It was a direct line of communication between the US government and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Ironically, it was not a telephone (it was a teletype, a kind of electromechanical typewriter connected to a telephone line), and…
Penguins are divided into 17 or 18 species – a number that causes disputes among specialists. Most of them live in Antarctica and the subantarctic islands of New Zealand, but some prefer slightly less icy waters in South America, Australia…
Invented in the 1950s by André Cassagnes, Etch A Sketch has become one of the most popular toys of all time, with more than 100 million units sold worldwide. Taken to the 1959 Nuremberg International Toy Fair, Cassagnes’ design didn’t…
– (Icarus Yuji) ILLUSTRATES Icarus Yuji 1) Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) it wasn’t German. He was born in the Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn, on April 20, 1889. There are suspicions that his paternal grandfather was Jewish. His father, Alois,…
»> Because he manages to dismantle the molecules of oxidized iron, cleaning the rusty parts. The secret is that lemon juice breaks up the “marriage” between iron and oxygen atoms that form rust. This happens because the liquid of the…
– () ILLUSTRATES Matthew Santolouco 1) Son of a couple of Polish descent, Theodore Kaczynski born in chicago in May 1942. Kaczynski was a reclusive boy and a frequent victim of teasing from peers for being considered odd. Despite the…
»> BenQ Digital Camera () This is yet another mystery with several possible solutions. In concrete, it is known that the expression is a Brazilian exclusivity, which was already used by architects and engineers in the colonial period to designate…
ILLUSTRATIONS: Rafael Sarmento The Batman has been protecting the nights of Gotham City since 1939. At that time, he had a much simpler apparatus. As the years passed, however, and especially from the 1990s onwards, Bruce Wayne’s technological arsenal only…
Sunken Palaces. Pyramids swallowed by forests. Temples buried by deserts. Discover imposing cities that were forgotten by humanity and rediscovered over the centuries. TIKAL Country – GuatemalaArea – 125 km²Population – Between 100 and 120 thousandFoundation – 300 BC –…
ILLUSTRATES Edward Belgian 1) Ed Gein was born in the state of Wisconsin, USA. His mother, Augusta, was a religious fanatic, who educated Ed and the eldest son, Henry, with a lot of lectures, punishments and little access to the…