If the Friendship Bridge – which connects Foz do Iguaçu, in Brazil, to Ciudad del Este, in Paraguay – collapses, both countries would have to pay for the reconstruction. This is what the agreement between the two nations established at…
Mistreated like Cinderella As a child, Walt Disney’s father gave him so many whippings that the boy arrived The doubt that he was even her father. There are rumors that the boy was adopted and was the result of an…
(/) QUESTION Ana Paula Guimarães de Arantes, Dracena, SP In English and Portuguese, the “zzz” is the written version of the sound made by someone sleeping. In other languages, however, the noise sounds (and is spelled) differently. “Like all onomatopoeia,…
(Chayapon Bootboonneam/EyeEm/Getty Images) Because they need space. Each tooth has its time of formation and eruption. Wisdom, or third molar, begins to form around 5 years old and is only born between 15 and 20 years old. After all, it…
The surprise is very big when things go “boom!” In a laboratory, sometimes there are more errors than attempts. Check out. 1. Vulcanized rubber When: 1839Inventor: Charles GoodyearThe engineer accidentally discovered vulcanization (strengthening rubber with sulfur). After producing a batch…
ILLUSTRATES Marcio de Castro Life imitates art? Director Roman Polanski told the story of a woman pregnant by the devil… and saw his wife, also pregnant, die a violent death. 1. Rosemary’s Babyfrom 1968, tells of a newlywed, pregnant woman,…
(Playback/Playback) Because distributing the pointers in this way gives the impression of what the watch is smiling – and that would supposedly help sales of the product. Also, by setting 10:10, you hands form a frame, leading the consumer’s gaze…
Before being produced on an industrial scale, starting in 1959, skateboards were manufactured at home, with children and teenagers fitting skate wheels onto boards and crates. In the 1960s, the toy became a national craze in the US and was…
The navigator Fernão de Magalhães was the first non-native to land in present-day Oceania – more specifically in the Mariana Islands –, in 1521. But the Portuguese only stopped by to collect supplies and died, in the same year, in…
First they find their prey with the help of a kind of internal radar and then they bite their skin with sharp teeth. Of the more than 1,100 known species of bats, only three feed on blood: the common vampire…