While not poisonous substances, heat and humidity from summer weather can be deadly to pets. Most pets donât perspire like humans, but use their lungs to get rid of excess heat. As the ambient temperature and humidity rise, their ability to cool in this manner fails and they suffer from heat stroke.
Senet is the oldest board game known to exist. Sets have been found in burial chambers from as far back as 3,500 B.C.âincluding four in Tutankhamenâs tomb. Game boards were three squares wide and ten squares long, and sets typically had five to seven pieces for each player.
World's oldest race celebrates 500 years. World's oldest race celebrates 500 years. It is a race which has been run every year for five centuries on the strict instructions of the king, interrupted only by plague and war. And yesterday, perhaps the most modest prize in racing was claimed by a lean, wasp-waisted boxer - a hand-knitted pair of red socks.