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If, like us, you hate Mondays for no apparent reasons, and if they make you feel good about it, this is information that will touch you right in your heart. If you were to die of a heart attack, there

Ephemera have the misfortune of experiencing the shortest breeding season in the world of insects, but as if that were not enough, 10% of males of the species Baetis bicaudatus suffer the torments caused

Because of its eccentricity and a period of revolution in resonance 3: 2 with its period of rotation, Mercury sometimes presents singular days: if the sun rises to the East as it is accustomed, it decides

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In writing the book Mathematics and Imagination , published in 1938, American mathematician Edward Kasner wanted to explore the difference between an enormously large number and infinity. He had the idea

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In the whole story of the cartoon, this only happened once, but it happened! While the comic of this work is very precisely in the fact that in spite of implausible means, a recourse to the "techniques

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High mileage shows a well built and well maintained vehicle. Although most people seem to change their cars every few years, we know that some people maintain their used vehicles for a long time. In rare

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The relay of the Olympic flame , which transports the flame of Olympia, in Greece, to the different sites where the games will take place, was implemented for the first time in 1936 at the Berlin Olympics

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According to scientists, red wine would be good for the intestines! A study by scientists at King's College London and published in the journal Gastroenterology has shown that red wine would have a beneficial