With approximately 3,000 paintings, drawings, prints, and other specimens of 19th century ornamental art and design, the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, located next to the Town Hall, houses the world's greatest collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings.

Sherlock Holmes' persona has appeared in over 250 on-screen films since the invention of cinema in the late nineteenth century. Every year, it seems, a new picture is in the works. Enola Holmes, starring Henry Cavill, will be published in September 2020, and Sherlock Holmes 3 will star Robert Downey Jr. (with the release date set in late 2021). However, these two estimates only apply to TV productions (movies and TV series) and do not include the hundreds of stage or radio plays and sketches.

You've most likely heard of Santorini, Mykonos, and Crete... But did you know that Greece has dozens of more gorgeous islands? Greece is thought to have up to 6,000 islands and islets, with just about 200 of them inhabited.

Don't be fooled by the name—not it's a spider or a bird. It's a wasp, not a bee. However, this insect produces one of the most excruciating bug bites. According to entomologist Justin Schmidt, who developed the "Schmidt sting pain index" to assess the intensity of bug bites, the tarantula hawk is one of only two insects to receive a 4 on a scale of 1 to 4.

Some of the smallest insects are fairy wasps. Their size can vary from 0.02 to 0.03 in (0.5- 1.0 mm). With a length of only 0.006 inches, Dicopomorpha echmepterygis, the tiniest known insect, belongs to the Mymaridae family (0.13 mm). Kikiki huna, the tiniest flying creature, is a fairyfly as well and measures only 0.006 in (0.15 mm) in length.

The silent movie "The Artist" is heavily favored to win the Best Picture Oscar at this year's Academy Awards, but the only other silent movie to ever win the award was "Wings" in 1929. Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Richard Arlen, Clara Bow, and a young Gary Cooper starred in the film about two aspiring World War I fighter pilots.

The Bailey Bridge, which spans the flowing Dras and Suru rivers, is the world's tallest. It was designed by the military to help them move fast through rivers during battle. A hydro-electric dam can be found to the left of the bridge, and a lake can be found to the right.

Although the plant is utilised for medical reasons as a whole, its roots, fruits, leaves, and seeds are used to make a medicine. The part of the plant used is determined by the medicine that has to be created. For example, in order to create ashwagandha tea, you must only utilise the root (grated, in the form of powder).

Chemosensory hairs on the legs and feet detect food. Small antennae in front of their eyes are employed to track for food from a distance. "If you watch a lobster in a tank in a market, you'll notice that they're flipping about, looking for food, dissolved chemicals in the water," Bayer explains.

The risk of heart disease and stroke can rise when one breathes in contaminated air. It aggravates asthma symptoms and even has been linked to lung cancer. We are urging the government to phase out diesel vehicles by 2025 as a starting step in addressing this. The human costs of both indoor and outdoor air pollution are horrendous; air pollution is a factor in millions of preventable deaths each year.

Ashton Kutcher has syndactyly, sometimes known as webbed toes. In 2008, the actor displayed his linked numbers on a British chat program. "Something has to give when everything else is this good-looking," he joked.

Have you ever wondered how gummy candies get their shiny sheen? They're sprayed with carnauba wax, the same stuff that's used to make cars shine.

This is maybe the most stunning and perplexing anime truth mentioned here. In 1973, a manga called The Miraculous Notebook, also known as Fushigi na Techou, was produced. It told the story of a middle-aged worker who discovers a note that may murder people if their name is put on it. In 2003, the Death Note manga was launched. Is this just a coincidence? Could it be that the author of Death Note was aware of Fushigi na Techou?

In 1938, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the young cartoonists who created Superman and launched the superhero comics craze, sold the character and all rights to the publisher for $130. In turn, the character would make billions for DC Comics and Warner Bros. through comics, movies, licencing, and other means. Siegel and Shuster filed multiple lawsuits against the company for proper royalties in the decades following the character's debut, with little success. Though the duo would later receive medical insurance and yearly stipends from the company, they never saw the type of money they had hoped for.

On November 22, 1962, Averell Harriman, the US Assistant Secretary of State, and Duncan Sandys, the British Secretary for Commonwealth Relations, paid a visit to India. On this day, China proclaimed a unilateral cease-fire in its conflict with India. A clear signal was sent to India, which had only recently emerged from the worst month in its history: she needed to concede on Kashmir. The Kennedy and subsequent Johnson administrations considered'rebalancing' aid to Pakistan in exchange for India agreeing to'resolve' the Kashmir dispute.

It's a recurring gag in X Men that Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters is frequently destroyed. Juggernaut, the Skrulls, Onslaught, and Phalanx have all assaulted it at least seven times. The majority of adaptations in movies, TV series, and video games have the school being attacked at least once.

While only one woman has ever won the Academy Award for Best Director, only one has ever been nominated for Best Cinematography. Rachel Morrison received the award for her performance in "Mudbound" in 2018. Morrison wrote for "Time" magazine about what that meant to her and the other female cinematographers in the industry.

Raindrops appears to be very fascinating since childhood. But have you ever wondered about its shape? Raindrops are more like hamburger buns. As the raindrops fall they become more flattened at the bottom resembling hamburger buns. Isn't this interesting?

While the core games' stories span around 821 years, from the first Assassin's Creed in 1191 to around 2012 and Desmond Miles' modern-day plot, Ubisoft has constructed a large, Star Wars Expanded Universe-style backstory loaded with mythology and intertwined with historical events. According to the publisher, the first known assassin was Xerxes, who assassinated King Darius of Persia, according to the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, indicating that the custom dates back millennia.

The 350 GTV was the world's first Lambo, and it eventually led to the formation of the supercar genre, but it wasn't even done when it was originally exhibited at the Turin Auto Show, so they put a load of bricks where the engine should have been and kept the hood sealed the entire time.

We’ve all no doubt found it tricky getting out of bed before, but those suffering from Dysania find it particularly difficult. It’s most likely to be a form of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

 

In that famous poppy-field scene in Wizard of Oz, the snow coming down is calming to Dorothy and her posse. But they should probably have been far less relaxed as these were actually asbestos-based fake snowflakes—a popular Christmas decoration throughout the United States and Europe at the time. Wicked, indeed.