Spot the Difference

Einstein was an exceptional human being – and his brain was out of the ordinary, too! A study found that his parietal lobe was 15% larger than average. That’s the region of the brain that is responsible for mathematical thought and spatial cognition.

Venus has the longest day of any planet in our solar system. It completes one rotation every 243 Earth days. Its day lasts longer than its orbit. It orbits the Sun every 224.65 Earth days, so a day is nearly 20 Earth days longer than its year.

In Singapore, there is a traditional day called ‘Zhong Yuan Jie’ usually during August. People throng the streets offering up money and burning joss sticks in tribute to spirits. There’s also a superstition that it is a bad time to get married or buy a house.