1. Hydra polyp has a high regenerative ability. If a hydra is cut into two parts, they both regenerate into an adult hydra. Hydras have been proven to be theoretically immortal.
2. American mathematician George Dantzig, while a graduate student at the university, was late for class one day and mistook the equations written on the blackboard for homework. It seemed more difficult to him than usual, but after a few days he was able to complete it. It turned out that he solved two “unsolvable” problems in statistics that many scientists had struggled with.
3. During World War II, trained dogs actively helped sappers clear mines. One of them, nicknamed Dzhulbars, discovered 7,468 mines and more than 150 shells while clearing mines in European countries in the last year of the war. Shortly before the Victory Parade in Moscow on June 24, Dzhulbars was injured and could not participate in the military dog ​​school. Then Stalin ordered the dog to be carried across Red Square on his overcoat.
4. 74-year-old Australian James Harrison has donated blood almost 1,000 times in his life. Antibodies in his rare blood type help newborns with severe anemia survive. In total, thanks to Harrison's donation, it is estimated that more than 2 million babies were saved.
5. The dog Laika was sent into space, knowing in advance that she would die. After this, the UN received a letter from a group of women from Mississippi. They demanded to condemn the inhumane treatment of dogs in the USSR and put forward a proposal: if for the development of science it is necessary to send living beings into space, in our city there are as many black children as possible for this purpose.
6. On April 1, 1976, English astronomer Patrick Moore played a prank on BBC radio by announcing that at 9:47 a.m. a rare astronomical effect would occur: Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, enter into gravitational interaction with it, and slightly weaken the Earth’s gravitational field. If listeners jump at this moment, they should experience a strange feeling. Since 9.47am the BBC has received hundreds of calls reporting strange feelings, with one woman even saying she and her friends left their chairs and flew around the room.
7. When eating celery, a person spends more calories than he takes in.
8. During the enormous popularity of Charlie Chaplin, “Chapliniads” were held throughout America - competitions for the best imitation of the actor. Chaplin himself participated in one of these competitions in San Francisco incognito, but failed to win.



9. The Englishman Horace de Vere Cole became famous as a famous joker. One of his best jokes was handing out tickets at the theater. By allocating strictly defined places to bald men, he ensured that together these bald skulls from the balcony were read as a swear word.
10. During the conquest of Weinsberg in 1140, King Conrad III of Germany allowed women to leave the destroyed city and carry in their hands what they wished. The women carried their husbands on their shoulders.
11. Only in Russian and some languages ​​of the former Soviet republics is the @ sign called a dog. In other languages, @ is most often called a monkey or a snail; there are also such exotic variants as strudel (in Hebrew), pickled herring (in Czech and Slovak), moon ear (in Kazakh).
12. If you simultaneously place two pieces of bread on the ground at two opposite points on our planet, you will get a sandwich with the globe. The first such sandwich was made in 2006, calculating the coordinates of a place in Spain and the corresponding antipodean place in New Zealand. Subsequently, the experience was repeated in many other parts of the planet. But it is very difficult for residents of Russia to make a sandwich with the Earth, since for the vast majority of the country the opposite points are located in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
13. The Japanese intestines contain unique microbes that allow them to process carbohydrates from seaweed used to make sushi much better than people of other nationalities.
14. The name of Russia does not come from the root “ros-” or “rus-” in all languages. For example, in Latvia it is called Krievija from the Krivichi tribe, who neighbored the ancient Latvians in the east. Another ancient tribe- Wends - gave the name to Russia in the Estonian (Venemaa) and Finnish (Venyaja) languages. The Chinese call our country Elos and can shorten it to simply E, but the Vietnamese read the same hieroglyph as Nga, and call Russia that way.
15. According to legend, Robin Hood took from the rich and distributed the loot to the poor. However, the nickname Hood does not mean “good” at all, as it might seem at first glance, because in English it is written Hood and translates as “hood, hide with a hood” (which is a traditional element of Robin Hood’s clothing).
16. Almost all words in the Russian language starting with the letter “a” are borrowed. There are very few nouns of Russian origin starting with “a” in modern speech - these are the words “alphabet”, “az” and “maybe”.
17. The tea bag was invented by American Thomas Sullivan in 1904 by accident. He decided to send tea to customers in silk bags instead of traditional ones. tin cans. However, the buyers thought that they were offered new way- brew tea directly in these bags, and found this method very convenient.



18. Branded recipe One American restaurant where George Crum worked in 1853 had French fries. One day, a customer returned fried potatoes to the kitchen, complaining that they were “too thick.” Krum, deciding to play a trick on him, cut the potatoes literally paper-thin and fried them. Thus, he invented chips, which became the restaurant's most popular dish.
19. When someone leaves without saying goodbye, we use the expression “left in English.” Although in the original this idiom was invented by the British themselves, and it sounded like “to take French leave”. It appeared during the Seven Years' War in the 18th century as a mockery of French soldiers who left their unit without permission. At the same time, the French copied this expression, but in relation to the British, and in this form it became entrenched in the Russian language.
20. During the occupation, French singer Edith Piaf performed in prisoner-of-war camps in Germany, after which she took souvenir photographs with them and German officers. Then in Paris, the faces of the prisoners of war were cut out and pasted into false documents. Piaf went to the camp on a return visit and secretly smuggled these passports, with which some prisoners managed to escape.
21. Emperor Nicholas I did not like music and, as a punishment for officers, gave them a choice between the guardhouse and listening to Glinka's operas.
22. Goats, sheep, mongooses and octopuses have rectangular pupils.
23. In Krylov’s fable “The Dragonfly and the Ant” there are the lines: “The jumping dragonfly sang the red summer.” However, the dragonfly is not known to make sounds. The fact is that at that time the word “dragonfly” served as a general name for several types of insects. And the hero of the fable is actually a grasshopper.
24. Georgy Millyar played almost all the evil spirits in Soviet fairy-tale films, and every time he was given complex makeup. Millyar hardly needed him only for the role of Kashchei the Immortal. The actor was naturally thin; in addition, during World War II, he contracted malaria while being evacuated to Dushanbe, turning into a living skeleton weighing 45 kilograms.



25. To successfully master the difficult phrase “I love you,” the British can use the mnemonic Yellow-blue bus.
26. Once a year, between the two islands of the South Korean county of Jindo, the sea parts, revealing a passage 2 km long and 40 m wide. For an hour, local residents and tourists, many of whom associate this phenomenon with the biblical parable about the waters of the Red Sea parting for Moses, walk along the opened drier and collect seafood caught in this trap.
27. Leonid Gaidai was drafted into the army in 1942 and first served in Mongolia, where he trained horses for the front. One day a military commissar came to the unit to recruit reinforcements for the active army. To the officer’s question: “Who’s in the artillery?” - Gaidai replied: “I am!” He also answered other questions: “Who is in the cavalry?”, “In the navy?”, “In reconnaissance?”, which displeased the boss. “Just wait, Gaidai,” said the military commissar, “Let me read out the whole list.” Later, the director adapted this episode for the film “Operation “Y” and other adventures of Shurik.”
28. In the 1970s, in the Swedish capital of Stockholm, the municipal service included a dog, Siv Gustavson, who could bark. big amount methods appropriate for different breeds of dogs. Her job was to bark on city streets to get dogs to bark in response. In this way, she collected information about houses whose owners did not pay dog ​​tax.
29. American girl Brooke Greenberg, born in 1993, is still a baby in her physical and mental parameters. Her height is 76 cm, weight is 7 kg, her teeth are baby. Doctors' tests showed that there are no mutations in her genes responsible for aging. However, scientists do not lose hope that with the help of new research from this girl, they will come closer to understanding the causes of human aging.
30. At the New York Museum contemporary art in 1961, Henri Matisse's painting "The Boat" was exhibited. Only after 40 days did someone notice that the painting was hanging upside down.



