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A selection of interesting facts from different areas that will 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 arm towards it and bend your 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, the sun's rays hit 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.

Surely the most incredible facts will shock you. After all, it’s not every day that you hear what we’re going to tell you about right now. Of course, there are many more of them than in this article. But it’s impossible to describe everything, but some of them will certainly make your leisure time enjoyable.

So, here are the facts for your attention.

Surely you are well aware that since ancient times there have been legends that there are vampires on earth who want to drink your blood? So today, for suspicious people who believe in this, special kits for hunting vampires are sold. Yes, yes, there is everything you need to protect and counterattack the evil bloodsuckers!

An Englishman named Albert Marcantonio got into the Guinness Book of Records because he managed to grow the world's largest zucchini. Its length was 165 centimeters.

By the way, the most stolen book on the planet is the Guinness Book of Records. This fact will also be included in this book.

It is believed that the best trained dogs in the world are police dogs. They are capable of incredible endurance. We have collected everything in a separate article.

The gecko animal is a champion in camouflage. No one knows how to hide from the eyes of a predator as deftly as this species of lizard.

Madagascar flat-tailed gecko

Did you know that the distance between and the USA is only 4 km? And this is not a joke at all! The distance between the Russian Ratmanov Island and the American Krusenstern Island is really only 4 km. So, on occasion, you can safely show off your knowledge of this incredible fact among your friends. It is also interesting that the Greenwich time difference between these islands is exactly 21 hours!

Surely you have not heard anything about such an amazing plant as cardiocrinum, which is translated as “Heart-shaped lily”. It seems incredible, but this miracle of nature blooms only once in a lifetime. Moreover, the plant spends all its energy on this task, and immediately after flowering it dies.

Scientists have long noticed that a person, in any incomprehensible area, is more inclined to go to the right than to the left. This feature is successfully used by all marketers in the world. When you come to a hypermarket, pay attention to how the stands are arranged.

The world's largest production car is the Ford F650. Its weight is 12 tons, and the cost is relatively low: only 70-80 thousand dollars.

This fact may seem incredible to you, but it is absolutely accurate: more than half of the world's population uses rice as their main food product.

The most expensive tea in the world is considered to be Dahongpao - “Big Red Robe”. This is Chinese rock tea. It can only be bought at auction, and the cost can reach 70 thousand dollars per 100 grams.

Dubai is the largest city in the United Arab Emirates. It's no secret that it is one of the richest cities. It is no coincidence that more than a hundred public transport stops there are equipped with air conditioning for comfortable waiting for transport.

By the way, also located in Dubai. Its height is 828 meters.

This incredible fact will seem unpleasant to music lovers, which includes the author of this article. The fact is that one hour of listening to music on headphones increases the number of ear bacteria by 700 times. Yes, sir, it would be better if I didn’t know this, since I still can’t give up headphones!

Nature never ceases to amaze us with its “tricks”. For example, a shrimp has a heart in its head. Poor thing!

In 1898-1910. The cough medicine was made from... heroin.

As you know, rats are one of the smartest animals in the world. They are also the only representatives of the animal kingdom that can laugh. This is truly an incredible fact.

Buckwheat is rarely respected among young people. However, it differs from many cereals in its unique properties and the presence of a huge amount of useful substances. It’s time to write a separate article about it, but for now we’ll just say that it is buckwheat that can cleanse the stomach of chewing gum. Keep in mind!

It seems incredible, but bamboo can grow up to 3 meters in height in just 24 hours.

Iceland is unique in that it has black beaches. And all because of the black gravel and black boulders. There are only a few such beaches on the planet.

A specimen of sequoia is considered evergreen. This unique tree grows in the USA and has its own name - Hyperion. The height of this giant is 115.61 meters, and its age is 700-800 years. Its exact location is not disclosed so that the flow of tourists does not disturb the existing ecosystem there.

Pablo Escobar

This fact is so incredible that you might think it is not true. However, this is a completely reliable fact. The fact is that one of the most famous drug lords of the 20th century was the Colombian Pablo Escobar. His daughter said that once, when they were hiding from the police, they had to spend the night in the open air. Since she was cold, her dad made a fire.

But there was no firewood anywhere, so he burned about $2 million overnight. Despite the extreme cruelty and many bloody murders on his conscience, he loved his family very much.

