It’s time to dust off your umbrella, the interior is in for a mostly rainy week.

Fun Fact of the day: The ill-fated RMS Titanic only had three functioning smokestacks.

Out of the luxury liner’s four smokestacks, only three were actually connected to the boiler room exhaust.

As liners of the steam era became larger, more boilers were used and more funnels were needed. Eventually the number of funnels became symbolic of speed, safety and power. On this premise shipping companies sometimes added false funnels.

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Alberta-based Ebus expects to begin daily bus trips in October connecting the Shuswap to Kamloops, Kelowna and the Lower Mainland.

Video of the day:

Take a good look at the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom, the fascinating peepers of the Mantis Shrimp! Mounted on mobile stalks, each eye can move independently of each other. The shrimps eyes have between 12-16 types of photoreceptor cells ⁠— humans have just 3.

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Take a good look.👀 You are staring into the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom and the most complex visual system ever discovered.🦐 The eyes of a mantis shrimp are mounted on mobile stalks and can move independently of each other. Each eye has between 12-16 types of photoreceptor cells ⁠– humans have just 3. Referred to as 'spectral tuning' the shrimp is able to tune the sensitivity of their long-wavelength color vision to adapt to their environment; allowing it to perceive wavelengths of light ranging from deep ultraviolet (UVB) to far-red (300 to 720 nm) and polarized light. In addition to their legendary eyes, a mantis shrimp can punch with a speed equal to a bullet. This enables them to break open mollusks and dismember other crustaceans. You don't need a watch dog, you need a Mantis Shrimp. #WildlifeWednesday 🌎 . . . . . #Science #ocean #shrimp #oceanlife #facts #learning #didyouknow #themoreyouknow #wow #videooftheday #atlantic #sealife #environment #nature #biology #exploration #satisfyingvideos

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