The mosque is the holy place of worship in the religion of Islam. Over time, as the Muslim empire expanded, mosques gained a little more important than that. Each emperor would spend an enormous amount of money on creating mosques that were architectural wonders of the time (and even considered some of the most beautiful… Read More »

The world is full of strange things and the same is true when it comes to some interesting facts associated with the English Language. Here are 55 things you didn’t know about the English language for your reading pleasure: 1. Over 400 million people use the English vocabulary as a mother tongue, only surpassed in… Read More »

Billboards have been around since the eighteenth century, but today it’s probably not what you think of when you hear the word advertisement. You probably think of something like a pop-up or those commercials that come on the radio. While many of the advertisements still simply deliver their meanings or guide people to places such… Read More »

The National Institutes of Health study is one of the first, and the most prominent, to offer scientific evidence that cell phones affect brain metabolism. Results were published in today’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Let’s find out how cell phone affects the brain: A 50-minute cell phone call causes a… Read More »

We have put together an amazing list of sound illusions (auditory illusions). In these illusions, your mind is tricked into thinking it is hearing something when, in fact, it is not. To get the most out of this list you should have a set of stereo headphones or a stereo sound system with speakers set… Read More »

In our ongoing quest for wonderful facts about all manner of things, we have put together this list, a great list of some amazing facts about your body. These are the most wonderful things about our bodies that, hopefully, are new to most of our readers: Your hair is almost indestructible. The brain operates on… Read More »