Curious Facts

Also known as 'Toe-tankhamun', this worn, bendable, leather-and-wood prosthetic big toe is in the Cairo Museum, attached to the foo...

A short history of canine shooting incidents Aug 6, 2007 Memphis man recovering after dog accidentally shoots him in the back The shoot...

F or centuries it was believed that the tongue only perceived four basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter. That was until the early 1900s ...

Colly Cibber [1671-1757] was the first in a long-line of actor-managers in the English theatre and pioneer of the truly personal autobiogra...

The Colour of Memory (Photo: John May) Two linguists – Paul Kay and Brent Berlin – began studying the language of colour when they were com...

Aconcagua at dawn/ 7 Summits The highest mountains on each of Earth’s continents...

The paper clip must be one of the simplest and most ingenious of all inventions. Legend has it that New Yorker Walter Hunt, a prolific inv...

The smallest seahorse so far discovered was identified amongst the delicate corals of the Flores Sea off the coast of Indonesia in 2003 by S...