Hello steemers, I'm back again with some facts about our closest planets. hyli V. Maps that show the solar system need to be updated if they were published before 1979. The reason: Pluto is no longer the

I present to you the first AI that has received national citizenship - Sophia - 'how do you know you are human?'

Hello steemers, i am passionate about numismatics and i read everything i find about money. Down below there are some interesting facts about money. Enjoy! The system of writing checks predates the use

The largest single industry in the Renaissance world was the Venetian shipyards. Fifteen thousand men worked there and a hundred ships could be build or repaired at the same time. This was the backbone

It looks like we cant escape corruption no matter how evolve our society is and is common to scare people with the end of the world for improvement, but now, with nowa days technology it seems possible

A new study has dropped a bombshell on archaeology, claiming signs of human activity in the Americas far earlier than thought. A 130,000-year-old archaeological site, called Cerutti mastodon, in southern

Scientists are growing artificial glaciers to provide water in the Himalayas. This man-made glacier is known as an ice "stupa". It is created by freezing a steam of water from a vertical pipe

The next generation of space telescope is called James Webb and it will be launched in oct, 2018 and placed on orbit in Lagrange 2 point. It will make observations in the infrared area of the electromagnetic

Scientists proved that mice DNA can fully self repair when the level of NAD+ is high enough and that includes the ageing process. The results was good enough that human testing starts by the end of this

In the 20s and 30s, Charlie Chaplin was probably the most celebrated man in the world. On a visit to his native London, the comedian received 73 000 letters in just two days.

Over the years, playing cards have been put to strange uses. They became the first paper currency of Canada when the French governor, in 1685, used them to pay off some war debts. In 1765, the year of

Did you know that one-third on all the automobiles in New York, Boston and Chicago in 1900 were electric cars, with batteries rather than gasoline engines.

The plant life of the oceans makes up about 85% of all the greenery on the planet.

In a single raid on Britain more than 1000 years ago, the Vikings used a fleet of eighty “dragon ships”, each carrying about a hundred men.

The digestive juices of crocodiles contain so much hydrochloric acid that they have dissolved iron spearheads so much hydrochloric acid that they can dissolve iron spearheads and six-inch steel hooks.

The Japanese throne has been occupied by a member of the same family, uninterruptedly since the sixth century. The present emperor, Akihito is the 125th in succession.

Though she was born a Delaware Indian, Nancy Ward (1738-1822) was made "Beloved woman" by Cherokees and sat on their Council of Chiefs after taking command in a successful battle with the Creeks.

The first bomb, tested in 1952, was as powerful as the total of all the bombs dropped on Germany and Japan during World War II, including the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Every Bitcoin transaction that needs to be confirmed goes into the mempool wich has a maximul pre-set value of 300k transactions. In the last weeks the aggregate size of transactions waiting to be confirmed