Comatose patients were occasionally accidentally buried alive due to poor medical care. People were buried with small bells above earth to combat these possible errors. These bells were strung on a cord and hung inside the coffin. If the individual was buried alive and later awoke, they would pull on the line, causing the bell above earth to ring. Someone would hear it and then dig the individual out of their untimely grave.

Cairo is Africa's and the Middle East's biggest metropolis, with a population of 22 million people and an area of around 500 square kilometres. It's also one of the world's most populous cities.

The bulk of this deep subseafloor biosphere develops incredibly slowly in comparison to life on the top, with cell division estimated to occur once per 10-1000 years or so. Scientists are discovering new microscopic life sources further and deeper beneath the ocean than ever before. In March, a team of scientists announced that they had discovered signs of bacteria in rocks 400 feet below the seafloor—the deepest ever discovered.

Professor Charles Kao of Hong Kong is known as the "Father of Fiber Optics," the glass cables that have drastically revolutionised the way humans communicate. He also received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009.

Meat-inspired perfumes are more common than you might guess. While definitely not gourmands, these scents are still weirdly food-like. Que Cologne from Pork Barrel BBQ is described by the brand as a mix of smoke, meat, spices, and "sweet summer sweat", and there is a perfume called Bacon Classic that smells exactly like fried and salty pig mixed with cedar, orange, and pepper.
Wild, right?

Kensington Palace, the current London abode of William and Kate—the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge—was Queen Victoria’s birthplace. Born on May 24, 1819, Victoria spent much of her childhood at Kensington, raised by her widowed mother (Victoria’s father died when she was eight months old) and several royal courtiers.

London is a significant cultural and historical centre, and museums could not be overlooked in this regard. If you get the opportunity to visit this great city, you will undoubtedly miss out on a lot if you do not stop by one of them. Among these are the British Museum, the National Gallery, the Imperial War Museum, the British Library, and the Wallace Collection.

A cow produces 6.3 gallons of milk per day on average. That equates to nearly 2,300 gallons per year. In one year, a single cow produced 59,298 pounds of milk. The record is held by Robtham Suzette Paddy, a Holstein cow from the family-run Robthom Farm near Springfield, Missouri. Sue could produce more than 200 pounds per day at her peak.

Yes, you read that correctly. According to Sveaskog, forests cover around 57% of Sweden. That equates to 23 million hectares or roughly the size of the United Kingdom. The Swedish Forestry Act governs forest management in terms of both production and the environment. The Act, among other things, says that there is a responsibility to reestablish forest after it has been felled.

Our supreme law is referred to as a living document, as it can be changed or amended. Those who crafted it wanted it to be by our citizens’ aspirations and understood the need for modifications. Changes done to the Constitution are called constitutional amendments. The document has undergone 105 amendments, the last being in August 2021.

You may have heard from friends or family that you should drink a glass of water immediately after drinking coffee because too much caffeine will make you thirsty or dehydrate you. While caffeine is a diuretic, studies have shown that when consumed in moderate amounts, it does not cause dehydration. Tea contains far less caffeine than coffee, so tea drinkers can also relax. In fact, coffee and tea can count toward your daily water requirement! Just don't consume more than 400 mg of caffeine per day, and remember that plain water is still the best beverage available.

The national football team of Qatar automatically qualified for the 2022 World Cup as the host nation. They are participating in the FIFA World Cup for the first time. However, they were defeated by Ecuador in their opening game.

Tulsi has a significant impact on the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular illnesses due to its decreased blood cholesterol content, suppression of ischemia and stroke, reduction of hypertension, and increased antioxidant qualities.

This expression wasn't influenced by drowsy, hot puppies. According to National Geographic, the "dog" in question is Sirius, the Dog Star, which emerges in the sky in late July as a member of the Greater Dog constellation. The term "dog days" was used by the Greeks and Romans to describe the hottest part of the year, which was also thought to bring catastrophes like fever.

Some hermit crabs use living, growing Hydrocoral in the Sea of Cortez, while others in the Indo-Pacific region live in fixed wormholes left by marine worms.

Mulan was originally conceived as a straight-to-video film called China Doll, about a poor, oppressed Chinese girl who is whisked away by a white guy to live a happier life in the West. When a writer discovered the Chinese poem "The Song of Fa Mu Lan," the studio decided to combine both projects and create Mulan. Knowing the film's slightly racist, tone-deaf origins, on the other hand, casts the film in a whole new light.

Long before renowned Muppeteer Frank Oz used animatronics and puppetry to create Yoda, the goal was to recruit an actual actor... a simian actor, that is. They planned to put up a real monkey in a Yoda suit and mask, according to The Making of Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back. There are pictures of the monkey in training as well as a rather awful Yoda mask prototype. Fortunately, a crew member who had previously worked on 2001: A Space Odyssey pointed out that the monkeys used in that film's introduction were a major pain, which convinced Empire's creators to dismiss their Yoda monkey.

A few other fictitious-sounding details about pirates are correct. According to National Geographic, battling pirates would have lost limbs from time to time, and some of them would have replaced their missing appendages with a hook or a wooden peg. "Members of the crew... received compensation for the loss of body parts in action—an early form of worker's compensation," according to the Smithsonian Institute.

Most species don't even need to provide any parental care for their newborn pups, which can swim and feed right away. Researchers are only now beginning to comprehend how being caught—even unintentionally—can result in premature births in ray species. According to research in the journal Biological Conservation, after being captured, roughly 85% of blue stingrays lost their young. 
 

When people meet for the first time, colour recognition accounts for the vast majority of their first impressions. According to studies, those who consistently wear neutral or black make fewer positive first impressions, whereas those who wear brighter colours are more likely to form friendly bonds. Wearing hints of red (for women) or blue (for men) on a first date may result in stronger feelings and a definite second date, whereas those who wear black to a job interview are more likely to be hired.

This astounding number of languages are spoken throughout the Indonesian archipelago, with Bahasa Indonesia serving as the country's official language. Papua Province alone has around 270 spoken dialects. Indonesia has a total population of roughly 242 million people and is the world's largest Muslim-majority country.

While the turkey is now America's favorite portion of the Thanksgiving dinner, these large birds were proclaimed as vehicles of the gods by the Mayan people around 300 B.C. and were venerated as such, so much so that they were tamed to play roles in religious ceremonies. They were power and prestige emblems that may be found throughout Maya iconography and archaeology.

In China, restoring virginity is both possible and popular. This plastic surgery is also known by a medical term: hymenorrhaphy. Chinese ladies spend a lot of money to get their hymens reconstructed before their wedding night. They simply do not want their future spouses to discover that they are no longer virgins...

 The lack of natural predators in their usurped habitat is why sea lampreys have been so successful in their penetration into the Lakes. This increases the urgency with which the administration must cope with the invasion.