- Dentures were once routinely made out of actual human or animal teeth.
- Deserts cover around one third of the planet’s land area, with the Saraha seeing about 1 inch of rain per year whilst some parts of the Atacama Desert have seen no rainfall at all for 400 years.
- This year is the 85th anniversary of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer which was created in 1939, written as a poem by Robert May for a Christmas promotion by Montgomery Ward department stores in Chicago, and was first set to music in 1947, becoming a hit song 75 years ago, in 1949.
15 March 2025
