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 presence of antivenin [an antidote to snake venom], deaths are rare — 4-6 per year.
At the beginning of the XX century in Mongolia, criminals were executed by locking them in a wooden box and leaving them in the middle of the steppe. There were breathing holes, but heat or cold, and mainly hunger, led to a slow, painful death.
The first Nike sneakers appeared like this: one of the founders of the company, Bill Bowerman, watched his wife make waffles. Then I poured polyurethane into the waffle iron to see what would happen. As a result, in 1974, shoes that were called Nike Waffle Trainers entered the market.
About 80% of all natural compounds occurring on Earth appear due to algae and other aquatic vegetation. Algae somehow feed all the inhabitants of the waters — they either eat them themselves, or hunt creatures with a diet of algae. Many rocks originated in the distant past thanks to algae. Moreover, it is possible to determine their age by the remains of these plants in the thickness of the stone. People eat many types of algae, feed cattle with them and fertilize the land.
Mushrooms are older than dinosaurs. The oldest fossil mushroom ever found by archaeologists grew on Earth about 400 million years ago.
One of the most toothy creatures in our nature is a snail — on average, each snail has 25,000 teeth.
Children in Sparta were in the undivided property of the state. Immediately after birth, they were subjected to a thorough inspection. The weak and crippled were left in the forest. Healthy children were returned to their parents, who raised them up to the age of six. After six years, children were taken away from their parents in favor of the state, and from that moment their education began.
In 1994, inmate Robert Shepard escaped from a prison in West Virginia. The rope that was needed to overcome the 5.5-meter wall, he wove from dental floss.
The organizers of the Burning Man festival have auctioned an art collection to raise money for the following festivals. The festival has been held since 1986, in 2020 it was canceled for the first time. Because of this, the organizers are running out of funds. Almost 200 pieces of art were put up for auction. The main lot is «rocket car».
The Cordillerra rice terraces in the Philippines are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. They were created more than 2000 years ago and have been preserved to this day due to the strength of the rocks from which they are built.
