25 curious facts about a variety of things (26 photos)

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106-Year-Old Filipina Becomes Vogue's Oldest Cover Model



2. This sundial shows the time digitally





3. Church stained glass greenhouse



4. Tibetan snow-white yak - the yak of the rarest color in the world. IN China and Tibet, their number is about 3% of the total population



5. Bloody sunsets happen in Australia



6 British Coins Form A Shield When Placed In A Certain Order



7. Among alligators there are melanists and albinos



8. This bonsai tree was planted in 1625 and has survived atomic explosion in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, although at that time there was just 3 km away



Source 9 Canadian miners accidentally discovered a 110-million-year-old dinosaur fossil in very good condition.



10. Snow leopard in its natural habitat in the Spiti Valley, India - the perfect camouflage



11. There is a tiny muscle in the forearms that contracts. only when the little finger is raised. Moses (sculpture by Michelangelo) raises little finger, so this muscle contracts. Incredible attention to detail!



11. BIC hasn't changed the design of its famous ballpoint pen since 1955. Why fix what works?



13. Thousands of years ago, the Eskimos of Alaska and Northern Canada carved narrow slits in ivory, horns and wood to create the world's first goggles to prevent snow blindness



14. This is what a US topographic map looks like



15. Young woman (about 20 years old) and her newborn child, buried 7000-6000 years ago, Vedbek, Denmark



Next to the woman's head were 200 red deer teeth, and the body of the child rested on the wing of a swan, in the thigh area was flint knife. Archaeologists believe that the mother and child died immediately after childbirth.

16. Tunnel for megatheriums. These tunnels were dug by a giant a ground sloth that lived 10,000 years ago in Brazil



17. This is the heart of a blue whale that weighs over 180 kg. Blue the whale is the largest modern animal and probably the heaviest of all the animals that have ever lived on earth



18. What did the pyramid of Khafre look like 4500 years ago? pyramids Giza was originally covered in highly polished white limestone, and the capstones (pyramidions) on top were covered with gold



19. Alexander the Great, 330 BC, facial reconstruction from his marble bust



20. This is what penguin feathers look like



21. "I see you made 3 spelling mistakes." Latest the words of the Marquis de Favre after the death sentence was read to him before by hanging (1790)



22. Alpine refuge from the First World War, located at an altitude of 2760 meters, Monte Cristallo, Italy



23. This is what an invasion of spiders looks like on a field in England



24. In 1719, in Paris, they came up with the idea of releasing prisoners under provided that they marry a prostitute and go to North American colony of Louisiana



They were put into the holds with their wives in shackles and sent to the New Light, where they had to settle down and pay taxes to the French treasury. However, things didn't turn out as rosy as expected. the colony was already overcrowded, there was not enough land and the locals were dissatisfied with such guests.

25. This is what a 1939 caterpillar motorcycle looked like