31. The production costs of all Russian coins up to and including 5 rubles exceed the face value of these coins. For example, the cost of minting a 5-kopeck coin is 71 kopecks.
32. Nurse Violet Jessop survived when the HMHS Britannic hit a German mine in 1916 and the lifeboat she boarded for evacuation was sucked under a spinning propeller. Four years earlier, the same nurse was on board the Titanic - a ship of the same class and of the same company - and also managed to survive. And in 1911, Vilett was on board the “big brother” of these two liners, the Olympic, when it collided with the cruiser Hawk, although no one was injured in that accident.
33. Vietnamese Thai Ngoc, born in 1942, has not slept for more than 30 years. He lost his desire to sleep in 1973 after suffering a bout of fever. The press has repeatedly reported that Thai Ngoc does not experience any discomfort or illness due to lack of sleep, but several years ago he admitted that he “feels like a plant without water.”
34. Swedish King Gustav III once decided to personally check what was more harmful to humans - tea or coffee. For this purpose, two twins sentenced to death were selected. The first was given a large cup of tea three times a day, the second - coffee. The king himself did not live to see the end of the experiment, being killed. The twins lived a long time, but the one who drank tea was the first to die at the age of 83.
35. On April 1, 2010, the British online seller of computer games GameStation included in the user agreement, which buyers must read before making a payment, a clause according to which the buyer also gives his soul to the store for eternal use. As a result, 7,500 people, or 88% of the total number of users, agreed with this point. This showed how easily the vast majority of users who don't read such documents can legally agree to a seller's most insane demand.
36. The novel about the adventures of Robinson Crusoe has a sequel, in which the hero is shipwrecked off the coast of Southeast Asia and is forced to get to Europe through all of Russia. In particular, he waits out the winter in Tobolsk for 8 months.
37. Journalists from The Daily Telegraph named Croatian Frane Selak the luckiest person in the world. The first time luck smiled at him was in 1964, when a train derailed and fell into the river. 17 people died, but Frane managed to swim ashore. Then the following incidents happened to Frane: he fell into a haystack from an airplane during the flight of which the door swung open, killing 19 people; swam ashore after a bus fell into the river; got out of a car that suddenly caught fire a few seconds before the gas tank exploded; escaped with bruises after being hit by a bus; drove his car off a mountain road, managing to jump out and catch on a tree. Finally, in 2003, Frane bought a lottery ticket for the first time in his life and won 600 thousand pounds.



38. On December 9, 1708, Peter I issued a decree on how to treat his superiors: “A subordinate in front of his superiors should look dashing and foolish, so as not to embarrass his superiors with his understanding.”
39. Korney Chukovsky's real name was Nikolai Vasilyevich Korneychukov.
40. If you travel in the Moscow metro towards the city center, stations will be announced in a male voice, and when moving from the center - in a female voice. On the Circle Line male voice can be heard when moving clockwise, while the female one can be heard counterclockwise. This was done to make it easier for blind passengers to navigate.
41. In the era of black-and-white television, red filters were often used in cameras, causing red lipstick to make lips appear pale on television screens. Therefore, announcers and actresses were made up with green blush and lipstick.
42. Alexandre Dumas once took part in a duel where the participants drew lots, and the loser had to shoot himself. The lot went to Dumas, who retired to the next room. A shot rang out, and then Dumas returned to the participants with the words: “I shot, but missed.”
43. The island of Barbados got its name from the Portuguese explorer Pedro Campos, who saw many fig trees growing there, entwined with beard-like epiphytes. Barbados means "bearded" in Portuguese.
44. In 1910, a criminal sentenced to execution shouted into the crowd: “Drink Van Hutten’s cocoa!” in exchange for a substantial sum from the cocoa producer for the heirs. This phrase hit all the newspapers, and sales increased sharply.
45. South African law allows any degree of self-defense if we're talking about about a threat to human life or property. To protect cars from theft, traps, stun guns and even flamethrowers are popular here.
46. According to popular belief, kangaroos and emus cannot walk backwards. That is why these animals are depicted on the coat of arms of Australia as a symbol of forward movement and progress.
47. Max Factor- a world-famous cosmetics company - was founded by Maximilian Faktorovich, who was born in 1877 in Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire. He opened his first store in the city of Ryazan, gradually achieving the status of a supplier royal family, and in 1904 emigrated to the USA.



48. The Lord of the Rings trilogy generated a lot of income in New Zealand, where filming took place. The New Zealand government even created the position of Minister for The Lord of the Rings Affairs, who was supposed to resolve all emerging economic issues.
49. The American extravagant writer Timothy Dexter wrote a book in 1802 with very peculiar language and the absence of any punctuation. In response to reader outcry, in the second edition of the book he added a special page with punctuation marks, asking readers to arrange them in the text to their liking.
50. An ordinary book of a standard format of 500 pages cannot be crushed, even if you put 15 cars loaded with coal on it.
51. Pushkin was a master of sarcastic impromptu. When he was still a chamberlain, Pushkin once appeared before a high-ranking official who was lying on the sofa and yawning from boredom. When the young poet appeared, the high-ranking official did not even think about changing his position. Pushkin gave the owner of the house everything he needed and wanted to leave, but was ordered to speak impromptu. Pushkin squeezed out through his teeth: “Children on the floor - smart people on the sofa.” The person was disappointed with the impromptu: “Well, what’s so witty here - children on the floor, smart guy on the sofa? I can’t understand... I expected more from you.” Pushkin was silent, and the high-ranking official, repeating the phrase and moving the syllables, finally came to the following result: “The half-smart kid is on the couch.” After the meaning of the impromptu came to the owner, Pushkin was immediately and indignantly thrown out the door.





52. Apples help you wake up in the morning better than coffee.
53. During migration, storks can periodically fall asleep without falling to the ground for up to ten minutes. A tired stork moves to the center of the school, closes its eyes and dozes off, and its heightened hearing helps it maintain the direction and altitude of its flight at this time.
54. Khrushchev’s famous phrase “I’ll show you Kuzka’s mother!” at the UN Assembly it was translated literally - “Kuzma’s mother”. The meaning of the phrase was completely incomprehensible and this made the threat take on a completely ominous character. Subsequently, the expression “Kuzka’s mother” was also used to refer to atomic bombs THE USSR.
55. The Cuban poet Julian del Casal, whose poems were distinguished by deep pessimism, died of laughter. He was having dinner with friends, one of whom told a joke. The poet began to have an attack of uncontrollable laughter, which caused aortic dissection, bleeding and sudden death.
56. When developing the Pobeda car, it was planned that the name of the car would be “Motherland”. Having learned about this, Stalin ironically asked: “Well, how much will we have a Motherland?” Therefore, the name was changed to “Victory”.
57. Tsetse flies attack any moving warm object, even a car. The exception is the zebra, which the fly perceives as just a flickering of black and white stripes.
58. If the body of an adult sponge is pressed through the mesh tissue, then all the cells will separate from each other. If you then place them in water and mix them, completely destroying all the connections between them, then after some time they begin to gradually come closer together and reunite, forming a whole sponge, similar to the previous one.
59. The French writer and humorist Alphonse Allais, a quarter of a century before Kazimir Malevich, painted a black square - a painting called “The Battle of Negroes in a Cave in the Dead of Night.” He also anticipated John Cage's minimalist musical piece of only silence "4'33" by almost seventy years with his similar work "Funeral March for the Funeral of the Great Deaf Man."
60. Panther is not a separate animal, but the name of a biological genus, which includes four species: lions, tigers, leopards and jaguars. The term “panther” is often used to refer to large black cats - this is a genetic variant of the coloration of leopards or jaguars, a manifestation of melanism.



