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Why is the sky blue during the day and red during sunset?

The short-wavelength components of the solar spectrum are scattered in the air more than the long-wavelength ones. This is why we see the sky as blue, because blue is at the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum. For a similar reason, during sunset or dawn, the sky on the horizon turns red. During this time, the light travels tangentially to the earth's surface and travels much longer through the atmosphere, causing much of the blues and greens to escape direct sunlight due to scattering.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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Why does an opossum hang on its tail?

There are many things about the opossum that make it a strange and interesting animal. For starters, did you know that opossums belong to a group of animals called marsupials? The females of these animals have a bag on their belly, in which the cub usually develops.

The most famous representative of the marsupials is the Australian kangaroo. The length of the body of the opossum can range from 23 to 50 cm, and the length of the tail is 23-33 cm. The coat of the opossum is light gray in color. It is absent only on its round ears, narrow tail and toes. The inner toe of the possum's hind foot can bend and touch any other toe. The opossum uses its hind legs as "hands". Like the long tail, these legs help the opossum to climb trees.

In general, the opossum spends a lot of time in the trees, hunting and eating there. To free its paws for eating, the opossum wraps its tail around a tree branch and eats, holding its food in its paws and hanging upside down. And almost everything is eaten by possums! Their "diet" includes small mammals, insects, small birds, eggs, lizards, crayfish, snails, fruits of all kinds, and mushrooms. At night, possums like to visit orchards and chicken coops.

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