Snakes as a biological order first appeared during the late Cretaceous period where they co-existed for a few million years with the dinosaurs.

C.S. Lewis put a lamppost in his Chronicles of Narnia series simply because his friend J.R.R. Tolkien said no good fantasy novel would have something as random as a lamppost.

While trampolines are modern inventions, a similar “game” was done by both the Inuit and some places in Europe which involved people being bounced off special types of blankets.

Mauritania was the last country in the world to officially abolish slavery which happened in 1981. However it still is a problem for the country as the guarantee of human rights is not enforced very well.

Ethiopia was one of the rare few countries in Africa to never have been colonized by a European power. The closest it ever came to a conquering is when communists took over the country after a civil war and Ethiopia more-or-less was a puppet of the Soviet Union until the fall of Communism in the…