10+1 interesting facts about women/10+1 érdekes tény nőkkel kapcsolatban

10 + 1 interesting facts about women                            

*  The origin of the word “woman” is thought to be wyfman, a term from Middle English which means wife of man.

*  The female sex sign is represented by a small cross with a circle on top. It represents planet Venus.

* There are many moons and stars which have female names, but from our solar system’s planets only Venus is named after a female goddess.

*  Originally, the differentiation between women at different ages was done in the English language with the help of the terms maiden, mother and crone. The maiden was the young girl who was not married yet. The mother was the female in the years where she could bear children. The crone was the woman in the post-menopause period.

* Almost everywhere in the world, women have a higher life expectancy than men do.

* Thanks to the fact that women live longer than men, they are two times more likely to be either visually impaired or blind.

* On average, women blink nearly twice as much as men.

* On average, women get hiccups less than men.

* On average, women’s hearts beat faster than men’s.

* Over 50 years ago Valentina Tereshkova was the 1st woman to enter outer space on June 16th 1963.

* Cleopatra first married at age 11.