61. A person cannot laugh by tickling himself. This is prevented by the cerebellum, which is responsible for the sensations caused by one’s own movements and sends commands to other parts of the brain to ignore these sensations. An exception to this rule may be tickling the palate with the tongue.
62. You can distinguish herbivorous animals from predators by the location of their eyes. Predators have eyes on the front of their snout, allowing them to precisely focus on their prey while tracking and chasing. In herbivores, the eyes are usually located on different sides of the muzzle, which increases the radius of vision for early detection of danger from a predator. Exceptions include monkeys, which have binocular vision and are not predators.
63. French writer Guy de Maupassant was one of those who was irritated by the Eiffel Tower. Nevertheless, he dined at her restaurant every day, explaining that this was the only place in Paris from which the tower was not visible.
64. Sofya Kovalevskaya became acquainted with mathematics in early childhood, when there was not enough wallpaper for her room, instead of which sheets of Ostrogradsky’s lectures on differential and integral calculus were pasted.
65. The driest place on Earth is not the Sahara or any other known desert, but an area in Antarctica called the Dry Valleys. These valleys are almost completely free of ice and snow, as moisture evaporates under the influence of powerful winds reaching speeds of 320 km/h. In some areas of this area there has been no rain for two million years.



66. For a long time it was believed that ancient greek sculptures made of white marble were originally colorless. However, recent research by scientists has confirmed the hypothesis that the statues were painted in a wide range of colors, which eventually disappeared under prolonged exposure to light and air.
67. When Pablo Picasso was born, the midwife considered him stillborn. The child was saved by his uncle, who was smoking cigars and, seeing the baby lying on the table, blew smoke in his face, after which Pablo began to roar. Thus, we can say that smoking saved Picasso's life.
68. Previously, an alternative name for the constellation Ursa Major together with the Polar Star was widespread in Rus' - the Frozen Horse (meaning a grazing horse tied with a rope to a peg). And the Polar Star, accordingly, was called the Funny Star.
69. Scientists have not yet figured out what the physiological reason for the yawning process is. There are several theories: for example, that when yawning a person receives a large portion of oxygen when there is a lack of it in the body, or that in this way an overheated brain “resets” its temperature, but not a single theory has yet been convincingly proven. However, it has been proven that yawning is contagious. A person is more likely to yawn when he sees another person yawning, or when someone on the phone yawns. Contagious yawning has also been identified in chimpanzees.
70. According to the ancient Jewish rite, on the day of remission of sins, the high priest placed his hands on the head of the goat and thereby laid the sins of the entire people on it. The goat was then taken into the Judean desert and released. This is where the expression “scapegoat” comes from.
71. Initially, on Gogol’s grave in the monastery cemetery there was a stone nicknamed Golgotha ​​because of its resemblance to Mount Jerusalem. When they decided to destroy the cemetery, during reburial in another place they decided to install a bust of Gogol on the grave. And that same stone was subsequently placed on Bulgakov’s grave by his wife. In this regard, Bulgakov’s phrase, which he repeatedly addressed to Gogol during his lifetime, is noteworthy: “Teacher, cover me with your overcoat.”
72. Spiral staircases in the towers of medieval castles were built in such a way that they were climbed clockwise. This was done so that in the event of a siege of the castle, the defenders of the tower would have an advantage during hand-to-hand combat, since the most powerful blow right hand can only be applied from right to left, which was inaccessible to attackers. There is only one castle with a reverse twist - the fortress of the Counts Wallenstein, since most of the men of this kind were left-handed.
73. If powerful lightning strikes the surface of the earth, it can leave its mark - a hollow glass tube called fulgurite. Such a tube consists of melted by action electric current silica (or sand) lightning. Fulgurites can go several meters deep into the earth, although due to their fragility it is very difficult to dig them out completely.



74. In the 17th and 18th centuries in England there was a position of royal uncorker of ocean bottles with letters. Anyone else who opened the bottles on their own faced the death penalty.
75. Not only does a tiger have striped fur, but it also has striped skin underneath.
76. During the rapid development of dentistry in the 17th to 19th centuries, one of the most popular sources for artificial teeth were the teeth of those killed on the battlefield. The brand “Waterloo Teeth” went down in history for the special quality of the material, because many young soldiers with healthy teeth died in that battle.
77. The expressiveness of Elizabeth Taylor's gaze was explained not only by her natural charm, but also by a rare genetic mutation - the actress had a double row of eyelashes.
78. In one of the first editions explanatory dictionary Ozhegova decided not to include the names of city residents, so as not to further increase its size. An exception was made only for the word “Leningrader,” but not as a sign of special respect for the residents of Leningrad. It was simply necessary to separate the words “lazy” and “Leninist”, which stood side by side, so as not to discredit the image of young Leninists.
79. The artist Vladislav Koval sent letters to his family while studying in Moscow. At the same time, he did not stick stamps on the envelopes, but drew them, and all the letters arrived in this form. When the Ministry of Press announced a competition for sketches of new stamps, student Koval brought a pack of envelopes to the organizers and became the winner.
80. It is generally accepted that Napoleon was very vertically challenged- 157 cm. This figure is obtained if we convert the value of 5 feet 2 inches to the metric system. However, at that time the feet were not only English; in almost every country the feet were different. Converted from French feet, Napoleon's height is 169 cm and is average for his era.
81. The Bengal ficus tree is distinguished by a special life form called banyan. On large horizontal branches of an adult tree, aerial roots are formed that grow downward. Growing to the ground, they take root in it and become new trunks. In this way, a banyan tree can grow over an area of ​​several hectares.



82. When giving birth, a giraffe falls to the ground from almost two meters in height.
83. Tyutelka is a diminutive of the dialect tyutya (“blow, hit”), the name for an accurate hit with an ax in the same place during carpentry work. Today, to denote high accuracy, the expression “tail to neck” is used.
84. There is a widespread legend that the thought of the periodic table chemical elements came to Mendeleev in a dream. One day he was asked if this was true, to which the scientist replied: “I’ve been thinking about it for maybe twenty years, but you think: I sat there and suddenly... it’s ready.”
85. Humans and animals need ears not only for hearing. The inner ear also contains an organ that is responsible for the balance of the body.
86. On Stevens Island in New Zealand, back in the 19th century, there lived a population of flightless birds - New Zealand wrens. In 1894, the lighthouse keeper's cat on this island completely exterminated all representatives of this species. When the caretaker provided the bird carcasses to scientists, they compiled the first scientific description of the species, and immediately declared it extinct.
87. Giordano Bruno was burned by the Catholic Church not for scientific (namely support of the Copernican heliocentric theory), but for anti-Christian and anti-church views (for example, the statement that Christ performed imaginary miracles and was a magician).
88. During World War II, Oscar statuettes were made from plaster.
89. John Rockefeller Jr. was the only son of the famous billionaire, surrounded by four sisters. The children were brought up in austerity and economy, and John wore his sisters’ dresses until he was eight years old. Later, he did not hide this fact, but, on the contrary, was proud of it, considering this approach an important component of the family’s prosperity.
90. After the completion of the Winter Palace, the entire area was littered with construction debris. Emperor Peter III decided to get rid of it in an original way - he ordered it to be announced to the people that anyone could take anything they wanted from the square, for free. After a few hours, all the debris was cleared.



