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3 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Ousuwo
The most expensive woolen products are socks made from the wool of the vicuna, an artiodactyl animal that lives in the Andes. One pair costs 1000-1200 dollars. The surface area of Pluto is 17.7 million square kilometers, which is slightly larger than...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
