»> If the universe is infinite, scientists assume that the number of celestial bodies that compose it must also be infinite. We can only count the number of stars that are in the visible part of the cosmos, the one…
»> For starters, it’s not that dry. The big difference between dry cleaning and normal washing is that, instead of water, the clothes are treated with a chemical solvent – which is still a liquid. “Water swells the fiber of…
The first reference to a duel with closed fists is a stone tablet from Mesopotamia, dating from 5000 BC In the third millennium BC, the Sumerians also punched each other, as well as the Egyptians around 2000 BC The Greeks,…
(Disclosure/reproduction/Disclosure) A salutation of Vulcanians, which appeared for the first time in 1967, consists of raising The hand and display The palm to the interlocutor, separating the middle finger from the ring and saying: “Live long and prosper!” As a…
SUPREME TRUTH In the 1990s, this bizarre sect was responsible for a terrorist attack in Japan that killed 13 people and injured more than 5,000. tokyo christ The Japanese Shoko Asahara, leader of the sect True Supreme, chose to use…
Muscle fatigue. During an erection, the entire male genital region receives a much greater blood flow than normal. As soon as ejaculation occurs, the hyperflow decreases, the seminal vesicles relax, the region receives the normal amount of blood again and…
If you think it’s those little black dots in the middle of the fruit, you’re wrong. In fact, the most consumed banana varieties do not have seeds. “The black dots are just unfertilized ovules from the banana flower”, says agronomist…
There are about 480 shark species on the planet. Of these, almost 90 have already been spotted off the Brazilian coast. For a fish to be considered a shark, it usually needs to have a number of characteristics, including… …be…
It’s a kind of Bolivian brandy called cocorocothat have 96% of alcoholic content. This is maximum concentration of alcohol that can be obtained through distillation (trying to distill 96% alcohol only results in more 96% alcohol). Cocoroco is handcrafted from…
The following jokes were selected from international surveys made by poll site One Poll and by the English psychologist Richard Wiseman, who measured how much they made people of different nationalities laugh. Anecdotes that did not make sense in Portuguese…