The Subjects of Louis IX the King of France were branded with a hot iron as a sign of loyalty.
In one year an average man consumes around 1000 kilograms of food and drinks.
In Italy, 95 liters per year of non-carbonated bottled water is drunk per capita, making it the first country in the world in that category.
Chickens in China annually lay about 160 billion eggs. If we made an omelet out of them, every inhabitant of the Earth would get a piece of omelet with a diameter of one meter.
A group of researchers from Lausanne (Switzerland) found that there are genes that determine the quality of sleep. It was thus proven that insomnia, as well as good sleep, can be hereditary.
Dried bananas have four times more nutrition than fresh ones.
