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Do planets affect our climate?

Yes, both giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn, by their attraction over a long period of time, somewhat shift the axis of rotation of the Earth. Because of this, the intensity of the flux of solar radiation falling on one or another part of the earth's surface changes.

Such changes affect, in particular, the timing of the onset of ice ages. Some glaciologists (ice researchers) believe that the next cooling will come in 20000 years.

Author: Mendeleev V.A.

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Which African mammal kills more people than any other?

Hippopotamus.

Unfortunately, hippos love to stay near fresh water bodies overgrown along the banks - in the same places that a person has chosen for himself.

Most of the trouble is either due to the fact that a hippo underwater is accidentally hit on the head with an oar and he decides to take revenge by turning the boat over, or people are tempted to walk in the moonlight - at the very hour when hippos get out of the water to chew grass. "Treaded down by a frightened hippo" is not a good headline for an obituary.

Hippos are the largest representatives of the hippopotamus family. Relatives of our pigs, they are divided into two types: ordinary and dwarf. The common hippopotamus (aka hippopotamus) is the third largest land mammal after the African and Indian elephants.

There are few who are foolish enough to attack a hippopotamus. The hippopotamus is an extremely irritable animal, especially in its youth. He deals with the lions, throwing them into the water and drowning them in the depths, bites the crocodiles in half, and pulls the sharks onto land and tramples them to death. At the same time, hippos are strict vegetarians, and all their aggressiveness comes mainly from self-defense. The hippo's main food is grass.

The skin of a hippopotamus weighs a whole ton, which is 25% of the mass of the animal itself. Its thickness, 4 cm, is bulletproof for most types of small arms. The hippopotamus secretes an oily red liquid through the pores of its skin, which protects it from drying out - it was she who gave rise to the myth that hippos sweat blood. Don't let this carcass fool you. An adult hippo will easily overtake any of you.

Other than whales and dolphins, hippos are the only mammals that mate and give birth underwater. They can close their nostrils, puff up their ears, and remain completely submerged for up to five minutes.

Hippos have terrible bad breath. When it seems to you that the hippopotamus is yawning, in fact, he blows everything around with his halitosis - they say, stay away from me. And this is very useful advice: the fangs of a hippo are sharp, and the jaws can easily bite a limb.

Hippos have four "teeth", their material is ivory. George Washington's false teeth were partly made from such fangs.

According to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food, the tastiest part of a hippopotamus is its mammary glands stewed in a pot of herbs and spices. In the absence of such, the muscles of the back, prepared in a similar way, will come off.

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