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»> No. The anteater’s “trunk” is, in fact, its snout, whose elongated shape allows it to hunt ants and termites, its favorite foods, in holes in the ground or in logs. “Thanks to its keen sense of smell, the anteater…

The most common way is through front companies, that is, “pretend” businesses controlled by the very criminal organization that wants to launder the money. Criminals take the money they’ve earned illegally (drug trafficking, counterfeiting money or tax evasion, for example)…

»> In fact, gel alcohol is flammable, yes! The difference in relation to liquid alcohol is that, in contact with fire, the gooey version produces a weaker flame, since the composition contains 70% pure alcohol diluted in additives that give…

Also called kidney stones, they are formed by the accumulation of certain substances – calcium, uric acid, oxalate (a salt) or cystine (an amino acid) – inside the kidneys or in the urinary tract. “It is important to emphasize that…

»> Nine is the world average, according to The Global Sex Survey 2005, a survey sponsored by the English condom brand Durex, which had the participation of 317,000 respondents from 41 countries. A curious fact of the research is the…

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(/) Reader question – Pedro Henrique Gomes de Queiroz, São Paulo, SP Because, in the Middle Ages, it was an almost exclusively female pastime. While the complexity of chess was only recommended for men of the aristocracy, the “weaker sex”…

According to the book The Lore of Birthdays (“A Sabedoria dos Aniversários”, no translation into Portuguese), by the American anthropologists Ralph and Adelin Linton, birthdays deserve celebrations since Ancient Egypt, that is, the fashion emerged around 3000 BC Both the…

ILLUSTRATES Aluisio Cervelle 1. More than 35 years after the crime, on October 12, 1978, there is still no certainty about who killed groupie Nancy Spungen. For the NYPD, it was her boyfriend, former Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious. But…

In Narnia, the mythical land created by writer CS Lewis in seven fantasy books that have become literary classics, the clock is ticking at a different pace. In the land of the lion Aslan, hours are equivalent to just a…