He owns the quote: “In this life I can find a replacement for any thing, but I will never find a replacement for my wife and children.” At the time of 1989, his fortune was estimated at $3 billion.

Well, that's where we'll end. Of course, these are not all the most incredible facts. But we hope that you enjoyed reading them.

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ABOUT COUNTRIES AND PEOPLES

1. The Alaska flag was created by a 13-year-old boy.
2. Military honor in no country is given with the left hand.
3. The international dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
4. Captain Cook was the first person to set foot on all the continents of the Earth except Antarctica.
5. The West African Matami tribe plays football with a human skull.
6. In Australia, the fifty cent coin originally contained two dollars worth of silver.
7. Most often, the Guinness Book of Records is stolen in English libraries.
8. The National Orchestra of Monaco is larger than its army.
9. One day - February 18, 1979 - it snowed in the Sahara Desert.
10. Canada is larger in area than China, and China is larger than the United States.
11. The only country where not a single birth was registered in 1983 is the Vatican.
12. The Nile froze twice - in the 9th and 11th centuries.
13. In Siena, Italy, you can't be a prostitute if your name is Maria.
14. In ancient Rome, a man taking an oath or making an oath would place his hand on the scrotum.
15. Tickling was prohibited by law in some ancient countries of the East, as it was considered a sinful arousing activity.
16. There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
17. In the Eskimo language, there are more than 20 words for snow.
18. There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.
19. In France, the law prohibits the sale of dolls with non-human faces, such as “alien girls.”
20. Canada has been declared the best country to live by the UN 4 times over the past 5 years.
21. In ancient Rome, if a patient died during an operation, the doctor's hands were cut off.
ABOUT CULTURE
22. As X-rays have shown, under the “Mona Lisa” we know, there are three more of its original versions.
23. John Lennon's song "I'm a Walrus" was inspired by the sound of a police siren.
24. The most frequently performed song in the world - “Happy birthday to you” - is protected by copyright.
25. There is only one Western directed by a woman.
26. George Harrison's toilet seat sang "Lusy in the sky with diamonds."
27. During World War II, in order to save metal, Oscar figurines were made of wood.
28. The original title of “Gone with the Wind” is “Be-be, black sheep.”
29. In Cameroon's film Titanic, the most frequently spoken word is "Rose".

ABOUT THE LITTLE BROTHERS

30. A cat falling from the 12th floor has a better chance of surviving than a cat falling from the 7th floor.
31. When Europeans first saw a giraffe, they called it a “camelback,” thinking that it was a hybrid of a camel and a leopard.
32. The animal with the largest brain in relation to its body is the ant.
33. About 70 percent of living creatures on Earth are bacteria.
34. When young, Black Sea perches are mostly girls, but by the age of 5 they radically change sex!
35. The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
36. The Tokyo Zoo closes for 2 months every year so that the animals can take a break from visitors.
37. Anteaters prefer to eat termites rather than ants.
38. When a giraffe gives birth, her baby falls from a height of one and a half meters.
39. Despite the hump, the camel’s spine is straight.
40. Female dogs bite more often than male dogs.
41. Every year, more people die from bee stings than from snake bites.
42. Sharks are immune to cancer.
43. Birth control pills work on gorillas.
44. A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
45. A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
46. The animal that can go the longest without drinking is the rat.
47. The only animals that suffer from leprosy, besides humans, are armadillos.
48. Hippos are born underwater.
49. Orangutans warn of aggression with loud burps.
50. A mole can dig a tunnel 76 meters long in one night.
51. A snail has about 25,000 teeth.
52. A black spider can eat up to 20 spiders a day.
53. With a lack of food, a tapeworm can eat up to 95 percent of its body weight - and nothing!
54. Crocodiles are responsible for more than 1,000 deaths on the banks of the Nile per year.
55. The ancient Egyptians taught baboons to serve them at table.
56. Saint Bernards, the famous rescuers of mountaineers, do not wear a flask of brandy around their necks.
57. It takes 4 hours to hard-boil an ostrich egg.
58. Within a pride of lions, 9/10 of the prey is supplied to the “family” by lionesses.
59. Sloths spend 75% of their lives sleeping.
60. Hummingbirds cannot walk.
61. A moth has no stomach.
62. Europeans, having arrived in Australia, asked the aborigines: “What are these strange jumping animals you have here?” The Aborigines answered: “Kangaroo,” which meant: “We don’t understand!”
63. The easiest way to distinguish a vegetarian animal from a predator: predators have eyes located on the front of the muzzle to see the prey. Vegetarians have them on both sides of their heads to see the enemy.
64. The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
65. 99% of living creatures that lived on Earth became extinct.
66. To make a kilogram of honey, a bee must fly around 2 million flowers.
67. The blood of a grasshopper is white, the blood of a lobster is blue.
68. The only animals that have sex for pleasure are humans and dolphins.
69. Over the past 4,000 years, not a single new animal has been domesticated.
70. Penguins can jump more than one and a half meters in height.
71. The only pet that is not mentioned in the Bible is a cat.
72. Chimpanzees are the only animals that can recognize themselves in the mirror.
73. The word “orangutan” means “jungle man” in some African languages.
74. Emu means "ostrich" in Portuguese.
75. Elephants and humans are the only mammals that can stand on their heads.
76. Crocodiles swallow stones to dive deeper.
77. Polar bears can run at a speed of 40 km/h.
78. Dogs have elbows.

