Life’s Length
Fact: #2578
Maria Branyas Morera, born in 1907 in San Francisco, USA, was the world’s oldest living person until her recent passing… Read More
Fact-A-Day Archive
Cards Stay Mild, Debt Runs Wild
Fact: #2577
Total credit card loan balances for South Africans have grown by 6.5% year-over-year, reaching over a quarter of a trillion… Read More
Jurassic Gaps
Fact: #2576
Stegosaurus lived in what is now western North America around 150m years ago. It is separated from Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops… Read More
Dino Decibels
Fact: #2575
Recent research suggests that the dramatic roars heard in films like Jurassic Park likely don’t reflect how dinosaurs actually sounded…. Read More
Jaws of Time
Fact: #2574
Sharks have been swimming in earth’s oceans for about 420m years, long before the age of dinosaurs (245m—66m years ago)…. Read More
Furry and Ferocious
Fact: #2573
Yutyrannus huali, a close relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, was a powerful predator weighing about 1.5 tons. It holds the record… Read More