The designer of the Statue of Liberty, French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, used his wife as the model for the body and his mother as the model for the face.
A man survived 18 days with no food or water just by licking his prison walls!
Andreas Mihavecz was a passenger in a car crash. The police took him and put him in a holding cell. Then they forgot all about him! For 18 days no one came by his cell to check on him. The guards later said that they thought some other guard had released him.
The way he survived for those 18 days without having food or water was by licking the moisture off of his prison walls. This gave him just enough nutrients not to die. However, it wasn’t enough to prevent him from losing 53lbs of body weight! The police that held him were fined 2000EUR each and he was awarded 19,000 EUR for his trouble.
The word “toast,” meaning a wish of good health, started in ancient Rome, where a piece of toasted bread was dropped into wine.
Cleopatra Married two of Younger Brothers Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV.,She married Ptolemy XIII and he drowned in the Nile and married Ptolomy XIV and poisoned him after Caesar’s death.
“CTRL + ALT + DEL ” key combination was Programmed by David Bradley.
He is the one who spent 1 minute and 23 seconds in writing the source code that has rescued the world’s PC users for decades.
Bradley says. “I did a lot of other things than Ctrl-Alt-Delete, but I’m famous for that one.”
You Need Different amount of sleep depending on your age :
Babies - 16 hours.
3 to 12 - 10 hours.
13 to 18 - 10 hours.
19 to 55 - 8 hours.
over 65 - 6 hours
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
Fever is GOOD for you
Fever is a defense that the body uses to kill viruses and other germs. We know that germs growing in cultures die if you turn up the temperature too much. The same is happening in your body when your brain turns up the temperature when you get sick. We also know that the white blood cells and other protective mechanisms in the body work more efficiently at higher temperatures. Getting a fever is an important part of your body’s defense against infection.
Dubai has Air Conditioned Bus Stops !
It sounds crazy, but then this is Dubai. The Dubai bus shelter project is billed as the first ever air conditioned bus shelters in the world on such a large scale. The will be 500 of these built eventually.
Spintria (Ancient Roman coins with sex scenes) were used in ancient Rome to
request and pay for different “services” in brothels and from prostitutes on the
street. Since there were a lot of foreigners coming to the city that did not speak the language and most of the prostitutes were slaves captured from other places the coins made the transactions easy and efficient. One side of these coins showed what the buyer wanted and the other showed the amount of money to be paid for the act.
