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1 • In addition to being a great wore a distinctive garment known as the Earth days to orbit the Sun, meaning a
artist, architect, botanist, engineer, toga candida while campaigning in the single Venusian day is longer than its entire
mathematician, Forum. This toga was whitened with chalk year.
cartographer, geologist, to make the wearer stand out and to
8 • Honey never spoils.
and musician, Leonardo symbolise purity, virtue, and honesty. The
Archaeologists have found pots
da Vinci was also a term candidatus referred specifically to a
of honey in ancient
vegetarian and a strong person who wore this bright white toga
Egyptian tombs that
supporter of animal while pursuing political office.
are over 3,000
rights, going so far as to
5 • A newborn baby has about 300 years old and still
purchase caged birds and immediately
bones, but by the time they reach perfectly edible. Its
release them.
adulthood, they have low moisture content, high acidity, and
2 • Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle only 206. This is the presence of hydrogen peroxide create
was an eye doctor before he created the because many an environment where bacteria and other
iconic detective Sherlock Holmes. When of their bones, microorganisms cannot survive.
he was a medical student, such as those 9 • There is an ‘immortal’
he was impressed by Dr in the skull, are jellyfish.
Joseph Bel, a lecturer made of smaller The Turritopsis
who seemed to pay pieces and cartilage that fuse together as dohrnii, or
special attention to they grow, making the skeletal structure immortal
his patients’ situations. stronger and more rigid. jellyfish, has a
Conan Doyle’s Sherlock 6 • Ancient Bacteria and Viruses Are unique survival
Holmes, who is famous for his deductive Waking Up: Permafrost mechanism.
abilities, was greatly influenced by Dr Bell.
in the Arctic has kept When it faces
3 • Before the 1600s, a ancient microorganisms stress, injury, or old
giraffe was known as frozen for age, it can revert its cells to
a camelopard, a term thousands of their earliest form (a polyp), effectively
derived from ancient years. As this restarting its life cycle.
Greek words for permafrost melts due 10 • The modern hobby of jigsaw puzzles
‘camel’ and ‘leopard’, to warming, it's releasing originated as an educational tool, not
referring to its camel-like shape and bacteria and viruses that have been
a leisure activity. In the 1760s, a London
leopard-like colouring. The word inactive since prehistoric times. In 2016, an
cartographer named John Spilsbury
giraffe has its earliest known origins anthrax outbreak in Siberia was linked to a
created what he called ‘dissected maps’.
in the Arabic word zarāfah, meaning dissolved reindeer carcass. While the risk
He mounted a map onto a piece of
‘fast walker’. The modern English form of a pandemic from an ancient pathogen
hardwood and used a fine-toothed saw to
developed around 1600 from the French is currently considered low, it is a new and
cut along the borders
word girafe. unpredictable consequence of a warming
of the countries.
planet.
4 • The word candidate These ‘puzzles’
derives from the Latin 7 • A day on Venus is longer than its year. were then
candidatus, which in Venus rotates on its axis so slowly that it used to
turn comes from takes 243 Earth days teach
candidus, meaning to complete geography
‘bright white’. In one rotation. to the
ancient Rome, individuals However, it children of
seeking public office only takes 225 wealthy families.
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