ABOUT THE GREATS

79. “The Thinker” by Rodin - a portrait of the Italian poet Dante.
80. Singer Nick Cave was born with a ponytail.
81. Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day - April 23, 1616.
82. English Writer Virginia Woolf wrote most of her books standing.
83. Sarah Bernhardt played 13-year-old Juliet at 70 years old.
84. When Walt Disney was a child, he tortured an owl. Since then, he decided to bring animals to life in cartoons.
85. Beethoven was once arrested for vagrancy.
86. Buzz Aldrin, one of the astronauts who walked on the Moon, has his mother’s maiden name Moon (Moon).
87. When Einstein died, his last words died with him: the nurse did not understand German.
88. Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath to hide his beginning baldness.
89. D. Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
90. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, never called his mother and wife: they were both deaf.
91. Saint Patrick, the patron saint of the Irish, was not Irish.
92. Leonardo da Vinci invented an alarm clock that rubbed the feet of a sleeping person.
93. Napoleon suffered from ailurophobia - fear of cats.

ABOUT PEOPLE

94. The nose grows throughout a person’s life.
95. Only one child out of 20 is born on the day prescribed by the doctor.
96. The ancient Greeks believed that boys grow on the right side of the abdomen, and girls on the left.
97. If you remove space from all the atoms of the human body, then what remains can be threaded through the eye of a needle.
98. In the Middle Ages, in the dark spots of the Moon, people saw the figure of Cain carrying an armful of brushwood.
99. A sperm is the smallest single cell in the body. The egg is the largest.
100. If a real woman had the proportions of a Barbie doll, she would only be able to walk on 4 limbs.
101. Blonde beards grow faster than dark ones.
102. In Russian and English there is no word for the name of the back of the knee.
103. In the 15th century, it was believed that the color red heals. Patients wore red and surrounded themselves with red things.
104. Tongue imprints are individual for all people.
105. When you blush, your stomach turns red too.
106. There is enough body fat in the human body to make 7 bars of soap.
107. 80% of the human body’s heat leaves the head.
108. A person has fewer muscles than a caterpillar.
109. At the time of death, Lenin's brain was a quarter of normal size.
110. The world's highest IQ scores on standardized tests belong to two women.
111. Most people lose 50% of their sense of taste by age 60.
112. House dust consists of 70% shed skin.
113. The tooth is the only part of a person that lacks the ability to repair itself.
114. The brain is 80% water.
115. More living organisms live on the body of one person than there are people on Earth.
116. One hair can support a weight of 3 kg.
117. The average human head weighs 3.6 kg.
118. Over the course of his entire life, a person produces so much saliva that it would be enough for 2 large swimming pools.