91. The expression “after the rain on Thursday” arose from distrust of Perun, the Slavic god of thunder and lightning, whose day was Thursday. Prayers to him often did not achieve their goal, so they began to talk about the impossible, that this would happen after the rain on Thursday.
92. For a long time, the value of coins was equivalent to the amount of metal they contained. In this regard, there was a problem - scammers cut small pieces of metal from the edges to make new coins from them. A solution to the problem was proposed by Isaac Newton, who was also an employee of the British Royal Mint. His idea was very simple - to cut small lines into the edges of the coin, because of which the hewed edges would be immediately noticeable. This part of the coins is designed in this way to this day and is called the edge.
93. Whales, dolphins and other cetaceans are also called secondary aquatic: their ancestors, in the process of evolution, first left the water and then returned there again.
94. In public libraries medieval Europe books were chained to the shelves. Such chains were long enough to remove a book from the shelf and read, but did not allow the book to be taken out of the library. This practice was widespread until the 18th century, due to the great value of each copy of the book.
95. Female great red kangaroos can mate at any time of the year and are usually constantly pregnant. However, they have the ability to delay the birth of a baby while another newborn is still growing in the pouch and cannot leave it. They usually resort to such freezing of embryo development under unfavorable external conditions, such as drought. Also, females of this species of kangaroo can simultaneously produce milk of different fat contents for cubs of different ages.
96. The myth of a hedgehog storing apples and mushrooms was invented by Pliny the Elder. According to him, the hedgehog can “deliberately” grab grapes, and in some cases, apples. In reality, a hedgehog is physically unable to ride on its back while piercing fruits.



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We will begin this “parade” of interesting facts with a short introduction.

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According to myths and legends, there are vampires on Earth who can bite you and even kill you. For those who strongly believe in it, it is sold special set for hunting vampires.

All world records are listed in the Guinness Book. This is how 75-year-old man Albert Marcantonio ended up in this book. He lives in the English town of Hitchin. He managed to grow the longest zucchini in the world, the length of which was 165 cm. By the way, the most frequently stolen book in the world is the Guinness Book, this record is also listed in the same book.

Police dogs are some of the best trained dogs in the world. That is why their endurance can be envied:

Scientists like to look at things under a microscope, so they decided to look at marijuana. And this is what happened:

One of the best masters of camouflage is the gecko. If you don't see anyone in the image, then take a closer look at the branch.

Probably the biggest catch ever made in the world. Such a fish was caught in Kazan in 1921.

Very old oak. This oak is already about 350 years old.

Everest is considered the highest mountain in the world. But there is a mountain with a height of 10,203 m. It is located at the bottom of the ocean and only 4,205 m is on the surface. This mountain is called Mauna Kea and is located in Hawaii.

Another interesting fact. Prevalence of McDonald's in the world.

Probably the funniest islands in the world. In the middle between Chukotka and Alaska are the Diomede Islands. One of them belongs to Russia, while the other belongs to America. It so happens that there is a border between these islands, but the most important thing is the change in time zone. Thus, the time difference between the islands, which are located 4 km from each other, is 12 hours.

Cardiocrinum is such a rare and strange plant that almost nothing has been written about it. They bloom once in a lifetime. Their flowers are so huge that the plant itself devotes all its strength to the flowers and then dies.

An interesting fact: a person who finds himself in an unfamiliar environment will most likely go to the right. Knowing this technique, it is used every day in marketing.

The world's largest production car is the Ford F650. It weighs about 12 tons, and its price is $80,000.

About 95% of everyone reading this article will want to try this fact. An interesting fact is that if you take a person by the little finger in a dream, he will answer all your questions.

Rice is the staple food for more than half the world's population.

If you are a tea lover and are ready to do anything for it, then I bring to your attention Dahunpao tea. For 20 grams of this tea you will have to pay $25,000.

Not the most pleasant fact, but still. In 1945, the chicken's head was cut off. Whether by accident or on purpose, that’s not the point. The main thing is that this chicken lived with its severed head for another 18 months. The owner fed him from a pipette directly into the esophagus.

We all know Dubai. There's a lot of money there. That is why 126 stops are equipped with air conditioning.

For those who often listen to music on headphones. Just one hour of wearing headphones increases the number of bacteria in the ear by 700 times.

Everyone's favorite shrimp are also included in this list. It's all because of their heart, which is in their head.

From 1898 to 1910, cough medicine for children was a little strange. The thing is that it was made from heroin.

As we know, only people can express their feelings. Animals cannot do this due to the lack of facial expressions. The only animals that can laugh are rats.

Buckwheat is a very healthy porridge, but few people know that it clears the stomach of chewing gum.

Yawning is a dangerous pastime. Why? Simply, while yawning, a person loses consciousness for a moment and after a few moments comes to his senses.

A story related to the wedding was included in the Guinness Book. Most big difference aged married is a couple from Malaysia. The wife is 22 years old and the husband is 105 years old.

The world's largest cake, or rather the largest strawberry cake.

Just read what is written on the picture.

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The largest horse in the world. Just like previous records, it is listed in the Guinness Book.

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Sacred bird of the Mayans, and also an endangered species.

Bamboo can grow up to 3 meters in 24 hours.

Computers used to be much larger than they are now. This photograph demonstrates this. That's just 1 GB in 1981.

All parrots are sweet, kind creatures. Except for kea parrots, which hunt sheep. A flock can even kill a sheep.

Mgingo is considered the most populated island in the world.

The most dangerous toilet in the world. Would you dare to come in?

There is a beach in Iceland whose shores are black. It consists of black gravel and black boulders. There are several similar beaches on Earth.

The most The largest tree in the world is considered to be the President sequoia. These sequoias are found in the US National Park. It is believed that such sequoias are about 3200 years old. They don't look like old people at all.

The real gold-plated machine gun belonged to one of the leaders of the drug cartel La Resistencia (“The Resistance”), Ramiro Pozos Ganzales. This machine gun was seized from Ramiro during his arrest.

Pablo Escobar is a Colombian drug lord. One of the most brutal drug lords of the twentieth century. According to the recollections of his daughter: “Once, when we were hiding from the police, I was very cold. We slept under open air and it was very cold. To warm me up, dad made a fire. By throwing money into the fire, he burned over $2 million in one night.”

In St. Petersburg, when the first McDonald's opened on September 10, 1996, there was a whole protest against the opening of this establishment.

In Japan, there are unique phone booths with goldfish.

