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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No cat will ever know the joy of a sweet cupcake or candy.

Scientists believe that a mutation in a key taste receptor prevents cats from distinguishing between sugar and taste. Unfortunate! But you can give them other goodies that they'll appreciate.

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A halo is a rainbow around the sun.

However, it differs from an ordinary rainbow both in appearance and in its characteristics. A halo appears in the sky when several factors combine. Most often it is observed in frosty weather in conditions of high humidity.

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The rainbow giants of Antarctica.

In this footage, the humpback whales form an enchanting rainbow over themselves with each exhalation, for a moment.

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There is an extraordinary lake in the U.S. that is divided by a railroad into two colors

This is because of the different salt content of the water

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