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Formic acid was first collected by distilling large numbers of antsIn 1671 the English naturalist John Ray described how he obtained a sharp-smelling acid by distilling a great many ants. The substance took its name from formica, Latin for ant. I…
Formula 1 in 2026: Why the Combustion Engine is Taking a Back SeatFormula 1 is undergoing a massive technical overhaul in 2026. This video breaks down the shift toward new power units, explaining how a significant reduction in combustion engine …
Formula 4 is the essential training ground for the next generation of racing starsCreated by the FIA in 2013, Formula 4 serves as the primary entry-level category for young drivers transitioning from karting. While it is designed to be an affordable global path…
Formula E is about to experience its most powerful evolution yetThe 2026–27 season marks a radical departure for electric open-wheel racing. Moving beyond the Gen3 era, the series is introducing cars that are significantly heavier and more pow…
Formula E is transforming electric racing with rapid battery charging and advanced software updates.Born from a dinner conversation in Paris, Formula E has evolved from a niche electric experiment into a premier FIA World Championship. Today, these high-speed machines utilize cu…
Formula One cars carry wings too, only mounted upside downAn aircraft wing is shaped and angled to push air downward, so the air pushes the wing up. Flip that same device over and bolt it to a racing car, and it presses the tyres into th…
Formula One engines once screamed past 20,000 rpm before rules reined them inSpin an engine twice as fast and, in theory, it makes twice the power. Formula One teams chased that idea until their engines passed 20,000 revolutions per minute in 2004 and 2005…
Formula One in 2027: Shorter Races and a Shift in Engine Power DynamicsThe 78th Formula One World Championship arrives with significant technical overhauls. As the sport moves toward 2027, teams face new engine power ratios, scrapped gearbox restrict…
Formula One tyres are engineered for extreme performance, not for long-distance durability.Unlike standard road tyres built to last 80,000 kilometres, Formula One tyres are designed to survive less than a single race distance. These specialised components are central to…- Formula One's first title race was Silverstone, 13 May 1950F1 is the top open-wheel single-seater championship, scoring drivers' and constructors' titles across Grands Prix. Liberty Media bought commercial rights in 2017 for about eight b…
- Formula Two: The high-stakes proving ground for the world's fastest racing driversFor decades, Formula Two has served as the critical penultimate step on the motorsport ladder. Originally codified in 1948 as a smaller, more affordable alternative to Grand Prix …
Forney, Texas: A Growing Antique Capital With A Surprisingly Aquatic HistoryKnown as the Antique Capital of Texas, Forney sits in the Greater Dallas metro area. While it is primarily a land-based community, its geography is defined by a unique relationshi…
Forrest Gump's film version invented the leg braces and the famous runTwo of the most remembered things in Forrest Gump, the childhood leg braces and the years-long run across America, never happen in Winston Groom's novel. The 1994 film took the fi…
Forrest J Ackerman: The Man Who Invented Science Fiction Fandom and Coined Sci-FiKnown as the Ackermonster, Forrest J Ackerman was the central architect of science fiction culture. From coining the term sci-fi to pioneering convention cosplay, he nurtured lege…
Fort-Lamy’s colonial grid renamed a place of restN’Djamena, the capital and largest city of Chad, began as a French colonial outpost called Fort-Lamy on the Chari River near Lake Chad. In 1973 it took an Arabic-derived name mean…
Fortaleza keeps a Dutch fortress name under a Portuguese spellingPortuguese settlers fought French and Dutch rivals over this Ceara coast. Captain Matthias Beck's Fort Schoonenborch opened nineteen August sixteen forty-nine; after sixteen fifty…
Forth: The minimalist programming language that once powered spaceflight and classic video gamesDesigned in the 1970s, Forth is a stack-oriented language that lets developers build, test, and debug code interactively without restarting. Its extreme efficiency and small footp…
Fortified wine is not just a drink; it is a masterclass in chemistry and history.By adding distilled spirits to wine, producers manipulate fermentation to create everything from bone-dry sherries to syrupy dessert wines. This process, once a vital preservation…
Fortnite grew from a slow zombie project into a global free-to-play platformFortnite started at an Epic Games game jam around 2011 as an idea to combine Minecraft-style building with shooting. Development dragged for years through an engine switch and a c…
Fortran was born because John Backus hated writing programsJohn Backus admitted that much of his work came from laziness. Tired of hand-coding missile trajectory programs at IBM, he proposed in late 1953 a way to type formulas instead of …
