Alexander the Great died at the age of 32, having conquered and established the world's biggest land-based empire. It spanned the Balkans to Pakistan. Alexander became sick in 323 BC and appeared to die after 12 days of intense torment. His corpse, on the other hand, showed no indications of decay or decomposition for a whole six days. Alexander was thought to have suffered from the neurological illness Guillain-Barré Syndrome, according to modern experts. They believe he was just paralysed and intellectually aware when he "died." In other words, he was horrifyingly buried alive!

It's very likely that you have eyelash mites, depending on your age. These microscopic organisms feed on dead skin cells and the natural oil (sebum) produced by human hair follicles. They are usually harmless, though a small percentage of people may develop an allergic reaction to them. Eyelash mites typically grow to a third of a millimetre in length and are nearly transparent, making them difficult to see with the naked eye. However, if you examine an eyelash or brow hair under a microscope, you may find them, as they spend the majority of their time at the base of the hair, where it meets the skin. They are present in approximately half of the population, with the proportion increasing with age.

Many animals can anticipate earthquakes with varied degrees of effectiveness. Snakes, on the other hand, are the most dependable, feeling earthquakes from as far as 121 kilometres away. What's more astounding is that they can detect an earthquake up to five days before it happens! When snakes detect an earthquake, they frequently abandon their nests, even if the weather is too chilly.

To obey authority figures, people will go to great, and sometimes dangerous, lengths. Stanley Milgram, a psychologist, discovered in his famous obedience experiments that people would be willing to deliver a potentially fatal electrical shock to another person if the experimenters ordered them to.

If you're using romantic whispers to impress a potential partner, make sure to speak into his or her left ear. An MITCogNet study discovered that when emotion stimuli were delivered to the left ear, recall accuracy was more than 6% higher than when the same stimuli were delivered to the right ear.

Women, believe it or not, are more vulnerable to liver disease such as hepatitis (an inflammation of the liver) and are more likely to die from liver cirrhosis (a chronic disease). Women are also more likely to suffer from alcohol-related brain damage, such as loss of mental functions and reduced brain size.

Dolphins are believed to be among the brightest creatures on the world, probably due to their ability to save mental energy. Because they must always be on the alert for predators, marine animals have devised a clever mechanism that allows them to maintain partial consciousness while a portion of their brain sleeps. Researchers investigated if this "half sleep" affects the animals' awareness during the day, but discovered that they were as attentive and observant as before after five days of having their nocturnal alertness regularly evaluated.

We are the world's second-largest silk producer (after China) and third-largest cotton grower. With such a rich history and abundance, it's only natural that the majority of our clothing incorporates these materials.

You are more inventive when solving someone else's problems than when solving your own. To comprehend this, we must examine the construal level theory of psychological distance. The concept of self is more personal to you than it is to others. Others are psychologically estranged from you. As a result, thinking for others improves problem-solving and even reduces personal/emotional barriers to creativity.

You are genetically programmed to be more active at night or during the day. A trait called chronotype determines whether you are a morning person or a night owl. This discovery was made by wearing wristbands on 85,000 people. They also discovered that morning people awoke half an hour earlier than night owls, implying that there may be scientific reasons why you prefer to sleep in every morning!

Did you know that people who are lonely are 50% more likely to die prematurely than those who have healthy social connections? This is due to a number of different factors. For starters, loneliness lowers immunity, increasing the risk of disease. It also causes more inflammation in the body, which, like smoking, contributes to heart disease and other chronic health problems. Being lonely causes stress to affect you more emotionally and mentally, affecting your overall health. So, if you're feeling lonely, make sure you're doing everything you can to avoid isolation. It could mean the difference between life and death!

If you approach someone on the street and ask them what their favourite number is—of all the entire numbers between 1 and 100—nearly 10% will respond "7." These were the results of mathematician Alex Bellos, who asked respondents to choose their favourite number and discovered that "7" was the most frequent answer. It was picked 9.7% of the time.

You'd think that the unlucky number 13 would be avoided by most individuals. However, according to Alex Bellos' study, it was the most popular two-digit number (chosen by 5% of all respondents) and the sixth-most popular number overall (after 7, 3, 8, 4, and 5 in the top five spots—yes, the number five is also the fifth most popular number).

A googol is defined as one followed by one hundred zeroes. A googolplex is composed of a 1 followed by a googol zeroes. If it's difficult to picture how lengthy the number would be, there's a good reason for that: writing it out would result in a number so large that if written out and printed in a volumed series of books, it would weigh more than the whole world.

Because the volume of a cylinder is PI times the radius squared times the height, a pizza with radius "Z" and height "A" has a volume of... PI * z * z * a.

The number 1 is frequently misidentified as a prime number. However, this is not the case—one does not meet the qualifications to be prime (being divisible by both 1 and itself). 1 divided by 1 equals...1. Nothing has been split.

Whether you like cats or despise them, you've probably heard the belief that these felines have nine lives. But have you ever pondered where this concept originated? It all derives from their ability to jump and land safely! However, there are a few ideas concerning the number nine, one of which being that 9, once again, is a mystical number and has been worshipped as such throughout the years.

A perfect number is a positive integer that is equal to the sum of its positive divisors in number theory. Six is the lowest perfect number, according to this criterion. If you scratched your brow and said, "Huh? The next perfect number is not until 28. It turns out that perfection is really rare...

Any number may be multiplied by three. Then put all of the digits of that new number together. Whatever number that equals will always be divisible by three, regardless of the starting number.

The method of record-keeping was widely employed across the Roman Empire for everyday tasks, allowing Romans to quickly price different commodities and services. Roman numerals were continuously employed throughout Europe after the collapse of the Roman Empire. This, however, came to an end around the 1600s. The letters I, V, X, L, C, D, and M are used to represent Roman numerals.

On September 11, 1942, in Hamburg, the first-ever musical composition of 'Jana Gana Mana' was performed (not sung) (Germany). Following that, Netaji Subash Chandra Bose declared it the 'Free India' national anthem (though at that time, the song did not receive any formal status).

The song was officially declared the 'National Anthem of India' by the Constituent Assembly of India on January 24, 1950, in its Hindi version. Rabindranath Tagore, a Nobel Laureate, penned India's National Anthem, 'Jana Gana Mana.' On January 24, 1950, it was proclaimed the Indian National Anthem. It is one among India's national symbols.