30 facts that will make the world more interesting (31 photos)

Learn a little new about the world - and it will sparkle before you with unprecedented facets!







Every autumn, this 1,400-year-old tree from China's Zhongnan National Park dresses in a dazzling yellow outfit, showering its surroundings with golden leaves.





For thousands of years, the Inuit of Alaska and Northern Canada have been carving glassless glasses with narrow slits from wood or bone to prevent their eyes from being burned by the blinding light of the Sun reflected from the white snow.



The Japanese have been harvesting wood for 700 years and have a signature daitsugu method invented in the 14th century. Thanks to him, they obtain wood without cutting down the tree, but by trimming it, preserving the trunk and removing only the growing upper branches.



"The Veiled Virgin" is a sculpture by Giovanni Strazza (1918 - 1875) made of Carrara marble, presumably made in the 1850s. Mary's veil appears transparent - but it is also made of marble.



This wooden church in Norway was built in 1180 and closed in 1868. In 1877, the National Trust bought it to save it from destruction. Now it is a museum.



Tempered glass staircase at the Hanone Museum, Japan.



The 2,000-year-old seeds were found in 1963 in Israel. They were planted in 2005, and from them grew a tree that was thought to be extinct for 1,800 years - the palmate date palm, a species of native date palm.



Gary Drostl's mosaic "Fish Pond" is one of the striking examples of the use of shadow in mosaic. The shadow here adds dimension and realism while connecting the fish to the pond.



In 1759, King Louis XV ordered the midwife Angelique de Coudray to go to the provinces and teach local women how to deliver babies in order to reduce infant mortality. She carried out the royal order, training more than 4,000 women to be midwives from 1760 to 1783. To do this, she used many manuals made by herself. The photo shows one of them: a model of the uterus sewn from fabric.



The Swedish ship Vasa sank in 1628 during its maiden voyage, moving a little more than a kilometer from the coast. 333 years later, it was raised from the bottom of the sea to become the main exhibit of the Vasa Museum in Stockholm. It is considered the best preserved ship from the 17th century.



The Norwegian Forest Cat is also called the Viking cat. This is one of the oldest cat breeds on the planet. Among its ancestors are the black-and-white shorthaired British cats, which are remarkably cold-resistant: the Vikings brought them from Britain around 1000 AD. Longhaired cats were brought to Norway by the Crusaders later in the 14th century.



Sometimes you can find your double in a painting painted more than 100 years ago.



This isolated ecosystem has thrived in a closed container for over 40 years. During all this time it was watered only once.



This is the world's first drawing of the Moon, made by Galileo Galilei after he saw the Earth's satellite through a telescope in 1609.



In 1864, a group of samurai traveled to Egypt and were photographed next to the Sphinx.



This is what the interior of a residential gypsy tent looks like (19th century).



White Wolf, also known as Chief John Smith of the Ojibwe by his tribesmen, was born in 1785 and died in 1922. He lived to be 137 years old and is considered the oldest Native American in history.



The Chand Baori stepwell is located in the village of Abganeri in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Built in the 9th century, it was intended to give access to water to as many people as possible at once. This is one of the deepest and largest wells in India: it has 13 floors, and to get down to the water, you need to overcome 3,500 steps.



An Argentine farmer found these remains of giant armadillos, some 20,000 years old, in the ground near a river. They all looked in the same direction, as if heading towards some destination. The largest of them was the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. Their approximate weight, according to experts, is about 2 tons.



An Armenian carpet woven in the 1890s depicts the Vank Cathedral in New Jugha in Iran.



Reaction of a New Guinea native seeing a white man for the first time. The photo was taken in the 1930s.



The "Staircase of Death" was built by the Inca civilization 600 years ago. The Incas used it to climb Mount Huayna Picchu, more than 4,000 meters high, to build temples and terraces there.



During the time of the Romans, when building roads, “tiger eyes” were placed between large cobblestones - white pebbles, thanks to which the road was visible in the dark.



Ancient Egyptian gold ring with a cat figurine, made between 1070 and 712 BC.



The coral petrified in agate retained the structure of its petals.



Several years ago, a team of archaeologists excavating a megalithic tomb, the tholos of Montelirio in southern Spain, discovered a 25-centimeter dagger carved from rock crystal, approximately 5,000 years old. In addition, 10 arrowheads, 4 knife blades and several blanks for cutting products, also made of crystal, were found there.



The "Lovers of Hasanlu" died around 800 BC. Their bodies were discovered in 1972. According to experts, they died in each other's arms and remained in this position for more than 2,800 years.



Comparison of the jaws of a prehistoric megalodon basking shark, which lived approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago, and a modern great white shark.



The skull of an Olympic athlete, crowned with a laurel wreath, was found in the town of Agios Nikolaos in Crete and belongs to the Hellenistic period. Laurel turned out to be more durable than human flesh.



The Roman Baths in Quenchele, Algeria are over 2,000 years old, but they are still used for their intended purpose.