In any circus, the diameter of the arena is 13 meters

Circus in its modern form appeared in the 18th century, and its "father" is considered to be the Englishman Philip Astley. It was he who experimentally determined that it was most convenient for horses to gallop in a circle with a diameter of 13 meters. This diameter of the arena is observed in all circuses of the world today.

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Incredible view of the Amalfi Coast. Italy

The Mediterranean coast of Amalfi is surrounded by steep mountain cliffs about 700 meters high. At every point it offers stunning views that are impossible to take your eyes off.

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Misty Guns.

They are used to fight smog and air pollution. The machines work by spraying liquid into tiny particles and spraying them into the air, where they combine with pollutants to form water droplets that fall to the ground.

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Namibia is a country where the desert meets the water.

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It wasn't until 1952 that the British Post Office banned the mailing of people.

The reason was an Englishman who "put the mail to the test" by sending everything, including himself.

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The train was invented before the bicycle

Carl Drez was the inventor who created the bicycle in February 1818. But rail transport has been known since the days of ancient Greece. Before steam engines, railcars were used in mining.

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Halong Bay

In the north of Vietnam, 160 km from Hanoi is a bay of amazing beauty - Halong. Above the emerald surface of the water towers 3,000 green islands and rocks of bizarre shapes, and the shores of the bay are decorated with beaches, caves, freshwater lakes and mangrove forests.

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The Sorveira tree grows on the banks of the Amazon, whose sap is very similar to milk in composition. To get it, you have to make an incision in the trunk of the tree, so you can get up to 4 liters of "milk" at a time.

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Sky in Diamonds

Kilauea volcano in Hawaii has been active for almost two months. It turned out that besides fear and destruction, the volcano can produce something beautiful. Together with the lava, small crystals of the semiprecious stone olivine erupted onto the earth!

Olivine is a very common mineral, the most abundant in the Earth's mantle. It is the volcanic activity that usually helps the olivine, melted in the magma, to come to the surface.

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Stabilization system that allows the bike not to fall down without using the foot

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The Faroe Islands are an autonomous region within the Kingdom of Denmark. The archipelago consists of 18 islands of volcanic origin located in the northern Atlantic Ocean between Iceland and Norway.

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✨Flower fields in the Netherlands.

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🦈Diving with sharks in a cage/South Africa

🏝 South Africa boasts a high concentration of great white sharks.

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