The first photo of a person was an accident. In 1838, Louis Daguerre took a photo of a Paris street that appeared empty due to the long exposure time—except for a man getting his boots shined, who stood still long enough to appear in the image.
If you were to lay out all the blood vessels in the human body end to end, they would stretch over 60,000 miles. That's enough to circle the Earth more than twice!
You've probably heard that feminists burned their bras in the 1970s, but that's not true. This myth arose when feminists protested at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City in 1968, and they symbolically threw objects that they felt were confining i
An "android" (andro - man; eide - looks like) is a robot built to look like a human, while a "cyborg" (cybernetic organism) is a living thing with mechanical parts
The Sahara Desert is expanding at a rate of roughly 10000 km^2 per year due to a combination of natural and human induced factors. Deforestation, climate change, and agricultural practices contribute to the desertification of these areas.
