Cleopatra's Needle, which is now located at Central Park in New York was once part of a sundial.
If a book of average size would contain all of the insect’s names, it would have about 6.000 pages, as our planet has more than 900.000 known species.
You are two times more likely to be killed by a vending machine than a shark.
The magazine "Time" proclaimed Adolf Hitler "person of the year" in 1938.
An ant can lift up to 50 times his own body weight, it can pull 30 times his own weight and when it is drunk it will always fall on its right side.
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.
