20 interesting facts that will add to your knowledge base (21 photos)

Information is now available at every turn, and you can learn something new every day. Replenishing your knowledge base is always useful, because it greatly expands our horizons and our ideas about the world. Let's take a look at some interesting facts from various areas of our lives.





1. Our planet is not actually a ball. It has the shape of an oblate spheroid, or geoid, and is “flattened” towards the poles



2. Recently, microplastic particles began to be detected in human placentas - both in the tissues of the mother and the fetus.





3. John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (1841-1845), still has a living grandson



4. The country with the lowest crime rate is Qatar (11.9 out of 100, according to 2018 data). Followed by Taiwan and UAE



5. Pugs can literally lose their eyes. Usually the help of a veterinarian is required - he can easily reset it into the orbit by pressing on the eyeball



6. Commercial aircraft crews receive more radiation than nuclear power plant workers. At high altitudes, the atmosphere does not protect so well from radioactive radiation



7. Mushrooms are closer to the animal kingdom than to plants. They do not have the ability to photosynthesize, unlike plants, they feed on ready-made organic compounds, and have another number of characteristics that are closer to the animal kingdom



8. The inventor of “chocolate drops” once sold his idea for a dollar. And as a result, it became popular all over the world.



9The Newborn Baby Megalodon Shark Was The Same Size As An Adult Great White Shark



10. On January 28, 1986, a terrible space shuttle disaster occurred - the Challenger shuttle. Recently it was found out that the crew of the ship did not die in the explosion, but tried to save the shuttle



The Challenger, carrying seven astronauts, disintegrated 73 seconds into its flight. But as it turned out, even after the systems failed, the crew still remained conscious and tried to save the ship. This became known from the book “Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger,” published in the United States.

11. Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than to the construction of the Great Pyramids



12. The United States leads the world in terms of the number of prisoners. About 2.2 million people are behind bars there. And China executes more prisoners per year than all other countries in the world combined.



13. The same methods used to create lab-grown meat are used to create artificial human muscle grafts.



14. Elephants have a huge penis that weighs almost fifty kilos. In addition, they can control it independently of the rest of their body, bending and moving it like a “second trunk.”



15. There are more slaves in the world today than ever before. If we look at the statistics, in 2021 there were 50 million victims of modern slavery in the world - 28 million of them are engaged in forced labor, 22 million are in forced marriage



16. Koalas are threatened with extinction due to chlamydia, which is actively spreading among them. This year, Australia began vaccinating wild koalas against this infection.



17. During World War II, more planes were destroyed than are currently flying. USSR aviation combat losses alone amounted to 47,844 aircraft



18. Many people may have buried their hamsters alive because they didn't know that hamsters hibernate.



19. Children have 70 more bones than adults.



The adult skeleton consists of 200–213 bones, while newborns usually have about 270 bones. As the child grows, many of the bones grow together.

20. A flea can accelerate faster than the space shuttle. Its speed is 8 centimeters per millisecond