Part 2. Believe it or not. 18 true facts about our planet that are hard to believe.

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8. At the top of Mount Everest there are marine fossils.

All the peaks in this area are part of the formation of Chomolungma, where you can find many marine fossils, such as trilobites. The mountain was formed about 30 million years ago at the bottom of the ancient ocean.

9. The weight of an average cumulus cloud is more than 70 elephants

A medium sized cumulus cloud can contain up to 200 tons of water. If we consider the average weight of an elephant as 2.7 tons, the cloud will weigh as much as about 74 elephants.

10. According to biologists, lobsters are immortal, in the sense that they don’t die of old age.

They just grow in size until some external influence kills them.

11. Every time you smell violet, you smell it for the first time.

The smell of violet comes from a compound called ionone, which temporarily turns off the smell receptors, forcing you to immediately forget about the smell. Then the sense of smell receptors are "turned on" again, and you again smell the violet like the first time.

12. The density of Saturn is low enough to swim in water.

13. In a group of 23 people, the probability that two people will have the same date of birth is 50 percent.

If you don’t believe, think that not only your birthday is compared with the birthdays of 22 other people, but there are 231 comparisons in the group, not including your birthday. This phenomenon was called the birthday paradox.

14. Many small animals perceive time faster than we do.

This means that for them we will look like we are moving in slow motion.

15. There are underwater waterfalls.

In some places, parts of the ocean of different temperatures are joined. Since cold water is heavier than warm water, it falls. The waterfall in the Danish Strait, located between Greenland and Iceland, is the largest underwater waterfall in the world.

16. Due to the tidal forces between the Earth and the Moon, the days are longer by 1.4 milliseconds every 100 years.

It seems that it is not so much, but at a time when dinosaurs were still walking on Earth, the day lasted 23 hours.

17. If you will stand still at the equator, you will actually move at a speed of 1600 km per hour

18. If we had hypothetically drilled a hole through the center of the earth and jumped into it, it would have taken 42 minutes to reach the other side.