Interesting facts to broaden your horizons (13 photos)

It seems that the surrounding world is boring, insipid and has long been studied up and down.





But this is far from true. He continues to amaze, sometimes upset, but more often to please us.

Life with an iron lung



This man is Paul Alexander one of the last Americans tied to an iron lung machine. Passed down in childhood polio caused paralysis, including the muscles that control the lungs. What did not prevent the man from becoming a lawyer and even living to 76 years old. A milestone that many healthy people do not overcome.

Unique trilobite





This representative of extinct marine arthropods was found in Morocco.

Tattoo fan



A chef from Canada - a guy named Remy spent on tattoos that cover almost his entire body, about 100 thousand. dollars.

purple honey



It is produced by bees from North Carolina. There are no analogues of the product in the world.

Cemetery in Taiwan's capital



Fascinating, calming and positive, or something. If such a place can be called that.

Dentistry in antiquity



Impressive when you consider that a dentist who lived 4 thousand years worked ago. Some modern dentists are doing much worse.

Harry Potter variation



Apparently, this black kid's parents were fans potterians. In fact, the child probably has Waardenburg syndrome - a genetic disease characterized by heterochromia of the iris, a gray strand above the forehead and hearing loss.

Not all bees are equally striped



There are also those. This is a xylocopa - a carpenter bee. Really, beauty?

An eerie sight



But in reality it is just the skeleton of a fruit bat, although it resembles Dracula in miniature.

Bright and dangerous



The saddle-billed yabiru is a carnivorous bird. And the record holder among his brothers. Indeed, in order to close the beak after catching prey, he it only takes 25 milliseconds.

I'm real



It's not a cartoon or graphics. And a real living creature is a pygmy seahorse no more than 2 centimeters high.

Tigers are different



The second one from the left is normal. Next to him is snow-white, without bright pronounced bands fellow. And on the other, there were tigers with others mutations - gold and white, on the wool of which stripes are expressed, as in standard beast.