36 more interesting facts from around the world

• Mobile operators earn $812,000 per SMS every minute.
• In one minute, the Sun produces more energy than the entire Earth uses in a year.
• All 10 of the warmest years were recorded over the past 20 years, that is, on average, a new thermal record was set every two years.
• $1,000,000, exchanged in $1 bills, would weigh approximately 1 ton.
• A common practice in southern India is for a man to marry his elder sister's daughter.
• 10% of criminals commit 67% of crimes.
• Acid rain first occurred in 1852.
• In 1557, European doctors recommended smoking as a remedy for bad breath.
• The area of ​​the largest store in the world is 293,905 square meters
• Chess was invented in India.
• Only 10% of users searching for “love” in Yandex actually mean this feeling.
• Only 10% of the world's population are left-handed. 89% are right-handed and 1% have no hands.
• The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their crocodiles.
• The heart begins beating in the fourth week after conception and does not stop until the person dies.
• Genetically modified apples are beautiful and round due to the introduction of the salmon gene into them.
• Steven Spielberg's film "Schindler's List" was based on the novel by Thomas Kennelly, which is originally called "Schindler's Ark."
• Hippos are born underwater.
• Blue eyes are more sensitive to light than brown eyes.
• A list of gifts to Stalin in honor of his seventieth birthday was published in Soviet newspapers from December 1949 to March 1953.
• Men are better at distinguishing text written small print than women.
• The thickness of a book page is about half a million atoms.
• The tattoos on Angelina Jolie's left shoulder are the geographic coordinates of the places where each of her children was born.
• Avocados have more protein than other fruits.
• The word “ruble” comes from the word “to chop.” In Novgorod, a silver ingot was cut into four parts - the result was a ruble.
• In a month that starts on Sunday, there will definitely be Friday the 13th.
• A female octopus can lay more than 100,000 tiny eggs at one time.
• The first US national flag and the first Levi's jeans were made from hemp.
• Rain contains vitamin B12.
• Penguins cannot walk straight without shaking their heads.
• In English-speaking countries there is a tradition: on February 29, a woman can propose to a man, and he has no right to refuse.
• In addition to people, dogs, chimpanzees, mice, spiders, frogs and jellyfish have been in space.
• In many countries, urine was used as a cleaning agent.
• Two-thirds of Americans regularly use the word “fuck” in their speech.
• Red is the most common color on national flags.
• The nail on the middle finger grows faster than on all the others.
• By the age of 6-7 months, the baby can breathe and swallow at the same time. Adults can't do this.

In the long history of mankind there are many such events that did not fit into any ideas, and therefore were remembered by people for a long time. Many people know the Guinness Book of Records, which records the most diverse human achievements, but even in it it was impossible to collect the most incredible facts in the world.

1. About our planet

• Every schoolchild knows that the highest peak in the world is Chomolungma or Everest. But there is a much higher mountain on the planet. This is the Hawaiian volcano Mauna Kea, which rises above sea level by only 4205 meters, but from its base on the ocean floor it has perched 10203 meters.
• Between Russian Chukotka and American Alaska are the Diomede Islands, which are also divided between these countries. They are located only 4 km from each other, and the line dividing them also runs along the date line. Therefore, the time difference between them is 24 hours.
• The purest water can be found in Finland, but the most dangerous is in Italian Sicily, where 2 sources of fairly strong sulfuric acid flow from a volcanic lake. But in Azerbaijan there is a source of “flammable water” - as soon as you bring a lit match to it, the “water” breaks out with a blue flame.
• In fact, there are so many diamonds on the planet that every inhabitant would have a full cup of this form of carbon.

2. About the plant world

• The Cardiocrinum plant is so strange and rare that it is almost never described. It blooms once in a lifetime with large flowers, which consume all the plant’s energy. As a result, the plant dies immediately.
• Bamboo can grow 75 centimeters per day.
• The currently tallest tree in the world is the evergreen sequoia, which, like its relatives, has its own name Hyperion. In 700 or 800 years, it managed to grow to 115.6 meters and continues to grow. Scientists deliberately hid the exact location of the record holder to protect him from crowds of tourists.

3. About people

• A person who finds himself in an unfamiliar environment will in most cases turn right. This mental property is successfully used by marketers.
• Crime reporter and journalist Vlado Taneski from Macedonia was also a serial killer who often described his own crimes. But in the end he made a mistake when he published information that until that moment could not have been known to anyone except the killer.
• Australian truck driver Bill Morgan is a real lucky man, and not only because he survived a 14-minute clinical death after a heart attack. Soon after, he won a large sum in the lottery. The TV crew decided to film a story about him and asked him to erase it on camera protective layer from an instant lottery ticket. And guess what - he won $250,000 again!
• 40% of people do not live to see their first birthday.
• Australian Aboriginal culture is as old as the Ice Age, so they remember the location and names of mountains that have been hidden under the waters of the Bass Strait for 8,000 years.

4. About food

• During the Prohibition period, owners of American vineyards adapted to concentrating grape juice to a semi-solid state - the so-called “wine bars”. They warned buyers not to leave the resulting liquid in the cupboard for three weeks after adding water, otherwise it would turn into forbidden wine. The hint was obvious.
• The IOC has banned caffeine, so if an athlete drinks too much coffee or tea before a race, he will be disqualified.
• Thailand produces the most expensive coffee in the world, the beans of which have passed through the digestive system of elephants. A kilogram of the Black Tusk drink is estimated at $1,100, and a cup of tea will cost a daredevil who wants to try the rare delicacy $50.
• When buying bottled water, you should not rely too much on it, since 40% of it comes from the tap.

5. About countries

• In 1781, among the Articles of the American Confederation, a note appeared that if Canada suddenly wanted to become part of the United States, it would be immediately accepted.
• The annual cost of keeping a prisoner in a British prison costs the treasury £45,000. Isn't it easier to send him to study at Eton, which costs 1.5 times less?
• Arabs write texts from right to left, but numbers are written in the opposite direction. Therefore, when reading Arabic texts replete with numerical data, you have to move your eyes here and there.
• After the division of Korea into two countries, over 23,000 Koreans fled from north to south, and only 2 people in the opposite direction.

6. About the animal world

• For the sake of sex, male Australian marsupial mice go to martyrdom - they are ready to mate for 14 hours without a break, completely devoting all their energy and dying from exhaustion. Biologists call this behavior “suicidal mating.”
• Have you ever seen baby pigeons? Surely not, but all because they do not leave their nests for the first month, and after that they are already indistinguishable from adults.
• In female plant aphids, new females that are already fertilized are born.
• Beavers have transparent eyelids, so they swim calmly with their eyes closed underwater.
• Rats are known to be very intelligent animals; moreover, they are the only animal other than humans that can laugh.

7. About astronauts

Each culture has its own way of life, traditions and delicacies, in particular. What seems ordinary to some people is perceived as...

• In zero gravity, the astronauts' spine straightens, as a result of which, immediately after landing, they find themselves several centimeters higher than themselves before takeoff.
• A person stops snoring in zero gravity, because weightlessness relieves the pressure on his airways. We snore because the soft tissues of the throat and tongue fall inward during sleep, especially when lying on the back. During breathing, the sunken parts of the body produce unpleasant snoring. One can only envy the astronauts, at least during sleep!

