You are two times more likely to be killed by a vending machine than a shark.
The first ski competitions were held in 1893 in Mürzzuschlag in Austria.
The first nuclear power plant in the world was built in 1954 in the Soviet city of Obninsk.
In one year an average man consumes around 1000 kilograms of food and drinks.
Women are much more adept at reading backward and identifying hidden 3D drawings thanks to better ties between the two hemispheres of the brain.
Isaac Newton was kicked out of school. He was expelled as a teenager at the request of his mother, who wanted him to become a farmer.
