What if I told you An iron-bladed dagger made from a meteorite was discovered in 1925 in the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb?
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Did Helen of Troy really exist ? Quick Facts
The existence of Helen of Troy is still a debate. Let me explain. While the Trojan war, most likely existed and Agamemnon, Menelaus, Odysseus, and Priam probably existed, the existence of Helen of Troy is questionable. There is no archeological or documented evidence of her existence, and she is rather a legend. Trojan war existed but it was due to political and economic reasons.
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8000 BC
8000 BC Shamans are first using trepanation with success. Some patients did not even survive but they came back for more. The reasons trepanations were performed in Neolithic are unknown.
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Your brain is 75% water. A dehydration of 2% can affect your brain.
Your brain has a weight of 1300 – 1400 g of which 60% is fat, making the brain the fattest organ. 25% of your cholesterol is in your brain. Without enough cholesterol your brain cells may suffer.
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Why do humans walk upright?
The humans use 75 percent less energy walking upright than the chimps use walking on all fours. Walking upright seemed to be beneficial because it saved energy.
Having two limbs free to use tools constituted a key element of advanced intelligence.
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Scientists have recently renamed fossils of certain hominids and created a new type of hominid called Homo Bodoensis.
The name comes from the Bodo skull discovered in 1976 in Bodo D’ar, Ethiopia, on the Awash River in Africa.
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Did you know that we share approximately 50% of our DNA with bananas? Humans and pumpkins share 70% of DNA.
Human DNA begins to degenerate at the age of 55.
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DNA was discovered by Friedrich Miescher in 1869, In 1940s Oswald Avery realized DNA contains humans’ genetic blueprint. DNA’s double-helix structure was discovered in 1953 by James Watson and Francis Crick. A helical weird thing occurred to both in a dream before starting their research.
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Did you know that Leonardo Da Vinci had strabismus?
Did you know that Leonardo Da Vinci had a form of strabismus that could have facilitated his artistic work?
Examination of 6 likely portraits and self-portraits of da Vinci shows that most paintings exhibit a consistent exotropic strabismus angle of −10.3°.
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Did you know that difficulty in quitting smoking is coming from Neanderthals?
They passed on genes involved in type 2 diabetes, Crohn’s disease, depression, and smoking addiction.
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