30 interesting things about everything in the world (31 photos)

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1. In 1959, a 9-year-old black boy walked into one of the American libraries.



Due to racist prejudices, the police were called. The child, whose name was Ronald McNair, later defended his dissertation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and became a NASA astronaut.

2. The Less Known Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh





3. Pufferfish skeleton



4. Rare octopus with a completely transparent head



5. The ship of the Chinese explorer Zheng He compared with the Santa Maria of Christopher Columbus. Both lived and traveled at the same time



6. "Solar corona" during a total eclipse



7. View of Fuji from an airplane



8. Canadian Rockies



9. This couple met during World War II and got married in Germany



A woman traded two cartons of cigarettes for a parachute to make her wedding dress.

10. The oldest living organism on Earth



Methuselah, an intermountain bristlecone pine from California, is 4,853 years old.

11. Fairy Pools, Isle of Skye, Scotland



12. Giant ammonite



13. What lightning does to sand



14. Straight lines only



15. Leatherback turtle mouth



16. This is the human nervous system, which took more than 1,500 hours to dissect. There are only 4 such copies in the world



17. Researchers studied the effects of walking on children's cognitive abilities



After 20 minutes at rest/After 20 minutes walking

18. Mount Helens May 17, 1980 and 4 months later



19. This is the wig of Merit, Kha's wife, found in the tomb of the couple in Thebes, modern Luxor, Egypt.



The wig is made from natural hair. It can now be seen in the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy.

20. This is what all the nerves that lead to your teeth look like.



21. Real sizes of Africa and the Russian Federation



22. Mathematical analysis of the electrical impulses that mushrooms send to each other has revealed patterns that have a striking resemblance to human speech



23. Baby fish riding jellyfish



24. A man stands in a lumber yard at Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing, 1939.



25. Lifespan of animals



26. Reconstruction of the face of Alexander the Great based on several busts



27. The size of comet Churyumov - Gerasimenko in comparison with Los Angeles



28. Mycena subcyanocephala mushroom



29. Caño Cristales - a colorful river in Colombia



30. Wendy - a whippet with a myostatin gene mutation