DID YOU KNOW?
Dentistry could possibly be the oldest profession in the world. We have produced phenomenal academics and professionals for decades and understand what it takes to make someone great. Our team has put together 6 interesting facts for you to enjoy.
1. The diaphragm, which is a thin membrane under the lungs, sometimes twitches, causing a sudden intake of air, which is interrupted by throat closing. This is what we call hiccups.
2. In 1971, Alan Shephard and Edgar Mitchell made history when they became the first people to play sport on the moon. The Apollo 14 astronauts participated in what Mitchell later jokingly described as “the first lunar Olympics”. Shephard hit a golf ball while Mitchell threw a makeshift javelin.
3. Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist working at CERN, invented the World Wide Web in 1989. The first webpage went live in 1991. The website is still available for you to visit. It serves as a historical archive for everything available online about the World Wide Web.
4. Dentistry could possibly be the oldest profession in the world. A study found evidence of teeth being drilled in skulls that dates from 7,500 to 9,000 years ago. The holes were likely made using a prehistoric bow-drill. Could that be the work of the first dentist?
5. 37 million years ago lived a species of Penguin called the Colossus penguin the penguin stood at an incredible 2 metres. The giant penguin weighed around 250 pounds which is twice the weight of the current largest penguin on earth, the Emperor Penguin.
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