The disappearance of flight MH370 remains the biggest mystery of the XXI century. The plane took off from the capital of Malaysia and was supposed to land in China on March 8, 2014. To date, there are many versions explaining the disappearance of the plane, but all of them are not supported by facts and defy logic.
Chicken has long been considered the best choice for a healthy family diet. But the birds raised today no longer deserve this reputation. Currently, chicken contains 266% more fat than 40 years ago. In the 70s, only a spoonful of fat could be collected from a chicken taken out of the oven, and today it will float in it.
Lobster is a rare treat in our homes because it is very expensive. And once lobsters served as food for prisoners or slaves and were considered food for the poor.
Oxygen is responsible for almost two-thirds of the weight of most living organisms, mainly because living beings consist of a large amount of water, and 88.9% of the weight of water is oxygen.
Located in Hawaii, the Kilauea volcano continues to erupt continuously. Since 1912, scientists from the Hawaiian Volcanic Observatory have been observing the activity of the volcano.
About 500 different plant species grow on the seemingly lifeless territory of the Sahara.
In the era of Great Geographical Discoveries, robberies of ships from other countries, especially remote ones, were not considered piracy. For example, the famous discoverer Vasco da Gama, during his expeditions, robbed Arab and Indian ships and settlements without hesitation, sometimes showing monstrous cruelty.
Environmentalists claim that the air that the inhabitants of the Australian island of Tasmania breathe is the purest on Earth.
Every year in the American city of Gilroy, California, there is a Garlic Festival. The garlic festival was first held in 1979 for charitable purposes, and later became one of the most famous gastronomic festivals in the USA. The festival is traditionally held at the end of July. During the garlic festival, participants and guests can taste a huge number of dishes with garlic, which are prepared in numerous tents right in the fresh air. The most unusual of them is garlic ice cream.
Honey is a strong natural preservative. It was into it that the body of Alexander the Great, who died in the campaign, was loaded in order to bring it back to Greece and not let it decompose along the way. And in ancient times, meat and fish were often smeared with honey so that they would not spoil for a long time.