The Netherlands could be crammed into Mongolia 37 times. It is the world's 18th most populous country (Iran is 17th).

Mongolia is the home of one-third of the world's population of snow leopards. A snow leopard can't roar or purr, which is a fun fact.

Nail painting has been practised since 3000 BCE. There is archaeological evidence that the Ancient Babylonians used a solid gold manicure set to paint their nails before battle. People used beeswax, egg whites, gelatin, and vegetable dyes in Ancient China during the Ming Dynasty.

Mongolia's founding father, Genghis Khan, is revered. He rose to power by unifying many of northeast Asia's nomadic tribes and established the world's greatest empire, second only to the British Empire in the nineteenth century. Genghis Khan's cavalry conquered a region larger and more populous in under 25 years than the Romans did in four centuries. In a nutshell, he was a tenacious individual.

Communication might be difficult in a nation with enormous distances, but it is critical to retain a sense of community. Visitors to Mongolia's rural will always find a bowl of warm, salty milk tea waiting for them.

In the winter, street sellers offer ice cream from paper boxes on the street. At -30 degrees Celsius, there's no need for a freezer (-22 degrees Fahrenheit).

Every year, the Golden Eagle Festival takes place over two days, honouring centuries of Kazakh heritage. It all starts with a horseback parade of eagle hunters flaunting their fancy hunting outfits and accoutrements. As the birds are released from a cliff and swoop down to land on the arms of the hunters below, the eagles are rated on their speed and agility. The guys show their bravery and horsemanship by participating in a number of traditional sports.

Many people believe that when a sleeping dog or cat wags its tail or swats its paws, it is dreaming. While it's difficult to say for certain, researchers believe that most animals, including mammals, birds, reptiles, and fish, go through sleep stages, including REM and non-REM, and thus dream.

A lucid dream is one in which you are aware that you are dreaming while still sleeping. Lucid dreaming is thought to be a state that combines consciousness and REM sleep, in which you can often direct or control the dream content.

Calvin S. Hall, PhD, collected over 50,000 dream accounts from college students over the course of more than 40 years. During the 1990s, Hall's student William Domhoff made these reports available to the public. Many emotions are experienced during dreams, according to the dream accounts.

The paralysis of voluntary muscles is characteristic of REM sleep. REM atonia is a condition that prevents you from acting out your dreams while you are sleeping. Simply put, your body does not move because your motor neurons are not stimulated. While the sensation can be frightening, experts say it's perfectly normal and should only last a few minutes before normal muscle control returns.

Sleep rejuvenates the body, and dreams revitalise the mind. This is because dreams are similar to creativity, according to the American Psychological Association. The way the brain solves problems in dreams is similar to how it thinks creatively in the waking world. As a result, many artists are more likely to be inspired by their dreams and to think creatively while awake.

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.

When it comes to the content of their dreams, researchers discovered some differences between men and women. In several studies, men reported dreaming about weapons significantly more frequently than women, while women dreamed about clothing references more frequently than men. Women have slightly longer dreams with more characters than men. When it comes to the characters that appear in dreams, men dream about other men twice as often as women, while women dream about both sexes equally.

Your brain is working on problem solving and learning skills while you sleep. If you're learning a new skill or studying new information, getting enough sleep and having dreams can help you learn faster.

According to the National Library of Medicine in the United States, 12% of people only dream in black and white. People under the age of 25 say they almost never dream in black and white, whereas people over the age of 55 say they dream in colour about 75% of the time.

Dreams are experienced by people who are born blind, but not through the eyes. Instead, they have dreams that rely on other senses, but they are just as intense as those that rely on sight. Those who go blind later in life, on the other hand, will have visual images in their dreams.

Building pyramids kept the Ancient Egyptians occupied! Over 130 pyramids have been discovered in Egypt so far, and archaeologists are continually searching for more!

The Western Desert encompasses roughly 262,800 square miles and makes about two-thirds of Egypt's land surface (680,650 square km).

The Egyptians placed a high value on the afterlife. They thought that by mummifying a deceased person's corpse, their spirit would continue on in the afterlife for all eternity.

Ancient Egyptians regarded cats to be sacred creatures. Most households are said to have kept a cat as a pet because they felt it would bring them good luck!

Built to restrain the roaring waves of the world's longest river, the Nile, the Aswan high dam is the world's biggest dam.

Another interesting Egyptian football fact. There are two clubs that are great rivals yet share the same venue, similar to how A.C Milan and Inter Milan share the same stadium while being rivals in Italy!

Many people assume that slaves built the pyramids, however this is not the truth. They were hired workmen who constructed with great respect for the Pharaoh, and those who died were interred in tombs near the holy pyramids.

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.