Reader Question – Felipe Ferreira da Costa, Rio de Janeiro, RJ Because the Americans did not accept the world unification of measures, carried out under the influence of France. The process began in the French Revolution, in the 18th century,…
More than a dozen Brazilian provinces and states have already had their capitals transferred from one city to another – or that simply had their name changed. These exchanges took place from the middle of the 19th century until the…
(20th Century Fox Television/Playback) The act of clapping hands in approval has an unknown origin, but has been around for at least 3,000 years. At that time, the gesture was essentially religious, popularized in pagan rituals of different peoples as…
(/) The expression, which literally means «rock and roll», was part of black American slang since the first decades of the twentieth century, to refer to the sexual act. Thus, it already appeared in several blues and rhythm’n’blues lyrics such…
Not scars, but the bones in the joints. It is still not known exactly what the process is like – there are studies about it, but they are inconclusive. Doctor Eduardo dos Santos Paiva, member of the Brazilian Society of…
(/) In fact, if you eat a really bad food, the pig can get sick, yes. By ingesting rotten food, he can contract worms, diseases and even die. In small farms, it is still common to give pigs leftover food…
(/) It is a succession of macabre coincidences that ended up creating a myth. It all started in 1923, when Howard Carter, an English archaeologist, discovered the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt. Six years later, 22 explorers from the…
– (Rede Globo/Reproduction) mister M is the name by which the American magician Val Valentino became known in Brazil. In 1996, he was performing in Las Vegas when he was invited by Fox to present Breaking the Magician’s Code, a…
ILLUSTRATES Icarus Yuji Duck, frog or squid? SOUND NAME: Quacker WHERE: North Atlantic and Arctic During World War II, a Soviet submarine recorded strange noises described by the crew as “quacking” – the onomatopoeia that the Russians use to represent…
Decreases. Alcohol is a substance that depresses the central nervous system, because it reduces its activity by hindering the passage of messages between brain neurons. It is not known exactly why this happens, but it is believed that alcohol changes…