Hallucinogenic honey, glowing scorpions and other interesting facts and stories about everything (12 photos)

Sometimes it’s worth taking 5 minutes of free time to broaden your horizons. Another selection of amazing facts and interesting stories will help you with this.





If you think that the calorie content of soda is too exaggerated, then know that in order to completely burn 0.5 liters of the drink you drink, you will need to walk about 8 km or jog for 50 minutes.



People with panophobia clearly have a hard life, because it is a fear of everything: from any actions to events.





It’s unlikely that anyone has observed scorpions, especially at night. But this is probably quite fascinating, since they glow in the moonlight. And all because of the substances secreted to protect against parasites.



It would seem that such a harmless fruit as a peach can be dangerous. It's all about its poisonous bones containing amygdalin. This compound, when interacting with certain vitamins, can cause poisoning.



In most countries, escaping from prison is severely punished, but not in Germany, Mexico and Austria, where it is considered legal. The reason is simple: the desire for freedom is considered one of the main human rights there.



In 2016, a very interesting story happened in the Philippines. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has placed a $108,000 reward on the drug lord's head. True, he responded by offering an amount of 450 thousand dollars, only for the head of the Philippine leader.



In 2019, a man from India showed what real revenge is. After he was bitten by a snake, he could not think of anything better than to bite it back. As expected, the outcome was fatal for both.



Peter I had a very strange attraction to medicine, namely dentistry. The Emperor loved to remove the teeth of his courtiers, as evidenced by the collection kept in the Kunstkamera.



Speaking of Peter I. It is no secret that he had a very impressive height - more than 2 meters. However, his leg size was only 39 cm.



If you think you're eating a lot, know that you can't beat 45-pound pandas who spend 14 hours eating. These cute predators eat from 12 to 38 kg of bamboo per day.



Well, let’s finish with an interesting fact about the unusual bees that live in the mountains of Nepal. They are considered giant because their body length is about 3 cm, but something else is interesting. These bees collect not ordinary, but hallucinogenic honey, which is in demand among the local Tibeto-Burman people.