Countries of the World

IQ is not dependent on birth order but on genetics, even though we sometimes hear that the eldest children in the family are smarter than their younger siblings. Other factors include gender, age, personality, family size, and parental age at birth.

Hundreds of years ago, Robert Hooke published a book called Micrographia that included hand-drawn images of samples observed under a microscope! Hooke, who we mentioned in a previous fact, is often credited as the discoverer of cells, after studying cork under the microscope.

The word ‘harvest’ is an old Norse word which means to ‘gather or pluck'. As people moved around to different cites, ‘harvest’ fell out of use and the city folk began to use ‘fall of the leaf’ which was shortened to just simply ‘fall’ – which is what is commonly used today.