Maeklong Market.

In Thailand, there is one special Meklong market that can seriously scare you. No, it's not about prices or quality of goods. The fact is that a train passes through it, and there are very, very few places there. The train passes literally centimeters from the counters and people.

The Japanese giant hornet is the largest of all types of hornets.

The effect of a bite is compared to hammering a red-hot nail, after which the action of toxins begins, which causes swelling, fever, and even tissue necrosis. As a bonus, you can get not one, but several stings, since the hornet is able to sting repeatedly. On average, these guys kill about 40 people a year - more than any other wild animal in Japan.

Replica of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Joe Barnard of the YouTube channel BPS.space spent 7 years developing a replica of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket - it repeatedly takes off at 800 meters and lands on supports. Subscribers helped Barnard finance the project. In the future, he wants to launch his Scout F rocket into suborbital space, to a height of 100 kilometers.

Bacteria capable of living on Mars have been found.

And even carry out photosynthesis. One strain of cyanobacteria from the Anabaena family, PCC 7938, can do more than just live in the Martian atmosphere. It will perfectly get along in the grains inside the Martian soil. Which theoretically opens up scope for the colonization of the red planet.

In Argentina, they discovered a new species of dinosaur that weighed like a cat and looked like a dragon

Paleontologists have found the remains of a previously unknown dinosaur species in southern Argentina, which they called Jakapil kaniukura ("shield bearer"). Such a dinosaur was the size of a cat, walked on its hind legs and looked like a small dragon. Scientists believe that Jakapil kaniukura lived about 100 million years ago. Its fossils have been found during excavations for the past ten years, but only now have researchers got enough data to single out this dinosaur as a separate species.

Interesting facts about sharks.

1. Sharks don't feel pain. 2. The eye of a shark can perceive almost twice as many frames per second as the human eye. 3. Sharks are able to feel the blood diluted in sea water in a ratio of one to a million. Yes, they do have a very, very keen sense of smell. 4. Sharks can't sleep. The fact is that they can pass water through the gills, taking oxygen from it, only in the process of swimming, since shark gills at rest cannot “suck in” water themselves. Thus, sharks never sleep, otherwise they will simply suffocate. 5. There is a place in the central part of the Pacific Ocean where large groups of white sharks regularly gather. It bears the informal name "Shark Cafe".

Black Panthers have a unique ability.

They can change their smell, which allows her to deceive her victims, who themselves come to her paws, attracted by the smell.

The most expensive tea in the world.

Chinese tea "Da Hong Pao" - "Big Red Robe" is the most expensive tea in the world. It can only be purchased at an auction, so the price can reach $700,000 per 1 kg. Chinese tea "Da Hong Pao" has been famous since the reign of the Qing Dynasty; it grows in China only in one place in the province of Fujian near the Tianxin monastery. Experts suggest that the age of the bushes of this tea is more than 350 years. Each year, the tea harvest is approximately 500 grams. The taste of this tea will not leave anyone indifferent. And all thanks to the amazing combination of ancient wine and exotic fruits. After the first sips of Da Hong Pao tea, one gets the feeling that the light bitterness is being replaced by the aroma of fruits and wine.

China launched the world's first maglev tram line.

Thanks to powerful magnets, the tram hangs in the air at a height of 10 meters and can accommodate 88 passengers moving at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour. At the moment, there is one test 800 meter line, but plans are to expand it to 7 km and 120 kilometers per hour speed

Scientists have figured out when the sun will be at its hottest.

The European Space Agency has studied data on thousands of sun-like stars in the Milky Way and figured out how its future will turn out. The Sun is now 4.57 billion years old and continues to heat up. The hottest star will be 8 billion years old. Then it will cool down, increase in size and become a red giant in 10-11 billion years. Then, in about 11.8 billion years, it will gradually turn into a white dwarf - that is, into stellar remnants.

Intellectual labor pollutes the brain with toxic substances.

As a result of nervous activity in the process of mental work, potentially toxic substances, in particular glutamate, accumulate in the prefrontal cortex of the brain. Because of this, people feel cognitive fatigue - the desire to do anything disappears. French scientists came to such conclusions. They hope that their discovery will help fight burnout among office workers. According to neuroscientists, feeling tired can signal the need to stop working in order to preserve the integrity of brain function. To combat mental exhaustion, scientists recommend rest and sleep, as during it glutamate is removed from the brain.

Here's how it happens.

In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was scheduled to give a campaign speech in Wisconsin, but he was assassinated en route. Careful preparation for the speech protected him from death, because the bullet hit the 50-page speech stored in his pocket.

Here is the series!

The longest-running series, Guiding Light, aired on television from 1952 to 2009, has 18,262 episodes, which will take 594 days and 1 hour to watch continuously.

The Dog Surfing World Championship was held in Northern California.

More than fifty dogs from all over the country took part in the unique competition. Surfer dogs competed in different weight categories. By the way, the Norcal Dog Surfing event & World Championships is an annual competition founded in 2016 and all funds raised during the championship go to charity.

Women like men with small dogs in their arms.

These conclusions were reached by Spanish scientists from the University of Jaén during a study involving almost 300 female students. The participants liked it more when the dog was present in the photo.

Sea sponges can sneeze.

Sea sponges - simple creatures without a brain - know how to sneeze. So they remove garbage and waste from the body. The secreted mucus is a delicacy for fish and other underwater inhabitants.

In 25 years, Antarctica's ice shelves have lost twice as much ice as previously thought.

Since 1997, the ice shelves of Antarctica have lost not 6 trillion tons of ice, but 12 - that is, twice as much as scientists thought. NASA experts came to such conclusions. Ice shelves act as a support for melting ice, preventing it from reaching the ocean directly. Due to the loss of their mass, they have weakened, from this the rate of global sea level rise is increasing.

Xiaomi introduced its first humanoid robot CyberOne.

The machine was developed by Xiaomi Robotics Lab. The humanoid robot is 1.77 cm tall, weighs 52 kg, and has an average speed of 3.6 km/h. The robot is equipped with a set of sensors that allow it to navigate in space, recognize people nearby and, if necessary, respond to them. So, CyberOne is able to answer questions and talk on various topics, recognizing 45 human emotions. Xiaomi believes that CyberOne can become a household assistant, performing small tasks. However, the company emphasized that this is only the first model and it is very far from really "smart" robots. When and at what price CyberOne will go on sale is unknown.

Adrenaline

Adrenaline gives a person tremendous strength: in a critical situation, he is able to lift the car. And this is no coincidence. In stressful situations, adrenaline mobilizes all the forces of the body for self-defense. Such a phenomenon is especially necessary in case of injuries, when, being in a state of shock, a person does not feel pain in full force, while a strong pain shock can lead to death.

Did you know?

One large container ship releases the same amount of cancer and asthma-causing substances into the environment as 50 million cars. And the 15 largest container ships in the world combined pollute our planet like 760 million cars.