8. About diseases

• At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, on the 21st birthday, it was fashionable to remove all the teeth of the birthday boy and insert artificial ones.
• Residents of the Kazakh village of Kalachi experience a strange sleeping sickness - periodically they plunge into deep dream, in which they stay for up to 6 days. Recently, this disease has been linked to exposure to abandoned uranium mines.
• Having made an official visit to Australia in 1875, the king of Fiji contracted measles, which he brought back to his homeland, due to which he lost a quarter of his population.
• At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, they tried to treat coughs with heroin.

9. About society

• On average, American children have seen 200,000 murders on television by the age of 18.
• Homeless people in Japan and Hong Kong have learned to take advantage of 24-hour McDonald's and live in these public catering establishments, for which they are nicknamed "Mcrefugees."
• British galleries and museums receive 7 times more visitors per year than Premier League football matches.
• If vampires existed and drank the blood of one person every day, then after 13 days the entire population of the planet would turn into vampires.
• The whole world has learned the name of the most brutal Colombian drug lord of the last century, Pablo Escobar. But he was also a loving father - his daughter recalled that when they had to hide from the police and were freezing at night, Escobar lit a fire of banknotes to warm his daughter. A night of such “heating” cost him more than 2 million dollars.

10. About sports

Most people want to get a window seat on an airplane to enjoy the views below, including take-off and landing views...

• Objects resembling primitive skittles were found in an Egyptian tomb - does this mean bowling was played in the land of the pharaohs 5,200 years ago?
• In 1958, the winner of the Jamaican table tennis championship was Jay Foster, who was only 8 years old at that time.
• One Detroit newspaper was able to establish that 68% of professional hockey players lost at least one tooth during their careers.
• Held in 1920 in Sweden Olympic Games made history by giving the world the oldest Olympic champion, 72-year-old shooter Oscar Swan.

Incredible facts

Do you know what average life expectancy Was in Ancient Egypt, in what city, and is there a month without full moon?

We invite you to learn about this and much more in our collection. interesting facts from all over the world.

1) Butterflies in the stomach when seeing or thinking about your lover are actually the result of a stress response caused by adrenaline. A similar state of excitement can also be experienced in any other stressful situations, for example, before exams, an important meeting, going on stage, and so on.

2) Bags that you can't buy at a discount. Every year the company Louis Vuitton burns all his unsold bags. Why does the company's management think it is better to burn them than to discount them? It believes that this way the value of their bags will never decrease.

3) In the UK you can find in police cars teddy bear, to calm children after accidents. Also, in cars that go to the scene of accidents, in addition to a first aid kit and a fire extinguisher, blankets, towels, a shovel, a broom, road spikes and some special equipment.

4) moonwalk appeared at least 50 years before birth Michael Jackson, however, it was thanks to him that it became so popular. Before the singer, this dance technique was performed by clowns, tap dancers, film artists, and so on.

Before Jackson, a no less famous performer dabbled in the moonwalk David Bowie back in the 1960s, although his performance style was somewhat different.

5) Word Canada ( Kanata) is of Indian origin and means "Big Village". The names of some other countries in local dialects may also surprise you. For example, Kyrgyzstan - "land of four tribes", Luxembourg – "little castle", Madagascar – "end of the world", Sri Lanka - "beautiful land" , Thailand – "land of the free", Zimbabwe – "stone dwellings", Cyprus – "copper", Guinea – "women".

6) To avoid crying while peeling onions, need to chew gum. There are many ways to help avoid tears in the kitchen, including special glasses, wetting your knife with water, or freezing onions before chopping.

7) It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. When you sneeze, a special "sneeze center" in the brain sends motor impulses along the nerves that control the muscles of the abdomen, chest, diaphragm, neck, face, eyelids and various sphincters, as well as the mucus-producing glands and blood vessels of the nose. All this happens automatically.

8) Money is not actually made from pure paper, but with the addition of cotton and synthetic fibers. This helps improve their strength while maintaining ease of handling. Not all countries use these materials for production" paper money"For example, in Romania, banknotes are made of special plastic and are not easily torn.

9) Most of the dust particles in our apartment consist of dead skin flakes of its inhabitants. We leave dust literally everywhere.

10) In Sweden until September 3, 1967 there was right-hand traffic. On H-Day at 5 a.m., all vehicles were required to change sides of the road to drive on the left. Following these changes, the world of motor transport has seen significant reduction in accidents during the first few months, since drivers most likely drove more carefully to get used to the innovation. The center of Stockholm that day looked like this:

11) In Los Angeles more cars than people. In this large California metropolis, people seem to have stopped walking, so many residents own multiple cars. Traffic jams in this city are a common occurrence.

1) February 1865– the only recorded month when there was no full moon. As you know, there is one full moon per month, since the Moon revolves around the Earth in 27.32 days, but in rare cases there can be two - at the beginning of the calendar month and at the very end. This full moon is called Blue Moon, and it happens approximately once every 2.7 years. There were two blue moons in 2012 - August 2 and 31, and the next one is expected on July 2, 2015.

2) A day on Venus lasts longer than a year. This is due to the fact that our neighbor Venus rotates around its axis more slowly than it manages to make a full revolution around the Sun.

3) In space astronauts can't cry, because due to the lack of gravity, tears cannot flow down the cheeks. However, in space it is impossible to do many other things that we are accustomed to while on Earth.

4) Traces left on the Moon by American astronauts, will remain on its surface for millions of years until some meteorite falls on them. This is not surprising, because on the Moon there are no winds and no precipitation that would blow them away or wash them away.

Interesting statistics: interesting facts in numbers

1) On average people laugh about 15 times a day. Laughing naturally can help you relax, calm your nerves, and improve your overall well-being. This is why laughter is very useful.

2) Cats and dogs consume food by 7 billion dollars a year. The modern food industry does not particularly favor our pets with good products. Although giving food is much more convenient than preparing food, consider whether it is worth stuffing your cats and dogs with unknown things. Most feeds have no nutritional value, and animal fats are replaced with vegetable fats.

3) Throughout your life you have been using just over 27 tons of food, this is the weight of only 6 elephants. If you doubt this, just count how many foods you eat per day, and then multiply the number of days in your average life expectancy. Maybe for some people these numbers will be much higher.

4) If you lick the stamp, you waste one tenth of a calorie. This is how much energy our body spends to do this work.

5) Fingernails grow approximately 4 times faster than on your feet.

6) To cook a portion of pasta, it takes on average about 2 liters of water, and to wash the pan after them - 4 liters.

7) Lightning strikes our planet about 6 thousand times every minute.

8) Every year there are deaths in the world more people caused by donkeys than in plane crashes. Airplanes are actually one of the safest modes of transport, as they get into accidents much less often than the same cars or other types of ground transport.

9) Only 1 person out of 2 billion will live to see 116 years or more. Despite the fact that today there are not many centenarians among us, by the standards of ancient people, we are all centenarians. Modern medicine works wonders, prolonging the lives of people suffering from even the most serious and incurable diseases.

10) 40 percent of owners dogs and cats carry photographs of their pets in their wallets. Even more sleep in the same bed with them and eat from the same plate, despite warnings from experts that pets carry dangerous diseases.

11) Reusing one glass bottle saves enough energy to watch TV within 3 hours.

12) Studies have shown that if a cat falls from the 7th floor, it will 30 percent less likely survive than a cat falling from the 12th floor. Probably, while flying the first 8 floors, she understands what is happening to her, relaxes and can adjust her position.

13) The average person sees more than 1460 dreams annually. We simply do not remember most of our dreams, so we believe that we are not dreaming.

