Bits and pieces of information to entertain you and to give you food for thought. Just a snippet a day will help you to learn more about the world we live in.
Minimum age of criminal responsibility in most states in the USA is 7.
Pantone was founded in the 1960s as a small business that manufactured color cards for cosmetic companies.
Brain freeze (aka ice-cream headache) results from dilation of blood vessels in the head when a nerve center located above the roof of your mouth tries to rapidly heat your brain.
Sherlock Holmes is the most portrayed movie character with over 70 actors playing this part in more than 200 films.
Mayday, a distress signal used internationally in voice procedure radio communications, derives from the French venez m'aider (or m'aidez) which means "(you) come help me".
The famous Birkin Bag manufactured by Hermès was named after British-born actress and singer Jane Birkin born in 1946.
Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, received in total 114 various medals, orders and awards.
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