Who Made It?

There are at least one million trillion insects on the planet, and a mere one percent of this amount is ants! Imagine taking all these ants (around ten thousand trillion) and piling them up onto a giant scale. Entomologists believe that about 2,000 years ago, the total weight of ants on Earth might have equalled the total weight of people!

The Vikings have the reputation of being savage barbarians – however, that is not entirely true. They were mostly focused on establishing trade routes and had a complex and nuanced culture. The unfavourable image of Vikings as brutal raiders originates in written reports by monks, who were frequent victims of Viking pillages.

Robert Hooke unknowingly discovered plant cells. In 1665, he used a compound microscope to examine a wide variety of objects. On observing the surface of a cork, he noted down 'pores', which were in fact plant cells!