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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Underwater Waterfall Mauritius

An unusual natural anomaly can be observed in the Indian Ocean - the illusion of an underwater waterfall located off the coast of the Le Morne Brabant Peninsula in southwest Mauritius.

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Each king depicted on the playing cards is a real historical character.

The King of Spades is King David, the King of Crosses is Alexander the Great, the King of Hearts is Charlemagne, and the King of Diamonds is Julius Caesar.

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🍯One teaspoon of honey is the result of a lifetime of work by 2 bees.

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👶 In the last 120 years, life expectancy in Europe has increased by 35 years.

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Among all citrus, only four species are not hybrids.

Pomelo, citron, mandarin, and lime. Lemons, oranges, grapefruits, and other citrus fruits were formed by crossbreeding, natural or artificial.

The amazing ability of octopuses to "seep" into any crevice.

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If a Google employee dies, his or her spouse receives half pay for 10 years and their children are paid $1,000 a month until age 19.

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How our own brains deceive us.

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