Sperm cells are so tiny that 400 to 500 million (400,000,000–500,000,000) of them fit onto 1 tsp.
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Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
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Opium has influenced much of the world's most popular literature. The following authors were all opium users, of varying degrees: Lewis Carroll, Charles, Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Oscar Wilde.
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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
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The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
Leafcutter ants carrying leaf fragments back to the nest where they will be processed to create a su
Eye Color Is a Sex-Linked Trait in Drosophila
Caravaneer on a camel, China. Tang dynasty, (618–907). Polychrome terra-cotta figure.