BMW started selling subscriptions for heated seats.

The company has begun selling options for its vehicles by subscription, a method already implemented in South Korea, the UK, Germany, New Zealand and South Africa. Many items are offered, including heated seats, steering wheel, Apple CarPlay, high beam assistant and more. You pay - and within a certain period the opportunity to use the selected function opens. A month costs $18. You can take a discount for a year for $180.

In the USA they released whiskey on crab broth.

In New Hampshire, the Tamworth Distilling distillery has released a new brand of whiskey - Crab Trapper ("Crab Catcher"). It is made with a bourbon base, distilled shellfish broth flavored with mustard seeds, coriander and cinnamon. So the alcohol industry is fighting the overpopulation of the invasive green crab. Crab Trapper is a whiskey to be sipped slowly, exploring your senses with your sense of smell. One bottle takes about 450 grams of peeled and cooked green crabs.

What a greeting!

Australian Aborigines - warriors, instead of the usual handshake for us, demonstrate friendliness with a slightly different gesture, namely, by touching the penis of their interlocutor.

Now that would be a beard!

Hair on the chin grows faster than on any other part of a man's body. If he had not shaved all his life, the length of his beard would have reached 9 meters.

Scientists have created a neural network that distinguishes seals by their faces.

SealNet developers trained a neural network to distinguish between harbor seals using photographs of 406 different individuals. They then tested the software and found that SealNet could correctly identify the animal 85% of the time based on distinctive facial features. According to scientists, this is necessary to track the movements of seals. The team's tests showed that some seals return to the same places year after year. However, other seals appeared in other places. An accurate understanding of how seals move can help to more accurately identify areas of their habitat that need to be protected from poachers.

Japanese scientists have created the world's first cloned mice from dried skin cells.

The breakthrough could help revive dwindling populations of endangered species. However, the new method also has disadvantages. Due to the fact that freeze-drying damages DNA, the probability of having healthy cubs is only 0.2 to 5.4%. For example, in some cells, the Y chromosome was lost, which led to the birth of female mice from cells obtained from male animals.

Xiaomi unmanned vehicle spotted in China.

The company is systematically moving towards its goal of releasing a branded electric car. Eyewitnesses have already spotted a branded car from a Chinese company driving around city streets to test autonomous driving features. At the moment, there is no exact information about what kind of car is captured in the photo. This can be either a prototype of Xiaomi itself, or a model from another company used to test different systems. A huge module with lidar and other sensors is installed on the roof. Xiaomi has already created two companies that will be involved in the production of branded vehicles. Earlier it was reported that the company invested about 1.5 billion dollars in development and intends to spend about 10 billion more. The release of the debut electric car of the Chinese company is scheduled for the first half of 2024.

Smart fabric.

MIT has created a smart fabric with a 99% probability of determining what the user is doing. Special threads are woven into ordinary fabric, which melt a little when exposed to heat. Thanks to this, firstly, shoes and clothing made from such materials will ideally fit the surface. And secondly, by throwing sensors and neural networks here, you can safely determine the person’s posture and even pressure on certain areas of the surface. This is great for athletes and those in need of physical therapy.

Gold of the oceans.

If you extract all the gold from the world ocean, then each person on Earth will get about 4 kg of gold. Not bad, right? The only question is how to extract it...

The tallest statues of Jesus Christ.

The world's largest statue of Jesus Christ is located in Poland. The famous statue in Rio de Janeiro is only the third tallest statue of Christ. Runner-up: Bolivia, statue of Christ Concord.

That's the kind of torture.

Ancient times were full of a variety of cruel and painful tortures. However, there were also such as tickling. For example, it was used by the Romans. They put the victim's heels in salt water and then let the goat lick it.

China announced the successful removal of debris from orbit.

The thinnest sail, as thick as a tenth of a human hair, was launched on July 6 along with the Long March 2 rocket. Thanks to the drift effect, it successfully "flooded" debris left from the launch in the Earth's atmosphere.

Microplastics were first found in the meat, milk and blood of cows and pigs.

A possible route of infection is plastic particles in the feed that got there from the packaging. The laboratory tested 12 animal blood samples - microplastics were in all. including polyethylene and polystyrene. Plastic was also found in seven out of eight beef samples, five out of eight pork cuts and 18 out of 25 milk samples. Scientists do not yet know how microplastics can affect the health of farm animals and people who eat meat and drink milk.

Hungry people do get irritated and angry more than others.

Hunger is indeed associated with irritability and anger. Up to 56% of the variability of these emotions during the day can be explained precisely by an empty stomach. These conclusions were made by British and Austrian scientists during a study involving 64 people. For three weeks, five times a day, they entered data on the feeling of hunger and emotional state into the application on the smartphone. In total, scientists analyzed about nine thousand records. They showed that feeling hungry is associated with more negativity and less satisfaction.

An interesting fact about hippos.

Hippos can sleep underwater thanks to a reflex that allows them to float up, inhale, and dive back without waking up.

Cleopatra was one of the richest women of all time.

Her net worth in today's money would be approximately $95.8 billion.

Highest.

The tallest basketball player in NBA history is Sudanese Manute Bol, whose height was 231 centimeters. He is also the only player in NBA history to kill a lion with a spear and buy his wife for 80 cows.

Japanese scientists have discovered parasitic worms capable of killing cancer cells.

Osaka University researchers have created hydrogel shells containing anti-cancer drugs. If you "clothe" nematode worms in them, they can transport drugs and destroy cancer cells in the human body. Nematodes are tiny, free-living worms that usually live in soil or other ecological niches and, under certain circumstances, can enter the human body. Anisakis simplex, a marine nematode that can colonize humans when eaten, has shown an increased interest in cancer cells.

Tesla Cybertruck sold out until 2027.

This means that the buyer will have to wait about 5 years to get his Cybertruck if he orders it right now. Mass deliveries, according to Elon Musk's next statements, will begin at the end of 2022, and applications began to be accepted in 2019. During this time, Cybertruck has been improved in all directions, including based on errors in past models. However, the price will also change significantly. It can be assumed that it will start at $70,000.

In the US state of South Dakota, during a severe storm, the sky turned green.

Meteorologists said that the unusual color of the sky was caused by the reddish emission of light from the setting sun, reacting to the blue drops of water inside the thunderclouds. Such a phenomenon is also a warning before a large hail.