25 Curious facts that will make you look at our world from a different angle
There are many people who traveled a lot and may claim they know everything about our world. But let’s don’t agree with them: our planet still keeps so many mysteries! Did you know about these amazing facts?
1. Honey has no expiration date. It will not go bad either in a year or in ten years. Actually — never!
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2. Turritopsis nutricula is the only biologically immortal organism on Earth
Photo: U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Public domain)
3. A heart of a whale is so big, that a man can freely swim along his arteries…
4. …but his throat is not bigger than a saucer in diameter
5. For every person on Earth 1,6 million of ants are related
Photo: Fractality, https://www.flickr.com/photos/fractality23/8843866341/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
6. An octopus has three hearts
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7. Feng Shui appeared as the art of choosing the best place for the tomb
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8. There are diamond rains on Jupiter and Saturn
Photo: Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
9. There are more bacteria than cells in a human body
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10. The probability that in a glass of water that you drink, there is a molecule of water that once was in the urine of dinosaurs, reaches 100%
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11. Frankenstein is the name of the creator of the monster, but not of the monster properly
12. The catfish can distinguish 27 thousands of different tastes, which is five times higher than a human can
Photo: Cliff, https://www.flickr.com/photos/nostri-imago/3148919051 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
13. Classic round bowl is the worst home for a golden fish
Photo: Kay Kim, https://www.flickr.com/photos/kaykim/3883340152 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
14. Reading in dim light or using a computer in darkness does not make any harm to health
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15. The university of Oxford is older than the Aztec Empire
16. In Cyprus, Santa Claus is called Saint Basil (Agios Vasileios in Greek)
17. Nobody managed to tame an African elephant yet
18. Due to the lack of sleep you may start to see an enemy in every person around you
Photo: Alyssa L. Miller, https://www.flickr.com/photos/alyssafilmmaker/3628914665 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
19. Wrinkles on the fingers that appear if you spend a lot of time in the water, help to improve grip. Thus it will be safer to grasp a wet surface
Photo: nathanmac87, https://www.flickr.com/photos/nathanmac87/5348138562 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
20. A small groove separating the lips from the nose is called the labial groove. It is formed during development in the second or third month of pregnancy
Photo: Wagner Cesar Munhoz, https://www.flickr.com/photos/orofacial/8220706092 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)
21. The development of rounded butts goes back to the distant past. They formed when a human had to run fast for hunting. For the same reason we have long legs, light feet and round, muscular toes that soften the impact of walking
22. A heart of a woman beats faster, but a heart of a man is bigger
23. If Jupiter was at the same distance from the Earth as the Moon is, we would have seen it like this:
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By NASA/JPL/USGS [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
24. The sand looks much more different under a microscope
25. A candle on Earth (left) VS a candle on zero gravity (right)
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