More than 1,600 people were lost in U.S. national parks and could not be found.

The prey has a horizontal shape of the pupil to better scan the horizon. The predator is vertical to better focus on prey.

In Tokyo, the working day lasts 11-15 hours.

Urea (the substance contained in the urine) is added to cigarettes for additional flavor.

About 35 million Chinese still live in caves.

You can make a cow go up a ladder, but you can't make it come down.

Jaguars are excellent swimmers. They love water and prefer to settle near bodies of water. They catch fish or open the shells of river turtles.

By the age of 22, Alexander the Great had conquered half the world.

Hippos have the largest mouths of any animal on land.

Hippos might seem like jovial creatures, but you don't want to mess with them. According to Guinness World Records, the African animal can open its jaws almost a full 180 degrees—making for an average gape of about four feet. And oh yeah, their teeth typically measure over two feet long. Yikes!

There is a hierarchy among the roosters, and it is the privilege of the highest-ranking rooster to call first at dawn.

Platypus venom causes excruciating pain. This pain can last for months and even morphine does not help.

In the state of Sri Lanka, elephants are considered sacred animals. You can adopt them for $66,000.

Bees are able to detect cancer before its lethal stages for humans, they can also sense and help find explosives.

In 2000, a survey showed that the majority of Japanese consider the best invention of the 20th century not the players and computer games, but instant noodles.

Dutch student Bojan Slat created a garbage collection system in 2021 to clean up the ocean. he has already collected 100 tons of garbage from the water.

France will pay €4,000 to all residents who give up their car in favor of a bicycle!

The split personality of a person can have not only a different character, but also different mental and physical abilities, be of a different age, have different health.

Smallpox is the only human disease that has been successfully eradicated. it has no cure, and the vaccine against it was the first and most successful vaccine.

A rooster from Switzerland was executed for laying an egg. Everyone thought it was the work of the devil.

Today, more than 20,000 people are on death row around the world, many of whom are convicted under the age of 18.

A deck of cards has a metaphysical meaning:
52 cards are 52 weeks of the year, 4 suits are seasons, 13 cards of the same suit are 13 phases of the lunar cycle. If you add up all the values ​​of the cards, you get 365 days.