14) The number of chickens currently living on the planet is approximately equals number of living people.

15) The most popular male name in the world - Muhammad(in honor of the Prophet Muhammad), and the most popular female name is Anna.

16) The average person blinks 20 million times a year.

17) Human scent 20 times weaker than a dog's sense of smell.

18) You are more likely to be stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.

19) Under equal conditions, hot water turn to ice faster than cold. This is due to evaporation. Hot water loses mass, so it will take less time to freeze.

20) Statistically you more likely You're more likely to die from a champagne cork than from a spider bite.

1) Cats do not meow to communicate with each other, but only to communicate with a person. Cat kidneys work so efficiently that they can even process sea water, filtering salt. There are 32 muscles in a cat's ear.

2) Giraffe can live without water longer than a camel. It also knows how to clean its ears using its long tongue, the average length of which is 50 centimeters. Giraffes also lack vocal cords.

3) Birds gravity is needed to swallow, so if you launch them into space, they will starve to death in zero gravity.

4) The goldfish's memory lasts no more than 3 seconds. Jellyfish are 95 percent water. The shark is the only fish that can blink both eyes at the same time, and also senses blood dissolved in water in proportions - 1 part blood per 100 million parts water.

5) The tallest tree on the planet - Sequoia Hyperion, which grows in the national park "Redwood", California. Its exact location is kept secret and only a few scientists know it. The tree reaches a height of 115.61 meters.

6) Representatives of the species nine-banded armadillos are of particular interest to science, since they produce mainly 4 cubs of the same sex, who are identical twins. These mammals are one of the few, other than rats and related primates, that may suffer from leprosy.

7) Newborn blackbirds eat for the first time up to 4.5 meters of worms in a day.

8) When the bats fly out of their cave to hunt, they always turn left.

9) Camel milk never curdles. To protect their eyes from sandstorms, camels have three whole centuries, and they also learned to cover their nostrils to prevent sand from getting into them.

10) Dolphins sleep with one eye open. They can also turn off one part of the brain during sleep, when the other part is awake and can observe what is happening around.

11) Emu and kangaroo they don’t know how to move, backing away, for this reason they appeared on the coat of arms of Australia, and not at all because they are found only on this continent.

12) In bees hair grows in front of the eyes, and mosquitoes have teeth.

13) Over the past 4 thousand years, not a single new animal was not domesticated. The first animal that began to live next to humans was the dog, and the last to be domesticated were guinea pigs and mice.

14) You can buy in Tokyo wigs for...dogs. However, dog accessories of “human origin” can already be obtained anywhere or ordered on the Internet.

15) To lobster reached a weight of 0.5 kilograms, it takes 7 years. It is not possible to breed them in captivity, so this species of crustacean is currently in danger of extinction.

16) Most cows give more milk if during milking they play nice music.

17) About a thousand birds dies every year from hitting the glass of houses. This happens for a number of reasons, but mainly due to the fact that she “recognizes” the opponent in the glass and tries to attack him.

18) Reindeer love bananas. By the way, mosquitoes also love the smell of bananas. Studies have shown that mosquitoes target people who have recently eaten these fruits.

19) Some tapeworms start eating themselves, if there is no food nearby.

Some eyelash worms capable under unfavorable environmental conditions fall to pieces. These pieces are then reunited if conditions improve. Biologists call this phenomenon "self-medication".

If such a worm is deliberately divided into parts, each part, under good conditions, will grow missing organs and they turn into separate healthy individuals!

20) The elephant is the only animal that can't jump. However, they have a large number of talents for example, some of them can draw, and others can even talk!

21) Green grasshoppers can hear using holes in their hind legs.

22) The penguin is the only bird in the world that can swim, but can't fly. Other flightless birds, including ostriches, ... cannot swim.

23) The location of a donkey’s eyes does not allow the animal see your 4 legs at the same time.

24) The starfish is the only animal that can turn your stomach inside out.

25) The Cafe2Go cafe chain in Dubai began making lattes and cappuccinos using camel milk- an important food product for Bedouins, desert inhabitants. Products containing camel milk began to be called Camellos (Italian camel).

Desert inhabitants have been eating camel milk since ancient times, but for some time they stopped favoring this product. Today it looks like he's coming back.

1) A nation without old people: Around 3,000 years ago, most Egyptians did not live past 30 years of age. The Egyptians also had strange habits, for example, instead of pillows, they placed stones under their heads. The Egyptians invented contraception, which was made from crocodile skin back in 2000 BC.

2) According to the British law that came into force in 1845, attempted suicide was considered a crime that was punished death penalty . If a suicide, for example, was unable to kill himself in a suicide attempt, the official authorities helped him in this by hanging.

3) In Germany, near nursing homes there are fake bus stops. Signs about the movement of regular transport are installed in these places to make it easier to find elderly people who are suddenly about to leave the establishment and go home.

We've already been waiting for 2 hours... maybe we should have taken a taxi?

4) According to channel National Geographic, red-haired people will disappear by 2060. There are many known in history famous people with red hair, including William Shakespeare, Christopher Columbus and Queen Elizabeth.

5) In Mexico there is dying ancient language, which only 2 people know, but they don't talk to each other.

On the tongue Ayapaneco the ancient inhabitants of modern Mexico spoke for many centuries. It survived the Spanish invasion, numerous wars, revolutions, famines and floods. But today, like many other Aboriginal languages, it has practically disappeared.

Manuel Segovia believes that he has no one else to speak his native language with

There are only 2 people left who can speak it. Manuel Segovia(77 years old) and Isidro Velazquiz(69 years old) live just 500 meters from each other in the village of Ayapa in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco. These two people avoid each other and do not want to communicate.

6) Oldest man in the world turned out to be a fake.

In 2010, when Tokyo officials decided to congratulate the oldest person on the planet, who turned 111 years old, they found instead of an old man skeleton of a 30-year-old man. Cunning family received a pension for him for many years, although in fact he had been dead for a long time.

7) 12 newborns per day ends up with the wrong parents. A newborn is born without kneecaps. These organs develop later, 2-6 years after birth.

8) Heartbeat in women faster than men. On average, the human heart makes 100 thousand beats per day.

9) Human teeth as hard as rocks, and the femur is harder than concrete. A quarter of all the bones in our body are concentrated in the feet. Our

14) Goethe couldn't stand the barking of dogs. He could only write if there was a rotten apple in his desk.

15) Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. He was also credited with inventing the searchlight, the tank and even the bicycle.

16) Michael Jordan earns in Nike more money per year than all the company's factory workers in Malaysia combined.

17) Sigmund Freud had an unhealthy fear of ferns.

18) Inventor of the microwave oven Percy Spencer invented this miracle of technology when he noticed that while working with a powerful electric lamp, the chocolate in his pocket melted very quickly. One of the first microwaves looked like this (1940s):

19) The Ramses brand of condoms was named after the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II, who, however, apparently did not use condoms or any other means of contraception, so he had neither more nor less, but 160 children.

20) Inventor of the light bulb Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

A selection of interesting facts from different areas, which will prove to be very interesting and educational for many of us.

In 1988, Arnold Schwarzenegger refused to star in the sequel to the film Commando. The script was reworked for a new main character and called “Die Hard.” Thus began the rise of Bruce Willis's career.

The world's population has almost stopped growing. The female fertility rate is currently 2.36. And for simple population reproduction, a female fertility rate of 2.33 is required.

