire of Ivory

Scarcely has this realization set in that the Aerial Corps are beset by Tswana humans and dragons; the British beasts, who have been sent back to the Cape with their precious cargo, are unable to prevent their aircrews from being captured, and Rev. Erasmus' attempts to intercede only lead to his death, as the Lunda are known slavers.

Hart Park virus

Symptoms specific to the HP virus in humans have not been conclusive, however; symptoms of RNA viruses include: hepatitis, encephalitis, mild fever, and hemorrhagic fever.

Henry Harpending

In The 10,000 Year Explosion, which he co-authored with Gregory Cochran, Harpending suggests a common belief that human genetic adaptation stopped 40,000 years ago is incorrect and that humans evolved increasingly rapidly in response to the new challenges presented by agriculture and civilization.

HHV

Herpesviridae, a family of DNA viruses that cause diseases in humans and animals

Invasive species of Australian origin

The Australian magpie was introduced into New Zealand and are considered to be a pest because of attacks on humans and a possible effect on the native bird population.

Jazz from Hell

"G-Spot Tornado", assumed by Zappa to be impossible to play by humans, would be performed by Ensemble Modern on the concert recording The Yellow Shark.

Jus gentium

The 2nd-century Roman jurist Ulpian, however, divided law into three branches: natural law, which existed in nature and governed animals as well as humans; the law of nations, which was distinctively human; and civil law, which was the body of laws specific to a people.

Kurd Lasswitz

His first published science fiction story was "Bis zum Nullpunkt des Seins" ("To the Zero Point of Existence", 1871), depicting life in 2371, but he earned his reputation with his 1897 novel Two Planets, which describes an encounter between humans and a Martian civilization that is older and more advanced.

Limitations of animal running speed

Some terrestrial animals are built for achieving extremely high speeds, such as the cheetah, race horse and greyhound, while humans can train to achieve high sprint speeds.

Loa loa filariasis

Humans contract this disease through the bite of a Deer fly or Mango fly (Chrysops spp), the vectors for Loa loa.

Mangar

Mangar-kunjer-kunja, a lizard god who created humans in the Australian aboriginal mythology of the Aranda people

Mega Man Legends 2

Mega Man stumbles upon Yuna, who then gives some reminder about his former life and explains to him the terrible catastrophe she was trying to prevent: Sera's plans for the execution of the "Carbon Reinitialization Program", meant to kill every human from Terra and revive the original humans.

Miriam Sharpe

In the weeks following the Stamford disaster she managed to create a support base that would gather hundreds to march on the White House, influence super-humans and eventually convince congress and the president to pass the superhuman registration act.

N-Acetylgalactosamine

In humans it is the terminal carbohydrate forming the antigen of blood group A.

Nightbane

Doppelgangers: Supernaturally strong copies of humans, they dwell in the Nightlands and live their lives in a haze unless something awakens them.

Nirṛti

In Roger Zelazny's novel Lord of Light, set on a world where humans with vastly advanced technology have set themselves up as the gods of Hinduism, Nirriti the Black is one of their enemies.

Omo Kibish Formation

"It pushes back the beginning of anatomically modern humans", says geologist Frank Brown, a co-author of the study and dean of the University of Utah's College of Mines and Earth Sciences.

Origin: Spirits of the Past

Three hundred years later, Japan is a dystopia covered by the Forest, a huge expanse of sapient trees, and ruled by the tree-like Zruids, which inhabit the planet and control the water supply of both trees and humans.

Oscar Kiss Maerth

Oscar Kiss Maerth (1914-1990) was the author of The Beginning Was the End (1971), a pseudo-scientific book which claims that modern humans are descended from a species of cannibalistic apes.

Perversion

Clinically exploring 'a richly diversified collection of erotic endowments and inclinations: hermaphroditism, pedophilia, sodomy, fetishism, exhibitionism, sadism, masochism, coprophilia, necrophilia' among them, Freud concluded that 'all humans are innately perverse'.

Racial separatism

Racial segregation, separation of humans into racial groups in daily life

Road Hogs

Most of the civilized mutants and humans are located in what was previously known as Sacramento, California.

Spectrophilia

Ghost hunters such as the Ghost Adventures Crew have come across several claims of sexual encounters between ghosts and humans.

Sqoon

Aliens who rule the planet Neptune realize that they have run out of their primary source of nutrition, "man-ham livestock," and decide to invade Earth to feed off the humans.

Star General

The seven races include the deceitful Cephalians, the reptilian Dragonians, the feline Hressa, the Humans, the barbarian Khalians, the insectoid Xritra, and fascist human separatists who belong to the Schleinel Hegemony.

Starhyke

The show begins in the year 3034 when humans have become emotionless drones bent on expansion by destroying any alien species they encounter.

Sydney funnel-web spider

However, it remains, together with the northern tree funnel-web, the only Australian funnel-web spider known to have inflicted fatal bites to humans.

Symbolism of terrorism

David Freedberg, argues that humans react to images not simply on a cognitive level, but on an emotional one.

The Farewell Sermon

Man is born from Adam (Adem) and Eve, Muhammad said, and both of these parents, and all of humans, are made of dust, and in this right, no one person is better than the other.

To Mars and Providence

As a side effect, some Martians developed the capability to engage in astral projection, and made contact with the other two races of the system: Humans on Earth, and a "fungoid race" on a distant planet.

TSP-1

Thrombospondin 1, a protein that in humans in encoded by the THBS1 gene

Tymbrimi

The Tymbrimi were the first species discovered by humans, on the slow ship Vesarius.

Ugwuele

Ugwuele is an Igbo community in Uturu, Isuikwuato Local Government Area, Abia State in Nigeria which houses a stone age site that provides evidence that humans inhabited the region as far back as 250,000 years ago.

Vazirani

Vaziranis are basically Hindu-Sindhis and worship Lord Jhulelal, an Avatar born according to divine message depicted to humans through Bhagvad Gita to protect Hindu-Sindhis.

Vegetarianism in the Romantic Era

Taking a lead from Pythagoras's Golden Rule of doing to others as would be done to oneself, a shift was made away from asserting human dominance over nature and in turn led to the notion that humans have no rights to nature as it is common to all creatures.

Vpx

Vpx enhances HIV-2 replication in humans by counteracting the host factor SAMHD1.

World Mosquito Day

World Mosquito Day, observed annually on 20 August, is a commemoration of British doctor Sir Ronald Ross's discovery in 1897 that female mosquitoes transmit malaria between humans.

Zardip's Search for Healthy Wellness

He takes the form of a boy and ventures to Earth to report the habits of humans to his home planet.


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