The first ski competitions were held in 1893 in Mürzzuschlag in Austria.
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 term "redskins", Indians acquired, not because of the color of their skin, but because of the red color they put on their skin when they went to war.
Mammoths became extinct 1,000 years after Egyptians completed the construction of the pyramids.
Horses usually sleep standing up. Their feet have a particular system of tendons, bones, and joints that effortlessly hold the weight of this large animal. When the muscles are in a standstill, they are completely relaxed.
Swallows will fly all day in search of insects and sometimes they will fly more than 800 kilometers.