When he was young, George Clooney lived with a lazy roommate who had a cat. Once he had to wash the cat's litter box for four days in a row. On the fifth day, Clooney got tired of it and shit in the tray himself. The neighbor was afraid that the cat was suffering from constipation and dragged the animal to the veterinarian.

In 1600, after a volcanic eruption in Peru, about two million people died... in Russia. The fact is that the accumulation of ash in the Earth’s atmosphere caused the “Little Ice Age,” which became the cause of a terrible crop failure, and then the “Great Famine” that occurred during the reign of Boris Godunov.

France is the only European country capable of providing itself with basic food products.

If you see a cloud from an atomic explosion, extend your hand towards it and bend it thumb so that it obscures the “mushroom”. If the cloud is larger than your finger, then you are in the radiation zone and you need to evacuate urgently.

In the American city of Anthem (Arizona) there is a monument that functions only once a year, on Veterans Day - November 11. On this day Sun rays fall on the monument at such an angle that they pass through all the rings in the five concrete structures, symbolizing the five branches of the US military, and illuminate the mosaic in the form of the “Great Seal”.

One man tried to commit suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco), but survived. He later admitted that this “flight” completely changed his entire understanding of life. “I suddenly realized that there was absolutely nothing in my life that couldn’t be fixed. Except for one thing - this very jump that I just decided to take.”

The first visitor to Disneyland was a college student named Dave McPherson. But that time he didn’t have time to ride a single ride, because he was in a hurry to get to class. But later he had a chance to more than make up for lost time - he was awarded a lifetime pass to all Disneylands on the planet.

Japan imports rice from the US - but only to meet World Trade Organization requirements. The Japanese almost never eat this rice. Most of it is sent to North Korea as humanitarian aid, the rest is fed to pigs or rots in warehouses.

The ancestors of the first whales were medium-sized land-dwelling mammals.

Before Hitler came to Paris during World War II, the French cut all the cables of the Eiffel Tower. If the Fuhrer wanted to look at the city from above, he would have to climb the steps to the top, which he did not do. Therefore, Parisians proudly say that although Hitler captured France, the Eiffel Tower was too much for him.

In 2006, Claudia Mejia, a resident of the American city of Orlando, went to give birth at a local hospital. When she woke up after giving birth, it turned out that she had neither arms nor legs. To all attempts to find out why the woman had all her limbs amputated, the hospital responds that they cannot state the reason, since in this way the rights of other patients would be violated. Allegedly, she contracted some kind of disease already in the hospital from other patients and the hospital has no right to disclose this information. As a result, Claudia was never able to find out why she was left without arms and legs.

In Vilnius (Lithuania) there is a small district of Užupis, which declared itself an independent republic. This republic has its own flag, its own currency, president, cabinet of ministers and even an army of 11 people

Once the Indian Maharaja Jai ​​Singh visited the Rolls-Royce pavilion in London. One of the workers, not understanding who was in front of him, allowed himself a caustic remark that, “You obviously can’t afford our product.” Singh bought ten cars, brought them to India and ordered them to be used for transporting garbage.

In 1998, during the Australian Open, sisters Serena and Venus Williams recklessly declared that they could easily beat any man ranked below 200 in the tennis rankings. German tennis player Karsten Braasch, the 203rd racket in the world, responded to the challenge. He showed up for the match, refueled with beer and, without much effort, beat first Serena and then Venus with a score of 6:1 and 6:2, respectively.

Due to confusion with similar names, representatives of the Slovak and Slovenian embassies have to meet regularly (once a month) to exchange mail delivered by mistake.

The very first version of Cinderella was written in China.

No one knows the name of the inventor of the fire hydrant because the patent for this invention was burned in a fire.

The inventor of Vaseline, Robert Chesbrough, ate a spoonful of his invention a day and assured that he felt enormous benefits from it for his body. He lived to be 96 years old.

President John F. Kennedy's daughter received a puppy from the first dog in space. The gift was made in order to improve relations between Kennedy and Khrushchev. This puppy managed to bite the entire Kennedy family.

There is no such thing as pink. The fact that we see it is a great scientific mystery. This color is a combination of red and violet - two opposite spectrums of the rainbow, and such a mixture is impossible in nature. In fact, certain wavelengths, when reflected, are converted into pink in our brain.

Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito and Freud all lived in Vienna, Austria at the same time in 1913.

While a person eats a pineapple, the pineapple eats a person in return. This is the only plant that contains bromelain, an enzyme that effectively breaks down protein. And since the human body is made of protein, the pineapple tries to “digest” it. This is what explains the ulcers on the tongue of those who overdo it with eating these fruits.

During the 9/11 rescue mission, dogs were so rarely able to locate survivors that they experienced extreme stress as they felt guilty and unable to cope. Therefore, rescuers had to regularly hide in the ruins themselves to allow the dogs to detect them and, thereby, maintain their “fighting spirit.”

Billionaire cocaine smuggler Sal Magluta won the US National Speedboat Race three times and appeared frequently on television despite being a fugitive. Nobody noticed anything for 6 years.

The chemical name of titin consists of 189,819 characters. It will take at least three hours to pronounce it completely.

It turns out that it's even better to store eggs dirty because they have a protective layer that washes off with water. In many countries, eggs are washed before sale to give them a more “marketable appearance,” thereby opening pores in the shell through which harmful bacteria can enter during storage.

16% of Lithuanians are immune against HIV.

There is a legend that Orson Welles's radio play The War of the Worlds, broadcast on CBS on October 30, 1938, was taken at face value, causing more than a million residents of the northeastern United States to allegedly believe in a Martian attack and panic. It was said that entire families barricaded themselves with weapons in the basements of their houses, or hastily packed their things to leave the country. In reality, the effect was not that strong, it was just that the CBS station's competitors were trying to discredit it as a news source.

In China, there is an organization called the “Mistresses Association”, which unites women who live at the expense of married wealthy men. On their website, these women not only share their impressions and experiences, but also help each other collect dirt on their patrons in case they decide to “cut off funding.”

In 2004, humanity produced more transistors than grains of rice, and by 2010, 125 thousand transistors could already be bought for the price of a grain of rice. An electronic device with 16 GB of memory contains more transistors than neurons in the human head.

Biotechnology company Pembient has learned to 3D print “rhino horns” that are genetically identical to natural ones. The company plans to release this product on the Chinese market at a price 8 times cheaper than real horns, hoping to thus combat poaching.

In 2009, an expert on anti-kidnapping in Mexico was kidnapped in Mexico just after finishing a lecture entitled “How to Avoid Getting Kidnapped in Mexico.”

Abstract algebraic principles are typically only taught in college. Meanwhile, mathematicians have proven that even a five-year-old child - that is, almost any member of society - is quite capable of comprehending them.

75% of the world's food comes from just 12 plant species and 5 animal species.

Jerky movements like tapping your fingers on a table or beating a rhythm with your feet can burn up to 350 calories a day. It is easy to notice that such habits are characteristic mainly of slender people.

One day, a 2.5-year-old girl named Michelle Funk fell into the river and was underwater for 66 minutes. When rescuers brought her to the surface, the baby had neither a pulse nor breathing. After more than 3 hours, her blood suddenly became warmer. When the temperature reached 25 degrees Celsius, the girl returned to life and lives to this day.