11 Curiosities that will change your ideas about the world

The total number of scientists in the world reached 8 million people. Even if we imagine that each of them is working on a study for 10 years, that would mean that hundreds of discoveries are made every day. Medicine, animal behavior, technology: the theories we know are refuted or treated from a new perspective.

O awesome.club gathered some facts that will blow your mind.

The surprising paradox is caused by the qualification calculation method: the amount of common crimes and criminal acts that occurred within a year is divided by the number of inhabitants of a city. And this small city-state, of course, has far fewer inhabitants than São Paulo, Lagos (Nigeria) and even the Bronx region of New York.

For example, in 2006, the population of the Vatican was 492 people, and the number of crimes registered on its territory reached 827 cases.🇧🇷 As a result, the statistical level of crime was the highest in the world: 1.68 incidents per citizen.

These mammals, known for their slow way of life, sometimes like to swim. And, if on land, the sloth moves only 2 meters, in water its speed increases 5 times! And, thanks to a slow metabolism, it can go a record amount of time without air.

A person can taste sweetness with the tip of the tongue, and bitterness closer to the root: the usual map of taste perception is recognized as a myth. Different types of taste buds are distributed over the entire surface of the tongue. The “zoning” illusion creates a predominance of receptors of one species in a given area.

Contrary to popular belief, dogs don’t just see the world in black and white. The ancient myth about dichromatic vision has been refuted by Russian scientists. An experiment with marking empty and filled feeders with different colors showed that our pets distinguish between blue and yellow colors. However, dogs cannot see the difference between red and green.

Three cities in the United States bear this name. And they are located in the states of Georgia, Arizona and Indiana. The latter, for many years, entered the map of obligatory places to celebrate Christmas. In it, tourists can find the symbol of the parties.

Santa Claus, Georgia is a smaller town, and has only one park, one chapel and eight streets with characteristic names like “Rudolph Street” or “December Street”. Well, in the second, the namesake of the state of Arizona has become a ghost town, which only has a few buildings along the road.

Any herd of sheep has its own hierarchy, and the ranking is built between animals of the same sex and age. Leaders in your community are given the best spots near the feeders and during rest and can control the behavior of other members of your group.

But all this happens until the clipping of his fur, which is akin to a revolution, describes this blog. Along with distinctive features 🇧🇷 look and smell 🇧🇷 status is lost, and through struggles they try again to find out who is worthy of leading the herd.

The fall of the fruit that finally contributed to the discovery of the law of universal gravitation just happened before Isaac Newton’s eyes. The direct fall of apples made the English physicist wonder why the trajectory of the fall was always the same.

This thought was mentioned by the scientist’s biographer, William Stukeley, in his book on Newton. Most likely, this text became the basis of a legend about an apple that fell on the researcher’s head.

The traditional advice to change the situation, if constant stress paralyzes you, now applies to how you view your computer or other device screens. A new background can relieve stress and increase productivity. In this sense, the most effective images are of nature, and the least effective are urban views and geometric abstractions.

In addition to the pets familiar to us, the sounds of “ron-ron” can be heard from lemurs, guinea pigs, bears, foxes, hyenas, rabbits and squirrels. And gorillas can start purring around mealtime.

We cannot fully appreciate the power of our own vision, because even with a flat landscape, it is limited by the horizon line. The maximum distance at which the experiment will not be affected by the shape of the Earth is only 5 kilometers.

In fact, a person can see much better: if the planet were flat, in complete darkness we could see a small flame burning 48 kilometers from us, according to research by scientists.

According to ecologists, processing 1,000 kilograms of ore contains between 1 and 2 grams of gold. And the same amount of precious metals can be obtained by sending to process parts containing gold from 41 phones.

A ton of gadgets contains approximately 300 grams of gold. However, the cost of the devices themselves is too high for this “gold mining” option to be profitable.

Of course, in addition to what is described in this article, there are many facts that can completely change our ideas about the world. Share in the comments what awesome.club still don’t know.