Ostfonna, or Eastern Ice Field, is an ice cap on the island of Northeast Land (Svalbard Archipelago, Norway).

It is the second largest glacier in Europe (after the North Island ice cap) and the seventh largest in the world!

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The U.S. has created a "drone on chicken legs" - bird robolaps allow it to land on branches and grab objects. Such a drone can be used to monitor bird flocks, engineers believe.

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You have to be very careful with gestures. Fingers folded in a ring - in America it is OK, in France it is zero, and in Japan it means money. But in Cyprus it means "homosexual".

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Fish have blue meat!

It happens. This is the meat of the toothy turpentine, a large predatory fish that hunts off the Pacific coast. The blue turpentine is edible, but the color of its meat is unusual: it is often bright blue or greenish.

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A jellyfish protects small babies from predators

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A girl with Vitiligo skin disease. In this case, the spots are located symmetrically.

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Photographer Valerio Minato spent six years hunting for this shot.

He captured the moment when the Moon rises just behind Mount Monviso (Italy), with the silhouette of the Basilica of Superga in the foreground.

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There is a plant called "tomato" - a hybrid of potatoes and tomatoes. Its fruits are tomatoes, and its tubers are potatoes. The variety was developed in the 20th century by several breeders who independently tried to graft tomato to potato.

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There is a prison in Brazil where for every book you read your sentence is reduced by four days

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In the forests of India, the Kalir-Kanda plant grows, called in the local dialect "tricking the stomachs." Eating 1-2 leaves, a person feels full for a whole week, despite the fact that there are no nutrients in the leaves. Not bad for people who want to shed excess weight.

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This is a soft carpet of moss that grows thanks to the few droplets of water you leave behind when you leave the shower.

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The heavier the blanket, the easier it is for a person to fall asleep.

The fact is that light touches excite the nervous system, and strong but soft touches soothe. This works for most people. Scientifically, the technique is called deep pressure on the body. Deep pressure is somewhat like a massage: relaxing and giving a feeling of peace and comfort.

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To become the famous London black cab taxi driver, you need to know more than 25 thousand roads and the location of 50 thousand points of interest, as well as pass a special test called “theKnowledge.” Candidates usually need twelve attempts and about 34 months of preparation to pass the exam.

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Laughter helps improve blood movement through the body.

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Asteroid impact into a spacecraft plate

What happens to a spacecraft's aluminum shielding when it is hit by a 14 gram asteroid at 15,000 km/h.

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Solar Sculpture: the paths of 5,000 magnetic field lines etched into optical-quality glass depict the complex flow of plasma in the Sun's outermost atmosphere, replicating how the solar corona appeared on October 21, 2000. This sculpture is based on a sophisticated computer model developed by a team of research scientists at Lockheed Martin's Solar System Research and Astrophysics Laboratory, and the rendering contains 300,000 engraved dots to create the image. A map of our remarkable and complex star that you can hold in the palm of your hand.

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Africa's scorching heat has changed domestic sheep

Did you know that sheep can be "naked"? Yes, in the north, a sheep without wool is like a cow without milk. Lambs still share their "coat" to keep us warm in winter.

But why wrap yourself in fur in Africa in +40? That's right, you don't! That's how the Dorper breed came to be!

Dorpers are not only adapted to the harsh African savannahs and deserts. They feel at home in Australia too.

Even Tasmania is home to lambs, despite the fact that it is quite cool there - the average temperature on the island is 12-21 °C.

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