Forty kilometres of mountain road funnelled armies, Buddhism and silk for millenniaThe Khyber Pass climbs just over a thousand metres through the Spin Ghar mountains between Peshawar and the Afghan border. Persian kings, nomad invaders, Mughal founders and Briti…
Forty percent of comas begin with drug poisoningA coma is prolonged deep unconsciousness: no waking, weak responses to pain, light or sound, and no normal sleep–wake cycle. Clinicians sometimes treat failure to obey even a sing…
Forty thousand crustaceans share one twenty-segment body planMalacostraca is the second-largest pancrustacean class after insects, with about 40,000 living species across sixteen orders—crabs, lobsters, shrimp, krill, isopods, amphipods, ma…
Forty years on, NASA’s twin Voyager probes remain humanity’s farthest reach into the unknown.Launched in 1977, the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have traveled billions of miles, becoming the first human-made objects to enter interstellar space. Beyond their historic planetar…
Forty-four presidencies, forty-four fascinating historical factsExplore a curated collection of trivia covering every U.S. president in history. This episode of The List Show presents one unique fact for each office holder, including a double …
Forty-nine Brahman cattle shipped to Australia became over a million in QueenslandBetween 1933 and 1954 Australia imported just 49 American Brahman cattle. Their heat-proof, parasite-resistant descendants multiplied until, by century's end, no breed in the coun…
Forty-nine million Americans share three generationsExtended families stretch past parents and kids to aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins nearby or under one roof. Frédéric Le Play described stem families where one heir stays…
Forty-one big Manhattan houses still define commercial theatreBroadway means 41 professional theatres of 500-plus seats in Midtown’s Theater District and Lincoln Center—not every show on the avenue. With London’s West End it tops English-lan…
Forty-one individuals held the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union before its dissolution.Created in 1935, this prestigious military title was the pinnacle of Soviet command. While intended for elite soldiers, the rank was also bestowed upon political figures and intel…
Forty-plus English names chase one wide-ranging American catPuma concolor—cougar, puma, mountain lion, catamount, panther—holds a Guinness record for most names, over forty in English alone. Its wild range is the widest of any terrestrial …
Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconoclastic Iranian poet who defied tradition and redefined modern literature.Dying at 32 in a car accident, Forugh Farrokhzad left behind a legacy that transcended her controversial life. A modernist pioneer and feminist icon, she challenged the rigid poet…
Fosse's tilted hats remade jazz dance foreverRobert Louis Fosse lived from 23 June 1927 to 23 September 1987 and turned turned-in knees, bowlers, and jazz hands into a modern dance language. Hardware spanned an Oscar, a BAFT…
Fossil elephant skulls may explain the one-eyed Cyclopes of Greek mythSkulls of Deinotherium giganteum, an elephant relative found in Crete and Greece, have a large opening at the front that looks like a single eye socket. It is really the gap for t…
Fossil fish on mountains puzzled Greeks firstGeology studies Earth’s origin, history, and structure. Xenophanes noted fossil fish and shells on mountains in 540 BC; Herodotus echoed them about 490 BC. Aristotle watched slow …
Fossilised algae from the Elbe made nitroglycerin safe to carryNitroglycerin was far more powerful than gunpowder but so unstable it was useless for business. Alfred Nobel tried mixing it with cement, coal and sawdust before hitting on diatom…
Fossilised dung offers a surprisingly detailed window into the lives of prehistoric creatures.While often overlooked as unglamorous, fossilised faeces known as coprolites are invaluable trace fossils. By examining their contents, scientists reconstruct the diets, behaviour…
Fossils of an early hominid reveal a unique mix of climbing and walkingResearchers examining over 110 fossils from 4.4-million-year-old sediments in Ethiopia found that Ardipithecus ramidus possessed a unique blend of physical traits. This early homi…
Foucault watched the Earth turn through a spinning wheelA gyroscope's spinning rotor resists tilting because angular momentum wants to hold its axis steady. That stubbornness powers ship compasses, camera stabilizers, spacecraft attitu…
Found in only one place on Earth, tanzanite is rarer than the diamond.Tanzanite is a geological marvel, appearing in lush blues, vibrant violets, and rich purples depending on the angle of light. Unearthed near Mount Kilimanjaro in 1967, this rare v…
Founded as a military outpost, Petropavl evolved into a vital northern gateway for Kazakhstan.Established in 1752 as a wooden fortress on the Ishim River, Petropavl began as a strategic defense point against nomadic incursions. Over centuries, it transformed from a frontie…
Founded as a naval base, Mykolaiv remains a vital Ukrainian shipbuilding hub today.Established in 1788, this southern Ukrainian city sits at the confluence of the Inhul and Southern Buh rivers. Once a strategic military outpost near ancient Greek ruins, it evolv…
