Things You'll Only See In Russia

Russian Sports

The most popular sport in Russia is soccer. After that is ice hockey, handball, boxing, tennis, and car racing. Russians are famous for being incredible Olympic athletes. Their gymnastics team is historic in every way. They've also bred some of the most famous people in the sports world: Anna Kournikova, Maria Sharapova, Alexander Ovechkin, and Sergei Federov.

The More You Know

There's a Russian village where every resident is a tightrope walker.
A Nepalese doctor has restored the sight of over 100,000 often poverty-stricken people in the last thirty years across Asia and Africa using a 5 minute procedure and an inexpensive artificial lens.
12 plants and 5 animals make up 75% of diets around the world.
Saturn is the only planet in our solar system that could float in water.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.