The first ever toothbrush design, used by ancient Babylonians and Egyptians, dates back to 3500 BC. The primitive toothbrush, known as a 鈥渃hew stick鈥, was a thin twig with a frayed end. The modern...
When we write the old-fashioned way, with ink on paper, we rarely think of the pen鈥檚 ingredients. For hundreds of years聽gall ink聽was used to produce documents such as Shakespeare鈥檚 will and the U.S...
The green in American paper bills is chromium oxide, a refined version of chromite, a naturally occurring ore in the Earth鈥檚 crust. This ore is also the source of chromium metal which is produced...
Although toilets may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of Ancient Rome, they might have had an explosive nature back in the day that made users of the latrines take special...
Even if he had been aware of what was happening inside the girl鈥檚 body, the man likely would not have been worried. She was, after all, sitting quite a long ways away....
聽鈥淢oses looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.鈥 That passage from Exodus is one of the most famous ones in the entire Bible! After all, it was from that...
There were no video games. There was no Internet. TV had not yet been invented. So in the early 1900s, British children played 鈥渃onkers.鈥 This is perhaps best described as an early form of ...