A significant fraction of Earth’s water likely formed before the Sun, originating in interstellar space, although not all of it predates the Solar System.
Neither animal nor fungus, the blob (Physarum polycephalum) can solve shortest-path problems by optimizing nutrient networks.
A lot of animals have roughly the same number of heartbeats over a lifetime. Of course, many species (including humans and birds) do not follow it.
One of the earliest British historical heroes is Boudica, a woman who led a major rebellion against Roman rule in the 1st century CE.
The English title “earl” derives from the Old Norse word jarl, reflecting Scandinavian influence in early medieval England.
Bluetooth technology is named after Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson, a Viking king who unified Denmark and Norway.
During the last Ice Age, megafauna included giant ground sloths that lived across the Americas until around 10,000 years ago.
The US victory against english, french, mexicans was stopped by native americans in Montana.
Dune is the first science-fiction book to make ecology a central theme.
From 1912 to 1948, competitions in literature, music, architecture, painting, sculpture were part of the Olympics, like in Ancient Greece.
Children outnumbered adults for most of human history [1].
For head trauma, Incas would make a hole in the skull to treat it [2].
Scotland and England+Wales, used to be parts of different continents [3].
There is 3 to 4 billion years before Andromeda hits the Milky Way and makes Milkomeda but we won’t feel it.
John Von Neumann could have been the last polymath [4].
Roxbourgh figs pollinisation is fascinating, so fine-tuned.
New York was created by the English after trading a nutmeg island for New Amsterdam.
Polynesian tribes had a 2000miles canoe trip to Haiti back in the day, just to get plants [1].
Toasts taste stronger upside down.
Pink is by far the oldest colour (pigment found in ancient fossil) because chlorophyll, now green, used to be pink because of the bacteria it was made of.
Cambridge market used to be the biggest fair of Europe.