Founded as a perfect circle, Baghdad was once the world's greatest cultural center.Commissioned in 762 by Caliph al-Mansur, Baghdad was designed as a revolutionary round city. For five centuries, it served as the heart of the Abbasid Caliphate, anchoring Islamic…- Founded before the state itself, Athens, Alabama, remains a complex piece of Southern history.Incorporated in 1818, a year before Alabama joined the Union, Athens has evolved from a cotton-focused agricultural hub into a modern industrial player. From its controversial Civ…
Founded by a jester, Britain’s oldest hospital has survived nine centuries of change.St Bartholomew’s Hospital, known as Barts, has provided continuous care on its original London site since 1123. Founded by Rahere, a court jester who pivoted to philanthropy after…
Founded by a mercenary, this Indus River city has been rebuilt and reshaped by history.Dera Ismail Khan, a city in Pakistan, owes its name to a 15th-century mercenary. Originally an encampment, it has survived catastrophic floods, colonial administration, and shifti…- Founded by a widow, this Finnish coastal town transformed from shipping hub to industrial powerhouse.Jakobstad, a bilingual town on Finland's west coast, has reinvented itself repeatedly since its 1652 founding. From surviving Russian invasions and devastating fires to becoming a…
Founded by abolitionists, this magazine has survived 160 years of controversy and financial struggle.Since 1865, The Nation has served as a persistent, often polarizing voice in American politics. From its origins as an abolitionist successor to its modern role as a progressive f…
Founded by British miners, this Mexican club became a global pioneer in football history.Tracing its roots to 1892, Pachuca evolved from a casual pastime for Cornish immigrants into a powerhouse of Mexican football. The club has navigated multiple dissolutions and re-…
Founded by Founding Fathers, this historic campus evolved from a barracks to a university.Established in 1770, the College of Charleston is the oldest municipal college in the United States. Its origins are deeply tied to the nation's birth, featuring six Founding Fath…
Founded by student rebellion, this Italian university changed the course of modern science.In 1222, students and professors fled Bologna seeking academic freedom, establishing the University of Padua. It became a crucible for the Renaissance, where figures like Copernic…
Founded in 1451, this Scottish institution remains a titan of global academic history.As one of the United Kingdom's ancient universities, the University of Glasgow has evolved from a medieval ecclesiastical foundation into a modern research powerhouse. From its or…
Founded in 1457, this German powerhouse shaped modern economics and biotechnology breakthroughs.The University of Freiburg is a historic institution that evolved from a medieval church-run corporation into a global research leader. From pioneering the social market economy t…- Founded in 1611, this Manila institution holds the oldest university charter in all Asia.The University of Santo Tomas is a massive Catholic research hub in the Philippines with a history spanning over four centuries. From its origins as a Spanish-led college to its m…
Founded in 1778, Phillips Academy remains a cornerstone of American elite secondary education.Known as Andover, this Massachusetts institution is the oldest incorporated academy in the United States. With a history rooted in the American Revolution, it has evolved from a C…- Founded in 1809, Miami University is the tenth-oldest public university in the United States.Often confused with its private namesake in Florida, Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, is a historic public institution with deep roots in the American frontier. Known as the Moth…
Founded in 1875, this reformist movement reshaped Hinduism by rejecting idol worship and caste.Arya Samaj emerged in 19th-century India as a monotheistic movement dedicated to the infallible authority of the Vedas. By banning idol worship and championing social reforms like…
Founded in 1885, the Congress party led India's long road to independenceWhen 72 years of struggle ended with independence in 1947, one organisation had led much of the way. The Indian National Congress, founded in 1885, was the first modern nationalis…
Founded in a bar, this Mexican football club endured a 70-year championship droughtAtlas F.C. began in 1916 when friends inspired by their English schooling established a team in Guadalajara. Despite a legendary youth academy that produced stars like Rafael Márq…- Founded in a reptile-infested forest, Kairouan became a beacon of Islamic scholarship and power.Established around 670 AD as a military outpost, Kairouan evolved from a dangerous wilderness into a brilliant center of culture and science. Once considered the fourth holiest ci…
Founded on sugar and tragedy, this African capital sits near the equator today.São Tomé, one of Africa's oldest colonial cities, was established in 1493 as a hub for sugarcane production. Once a center for the slave trade, this equatorial capital has evolved…