Stapedius is the smallest muscle in the human body. Its length is only 6.3 millimeters and enables the movement of the bones in the middle ear.
A four-year-old child will, on average, ask about 437 questions a day.
The average weight of a male brain is 1450 grams, while the weight of an average female brain is about 1300 grams.
The oldest city in France, Marseille was founded by the Greeks around 600 BC.
The Syrian city of Damascus is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. It reached its peak 2000 years before Rome was founded in 753 BC.
Heroin was once used as a cough medicine.
