DID YOU KNOW #4

ALBANIAN SWORN VIRGINS(burrnesha) are women who take a vow of chastity and wear male clothing in order to be viewed as men in the highly patriarchal northern Albanian society.

The SANZHI UFO houses were a set of abandoned pod-shaped buildings in Sanzhi, Taiwan.

AREOGEL is a manufactured material with the lowest bulk density of any known porous solid. It is derived from a gel in which the liquid component of the gel has been replaced with gas. The result is an extremely low density solid with remarkable properties, mostly its thermal insulator. It's nicknamed frozen smoke or solid air due to its translucent natue and the way light scatters in the material.

DOMINION of MELCHIZEDEK is a micronation known for facilitating large scale banking fraud in many parts of the world.

ANGLERFISHES have unusual mating method. Individuals are rare and encounters are too, so finding a mate is problematic. Scientists noticed that all captured anglerfishes were females. Individuals few inches in size and almost all of them had parasites attached to them. It turned out that these "parasites" were highly reduced male anglerfishes.

The World Passport is a document issued by the World Service Authority of the Universal Declaration of Human rights. These passports have reportedly been accepted on a de facto, case-by-case basis by over 150 countries, including Ecuador, Tanzania and Togo.

SUPERBLACK is surface treatment developed at the National Physical Laboratory in England. It reflect much less light than the darkest conventional matte black paints available. Super black absorbs circa 99.6% of light at a normal incidence, and only 0,4% is reflected.

FLORIGAPHY (language of flowers), was a Victorian-era means of communication in which flowers and floral arrangements were used as coded messages which allowed individuals to express feelings otherwise impossible to be spoken.