Category: Brain Dump

(Image source: Sarony and Major) Question from Amos Bramley By 1773, colonists living in America were growing impatient with the rule of King George III and the British Parliament. The British were steeped in...

Question from Edgar Malone There are good reasons why most natural foods aren’t blue. Partly it’s chemistry – many leafy vegetables, for instance, like lettuce and spinach, are green because they contain green-coloured chlorophyll,...

Question from Mohammed Nazir During his war with Rome, the ancient sources say that Hannibal marched his army across the Alps in just 16 days with 37 war elephants in tow. Some historians believe...

Question from Lilly Wakefield Like their kangaroo cousins, quokkas are marsupial mammals native to Australia. Although they have sadly been mostly eradicated from the mainland, around 10,000 quokkas still thrive on Rottnest Island off...

Question from Lars Whittaker Although some sources claim that l’Eden Theatre in France holds the title, no one knows for sure where the first cinema in the world was. However, the UK’s first cinema...

  Question from Irini Arman This may sound like an old wives’ tale, but there is some evidence to suggest that rapid changes in the weather could leave your head throbbing. Studies suggest that...

  Question from Lottie Fitzpatrick Methane is a greenhouse gas. There’s much less of it in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, but it does an even better job of trapping heat around the Earth....