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Elephant - the only animal with 4 knees.



Because of the crustal movement ancient Egyptian pyramid moved to 4 m south of the place where they were built about 5,000 years ago.


Eskimos distinguish 40 shades of snow.


Rate - is an island in the Mediterranean, where he first began to charge for parking at the port.


Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear only at the age of 2-6 years.


The sound emitted by the blue whale is louder than a shot gun standing next to heavy silt roar of missile launches.


Average mole - a powerful earthworks, paving one hour to 15 m tunnel.


The surface of the light - about 100 square meters.


The absolute power of masticatory muscles on one side is equal to 195 kg, and the contraction of muscles on both sides can reach a strength of 390 kg ... Of course this will not be able to withstand the pressure of periodontal and therefore normal chewing pressure equal to 9-15 kg (well, a maximum of 100 kg, if you gnaws nuts).


Man - the only representative of the animal world, the ability to draw straight lines.


The male spider Piaura mirabilis female convinces that he his, rising as high as possible on the front legs, swinging the pedipalps (second pair of legs): if it were not such a behavior, the bride would eat hapless challenger.


If you add up all the numbers marked on a roulette wheel casino, you get the magic number 666.


Coelacanth, primitive deep-water fish, thought to be extinct 60 million more. Years ago, but it discovered in 1938 at the fish market in South Africa.


In his youth, the Black Sea perch mostly girls, but for 5 years, they radically change their sex.


Hardly anyone expects to find snow in tropical Africa, just three degrees south of the equator. However, the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro are always in the snow: here the temperature is kept around 20 degrees Celsius.


A cat falling from the 12th floor, a better chance of surviving than a cat that falls from the 7th.


Canada has the longest coastline in the world - 243 792 km.


Movement of the earth's crust led to the fact that Europe has receded from the coast of America to 1 m over the last 25 years.


Lake Nyos in Cameroon, August 21, 1986 exhaled a cloud of deadly carbon dioxide, killing 1,700 people.


Yahoo - a word coined by Jonathan Swift (Jonathan Swift) in the book "Gulliver's Travels." So called repulsive, disgusting man. The founders of «Yahoo!» Jerry Yang (Jerry Yang) and David Filo (David Filo) chose this name because I called themselves yahoo'mi. Now, however, the name stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.