A cat’s ability to see well at night is due to its ” tapetum lucidum “, a structure that reflects visible light back through the cat’s retina. It’s also what causes the eyes’ weird ‘glowing’ effect in the dark.
Music triggers activity in the same brain structure that releases the “pleasure chemical” dopamine during sex and eating.
In 1891, London built a structure designed to surpass the Eiffel Tower in height. It was unsteady, never completed and demolished in 1907.
At over 162.6 ha (401 acres), the Hindu temple Angkor Wat in Cambodia is the largest religious structure in the world.
The Great Wall of China is being destroyed by farmers living around the structure who have been turning it into pathways, shelters and even fertilisers for crops.
Despite being a 177 m (581 ft) tall structure in the middle of central London, the location of the Post Office Tower was a national secret for years.
Ancient Greeks investigated animal structure and described the difference between arteries and veins around 500 BCE.
The Walls of Benin City were the world’s largest man-made earth structure, four times longer than the Great Wall of China. They were ravaged by the British in 1897.
Friedrich August Kekulé discovered the ring-shaped structure of the organic chemical compound benzene while daydreaming about the famous circular symbol of a snake eating its own tail.
Novelist Guy de Maupassant denounced the Eiffel Tower as a “useless and monstrous” structure. He liked to eat his meals in the restaurant at the tower’s base, as it was the only place where he didn’t have to look at it.
To understand a pun, your brain’s right and left hemispheres have to work together, due to the unique structure of the joke.
They have a highly organised social structure enabling it to enjoy maximum cooperation when hunting, communicating and defending territory.