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A selection of interesting facts №27

1 Jul 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Ousuwo

Australia is home to 6 of the 10 most venomous snakes in the world. For example, the venom from one bite of an Australian cruel snake is capable of killing a hundred people. But it comes to snake bites in Australia quite rarely, and given the presenc...

A selection of interesting facts №26

29 Jun 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Ousuwo

Chickens see better than humans. The human eye distinguishes three colors — green, blue and red. Chickens distinguish five — they are able to see violet and ultraviolet. Therefore, they see the sunrise about an hour earlier than a person and wake up...

A selection of interesting facts №25

28 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Ousuwo

Veselka is the fastest growing mushroom in the world. In a minute it grows by 4-5 millimeters. Other names of this mushroom are Immodest Phallus, Smelly Morel and Gouty Morel. The octopus has a rectangular pupil, and the viewing angle of its eyes is...

A selection of interesting facts №24

25 Jun 2023 2 minute read 1 comment Ousuwo

Queues are one of the biggest drawbacks of New York. For just $25 an hour and another $10 for every additional 30 minutes, you can rent a person who will stand in line for you. It looks like buying Broadway tickets is going to be a fairy tale now. Th...

A selection of interesting facts №23

23 Jun 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Ousuwo

Moscow is often called «white stone». This is due to the fact that during the reign of Dmitry Donskoy, the Kremlin was entirely built of white stone. Over time, the old buildings were destroyed, and new ones were erected in their place, but already m...

A selection of interesting facts №22

20 Jun 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Ousuwo

In London, pregnant women are allowed to go to the toilet wherever they need to. They can do «it» even in front of Buckingham Palace, and no one will fine them. They can even borrow a policeman's helmet for this purpose. The lifespan of an Alpine sal...

A selection of interesting facts №21

18 Jun 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Ousuwo

Arthur Conan Doyle contributed to the popularization of alpine skiing. After the writer moved to Davros in Switzerland in 1893 [mountain air was prescribed to his wife], Arthur studied the basics of skiing with the Branger brothers. They studied at n...

A selection of interesting facts №20

17 Jun 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Ousuwo

To teach the budgie to speak, it can be sent to a special school created for birds in Australia. Assessing the academic performance of the «graduates» of one of these schools in Sydney in 1974, teachers found it possible for 50 «students» to give goo...

A selection of interesting facts №19

15 Jun 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Ousuwo

The first settlers arrived in Australia by sea from Southeast Asia somewhere in the range of 40000-70000 years ago. So the aborigines of Australia became the first navigators in the history of mankind. An interesting fact from astronomy is the presen...

A selection of interesting facts №18

12 Jun 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Ousuwo

Mongooses are good parents, they raise their cubs very carefully and tenderly. Moreover, the father is much more caring than the mother. One naturalist described that when the offspring of tame mongooses living in captivity were taken away, the mothe...