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.
In northers European cultures, swords were believed to have their own 'soul', so when the warrior died, the sword had to be destroyed and buried so the spirit could accompany the warrior into the afterlife
Dolphins are considered one of the world's most intelligent animals, and they have several cognitive abilities that set them apart. Many researchers consider intelligence to be a combination of perception, communication, and problem-solving.
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
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
