5) Little Kids, Big Tobacco Although US law prevent children from smoking they can legally work on tobacco farms where they absorb more nicotine daily than found in a pack of cigarettes.It is reported that over 250,000 youths work annually on non-family farms for less than minimum wage.In a study of child tobacco farmers aged […]
Sarah,a cheetah who was considered the world’s speediest land mammal,passed away at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden in the US last week. She was 15 years old and was put to sleep due to her “diminishing quality of life”,said the zoo in an discussion.The typical lifespan of a cheetah is 8-12 years. Sarah was […]
Telephone Though several inventors did pioneering work on electronic voice transmission (many of whom later filed intellectual property lawsuits when telephone use exploded), Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be awarded a patent for the electric telephone in 1876. His patent drawing is pictured above. The invention quickly took off, and revolutionalized global business […]
