Eight interesting facts that are not so easy to believe (9 photos)

Our world is at the same time very studied, but at the same time there are still millions of secrets in it. Only 2% of the world's oceans have been studied!





In general, it is very interesting to look at how technology develops and how, thanks to it, we learn something new every year. This is not always good news, of course, but still.

There is a movie whose ending depends on which eye you view it through.



In 1922, the film “The Power of Love” was made in 3D format. And everyone who watched it could choose the ending themselves. Such films are watched with glasses with them and red glasses; the filmmakers made it so that the ending through the blue glass was different from the ending through the red. By closing one eye, the viewer could see either a tragic or a happy ending to “The Power of Love.”

The real color of oranges is green





Oranges that grow in southern subtropical regions are green. But when they begin to rot, they turn orange. But since people consider green to be the color of unripe fruits, they are treated with ethylene, which destroys chlorophyll and that’s how oranges turn orange. Well, the second way to make oranges the color we are accustomed to is to freeze and defrost them.

The wingspan of pterodactyls is larger than the wingspan of an F16 fighter



Just imagine that some species of pterodactyls weighed half a ton and were the size of a giraffe. Scientists who found the fossil remains of one of these species measured the length of its wing - 11 meters! One meter more than the span of the F16 fighter.

The Queen of England gives orders using her handbag



Yes, this is her means of communicating through body language. For example, if she has finished talking with a guest, then she simply transfers the bag from one hand to the other and her assistants will correctly finish the conversation. And if the queen is tired and wants to be left alone, she will put her handbag on the ground. This is a signal to immediately stop the conversation. Well, there are also signals that only the special services are aware of.

The smell of wasabi is used to let deaf people know that a fire has started.



This is the original system that Japanese scientists came up with. A special device sprays wasabi vapor into the air to warn of a fire. The concentrated smell of wasabi can wake up even sound sleepers.

There's a spaceship graveyard in the South Pacific



It was called “Point Nemo” and it is as far away from land as possible. All failed and obsolete satellites are dumped here. The Mir space station is also located there. Now there are more than three hundred satellites at “Point Nemo”.

Bowler hats were invented as protection from branches while riding a horse



The first such hats appeared in 1860 and quickly became very popular. Of course, they could support the weight of an adult! Buying a bowler hat went like this - the buyer stood on it twice and if it held up, then it was bought.

Each country at the South Pole can set its own time



Due to the fact that there is no longitude on it, since all the meridians converge there. Scientific stations located at the South Pole use the time of the country to which they belong. So, in two adjacent rooms there can be different times: in one it is seven in the morning, and in the other it is six o’clock in the evening.