One of Istanbul's beauties

The Bosphorus and the suspension bridges over it

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This mosquito met its doom.

The insect is digested by the Drosera capsa. Its brightly colored tentacles secrete sticky mucus that traps and digests its prey.

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It is impossible to catch a cold at the North and South Poles.

And you can't get the flu. The reason is obvious: at the poles it is so cold that ordinary viruses simply do not survive there.

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Solar eclipse.

A total solar eclipse at a certain point on Earth occurs once every 370 years. The shadow of the Moon with a diameter of 270 km moves at a speed of 1 km/sec.

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South Korea conducted the first tests of a vacuum tunnel

The Korean Research Institute of Railway Engineering has accelerated its mini-train to a record-breaking 1019 km/h which is slightly below the speed of sound (1192 km/h). Scientists expect to run this transport along the Seoul-Pusan route as early as 2024, reducing travel time from 3 hours to 30 minutes.

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A person who reads does not need caloric foods to cope with the hardships of a boring life.

People who read are much less likely to be overweight.

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Every second, 1.5 million tons of solar material is blown out of the Sun into space.

The magnetosphere shields the Earth, but the solar wind can reach the planet near the poles and disrupt satellite, radio, and GPS signals

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Young deer antlers are covered with skin and hair, but as the antlers grow, the skin on them dries out and peels off.

This is why deer with growing antlers so often scratch trees with them.

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The interesting thing about the structure of electric eels is the electrical organs, which occupy about 4/5 of the body length.

An eel generates a discharge of up to 860V and a current of up to 40 milliamps.

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In order to take off, the rocket needs incredible power.

Such power can be achieved, but the fire from the rocket will melt everything it encounters and even the rocket itself! To prevent this from happening, water is placed under the rocket, which is what makes it steam as it takes off.

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The amazing sight of a blue whale at lunch

After gaining about 110 tons of water, the whale closes its mouth and uses its tongue to squeeze water back into the ocean through the whale mustache.

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At NASA's Space Science Center there is a poster of bees that reads:

"A bee's aerodynamic body is not adapted to fly, but it's a good thing the bee doesn't know that."

The law of physics, the aerodynamic principle states that the width of the wings is too small to keep her huge body in flight, but the bee doesn't know, she knows nothing about physics or its logic and still flies...

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The Japanese have been harvesting wood for 700 years without cutting down the trees themselves.

In the 14th century in Japan, the amazing technique of daisugi was born, in which new cedars are simply grown in old cedars by pruning the "old" branches in a special way.

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The Chinese continue to amaze and pamper mankind with their inventions 😁

Case for iPhone as a portable game system "Game Boy" with its full working functionality.

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In the town of Creskill, New Jersey, all cats and felines must wear three bells.

So that the birds always know their location.

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During sleep, there is point activity of the same neural patterns as during play.

This suggests that during sleep, our brain reproduces our experiences, which helps it remember information and record memories.

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Hedgehogs' needles grow at about the same rate as our hair grows.

Hedgehogs also have regular hair between the needles, but you can only notice them with a close inspection, because they are thin and very sparse.

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Penguins react painfully to flying helicopters.

They raise their heads and lean back, and since their necks are short and their bodies are clumsy, they often fall on their backs. Penguins can not roll over and stand up on their own, and can even die.

That is why a specialist, by profession, comes to their aid - a penguin flipper.

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