Leonardo da Vinci made the first draft for the contact lenses. They should have been made of thin glass filled with water...
Right-handed people on average live nine years longer than left-handed people.
In Africa poachers kill about a hundred elephants every day.
0.85 liters of blood passes through the human brain every minute.
Chickens in China annually lay about 160 billion eggs. If we made an omelet out of them, every inhabitant of the Earth would get a piece of omelet with a diameter of one meter.
The first ancestor of today’s horse lived 50 million years ago. It was 30 cm long and 25 cm high. It had on its front legs four fingers and on his hind legs three fingers.