10 cosas que no sabía hasta la semana pasada

Garret, nuestro planer irlandés sigue rebuscando en la red intentando aprender cada semana diez cosas nuevas; que os aproveche. 1. Humanity's earliest ancestors did not drag their knuckles along the ground before mastering life on two feet, but learned to walk upright while still living in the trees, according to a team of British scientists. 2. The World Health Organization finds more people die from suicide each year than from armed conflicts. 3. The average woman ingests two kilograms of lipstick during her lifetime. 4. It’s 1999 in Ethiopia (because the Ethiopian church estimates a different date for the birth of Christ). 5. Blood can turn a dark greenish-black – like a Vulcan's (from Star Trek) – if taking a certain type of migraine medication. 6. The Amazon is the longest river in the world, not the Nile. 7. Europe has a vodka belt comprising Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Denmark and Sweden, although the drink is also made in countries such as Britain, France, Italy and Spain. 8. Eating two poppy-seed-coated bagels can result in you testing positive for morphine consumption. 9. All 50 of the world’s tallest mountains are in Asia. 10. U.S. defence spending of $465 billion in 2004 was more than 3 times the combined estimate of spending by Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and Syria. ¿Quieres una buena dosis de morfina?