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.
The Syrian city of Damascus is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. It reached its peak 2000 years before Rome was founded in 753 BC.
A human and a sloth are the only creatures that normally make love face to face.
Every year in Great Britain, from the effects of smoking, more than 100.000 people die. That is seven times more than in traffic accidents.
The first SMS message was sent on 3 December 1992 when the programmer Neil Papworth sent a Christmas greetings to his friend Richard Jarvis through the "Vodafone" network.
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.