Well and Miscellaneous

Repellents don't repel mosquitoes - they hide you. The substances contained in repellents block the receptors with which mosquitoes find their prey.
Dentists recommend keeping your toothbrush at least two meters away from the toilet.
No sheet of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
Every year, donkeys kill more people on earth than die in plane crashes.
You burn more calories while sleeping than while watching TV.
The first product with a barcode was Wrigley's chewing gum.
The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is greater than the distance of the Wright brothers' first flight.
American Airlines saved $40,000 by removing just one olive from salads served to first class passengers.
Venus is the only planet in the solar system that rotates counterclockwise.
Apples help you wake up in the morning better than coffee.
The plastic things at the ends of the laces are called aiguillettes.
The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
Michael Jordan received more money from Nike than all the workers at the company's factories in Malaysia.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on her feet.
All US presidents wore glasses. It’s just that some people didn’t like to appear in public wearing them.
Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.
Pearls dissolve in vinegar.
Among people posting marriage advertisements, 35 percent are already married.
The three most expensive brand names on earth are Marlboro, Coca-Cola and Budweiser, in that order.
You can make a cow go up a ladder, but you can't make it go down.
Duck croaking does not echo, no one knows why.
The reason American firehouses have spiral staircases dates back to the days when pumps and other heavy objects were lifted by horses. The horses crowded below, unable to figure out how to climb the straight flights of stairs.
Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president to have all the letters of the word "criminal" in his name.
The second was Bill Clinton.
On average, 100 people die every year from choking on a ballpoint pen.
90 percent of New York taxi drivers are immigrants.
The elephant is the only animal that cannot jump.
One in two million people have a chance of living to 116 years old.
Women, on average, blink twice as often as men.
It is anatomically impossible for a person to lick his own elbow.
Indiana University's main library building is sinking one inch each year because engineers did not take into account the weight of the books it contained during construction.
Snails can sleep for up to three years.
Crocodiles cannot stick out their tongues.
The lighter was invented before matches.
Every day, US residents eat 18 hectares of pizza.
Almost everyone who read this text tried to lick their elbow.
Having learned that, according to Plato, Man is a biped without feathers, Diogenes plucked the rooster and, bringing it to the Academy, announced: “Here is Plato’s man” ;)
If you scream for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, the amount of acoustic energy you generate will be enough to heat one cup of coffee.
If you fart continuously for 6 years and 9 months, the amount of gas you release will be enough to create an amount of energy equal to the explosion of an atomic bomb.
When pumping blood in the body, the human heart creates pressure sufficient to eject blood 10 meters forward.
You will burn 150 calories if you bang your head against the wall for an hour.
An ant can lift 50 times its own weight and pull 30 times its own weight. And when an ant is poisoned with chemicals, it always falls on its right side.
A cockroach can live 9 days without a head, after which it will die of hunger.
The male praying mantis is not capable of copulation when he has a head. Therefore, sexual intercourse in praying mantises begins with the female tearing off the male’s head.
Some species of lions can copulate up to 50 times a day.
Butterflies taste food with their feet.
Elephants are the only animals that are unable to jump
Cat urine glows under ultraviolet light.
An ostrich's eye is larger than its brain.
A starfish has no brain.
All polar bears are left-handed.
Humans and dolphins are the only species of animals that have sex for pleasure.
Cockroaches have existed on Earth for 250 million years and have not undergone any evolutionary changes since then.
Crocodiles have never lived in Australia's Alligator River.
Drinkers began clinking glasses in ancient times. It was believed that in this way they ward off evil spirits.
Thanks to gravity, a person weighs a little less when the Moon is at its zenith.
Polar bears have black skin.
"Spain" literally means "land of rabbits".
For an oak tree to grow acorns, it must be at least 50 years old.
Pacific Tiwi girls are married off at birth.
In the 70s, the issue of a sex tax was seriously discussed in the United States. The fee was supposed to be 2 dollars.
Bees have five eyes.
Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.
The first cologne in history appeared as a means of preventing the plague.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
Every second, 1% of the world's population is dead drunk.
A beard consists of 7-15 thousand hairs. And it grows at a speed of 14 centimeters per year.
The ant has the largest brain of all living creatures. In relation to the body, of course.
To commit suicide with coffee, you need to drink 100 cups in a row.
