Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king This custom has become the modern military salute

About 35 million trees could be saved each year if 75 per cent of waste paper and cardboard was recycled into pulp and used to make new pape

The night of January 20 is “Saint Agnes’s Eve ” which is regarded as a time when a young woman dreams of her future husband

A quality fully-faceted round brilliant diamond has at least 58 facets These are important for the maximum sparkle and brilliance of the stone

The female angler-fish weights up to half a ton The male however is only a few millimeters long and spends his whole life attached to her nose

Cats camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot right foot left foot left foot rather than right foot left foot

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; 7 was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces UP indicated the direction of the bubbles

The color blue can have a calming affect on people Depending upon the shade the brain may send up to 11 tranquilizing chemicals to calm the body

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ea

The word Queue is the only word in the English language that can be pronounced the same even if the last four letters have been removed one by one

The Italian city of Verona where Shakespeare s lovers Romeo and Juliet lived receives about 1 000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine s Day

If you are right handed you will tend to chew your food on your right side If you are left handed you will tend to chew your food on your left side

Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel who did not wanna be remembered as a propagator of violence-he invented dynamite

Monopoly the high-stakes buying-and-selling real estate game was created by Charles Darrow in reaction to the poverty of the Great Depression of 1929

Humans and dogs are the only two species known to seek visual clues from another individual s eyes; and dogs only do this when interacting with humans