»> No one knows for sure how the habit came about, but experts say it was part of Greek culture 4,000 years ago. One of the possible explanations would be the fact that the ancient Greeks believed that noise drove…
No and yes. From the 1st World War (1914-1918) there was no one left. From the 2nd War (1939-1945), however, around 5.2 million former participants still live. The last survivor of the first conflict, the British Florence Green, died at…
No, this story that elephants would have a kind of sanctuary, a quiet place to which they would go before dying, is just a legend. There are several theories for the origin of the myth. The most accepted was prepared…
Every toilet – let’s talk beautiful, every toilet – depends on two basic components to rinse our stamped porcelain. The first is the siphon – a curved tube that controls the water level in the vase, preventing it from drying…
»> No! They do this mainly to call their group to the hunt. It happens that they howl much more frequently on full moon nights because the moonlight is a highly favorable condition for locating their prey. After the hunt,…
Because clothes look better on tall, skinny bodies. At least that’s what the stylists and the majority of their shop’s customers believe. Have you ever noticed that every woman dreams of being taller and thinner? Therefore, nothing better than showing…
The most likely is that the fight was created in China, with the name of to-de, and has a common ancestor with wushu (or kung fu). But it was in 15th century Japan, more specifically on the island of Okinawa,…
The greater the density of a material, the more effective it is as a shield against X-rays. And among high-density metals, lead is one of the cheapest. To give you an idea, molybdenum, which has almost the same density as…
Means “District of Columbia” (District of Columbia). “Columbia” is an old US nickname inspired by Christopher Columbus. In the end, “District of Columbia” is just a prettier name for Federal Districtsince the status of “district”, in practice, designates the same…
If these three animals bet a race, the slug would certainly come in last place. According to the American biologist Branley Allan Branson, from the Kentucky Academy of Sciences, the “record” speed ever recorded in research for a slug is…