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Not all poop floats. Those without a considerable amount of fat or air bubbles inside sink like an anchor. It all depends on the food. Foods like beans and cabbage increase the volume of gas in the stool, which results…

Did he feel remorse? Beatles music was banned between 1964 and 1966 as it would be a symbol of imperialism. But in 2000 Fidel Castro inaugurated a life-size statue of John Lennon in Havana. The dictator said he was a…

No. The most accepted version is that Brazil proposed a slightly less absurd deal to Bolivia: it ceded land, promised to build a road and paid some money in exchange for Acre. To embellish the story, there is the detail…

(/) Reader Question – Rubens Albano Verona, Mariana, MG It emerged in England in the 17th century and has changed according to the various definitions of the word “play”. Around 1620, the verb carried the meaning of “acting” and the…

The manufacturers trick is to vacuum pack the superglue, keeping the adhesive substance away from contact with the air. That’s because it’s the moisture in the atmosphere that makes superglue sticky. Let’s explain how this happens using the example of…

»> The tradition was born with Hinduism. The Vedas, a collection of religious texts from around 1500 BC, comment on the animal’s fertility and associate it with various deities. Another fundamental Hindu scripture, the Manusmriti, compiled around the 1st century…

Just look at the animal’s mouth. “The best interpretation of a dinosaur’s diet is given by its teeth”, says paleontologist Reinaldo Bertini, from the São Paulo State University (Unesp) in Rio Claro (SP). Only carnivores’ teeth, for example, needed to…

»> Literally not breaking, as the bilau has no bones. But that’s about it. If the hard penis is bent or bent, fracturing of the cavernous bodies – two cavities located on the sides of the penis that fill with…

»> It’s all about balance. When the rooster climbs on top of the hen to fertilize her, he places his paws on the female’s half-opened wings. To better balance and complete mating, he needs a third support point so he…

The first record of the festival appeared in 1840, in a small Recife newspaper called O Carapuceiro, but its origins are certainly older. Some historians associate its birth with the expansion, in the Northeast, of the so-called Cattle Cycle –…