Hans Christian Andersen could not write almost a single word correctly.
There are 25% more back injuries and 33% more heart attacks on Mondays.
Every day, an average of 33 new products appear in the world. 13 of them are toys.
The average person spends two weeks in their entire life waiting for a traffic light to change.
A person gets used to tea faster than to heroin.
Toilet paper was invented in 1857.
Every day, Americans throw away 20 thousand televisions, 150 thousand tons of packaging materials and 43 thousand tons of food.
Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day is equivalent to drinking a coffee cup of nicotine every year.
Ancient Egyptians used eye shadow to protect against conjunctivitis and trachoma.
The body of a sleeping person is half a centimeter longer than that of a waking person.
Mosquitoes are attracted to the smell of people who have recently eaten bananas.
A hockey puck can reach a speed of 160 kilometers per hour.
The Neanderthal brain was larger than yours and mine.
Some public toilets in Singapore have video karaoke machines.
Yaks have pink milk.
The shortest river in the world is the Saginaw in the US state of Michigan.
The average ATM makes a mistake of $250 per year - and not in its favor.
Christopher Columbus was blond.
A penguin can jump three meters high.
If you multiply 111.111.111 by 111.111.111, you get 12345678987654321.
In 1863, Jules Verne wrote Paris in the 20th Century, in which he described in detail the automobile, the fax machine and the electric chair. The publisher returned the manuscript to him, calling him an idiot.
The largest trade turnover in the world is gasoline. In second place is coffee.
In South Korea, marriages between namesakes are prohibited.
The English nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" is dedicated to King Richard III, who actually fell from the wall during the 1485 battle.
Over the course of a year, a person's ribs make 5 million movements.
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
Michael Jordan receives more money from Nike every year than all the workers at its factories in Malaysia combined.
Only 1 out of 7 thefts are solved in the world.
The 3 smartest dog breeds are the border collie, poodle and German shepherd, the dumbest are the Afghan hound, bulldog and chow chow.
Some brands of toothpaste contain antifreeze.
Icelanders drink Coca-Cola the most, Scots drink the least, preferring Irn Bru.
If you put a person on soap, he will get 7 pieces.
No language in the world has a word for the back of the knee.
Only 55% of Americans know that the Sun is a star.
When a gorilla gets angry, it sticks out its tongue.
Hong Kong has the most Rolls-Royces per capita.
Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.
The area of the human alveoli is equal to a tennis court.
Over the past 4 thousand years, humans have not domesticated a single new species of animal.
The Speaker of the English House of Lords is prohibited from speaking during meetings.
A bee has two stomachs - one for honey, the other for food.
Every minute there are 2 earthquakes in the world.
It takes an average person 7 minutes to fall asleep.
The word "doctor" comes from the word "to lie." In Rus', healers often treated with incantations and spells. Muttering and chatter were called lies until the beginning of the 19th century.
There are about 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
Most lipsticks contain fish scales. And each woman eats on average about 4 kilograms of this cosmetic product during her life.
Watching color TV is less harmful than black and white: bright colors stimulate the color-perceiving apparatus of the eye, relieving some of the load from the accommodative muscles.
All swans in England are the property of the Queen.
On average, a person drinks 60,560 liters of liquid during his life.
Until the eighteenth century, people did not use soap.
The elephant is the only mammal that cannot jump.
Humans and dolphins are the only animals that can have sex for pleasure.
The smallest army in the world (12 people) is the Republic of San Marino.
Drinking vodka (and other strong drinks...) is much more harmful than eating a snack.
Las Vegas is visible from space as the brightest place on Earth.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong took his famous “one man’s small step and all mankind’s giant step” to the Moon with his left foot.
Cholera bacilli die in beer within a few hours and the disease does not develop. The discoverer of cholera pathogens, Professor Koch, recommended beer as a medicine.
The mass of the human brain is 1/46 of the total body mass, the mass of the elephant's brain is only 1/560 of the body mass.
Every year on the Fourth of July, Americans eat more than 150 million hot dogs.
Every second, about 100 lightning flashes on Earth.
The human eye is capable of distinguishing 130-250 pure color tones and 5-10 million mixed shades.
The eagle owl can turn its head 270 degrees.
Tooth enamel is the hardest tissue produced by the human body.
Complete adaptation of the eye to darkness takes 60-80 minutes.
On his deathbed, Salieri repented of all his sins, but his confession was considered the delirium of a dying man.
Australia has twice as many kangaroos as people.
The surface pattern of a cat's nose is unique, like a human fingerprint.
A man swallows an average of 21 milliliters of liquid in one gulp, and a woman swallows 14 milliliters.
