The term derives from 鈥渜uaranta giorni,鈥� meaning 40 days, and traces back to the 14th century when the city of Dubrovnik, now in Croatia, was under Venetian rule. The Great Pestilence, or the Great...
Filtered coffee may be better for you than French press coffee or the espresso version. This is due to cafestol, one of the chemicals present in coffee which is known to raise levels of LDL (or ...
During World War II, the British Royal Air Force started a rumour that carrots gave their fighter pilots sharp vision and accuracy. This was not true. Radar was responsible for their success...
If you have clear blood you may be a brachiopod, if you have blue blood you may be an octopus (or just a rich human), but if you have green blood you may have sulfhemoglobinemia.
On September 25, 2019, CNN news announced, 鈥渢he CEO of Juul is out, as a growing number of vaping-related death and threats of federal regulation present a monumental challenge for the e-cigarette...
Our fingerprints are a one-of-a-kind pattern, so unique to an individual that even identical twins don鈥檛 share them. And yet I鈥檓 here to tell you that you inherit part of your fingerprint from your...
In 1975聽police took fingerprints from six chimpanzees and two orangutans housed at zoos in England. They weren鈥檛 just looking for a unique souvenir; they were testing to see if any unsolved crimes...
If, like me, you aim to cook dinners that provide both your next day鈥檚 lunch as well as聽a freezer portion to be thawed at some future date, you may want to stop. At least with rice.
The April 1907 issue of American Medicine featured a paper by Dr. Duncan Macdougall describing his experiment whereby the beds of dying patients were placed on a sensitive balance.聽Believe it or...
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