Ketchup was originally sold as a medicine in the 1830s. It was marketed as a cure for various ailments before becoming the popular condiment we know today.
As well as a carbon footprint, every item also has a water footprint. Knowing how much water it takes to make products is an effective way of being able to reduce your water footprint. Common items include paper (5.1 L), water bottles 1.3 - 5 L) cotton t
While the oldest footwear dates back only 8 millennia, current research suggests that we’ve been lacing up shoes or sandals for nearly 150,000 years.
Bite the Bullet: This phrase is believed to originate from the days before modern anesthesia when soldiers were given bullets to bite on during surgery to cope with extreme pain. This practice allowed them to focus on something else during painful proced
Astronomers found 52 binaries of main-sequence stars and white dwarfs in open clusters using AI and Gaia data. These systems reveal the common-envelope phase, crucial for studying stellar evolution, supernovae, and gravitational waves.