Savais-tu que... Civilisations anciennes/Corps humain

Kites were invented in ancient China more than 2000 years ago. Initially, they were not used for fun, they were used by the army rather to warn the arrival of an enemy or to scare him.

In ancient China, the hair was sacred. People let their hair grow all their life without ever cutting them. The prisoners' hair was cut in disgrace.

Lexie explains that there was a color code for clothing in ancient China. The peasants had to wear blue or black clothes and the rich could wear red or purple.

The Chinese invented the first modern utensils: chopsticks. These were used first to mix the food and are now used to eat the meal.

Lexie explains that the dragon is the character of one of the most famous legend of ancient China. This emblem with a snake's body that can fly and control the weather would have been even incarnated by an emperor at his death.

Short capsule where Lexie explains that the nose can smell up to 100,000 different smells that are recorded in the olfactory memory.

It would take 1.2 million mosquitoes to sting at the same time for our body to lose all its blood. That's what Lexie explains in this capsule.

It's not only the cheeks that blush when we're embarrassed, the stomach too! Lexie explains this phenomenon in this short capsule.

Lexie explains how a hair grows and the possible differences in each person.

Lexie explains the phenomenon of the scent that occurs when we sweat. It's not the sweat that we smell, but the bacteria that are on our skin.

Lexie explains that the hand would be 50% less strong without the little finger. The latter is essential!

Although he is not the fastest in the race, the human body remains the best runner because of his stamina.

Lexie explains that heartbeats adjust to the rhythm of the music the person listen to.

The skeletons displayed in museums are composed of white bones, yet the true color of the bones of the human body varies from brown to beige. It takes quite the bleaching job so that the bones get as clean!

À travers des capsules drôles et éducatives, Josée, Lexie et Christopher testent les connaissances des spectateurs sur des sujets passionnants comme l'astronomie, les dinosaures, la faune, la flore, les grandes civilisations et le corps humain. Ils vont même les surprendre avec des faits insolites!