10 Interesting Facts About Hedgehogs

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Hedgehogs more than other animals suffer from tick bites. Since the belly of animals is not covered with needles and they run belly down the grass, the ticks just wait for a convenient moment to cling to their skin. Due to the fact that the needles on the back, hedgehogs cannot cope with ticks on their own. However, they came up with a more inventive way to fight! Tobacco, as you know, scares off ticks, so hedgehogs find cigarette butts and prick them on their backs, thereby conducting prophylaxis against annoying pests.

Al Capone`s Prison

The world's first correctional prison in Philadelphia, with the full name of Eastern State Penitentiary, first received a prisoner in 1829. For more than 100 years of work, a lot of villains and criminals were there, one of which was the well-known mafia boss Al Capone. How was this place different from other prisons and what does it look like now? More on this later ...

Cars for Export in the USSR

“Volga”, “Moskvitch” and “Lada” managed to see this world beyond the borders of their native country. Soviet cars were quite successfully exported even before the start of the war to countries such as Turkey, the Baltic states and others. In this collection, we will tell you about all the cars that were successfully used not only by russian people, but also by other people ...

A Huge Stone Ball in the Middle of the Forest

The mountainous country of Bosnia and Herzegovina is shrouded in a considerable number of various miracles. These mysterious stone balls are just one of them. Most of these "balls" in the city of Zavidovichi. It was there, in the town of Podubravle that this huge ball of regular round shape was found, the study of which to this day is closely engaged by archaeologists and scientists ...