Things You'll Only See In Russia

Major Pollution

This is the real color of Lake Karachi. It's the most polluted lake in the world all thanks to Russia's biggest nuclear facility. Nuclear waste flows straight into the stream of the Techa River which empties out into the lake. The Russian government filled the lake with concrete to keep the waters from touching the shoreline and infecting the grounds nearby. 

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The More You Know

  • A cow-bison hybrid is called a "beefalo."
  • There is a museum of bad art.
  • There is a fish with transparent bones and white blood.
  • If you take all the letters from the word "wizard" and swap them with opposite letters (a->z, b->y), it spells wizard backwards.
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