Check out these 150 mind-blowing facts about Mexico and Mexican culture.Visiting Mexico for the first time can be overwhelming. The myriad of scents, sounds, and scenes you’ll encounter on your first visit can leave you wondering what to do or how to navigate Mexican society. Fortunately, M...
Ancient Egyptian embalmers rubbed various oils and resins on the corpse, most likely to both prevent insects from consuming the body and to mask decomposition odors.[18] The 1999 movieThe Mummyused real grasshoppers (in addition to computer generated images). The real grasshoppers were refrigerated...
These are the 17 most interesting 17-year cicada facts (IMHO). All these facts apply to 13-year cicadas as well. #1. Names for cicadas People call these cicadas “locusts” but they are not true locusts — real locusts look like grasshoppers. The phrase “17-year cicada” indicates that...