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.

The lizard moloch, living in the deserts of Australia, has a unique ability to collect water with its skin. The liquid that gets on the skin is not absorbed immediately, but gets into the mouth of the lizard through microscopic channels between the scales. Moloch is able to extract water even from wet sand by simply burying his belly in it.

The medusa turitopsis nutricula is the only truly immortal living creature on Earth. When its life cycle comes to an end, it sinks to the bottom and turns back into a polyp, and then back into a jellyfish. If it were not for natural enemies, these jellyfish would fill all the oceans.

Iwao Hakamada spent 48 years in prison, 34 of them in a solitary cell designed for death row. In 2021, Hakamada was found not guilty and released. A monstrous miscarriage of justice led to the unfortunate Japanese man spending most of his life behind bars. Now Iwao is 78 years old, he is finally free, but his mental health has been greatly shaken. Of course! 34 years of living in absolute isolation, without communication with the outside world, without information about your own fate, expecting every day that today they will come for you and take you to execution.⁣Khakamada's lawyers filed appeals three times, but the authorities rejected them three times, leaving the death sentence in force. Hideko, Iwao's older sister, did not lose hope of proving her brother's innocence. It was she who ensured that the necessary DNA tests were carried out, which clearly showed that the blood of the alleged criminal found at the crime scene did not belong to the former boxer. However, it took almost two more years for justice to prevail.

In the Brazilian city of Laguna, dolphins help fishermen — they bring fish to the city shores, and then signal the fishermen to throw out their nets. The fish that managed not to get caught in the net are eaten by the dolphins themselves.

An athlete from Equatorial Guinea, Eric Mussambani, learned to swim just eight months before the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, training in a hotel pool. At these Games, he showed the worst result of the 100-meter freestyle among the winners of the Olympic heats.

A sufficiently powerful volcanic eruption can change the climate on the planet and cause the real end of the world. The main candidate for the destruction of our civilization is the Yellowstone supervolcano located in the USA. The first time it erupted about 2.1 million years ago, and the last — about 640 thousand years ago. In total, it erupted three times.

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania in the USA have created IceBot. The robot is made entirely of ice. Its weight is 6.3 kg. According to experts, it was invented for Antarctic research. It will also be used to study other planets.

Valletta was the first European city whose construction was carried out strictly according to the standards of the Department of Urban Construction [this Department was specially created at the same time and exists to this day].

Maine Coon cats have a unique wool cover that saves them from cold and heat equally. Moreover, the Maine Coon's wool falls in clumps to a lesser extent than that of representatives of other breeds, and also has water-repellent characteristics.