The city of Novgorod is one of the oldest cities in Russia. Its name means "new town".
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The oldest bridge in Paris is named Pont Neuf. Translation: "new bridge".
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Naples is one of the oldest cities in Europe. Its original name was Neápolis, meaning "new city".
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On the South Pole and North Pole, each year is divided into one extremely long day and one extremely long night.
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The legend of the cyclops may have arisen when people discovered skeletons of woolly mammoths, which appear to have one giant eye socket in the middle of the face.