March 8 is the International Day for Women's Rights and International Peace.
If someone wanted to count all the stars in the Galaxy - and began to count them at the speed of one star per second - then it would take the “stargazer” about 3000 years.
If your scream lasts 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you will produce enough acoustic energy to boil a glass of water.
An ant poisoned by chemicals always falls on its right side.
The polar bear is left-handed.
The crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
The word "mouse" comes from the ancient Sanskrit word "mus", that is, "thief".
If someone annoys you and you make a face, 42 muscles are involved.
You only need to use 4 muscles to hit someone on the head.
When you hit your head against a wall, you burn 150 calories per hour.
A flea can jump a distance of 350 times its body length. It’s the same as a person jumping over a football field.
Catfish have more than 27,000 taste buds.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue!
In one of the issues of the Moscow Provincial Gazette for 1848, you can read the following: “The tradesman Nikifor Nikitin should be exiled to the remote settlement of Baikonur for seditious speeches about a flight to the moon.”
In ancient Greece, women counted their age not from the day of birth, but from the day of marriage. By this they showed that only married life had meaning for them.
Over the past 200 years, 150 animal species have become extinct. The next 600 species of the animal world are on the verge of extinction.
To fill a half-liter sucker with honey, bees are forced to collect nectar from almost 2,000,000 flowers.
Boiling water extinguishes fire faster than cold water, since it immediately removes the heat of vaporization from the flame and surrounds the fire with a layer of steam, making it difficult for air to reach.
Today, the average person weighs 5 kg more than in 1960.
The Russian word "banya" goes back to the Latin "valneum" (bathing, washing), which has another meaning - "expulsion of sadness."
The Quaktul Indians living in British Columbia have a funny custom: if someone borrows money, they leave their name as collateral. Until the debt is repaid, the person remains nameless. At this time, other Indians call him with a movement of their hand or inarticulate screams.
In the movie Pulp Fiction, the word "fuck" is used 257 times (give or take a couple for the gagged Marsellus).
Tickling was prohibited by law in some ancient countries of the East, as it was considered a sinful arousing activity.
In the Eskimo language there are more than 20 words for snow.
There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.
In France, the law prohibits the sale of dolls with non-human faces, such as “alien girls.”
Canada has been declared the best country to live by the UN 4 times over the past 5 years.
In ancient Rome, if a patient died during an operation, the doctor's hands were cut off.
King Louis XIX ruled France for a total of 15 minutes.
There are more cows in Nebraska than people.
In the film “2001: A Space Odyssey” by S. Kubrick, the astronauts used the crazy supercomputer HAL; if in the word H-A-L we change each letter to the next one in the alphabet, we get I-B-M.
Bulls do not distinguish colors; they use red for brightness and beauty, and blood is less noticeable on it.
Spider web is stronger than steel
The most durable thing that nature has created is shark teeth.
A shark has about 1,000 constantly changing teeth.
The largest shark that ever lived could fit a full-length man in its mouth. (something made me think of sharks)
Cats sometimes lay out dead mice in a strict semicircle with their tails outward/inward, and place another one in the center.
At dusk, red appears redder.
Some people are able to live for a long time in icy water.
In an unconscious state, a person does not breathe in water.
From lack of air a person falls asleep.
Humans are immune to mad cow disease, which means that even Europeans, no matter how much they boasted of good morals, indulged in cannibalism.
Herbivores do not spread rabies.
Red cockroaches are not Russians (Prussians).
Animals dream.
Wasps kill more people than are killed by cars (an old fact that may have changed)
Plastic hardly decomposes.
The spider is the only insect with eight legs.
The jumping spider has an intelligence comparable to that of a small rodent, due to its “scanning” gaze.
The ruff has purple eyes.
Some frogs can change sex.
It is impossible to die from hydrocyanic acid in an apartment with an open window.
The first condoms appeared under Tutankhamun.
Crabs and lobsters lack a central nervous system.
Gogol suffered from manic-depressive psychosis.
In the ancient concept, a martyr is a great martyr and should not at all kill a crowd of innocent people at his own death.
the octopus has 10 legs
Goats and octopuses have rectangular pupils.
The bite of the vampire mice causes more blood to flow out than she drinks.
It is anatomically inconvenient for a vampire to drink blood with fangs - they are designed to hold the victim, and for that they have hands. In order to drink blood, they need sharp incisors, not fangs (like bats)
There is only one species of crocodile that can run on land.
Crocodiles cannot chew.
The yew grows out of itself.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When eating celery, a person spends more calories than he takes in.
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.

