9 true facts that are just beyond belief

8/7/2018

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Geography Story: 9 true facts that are just beyond belief

The way our world functions is still a mystery. Even though we can explain almost all processes, many facts are hard to believe.

#1 Our nervous system

This is the way our nervous system looks like. There are more than 13 million neurons in our spinal cord and all nerve signals are transmitted through it.

#2 Tree roots

A tree root system looks like our nervous system. Both are impressive and vital for life.

#3 The woolly mammoths and the Great Pyramid of Giza

It might sound very surprising but it is true: the last mammoths lived on Wrangel Island about 3500 thousand years ago. At that time in Egypt pharaohs were creating their famous Pyramids. The last mammoth disappeared during the reign of Tutankhamun.

#4 The largest flower ever known

Meet Raflesia, a plant that has no leaves or stem and no roots. It is the biggest in the world and looks more like an artificial flower. Actually, it is a parasite that lives in Asian jungles and can be 1 meter (3 ft 6 in) in diameter.

#5 Is the Earth bleeding?

This place is called Blood Falls. It is located in Antarctica. The water here has such color because of a great amount of iron in it.

#6 Hot spring in Chinoike Jigoku

It is the oldest hot spring in Japan. Its color changes with the weather: from orange in sunny weather to the bloody red in cloudy days. Because of its color and temperature this pond is compared with the hell.

#7 Christ of the Abbys

Probably, you've already heard about this bronze statue in Italy located underwater, in the Mediterranean Sea. It was placed there in honor of the first scuba diver in Italy.

#8 Titanoboa

Titanoboa was the largest snake that has ever lived on Earth. It was 15 meters (49 ft) long and weighed about 1000 kilogram (2 204 pounds). It could eat any animal and was the most dangerous monster of its time.

#9 Oxford University and the Aztec civilization

Interesting to learn, that the capital of the expanding Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlan, was founded in 1325, and Oxford University in 1249.

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41 Comments

Vladimir Orozco

The current USA goverment it’s a fact that historians will look upon in disbelief.

Ronald Cossin

Well we know now How the Egyptians move those massive blocks of stone , They Work the Wooly Mammoth to extinction

Karen Whitney

I got one for you, true history, Abraham Lincoln ‘s son was almost killed by accident, who saved his life?

Caroline Weis

I think there are still monster snakes around. Try the anaconda in the South American Amazon.

Richard E. Stone

The South used the Bible to justify slavery. But when the Bible was written and finalized circa 90 AD, Rome ( fell in 476 AD) had 1/3 of it's population in slavery, overwhelmingly white. Slavery comes from slav, a people that were exclusively white, e.g. YugoSLAVIA, CzechoSLAVIA, etc. Arabs, who still practice slavery, are descended from a slave woman, Hagar.

Betty Wiendels

Richard Elliott, How did you find out? It is the top university with difficult courses, I heard.

David Smith

Teotihuacan pictured was built long before the Aztecs.

tbear

Jaimi McEntire, that fact really surprised me! Thanks for your explanation! 😊👍

dmarkc

Caroline Weis, or Florida.

Jaimi McEntire

Krzysztof Trzcinski, Because people think of the Aztecs as part of the long ago past, and Oxford as something current. So they are amazed that the "current" one is actually older.

Dianne Boyd Wigger

John Wilkes booth

bina sarmah

littledick, Most religious books were written by some opportunists.

littledick

Jenny Whitehouse, It all depends who's interpreting Holy Writ. Does the Bible actually condemn slavery. If not, then it's OK in the minds of slaveholders. Also, check Acts 4:34-35. Almost sounds as if Marx, himself, got at least one of his ideas from Holy Writ.

joannagreer

Very interesting

RainingStars

https://www.google.com/amp/s/io9.gizmodo.com/the-last-mammoths-died-out-just-3600-years-ago-but-th-5896262/amp This tells when the last Woolly Mammoth 🐘 died out.