Wind barriers such as hedges give protection downwind for a distance of up to ten times the height of the barrier.

Undertakers report that human bodies do not deteriorate as quickly as they used to. The reason, they believe, is that the modern diet contains so many preservatives that these chemicals tend to prevent the body from ...Read More

The custom of being clean-shaven is said to date back to Alexander the Great, who had a scanty beard and set the fashion. A century later, shaving entered the Roman world in the West and the Eastern world abandoned the ...Read More

City squirrels will eat just about anything, and often, it's the junk food that people offer them that they prefer, like Cracker Jack peanuts. Many naturalists have concluded that a peanut diet is harmful to squirrels: it ...Read More

On the average, women dream more than men and children dream more than adults. Overall, more people dream in black-and-white than in color.

Christmas trees are known to have been popular in Germany as far back as the sixteenth century. In England, they became popular after Queen Victoria's husband Albert, who came from Germany, made a tree part of the ...Read More