Countries of the World

Newborn babies have 300 bones and around 10,000 tastebuds all over their mouths. Some bones will fuse together as they grow, and all the tastebuds that are not on the tongue itself will disappear. In the first year of a baby’s life, the size of its brain will double!

A certain Mr. Napolean Bonaporte purchased the city of New Orleans and surrounding areas in the 19th century. The ambitious but vertically challenged Coriscan made the deal in a what was known as the ‘Louisiana Purchase’. This explains the influx of multiculturalism to New Orleans from France and her colonies, and along with great food, voodoo was also introduced to the US through the city.

The founders of Google met by chance. Sergey Brin, a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, was assigned to show Larry Page around the prestigious campus when Page visited to see if he wanted to attend. Page, who was 22 at the time, had just finished earning a computer engineering degree from the University of Michigan.