Researchers claim that, on the average, a woman is three times more sensitive than a man to noises while sleeping. The breed of the Thoroughbred horse is only about 300 years old, although horse racing has been popular in England since Roman times, and can be traced back to Central Asia among prehistoric nomads.
Many insects hear with their hair.
A number of insects, such as the male mosquito, have thousands of tiny hairs growing along their antennae. Scientists estimate that they could fill a 1,000-volume encyclopaedia with the coded instructions in the DNA of a single human cell if the instructions could be translated to English. Medical experts warn that compulsive exercising can be just as bad for a person as no exercise at all. The human body needs 24 hours without exercise about once a week in order to cleanse itself of lactic acid and other waste products of strenuous activity. Someone dialled 911.