Categoría Oddities

How does the animal game work?

– (Gustavo Grazziano/Superinteressante) Basically, the animal game works by drawing five pairs of tens between 00 and 99, associated with 25 different animals. If you chose these dozens, you take the prize. The game was created in 1892 by Baron…

Who were the Borgias?

Reader’s question Thais Einhardt Maia Martins, Sao Leopoldo, RS Illustrates Cassio Yoshiyaki Edition Felipe van Deursen They were one of the most powerful families of the Renaissance. Originally from Spain, she settled in Rome, seat of the Church, the clan’s…

How does a computer chip work?

all kinds of chips – from the simplest, such as a digital clock, to the most complex, such as a powerful Pentium 4 – are nothing more than an agglomeration of tiny electronic components, the transistors. They are the basic…

What is the most important cartoon in history?

It’s a difficult choice, because there are several unforgettable animations, regardless of the criteria adopted. If we opt for the chronological criterion, for example, the most important is the first drawing, the ancestor Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (“Comic Phases…

The hidden symbology behind 31 numbers

divinely empty The representation of zero as a blank space, symbolizing emptiness, emerged in India in the fourth century BC. The Egyptians also used a similar interval to represent the concept of zero. Although usually associated with nothing, zero is…