Once a mosquito helped to investigate a crime. Finnish police found him [dead] in the trunk of a car abandoned by the hijacker. The analysis of the composition of the blood that the mosquito drank shortly before his death gave out the DNA of a person who already appeared in the police database, and the criminal was detained.

An iguana has three eyes. The third eye is called parietal and looks like a dot on the forehead. This eye cannot see, but is sensitive to changes in lighting. Iguanas and other reptiles [and some fish] use the third eye to orient themselves in the environment, and it is he who protects them from external dangers during sleep.

The ancient Romans loved to spend time in public toilets. It should be noted that the ancient Roman public toilets did not have any partitions or booths and were rows of seats with holes. The Romans did not consider going to the toilet to be something intimate, and even vice versa — they actively used this time to build social ties. They talked with friends, made new acquaintances, gossiped, and sometimes even discussed matters of national importance.

In an interview, the host of the television program «Field of Miracles» Leonid Yakubovich admitted that he had not watched a single issue of this program.

A snow leopard wears a tail in its mouth. Thus, it protects the nose from the cold. Despite the fact that the snow leopards have a very thick and warm fur coat, it will not be superfluous to wrap up the nose during sleep and rest. And female snow leopards also use the tail to heat their newborn offspring, sheltering kittens with them.

In 1886, British publicist and public figure William Thomas Stead wrote a short story about the death of people on a sinking ship due to the lack of lifeboats. 26 years later, he died in the wreck of the Titanic.

In his letters, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov used the name Josephine Pavlovna, referring to a part of the body that is usually spoken of in rude terms. «It's very cold here, and my Josephine Pavlovna is constantly freezing.

The Earth's gold reserves are enough to cover the entire surface of the planet with a layer of metal 33 centimeters. However, most of the gold is in the geosphere, the inner liquid core of the Earth.

«I do not share your beliefs, but I am ready to give my life for your right to express them» — most educated people consider Voltaire to be the author of this famous aphorism. But Voltaire did not say these words — they were invented by Evelyn Hall, his biographer, who thus very freely summed up some of the philosopher's significant thoughts in her 1906 book. The public liked the aphorism and was fixed as an allegedly original statement of Voltaire himself.

Russia was the first country to officially recognize esports as a real sport. This happened back in 2001. The history of esports began with the game Doom 2, which had a network game mode over a local network. Thanks to the popularity of the Quake game, the first league of esports players appeared in the USA in 1997 — Cyberathlete Professional League.