Interesting facts about ligers.

A liger is a hybrid cross between a lion and a tigress. Ligers are the largest of all cats, reaching the height of a lion and the length of a tiger. They carry characteristics from both parents, such as a love of swimming from tigers and social behavior from lions. Currently, Ligers can only be found in captivity, but there have been cases in history of finding them in the wild. Ligers were thought to be infertile for a long time, but this theory was disproved in 1953 when a 15-year-old liger successfully mated with a lion. The cub survived despite having poor health.

On Jungle Island, a theme park in Miami, you can see Hercules. Hercules is a huge liger weighing 410 kg, who got into the Guinness Book of Records as the largest cat in the world.

Interesting facts about cockroaches.

Cockroaches have white blood that flows freely through the body. In other words, they do not have blood vessels designed to conduct blood. Interestingly, even the heart of this insect is like a simple tube that pumps blood to the front and back of the body. The eye of this insect has 4000 segments that help to see all directions at one time. An interesting fact is that a cockroach can live without a head, since the brain of a cockroach is not in the head, but throughout the body. But without a head, they can die within ten days, due to lack of water, because they have nothing to drink. Interestingly, cockroaches spend most of their time (about 75%) in hibernation. Cockroaches are widely used in folk medicine. Cockroach tea is used to treat dropsy, and cockroaches fried with garlic are used to treat stomach upset. In the east, cockroaches are used in dried and powdered form for the treatment of the urinary tract. Cockroaches can live...

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Interesting facts about Bruce Lee.

At the age of 32, during the filming of the movie "The Game of Death", Bruce Lee died unexpectedly. Interestingly, the film company rewrote the script as if Bruce's character faked his death to get away from the mafia. Moreover, the film included footage from the real funeral of Bruce Lee — including close-up shots of an open coffin. Most martial arts movies speed up to make beautiful fighting scenes, but not in the case of Bruce Lee. His movements were too fast for the eye and therefore the battle scenes were shot at a frequency of 32 frames per second, and then slowed down so that the audience could see his movements. Bruce Lee's family gave him the feminine name "Little Phoenix" because they believed that evil spirits did not like boys in the family (their first-born son died in infancy). And the name Bruce was recorded in his documents by a nurse from the hospital in San Francisco, where he was born (Bruce's father was traveli...

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The shortest war in the world.

This fleeting war lasted only 45 minutes and entered the Guinness Book of Records. At the end of the XIX century, Zanzibar was under British rule. In 1896, the new Sultan of Zanzibar, Khalid ibn Bargash, tried to get out of control, seeking support from Germany. He gathered a small army of two and a half thousand soldiers and took out an old cannon of the XVI century from the cellars. The British responded by issuing an ultimatum, expiring at 9:00 a.m. on August 27, according to which the Zanzibarians had to capitulate. In response, they hoisted the cannon onto their only ship, the yacht Glasgow, and fearlessly set sail to meet five British frigates. Exactly at the time appointed by the ultimatum, the Imperial Fleet opened fire on the shore. Five minutes later, the Glasgow responded and was immediately sunk by crossfire from two ships. The Zanzibar ship continued firing all the time until it disappeared under the water. Half an hour after the bombing, only the m...

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