On This Day
23rd March 1603 – Queen Elizabeth I of England died. 1895 – The first official match played by women took place at Crouch End in London. (Nettie Honeyball had placed an advert in the press and persuaded about 30 young women to join the British Ladies Football Club. It wasn’t a resounding success, but during […]
Interesting Animal – Fish
According to research published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, fish can remember faces. (By training archerfish with food pellets as a reward, with a random sequence of 44 faces, scientists were able to teach them to spit at a particular face, with an average accuracy of between 81 and 86 percent. A researcher Cait […]
Interesting Fact – Food
A thing of the past? According to a survey conducted by Linda McCartney Foods, 12% of Brits are vegetarian. (Each generation sees more people eschewing meat, 25 years ago only 6% of the popluation were vegetarian. The younger generation is more likely to turn to tofu, in the 18 to 30 age group 20% are […]
Interesting Fact – Time
According to researchers from the Sao Jose Faculty of Medicine in Brazil, time goes by more quickly when you’re over 50. (In the study people were asked to close their eyes and mentally count the passing of 120 seconds. They all counted too quickly. On average, men and women in the 15 to 29 age […]
Interesting Fact – Coffee
According to a study carried out by Action on Sugar hot drinks can contain at least as much sugar as a can of Pepsi or Coca-Cola. (In some of the worst cases the drinks tested contained 20 or more teaspoons of sugar. For example, a large Chai Latte can contain around 80g of sugar: according […]