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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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 - the Wends - gave the name to Russia in the Estonian (Venemaa) and Finnish (Venäja) 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.
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).
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”.
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 tin cans. However, customers thought that they were offered a new way - to brew tea directly in these bags, and found this method very convenient.

The signature recipe of one American restaurant where George Crum worked in 1853 was 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.
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.
During the occupation, the 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.
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.
Goats, sheep, mongooses and octopuses have rectangular pupils.
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.
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.

To successfully master the difficult phrase “I love you,” the British can use the mnemonic Yellow-blue bus.
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.
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.”
In the 1970s, the Swedish capital Stockholm had a municipal service dog called Siv Gustavson, who could bark in a variety of ways, corresponding to different dog breeds. 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.
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.
Henri Matisse's painting "The Boat" was exhibited at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1961. Only after 40 days did someone notice that the painting was hanging upside down.

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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.

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.”
Korney Chukovsky's real name was Nikolai Vasilyevich Korneychukov.
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, a man's voice can be heard when moving clockwise, and a woman's voice can be heard counterclockwise. This was done to make it easier for blind passengers to navigate.
In the era of black-and-white television, red filters were often used in cameras, causing red lipstick to make lips look pale on television screens. Therefore, announcers and actresses were made up with green blush and lipstick.
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.”
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.
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.
South African law allows for any degree of self-defense when it comes to a threat to a person’s life or property. To protect cars from theft, traps, stun guns and even flamethrowers are popular here.
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.
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 achieved the status of supplier to the royal family, and in 1904 emigrated to the USA.

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.
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.
An ordinary book of a standard format of 500 pages cannot be crushed, even if you put 15 cars loaded with coal on it.
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.

Apples help you wake up in the morning better than coffee.
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.
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 the atomic bombs of the USSR.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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."
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.

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.
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.
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 could not be seen.
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.
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.

It has long been believed that ancient Greek white marble sculptures 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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 with the right hand can only be delivered from right to left, which was inaccessible to the 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.
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 silica (or sand) melted by the action of an electric current of lightning. Fulgurites can go several meters deep into the earth, although due to their fragility it is very difficult to dig them out completely.

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.
Not only does a tiger have striped fur, but it also has striped skin underneath.
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.
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.
In one of the first editions of Ozhegov’s explanatory dictionary, they decided not to include the names of city residents, so as not to once again 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.
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.
It is generally accepted that Napoleon was very short - 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.
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.

When giving birth, a giraffe falls to the ground from almost two meters in height.
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.
There is a widespread legend that the idea of the periodic table of 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.”
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.
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.
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).
During World War II, Oscar statuettes were made from plaster.
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.
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.

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.
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.
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.
In public libraries in 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.
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.
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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A person's daily life is not as boring as many people think. They make an attentive observer think about it, be surprised by the diversity of life, or have a good laugh.

But in the bustle of everyday chores, we sometimes do not notice these things. Want to expand your horizons?

We are offering to you interesting facts from life, which will definitely lift your spirits and teach you to look at the world around you in a new way.

