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In mummification, Mud was pushed under the mummy’s skin to pad it out. False eyes could be made from these.
What are onions?
100
wealthy Romans would have extravagant banquets that lasted for hours; in order to continue eating, they would induce this
What is vomiting?
100
the oldest cheese in the world is this Greek sheep and goat cheese
What is feta?
100
researchers have found sleeping mats from early humans in South Africa, as many as 77,000 years ago, created out of local these
What are plants?
100
as far back as 7,000 years ago, civilizations around the world engaged in trepanation—the practice of boring holes in this as a means of curing illnesses
What is the skull?
200
the first-ever shopping mall was built by the Emperor Trajan in this place
What is Rome?
200
in ancient Egypt infections were treated with moldy this
What is bread?
200
cultivated in Asia since ancient times, my pungent aroma is an indispensable ingredient in Chinese cooking
What is garlic?
200
for the very poor of the East, in ancient times as now, the "bed" was and is, as a rule, the bare this
What is ground?
200
the Latin word musculus means both “little mouse” and “muscle”, since muscles rippling under the skin were thought to be like little these
What are mice?
300
Romans used powdered mouse brains as this for their teeth! Yuck!
What is toothpaste?
300
Egyptian boys had their heads shaved except for one plaited lock – this was as a protection against lice and these
What are fleas?
300
the name of this seed is one of the few words to have passed into modern languages from ancient Egyptian, in which it was sesemt
What is sesame?
300
the elaborate hairstyles worn by upper class Egyptians prompted creation of this for sleeping time to protect the hair
What is a headrest?
300
on the Magnetic Hill Of Ladakh near the Himalayas, if you park your car on the road that leads to the top of the hill and leave it in neutral, it will roll up the steep road by its own accord; this wonderful natural—or, as some travel guides will tell you, supernatural—phenomenon is called a “Himalayan wonder” and is a popular attraction for the travelers of the area. The real truth behind the “Magnetic” Hill of Ladakh is pretty impressive, but sadly, not quite as mysterious. It’s actually just this created by the peculiar geography of the area. The mountains, road, and hill are aligned in a very specific way that makes the area seem a steep uphill terrain, but the road actually goes slightly downhill. Thus, the car left out of gear in a certain point of the road will appear to roll uphill.
What is optical illusion?
400
the Roman army didn't have any kind of this paper, so they used a water soaked sponge on the end of a stick instead
What is toilet?
400
Egyptian’s believed that the earth was flat and round like one of these
What is a pancake?
400
soured milk or curds were fairly certainly used in Mesopotamia and Palestine, and possibly Egypt; today we eat this either plain or flavored
What is yogurt?
400
A man was walking home at 2 a.m. in Dulwich, England, when he somehow noticed something terrifying: a girl curled up on top of an inactive crane. He called the emergency services, and only after a fireman had climbed up after her did they realize that she was asleep. This made the ordeal even more frightening, as the fireman was now afraid to wake her in case she became startled and fell. He searched her, and found the girl’s mobile phone, at which point he rang her parents. They explained that the girl, who was 15, often did this, and then rang her phone back to wake her. This woke the girl up, and she was taken down safely, having climbed 130 feet up, and 40 feet across.
What is sleepwalking?
400
discovered in the South Pacific Ocean on the Easter Sunday of 1722, this island is widely known today for the very large freestanding megalithic Moai watching over the island
What is Easter Island?
500
this word comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet - alpha and beta
What is alphabet?
500
when a body was mummified, its brain was removed through one of its these
What are nostrils?
500
this citrus fruit is one of the most important fruits of the world and one of the oldest cultivated
What are oranges?
500
also known as a hypnagogic jerk, this tends to happen as you're falling asleep
What is feeling like you're falling?
500
ooparts are fascinating; they are things found throughout the world that never belonged in the time period they were believed to exist; a picture found in a Cambodian Temple shows human and this creature co-existing
What is a dinosaur?