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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...
12 Jun 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Ousuwo
Mongooses are good parents, they raise their cubs very carefully and tenderly. Moreover, the father is much more caring than the mother. One naturalist described that when the offspring of tame mongooses living in captivity were taken away, the mothe...
10 Jun 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Ousuwo
The Monument of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro was no less famous than the Eiffel Tower in Paris, or, for example, the Statue of Liberty in New York. Therefore, in 2007, the authorities decided to add this monument to the list of New Wonders o...
7 Jun 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Ousuwo
Surely many people have heard about Central Park in New York, but did you know how huge it is? Its area is 34.1 square kilometers, which is twice the area of the Principality of Monaco and ten times the size of the Vatican. On the territory of the pa...
5 Jun 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Ousuwo
Iron and oxygen are the main components of the Earth's mass [approximately 32% of the planet's weight is accounted for by each element]. Due to the evaporation of hydrogen into space, our house «loses weight» annually by 50-60 million kg. But, fortun...
3 Jun 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Ousuwo
In 2011, the West African state of Benin issued a 100 franc coin in the form of a cannabis leaf. The 44-millimeter silver-plated copper-nickel coin looks like a green hemp leaf on one side [reverse] and has the coat of arms of Benin and the denominat...
