While your doctor is unlikely to notice how you dress, you should make sure you're clean before heading in for an exam. "Having good hygiene is more important than anything else," adds one doctor. Their suggestion? Mild soap and water will suffice. 

The colour of a chicken's earlobes—yes, chickens have earlobes—is a good predictor of the colour of the eggshell it will lay. Chickens with white earlobes lay white eggs, whereas chickens with red or brown earlobes lay brown eggs.

During the First Opium War in 1841, British forces controlled Hong Kong Island. Following China's loss, the Qing Dynasty gave over Hong Kong to the United Kingdom in 1842 through the Nanjing Treaty.

Humans and slugs have a lot more in common than you may assume at first appearance. Our DNA is 70 percent identical to slug DNA. All creatures, like plants, have a common ancestor a long time ago: the DNA of a person and a banana is 50 percent same. As a result, a human is half a banana or 40% cucumber. To some extent, all living organisms on Earth are related — this just means that our evolution took a different course at some point in time.

A piece of porcelain requires many processes beginning with the gathering of raw materials and ending with the final firing. These processes include crushing the raw materials, cleaning and mixing them, forming the shape, bisque-firing (first-firing), glazing, and final firing.

Lord Shiva is regarded as the originator of yoga, the first yogi, or Adiyogi. He was the first person to plant the seeds of yoga in the human mind. Lord Shiva had taught yoga to seven people who became known as Saptarishis and were tasked with spreading it throughout the world.

Not a fan of the greasy feel of creams? For your skin, try anything from almond oil to olive oil. Oil is a natural option that also gives your skin that healthy glow that we all desire.

After 160 years of British occupation, Malta attained independence in 1964. Many vestiges of the British Empire can still be found in Malta today.

On an Intrepid tour, you may participate in a homestay, walk into the forest, and discover more about rural life in Cambodia.

Korean is a difficult language to learn. What are the reasons? A completely distinct word order, an intricate honorific system that dictates verb endings, and a mind-boggling array of nouns and verb endings in general. What's the good news? Learning the fundamentals is simple. At the very least, the alphabet is simpler than Chinese. It lacks tones. It also lacks gender, number agreements, and publications to study (like French or German).

The liver is the second-biggest organ and the largest gland in the human body. For an adult human, it can weigh up to 1.3–1.6 kg and is reddish brown in colour. The liver removes the poisons or chemicals that the body excretes as bile in the form of stool or urine. The liver produces bile, which gives the stool its brown colour.

PCOS patients have insulin resistance and are at increased risk of developing Diabetes mellitus. However, the actual cause and the effect are still not known. 

In 1970, Pope Benedict XVI was given an organ donor card. The card became invalid when he was elected Pope in 2005, according to the Telegraph. The Pope's entire body, according to the Vatican, must be buried intact because his body belongs to the universal Catholic Church.

Anethole, found in fennel seeds, promotes galactagogues (substances that induce breastfeeding) to secrete more milk. According to several research, anethole mimics the effect of the oestrogen hormone and stimulates breastfeeding.

In 1867, a 15-year-old boy named Erasmus Stephanus discovered the stunning Eureka diamond in South Africa. The rough diamond weighing 21.25 carats was discovered on the Orange River near Hopetown. The polished diamond now weighs 10.73 carats.

Japanese alpinist Makoto Nebuka proposed that the word yeti derives from meti, which in some Tibetan, Nepalese, and Bhutanese dialects means "bear," or from the Tibetan Sherpa phrase yeh-teh, or "small, man-like animal."

Different computations provide different values for the number of galaxies in the observable universe — that is, the part of the cosmos visible from Earth with current technology; there may be many more, but they are just too far for our telescopes to detect. Using Hubble Telescope data, researchers determined that the visible universe contains around 170 billion galaxies.

Data analysis by Vocativ (via Yahoo! News) found that more world leaders are Scorpios than any other sign, with 22 powerful representatives. Scorpios are known for their independence and ambition, which may assist them in climbing the ladder.

In the 1970s and later series, Batman firmly adhered to this guideline, and he frowns on other superheroes who do the same. This, however, was not always the case. Batman had previously slain countless villains in prior incarnations of the comics, including the iconic Joker in Batman 1.

Each gold-plated Oscar award costs $500 to make and weighs around 8 and a half pounds. Chicago-based company R.S. Owens starts manufacturing the Oscar statuettes one year in advance of the show. 

The actress with the most Oscars is Katharine Hepburn who won four Best Actress Oscars during her career. Clint Eastwood is the male actor with the most Oscars, with a total of 4 trophies to his name, but he didn't win any for acting. He won two Oscars for Best Director and two Oscars for Best Picture for Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby.