25 interesting facts from different areas of our lives (26 photos)

Learning something new is always interesting. Although the Internet is full of information today, this collection contains facts that you may not have known before. They were shared by users of the Reddit forum.





1. Turkeys can lay eggs without the participation of a male. This process is called parthenogenesis. In this case, turkeys always give birth to male offspring.



2. Babies can die from lack of individual attention and love (touching, hugging, kissing)





3. One battery, if simply thrown onto the ground, pollutes 400 liters of water and 20 square meters of soil with harmful components.



4. More people are enslaved now than at any time in human history.



5. Grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park, USA, eat about 300,000 moths per month. This constitutes 1/3 of the calorie content of their diet



6. Scientists estimate that more than 99 percent of all animal species that have ever existed on Earth have become extinct.



7. Less than 66 years passed from the first airplane flight (1903) to the landing of man on the Moon (1969).



8. Fingerprints began to be used for personal identification in China in the 700s of the last century. This practice was only used in forensic science in the 1800s.



9. There are only about 25 airships in the world



10. Cheetahs are not big cats. Unlike big cats (lions, tigers), they cannot growl, but they can purr like small cats.



11. A million seconds is approximately 11 days, and a billion seconds is 31.5 years. Now think about billionaires!



12. Animal numbers in Africa are still recovering today after most ungulates died due to plague in the 1800s.



13. For more than 60 years of space exploration, spaceships have reached all the planets of the solar system



14. The Moon is gradually moving away from the Earth. True, this happens at an extremely slow speed - 38 mm per year



15. There is such an interesting phobia - hippopotomonstrosesquipedalophobia. This is the fear of long and complex words



16. A cat named Cream Puff from the USA is considered the longest living in the world. She lived for 38 years and 3 days: this is a record confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records



17. Everest is not the tallest mountain in the world. The Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa volcanoes in Hawaii are taller than Everest, as they are 4.2 km submerged under water. The height of the twin volcanoes is 10.2 km, and the height of Everest is only 4.6 km



18. Ants don’t have lungs. They breathe using small spiracles - nine or ten tiny holes



19. Women die in car accidents 17% more often than men. They also have a 73% higher injury rate in head-on car crashes.



20. About 275 million new stars are born every day. And this is about 100 billion stars per year



21. Couples in India often spend a fifth of their lifetime income on a wedding.



22. German chemist Felix Hoffmann synthesized heroin just 11 days after he first synthesized aspirin.



23. Napalm, a flammable product created in 1942 at Harvard University, killed more Japanese in World War II than two atomic bomb explosions.



24. In the USA, Europe and Canada in the 70-80s, lakes died due to the abundance of acid rain



25. The city of Hum in Croatia is the smallest in the world. Its area is smaller than a football field and its population is only 28 people. But there is a museum, a tavern, two churches and a unique local brandy "Biska"