17 fun facts that can change your view of the world (18 photos)

Did you know that the ancient Egyptians built the Great Pyramid of Giza when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth? And some tribe managed to reach Australia, covering 100 km in the open ocean, 50,000 years ago. These and other facts from our selection will give you the opportunity to look at the world in a new way.





1. When the pyramids were built, woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth



2. Grizzly bears in Yellowstone eat about 300,000 moths per month, which accounts for 1/3 of their caloric intake.





3. There are only about 25 airships in the world



4. At least 50,000 years ago, people crossed about 100 km of open ocean and colonized Australia



5. Most people, without knowing it, instinctively do calculations.



A person can determine the speed at which a car is moving and apply the brakes with just the right amount of force to stop forward motion without causing a jerk. This can be expressed mathematically, but most people do it without thinking, simply through muscle memory.

6. Cheetahs are not big cats. These are very large "little cats". They meow and purr like pets



7. A gobbler can lay an egg that doesn't need to be fertilized by the gobbler, and the baby that hatches will always be a male.



8. For tens of thousands of years, modern humans coexisted with other ancient hominids



Essentially, they were not exactly the same as us, but close enough to reproduce and produce viable, non-sterile offspring.

9. Less than 66 years passed from the first air flight in 1903 to the landing of man on the moon in 1969.



10. Only 3% of the Earth's water supply is fresh water, and less than 1/3 of this water is unfrozen.



11. If you stand on any planet or moon in the solar system and look up, you will see the same night sky as we see from Earth



The same constellations and everything else - that’s how incomprehensibly distant the stars are compared to the planets.

12. Once upon a time, the human population ranged from 1,000 to 10,000 people. We were very close to disappearing from the face of the Earth



13. The use of fingerprints for personal identification began in China in the 700s. This method was only used in forensic science in the 1800s.



14. The city of San Juan on the island of Puerto Rico was called Puerto Rico (“Rich Port”) until the 19th century, and the island was called, on the contrary, San Juan. Everything changed when some map maker mixed up these names.



15. Sharks appeared on Earth before trees



16. The energy contained in all the oil and gas reserves on Earth is equivalent to the sun's rays falling on the surface of the planet for eight and a half days



17. All people have 99.9% of the same DNA. But 0.1% is what makes us different