Amazing facts that are hard to believe (18 photos)

No wonder they say that truth can be stranger than fiction. Because sometimes the real world throws us something so strange and amazing that, it seems, even science fiction writers could not think of it.





1. The Australian funnel-web spider is often called the deadliest in the world, but over the past 40 years since the creation of the antivenom there has not been a single confirmed death from its bite.



2. There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover North and South America with 30 centimeters of water.





3. When accelerating, the dragonfly experiences an overload of up to 4 g and up to 9 g when turning.



4. 1/6 of the world's living languages are spoken only in New Guinea.



5. One Australian won the lottery, then bought another ticket on camera to re-enact the event for a news story... and won again.



6. In World War II, a spy named Joan Pujol Garcia received the highest award for his service from both the anti-Hitler coalition and the Axis countries.



7. From the moment of its discovery until the moment it lost its status as a planet, Pluto traveled less than a third of the way around the Sun.



8. Tarantulas keep tiny frogs as pets.



9. In 1995, a man named MacArthur Wheeler robbed two banks while armed with a pistol. He was arrested just a few hours later because he did not hide his face under a mask. Instead, he decided to apply lemon juice to his face because he had read that lemon juice could be used to make invisible ink. His logic was that the juice would make his face invisible. He even told one of the cashiers: “Don’t worry, I have a face, you just can’t see it.” When he was arrested, he just sighed sadly and said: “But I covered myself in juice!” This case is still cited in academic journals as an example of how people with low intelligence actually think they are smarter than everyone else.



10. US President Jimmy Carter went down into a nuclear reactor where there was a partial core meltdown to stop it and save Ottowa (of course, this was before he became president).



11. There are about 10 times more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way.



12. Ciabatta bread was invented in 1982. It's marketed as a traditional, rustic Italian bread once enjoyed by peasants, but no - it was created in the 1980s.



13. Tsutomo Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip, and on the day he was supposed to leave, an atomic bomb fell on the city. Yamaguchi managed with minor injuries and returned home to Nagasaki, where he began work 3 days later. The second bomb dropped while he was telling his boss about his experience of the first. Yamaguchi survived without any injuries and eventually lived to be 90 years old.



14. Elk can dive almost six meters underwater in search of water.



15. Dinosaurs are older than grass. All images of dinosaurs where they roam green fields are unreliable. In those days, ground cover plants were mostly ferns or flowering shrubs rather than grass.

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16. The loudest recorded sound in history is considered to be the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in 1883. It ruptured the eardrums of people more than 60 kilometers from the epicenter, created an infrasound wave that circled the globe seven times, and could be heard in New York, more than 16,000 kilometers away.



17. Clouds weigh hundreds of thousands of kilograms, are filled with water and yet easily float above our heads. Without support, without structure - just a huge weight that hovers above us, and this does not surprise us at all.