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Apples, potatoes and onions have the same taste if they are eaten with a clamped nose. Due to the fact that these three products have a similar consistency, it is impossible to distinguish them without smell.
The maximum speed of the shuttlecock in badminton can reach as much as 270 kilometers per hour.
The highest temperature that a person could create is 510 million degrees Celsius. It is three dozen times higher than the temperature in the core of the sun.
A poppy, which is added, for example, to muffins and cupcakes, can lead to a positive result when testing for the use of drugs, in particular heroin.
Construction of the most expensive fountain in the world, which is located in Dubai, cost about 218 million dollars. Dubai Fountain has also entered the Guinness Book of Records as the largest among such structures.
The area of the world's largest basin of San Alfonso del Mar in the resort of Algarrobo in Chile is 8 hectares, and its length is 1013 meters. To fill the pool, it takes 250 million liters of water.
At the North and South Poles is impossible to catch a cold. And you will not get the flu. The reason is obvious: at the poles it is so cold that ordinary viruses simply do not survive there.
The polar bear can smell a person for 30 kilometers, and runs at speeds of up to 40 kilometers per hour.
The dose of ordinary cola sinks in water, and the dose of dietary - floats.
Tears from grief and tears from onions have a different chemical composition.
The world's largest cat is a tiger (a hybrid of a lion and a tigress) named Hercules, living in a wildlife sanctuary in South Carolina, USA. The 3.3-meter-tall animal weighs 418 kilograms.
The world's first computer with all the infrastructure necessary for its operation weighed 30 tons. It was an American programmable computer, which was created in 1941 by Harvard mathematician Howard Aixon based on the ideas of Charles Babbage and with the collaboration of four IBM engineers.
The cost of this computer was 500 thousand dollars. The computer is assembled in a case of stainless steel and glass, had a length of about 17 meters, a height of more than 2.5 meters, the area occupied several tens of meters. Computer Mark 1 contained electromechanical switches, relays and other parts in the amount of 765 thousand pieces.