A selection of interesting facts on various topics (18 photos)

The Internet gives us the opportunity to gain a huge amount of knowledge every day. But... most people prefer to scroll through memes and watch funny videos with cats. We don’t judge, because this is why the Internet was invented! However, sometimes you can be distracted by something educational. For example, a new selection of interesting facts on various topics.

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





Microplastic particles have recently begun to be detected in human placentas, both in maternal and fetal tissues.



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





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



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



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



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



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



Newborn baby megalodon shark was the same size as an adult great white shark



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.

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



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.



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



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



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



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



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



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