You are two times more likely to be killed by a vending machine than a shark.
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.
Of all the animals, lynx has the sharpest hearing. In the deepest of sleep, they can hear the slightest sound coming from afar. This beast hears so well thanks to its “tufts” on the top of its ears that serves as a kind of antenna.
The first nuclear power plant in the world was built in 1954 in the Soviet city of Obninsk.
Two Storks hatched a Penguin in Osnabrück, Germany.
In the middle ages, nutmeg was the most expensive spice. Not because of the taste and smell, but because of the belief that it protected against the plague.
