Snow rolls.

A natural phenomenon in which snowballs are formed by the force of wind and gravity without human involvement.

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A fantastic "elevator to the future"

A New York City mall has an elevator that shows the development of the city through the years.

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The air in a coniferous forest is virtually sterile now

No more than 200-300 harmful bacteria per cubic meter

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Emergency water discharge from a hydropower plant

Water is discharged when there is a threat of overflowing the reservoir due to flooding or heavy rains. It's scary to imagine the pressure of the water there.

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Congo tourmaline.

A diamond that appears to be pixelated.

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The king cobra is the largest venomous snake.

It is a common misconception that it is one of the most venomous snakes in the world (although it is the Taipan McCoy of the Taipan genus, with venom 180 times more powerful than that of the cobra, and some other species)

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Corippo, one of the smallest villages in Switzerland.

It is mostly a complex of empty stone houses. At one time more than 300 people lived there, but now only 12 remain.

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Caesar salad has nothing to do with Julius Caesar.

It is named after Caesar Cardini, the Italian-American chef who invented the recipe.

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A wind-powered electric generator

It is powered by passing cars.

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Rail Excavator

A road-rail vehicle or rail vehicle is a dual-mode vehicle that can operate on both railroad tracks and conventional roads.

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The world's first programmer was a woman, the Englishwoman Ada Lovelace.

In the middle of the 19th century she made a plan of operations for the prototype of the modern computer - Charles Bebbidge's analytical machine, which could be used to solve Bernoulli's equation expressing the law of conservation of energy of a moving fluid.

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The Food Administration in America

Allows for the presence of insect fragments and hair from various rodents in peanut butter.

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What murmuration is, scientists can't exactly define.

Mostly the term is applied to the so-called dance of starlings, when thousands of them gather in flocks and put on a spectacular show in the sky.

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The raccoon has thousands of tactile receptors on its paws, which it can use to identify an object without even looking at it.

A raccoon is said to be a bear or a dog. Raccoons are raccoons. But in a number of characteristics, they can be compared to other animals.
Raccoons represent a genus of predatory mammals belonging to the Raccoon family. The name of this predator comes from the Indian word "Arakun", which means "scratching with your hands".

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The brain burns calories.

The brain uses 400 calories of energy a day, and it burns those calories at a steady rate, unlike other organs.

The brain is only 2% of our body weight, yet it uses 20% of our energy. Compared to muscles, for example, which use 25% of the body's energy, that's a lot. And the brain of newborns uses as much as 65% of the body's energy.

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The liver is the main filter of the whole body.

It picks up all the dirt that we breathe or that we eat. If it were not for this function, a person would die in two to three hours.

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