(Playback/Playback) Because distributing the pointers in this way gives the impression of what the watch is smiling – and that would supposedly help sales of the product. Also, by setting 10:10, you hands form a frame, leading the consumer’s gaze…
Before being produced on an industrial scale, starting in 1959, skateboards were manufactured at home, with children and teenagers fitting skate wheels onto boards and crates. In the 1960s, the toy became a national craze in the US and was…
The navigator Fernão de Magalhães was the first non-native to land in present-day Oceania – more specifically in the Mariana Islands –, in 1521. But the Portuguese only stopped by to collect supplies and died, in the same year, in…
First they find their prey with the help of a kind of internal radar and then they bite their skin with sharp teeth. Of the more than 1,100 known species of bats, only three feed on blood: the common vampire…
In this list put together by the FBI, the Federal Investigation Agency of the United States, there are terrorists, murderers, drug dealers, rapists… In short, only nice people. If you think that a good bandit is a dead bandit, you…
The big differences are the influences of native and foreign languages, which result in particular words and expressions. Brazilian Portuguese is influenced by indigenous languages and the languages of immigrants, such as Arabic and Italian. In Mozambique, Portuguese is marked…
It is the crime of lying before a judge in a court of law. In Brazil, it is called false testimony, as stated in Article 342 of the Penal Code, which says it is illegal to “make a false statement,…
Laika, the first animal to enter orbit Dogs, monkeys, turtles and even spiders and flies have had the privilege of taking a walk in space. The adventure of these, and many other animals, rendered a great service to humanity. They…
It’s no surprise: team contact sports, such as soccer, are more violent than team sports without direct contact, such as volleyball. But there is no ranking that measures the level of violence in each of these contact sports. However, a…
»> The normal color of the sea is blue because that is the hue that sand particles and the most common microorganisms on its surface reflect when hit by sunlight (composed of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet…