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.
In Italy, 95 liters per year of non-carbonated bottled water is drunk per capita, making it the first country in the world in that category.
Flies are flying at the speed of 6 km per hour.
The first ski competitions were held in 1893 in Mürzzuschlag in Austria.
In the Middle Ages, patients were tended by nuns, who in between themselves called one another sisters. That name was later used for trained nurses.
Isaac Newton was kicked out of school. He was expelled as a teenager at the request of his mother, who wanted him to become a farmer.
