Every person you see in your dream has met you in real life. Our brain can't create faces.

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There is a 15-story sports car vending machine in Singapore.

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Men spend about a year of their lives looking at girls.

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In the Middle Ages pepper was so expensive that it was accepted as payment for taxes.

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Did you know that in Tokyo the working day is 11-15 hours.

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Buford is the only town with a population of 1.

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There is a population of unusual wolves known as "sea wolves" in British Columbia.

They get about 90 percent of their food from the sea. They have special DNA that sets them apart from their fellow animals, and they are completely adapted to sea life. These amazing animals swim several kilometers every day in search of "seafood.

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The most expensive firm in the world is the East India Company

If you translate its capitals to today's exchange rate, they would be eight times the value of Apple, amounting to more than $7 trillion. The trading company itself was founded in Holland at the beginning of the 17th century.

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Yellowstone volcano is a supervolcano. A supervolcano is not a regular cone-shaped mountain. Instead, a supervolcano forms in a depression in the earth called a caldera.
The most expensive firm in the world is the East India Company

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A cave in China has been discovered so huge that it has its own climate and even clouds.

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There is a restaurant in Düsseldorf where you can eat gold sausages. These are ordinary sausages covered with a thin layer of pure gold of 585 standard. The owner of the restaurant sincerely believes that gold is good for digestion and health.

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The jellyfish Halitrephes maasi glows all shades of pink and purple in the dark, which is why it is dubbed the "firework" jellyfish.

Radial channels in the dome (up to 55 cm in diameter) through which nutrients pass form a flower-shaped pattern. This pattern reflects the light of spotlights and Halitrephes maasi shimmers with pink and yellow spots. When there is nothing to illuminate it, it drifts unnoticed in the darkness, waiting for its victims.

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The body perceives the sound of an alarm clock as a danger and threat.

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Jamevue is a mental phenomenon, the opposite of déja vu. This is the sudden feeling that you are facing a situation or person for the first time, although in fact they are familiar to you.

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The Salar de Uyuni is the largest dried-up salt lake in the world. The line between the salt lake and the horizon here is literally intangible, being in the middle of the desert plain, you can completely lose the sense of reality.

For many years it has been a favorite habitat of graceful pink flamingos. For several decades, salt has been successfully mined here and used for industrial and construction purposes.


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Hotel Costa Verde, Costa Rica

An incredible luxury hotel, based on the fuselage of a Boeing 727, located in the rainforest, overlooking the Pacific coast.
This airplane has been out of service for a long time. Now this 1965 airplane takes on guests rather than passengers.

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Lenticular (lenticular) clouds are a rather rare natural phenomenon. Such clouds are formed on the crests of air waves or between two layers of air. A characteristic feature of these clouds is that they do not move, no matter how strong the wind is.

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The human eye can see up to 48 kilometers away

If the Earth were completely flat, we could clearly see the flicker of a candle at a distance of up to 48 kilometers away.

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The LEGO constructor was invented in Denmark in 1949.

Its parts were originally made of wood, and the word LEGO is an abbreviation of the phrase leg godt, which means "play well".

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The pineapple eats you while you eat it

And it's all thanks to a substance in pineapple that gets back at you for eating it. Scientists have developed a curious enzyme with interesting properties. And it is contained mostly in pineapple, but also in kiwi and other fruits. This enzyme is called bromelain. This enzyme breaks down the protein in our lips, which makes our lips burn when we eat pineapple.

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