1. Children are increasingly taking breaks from screens and smartphones to better manage their mental health, personal safety and concentration spans. 📲 The number of 12-to-15 year olds doing has risen from 18% to 40% since 2022.
2. The lettuce sea slug can steal chloroplast from the plants they eat, mount them on their backs, and essentially, like plants, live on pure sunlight! ☀️⛅️🌅
3. Bees can see ultraviolet light, and Salmons can smell the river in which they were born. 🐝🐝
4. The "Black and Tans" were a British paramilitary force recruited into the Royal Irish Constabulary during the Irish War of Independence.
5. They were notorious for their brutality and violence against the Irish civilian population and the Irish Republican Army.
6. When Ireland was liberated, they were deployed to British Mandate Palestine to subjugate Palestinians - do to them what they had done to Ireland - and protect The Jewish Population.
7. Petrichor, the smell of after-rain, means ‘the blood of the gods.’ Said to give life to inanimate object, this is what rain does; it turns sand to soil, bringing dust to life. 🌧️
8. Camels can smell water for 50 miles away. 🐪🐫
9. There are almost 150 miles of recreational sandy beaches in the country, but only five miles are accessible to ordinary Jamaicans. The rest is owned by the hotel resorts built on the beach front. 🏝️🏖️
10. The beaches are still vested - owned and controlled by the British Crown. 🤬