A dozen people have walked on the moon in human history, but only three have made it to the Mariana Trench due to the harsh conditions. Are you one of them? Director James Cameron, who wrote a piece for National Geographic about the dive.

Jack Ryan started his career as an engineer, building missiles for the Pentagon, but was eventually hired away by Mattel for his "space-age savvy" and material knowledge (meaning he'd be able to make high-quality, well-functioning toys). His designs contributed to Barbie's twistable waist and "click-click" knee joints.

According to Italian studies, eating pizza daily can cut the chance of acquiring oesophageal cancer by 59%, mouth cancer by 34%, and colon cancer by 26%. (Of course, with many diet restrictions, take it with a grain of salt.)

The Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and plants, most likely mosses and liverworts with shallow roots, may have colonized land as recently as 470 million years ago. Vascular plants appeared around 420 million years ago, but no plants grew higher than 3 feet (1 metre) off the ground for tens of millions of years after that.

Unlike Queen Elizabeth II, who was born into the role of monarch, Malaysia's King, Abdul Halim of Kedah, was chosen in December 2011. In Malaysia, the king is elected by the Conference of Rulers and granted a five-year tenure to govern the country. The country's sultans, who inherit their titles from their fathers, make up the Conference of Rulers.

The figures of Gods and Goddesses at the Khajuraho temples depict the different manifestations of Shakti and Shiva, also known as the Yin and Yang, or feminine and masculine forces.

Traditional cleaning goods like paper towels and throwaway clothing always wind up in landfills, and many of them aren't even biodegradable! As a result, it takes decades for them to decompose into soil. Microfiber cloths, on the other hand, are renewable. You use a cloth to clean your house, and then you just wash it. It will be as good as new after washing! Because microfiber cloth is extremely resilient, you may repeat this cycle for years without affecting its cleaning capabilities. My favourite microfiber cloth is almost ten years old and still looks brand new. It may have faded a little, but it still works perfectly.

Robin Dunbar, a British anthropologist, developed Dunbar's number in the 1990s after discovering a relationship between the average size of a social group and the brain size of primates. The suggested cognitive limit for the number of people with whom someone can maintain a stable social relationship is 150. Exceeding this number is extremely rare, because becoming close to new people causes the quality of some older relationships to deteriorate over time

Even though your body is sleeping, your mind is more active than when you are awake. During dreams, your mind is learning, problem solving, and filing, sorting, and making sense of all the information you absorbed during the day.

Agoraphobia occurs when a person is afraid of open places or situations from which they cannot flee. Someone suffering from agoraphobia may be afraid of being stranded outside their home or in a huge crowd. Some persons who suffer from agoraphobia are afraid that they may have a panic attack or a medical emergency and will be unable to receive treatment or flee.

To generate redhead kids, both parents must be carriers of the mutant MC1R gene, which has a 25% probability if they do not have red hair themselves.

According to a UNC poll on bad sleeping habits, those with poor sleep hygiene reported experiencing chronic headaches and feeling exhausted after waking up. Migraine patients who adjusted and improved their sleep hygiene regimens experienced significant reductions in headache frequency and intensity.

More people celebrate Cinco de Mayo in the US than in Mexico. An annual Chihuahua race is held to celebrate in Chandler, Arizona and Denver, Colorado.

Pune, which is located at the confluence of the Muthi and Mula rivers, derives its name from the Punya word, which literally means "conflux of two rivers." It was referred to as Punaka Desha in certain old sources before becoming Punekavadi, Punevadi, and Kasaba Pune. The nearby Lord Shiva temple Punyeshwar is where the city earned its name, claims historian Mandar Lavate. Up until 1978, Pune's official name was Poona.

Criminals have been sailing the seas for as long as there have been ships. Historians, for example, have discovered evidence of pirates in the Mediterranean as far back as 1353 B.C. During this period, the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten complained about pirates raiding his coastal cities and ports. According to the Royal Museums Greenwich, the tyrants also threatened ancient Greece's trading routes and looted grain and olive oil cargoes from Roman ships.

Have you ever heard of sharing the DNA with Gorillas? But yes, we do. We share 98% of our DNA with Gorillas. This means that exposure to human illnesses, even a cold, can negatively impact the Gorillas as they are so much similar to us, genetically. Still, they haven't developed the necessary immunities. Interesting, isn't it?

Luckily, lots of locals speak English so don’t fret if your Mandarin is less than fluent.

Anaximenes was the third Milesian amongst the Greek philosophers before Socrates. He was a student of Anaximander and was also a monist. Where Thales saw water and Anaximander the Apeiron, Anaximenes saw air, which he thought was the arche (beginning) of all things.

Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director in 2010 for her Iraq war thriller, 'The Hurt Locker in. Kathryn beat her ex-husband James Cameron who was up for the same award for his 3D epic 'Avatar'. She is only the fourth woman to ever receive a nomination, the others are Sofia Coppola for 'Lost In Translation' (2004), Jane Campion for 'The Piano' (1994) and Lina Wertmüller for 'Pasqualino Settebellezze' (1977).

According to a BMO Harris Bank study, men had nearly twice as much in an emergency fund as women. Men save more than three times as much money as women over the course of their lives, according to TurboTax, an online tax preparation service. According to a 2018 Federal Reserve study, unmarried women have more debt, use more credit cards, and have more past-payment delinquencies on their credit records than men.

The Taj Mahal is made of red sandstone and covered in large marble plates. The artisans who contributed to the creation of this world wonder came from a variety of countries and regions, including Central Asia, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. It took them 20 years to complete this historic project, which involved over 20,000 artisans.

According to Cleary, the KRAS gene, which causes about half of all human cancers, is mutated in more than 90% of cases of pancreatic cancer. However, a medication to turn off this specific gene has not yet been developed. One of oncology's "holy grails" is figuring out how to successfully target KRAS with a drug, according to Cleary. A Nobel Prize could be given to whoever develops an efficient KRAS targeted therapy because it is so crucial to oncology.

Every crystal you find has a mineral structure. For some, this structure corresponds to sacred geometry, regulating how the crystal functions with a specific type of energy. These structures are distinct from tetragonal, hexagonal, trigonal, triclinic, or monoclinic structures. Each of them contains core structures that have been observed to reverberate across nature and within your body. Hexagonal crystals, for example, are known to be the most powerful healers, although cubic and isometric minerals are good conductors of energy. It is better if you become more acquainted with this before purchasing some of these stones.

World’s largest tea-growing state – Assam is considered the largest tea producing state in the whole world. Assam contributes more than 52 percent of the country’s total tea production.