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What does the moon smell like?

Apparently, gunpowder. Only twelve people have walked on the moon, and they are all Americans. It is obvious that the astronauts could not sniff the Moon in airtight spacesuits, but lunar dust is a terribly sticky thing, and when the Americans returned to the ship, they dragged a lot of "dirt" on their soles.

In their report, the astronauts reported that lunar dust feels like snow to the touch, smells like gunpowder, and tastes quite tolerable. In fact, almost half of the lunar dust is silicate glass made from silicon dioxide, which arose as a result of meteorite collisions with the surface of the Moon. In addition, lunar dust is rich in iron, calcium and magnesium, which are part of various minerals.

NASA has a small group of "sniffers" who sniff every piece of equipment that goes on the next flight. This is done so that none of the items could change the fragile climate balance created on the International Space Station.

The popular myth that the moon is made of cheese comes from the 1564th century. The very first extract from Proverbs (XNUMX) by John Heywood says: "The moon is made of green cheese." It seems to the authors that in this context the word greene ("green") is used in the sense of "immature" rather than "having a green color", since young cheeses often look "speckled" - almost like the Moon with its famous craters.

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Who does the hynk-hynk?

Albanian pig.

Albanian dogs do "ham-ham".

In Catalonia, dogs bark bap-bap. Chinese say "wang-wang", Greek - "bow-wow", Slovenian - "hov-hov", Ukrainian - "gaff-gaff". In Iceland it's woff, in Indonesia it's gong-gong, and in Italian it's bau-bau.

Interestingly, the less variation in the sound produced by a particular animal, the more readily different languages converge in its interpretation. So, in almost every language, a cow mooes "moo", a cat meows "meow", and a cuckoo cuckoos "coo-coo".

According to scientists from the Center for the Study of Animal Behavior in Cumbria, dogs are even acquiring a local accent. It is most pronounced in Scottish and Liverpool quadrupeds. Liverpool have a slightly higher voice, but the Scots have a "lighter tone".

To collect the necessary data, the Center's specialists turned to the owners and their pets with a request to leave a voice message on the answering machine, and then compared the pitch, tone, volume and length of sounds made by a dog and a person.

As a result, scientists came to the conclusion that dogs imitate the voices of their owners in order to demonstrate their affection: the stronger it is, the more noticeable the similarity in sound.

In addition, dogs tend to copy the behavior of their owners. For example, a terrier living in a family of young people is more likely to be energetic and rebellious. But the same dog that got to the owner-old woman turns into a quiet and passive creature, prone to long periods of sleep.

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