According to statistics, chronic alcoholics live 15 years longer than those people who work without vacation. Rest more, gentlemen, but do not abuse alcohol!
25% of our compatriots think about sex while stuck in a traffic jam. Oddly enough, only 6% think about work.
Blue-eyed people are less likely to suffer from visual impairments than brown-eyed and gray-eyed people.
Brown-eyed people are more adapted to everyday difficulties.
An interesting life fact: the more often a man makes love, the lower his risk of a heart attack. Consider these instructions for action! This, unfortunately, does not apply to women.
In the morning we are about 1 centimeter higher. During the day, the joints shrink, which makes us a little shorter in the evening.
No person in the world can sneeze with their eyes open. Want to check it out? Please! Just don't do this while driving a car. According to statistics, 2% of all accidents occur because the driver sneezed and lost vigilance for a couple of seconds.
Women speak 13 thousand more words per day than men. All men will agree with this fact, but women may be indignant!
Interestingly, nightmares are more likely to occur in a cold bedroom.
Foul language can temporarily dull the pain. Probably, Russian builders feel this on an intuitive level!
The more often you overeat, the worse your hearing.
Cats' taste buds are not sensitive to sweets. By the way, read in a separate article.
Men's hair is coarser and thicker than women's. However, there is twice as much hair on a woman's head!
If a woman periodically listens to an audio recording of a child crying, her breasts can increase by 2 centimeters in a week.
There is a fact that designers came up with a small pocket on men's jeans in order to hide a condom there. It's actually designed for a watch. Recommended reading.
The best cleaner for kettles, bathtubs, toilets and ovens is regular Coca-Cola!
Uncolored Coca-Cola is green.
Flavored cigarettes contain urea.
The timbre of the voices of women who work in a male team is significantly lower than that of women who work side by side with other women.
Regular sex relieves headaches. Interestingly, not all women use this fact in their lives. But men can use it as an argument!
Left-handed people find it easier to chew food with the left side of their jaws.
You can stop yawning by touching your tongue with your finger.
When talking to a person we like, our pupils involuntarily dilate.
When there are many cows, it is a herd. A set of horses is called a herd. A large group of sheep - a flock. But when there are a lot of frogs, it’s... an army! At least that's what zoologists call them.
A 4-5 year old child asks about 400 questions a day.
Fear of Friday the 13th is considered a disease and is successfully treated by psychotherapists.
A clear fact of life: the average person eats 35 tons of food in their lifetime.
Turtles can breathe through their anus.
OK (okay) is the most commonly used word in most languages of the world.
95% of emails sent are spam.
A champagne cork can jump to a height of up to 12 meters.
Interestingly, throughout the history of the Earth, no two identical snowflakes have existed. However, just like people. Even twins have slight differences.
In 2 years, a pair of rats can produce more than a million babies. For comparison, a domestic cat gives birth to no more than 100 kittens in her entire life.
The first US President George Washington, in his free time, loved to admire the lush hemp bushes that grew in his garden.
Do not microwave grapes or they will explode!
The cow is unable to go down the stairs.
Incredible but true: the largest eyes on Earth belong to the giant (colossal) squid. They are approximately the size of a soccer ball.
Humpback whales scream the loudest of all animals on Earth. The cry of these mammals is louder than the roar of an airplane and can be heard over 500 kilometers in the open ocean.
Believe it or not, a caterpillar has more muscles than a human.
People in white swimsuits and swimming trunks are more likely to become victims of sharks on beaches.
A shark's nostrils are an organ of smell, but not of breathing. Sharks breathe through gills.
Babies have more bones than adults.
The lighter the beard, the faster it grows.
An interesting fact from life: the smartest woman (according to the results of an IQ test) was... a housewife.
More than 1,000 people die every year from lightning strikes.
Cologne was originally used to treat the plague.
Koalas sleep 22 hours a day. Eh!..
The peak of household injuries and heart attacks occurs on Monday.
Every day, 13 new varieties of children's toys appear in the world.
The most common tree in the world is the Siberian larch.
And this is a terrible fact, despite the fact that it is about life. Some sharks eat their brothers and sisters while still in the womb. Truly, survival of the fittest!
Contrary to popular belief, anteaters do not eat ants. Their main food is termites.
The Mayans and Aztecs used cocoa beans instead of money.
A quarter of our skeleton is made up of leg bones.
Dogs are able to guess their owners' intentions. Pay attention to .
The shrimp's heart is located in the head, in the back of the head. The genitals are located nearby.
The giraffe's tongue reaches a length of up to half a meter.
A blue whale can not breathe for 2 hours.
Surprisingly, but true: the female nightingale cannot sing.
A postage stamp contains one tenth of a calorie.
Tongue prints, like fingerprints, are unique and inimitable.
Purple clothes are worn as a sign of mourning in Turkey. In all other Muslim countries, white is considered the color of mourning.
At the end of the 19th century, cocaine was used to treat insomnia and colds.
If you chew gum while peeling onions, it is impossible to cry.
Ticks can go 10 years without food.
Until the end of the 19th century in Russia, you could only buy vodka in a 12-liter bucket. People once knew when to stop! By the way, we recommend reading where we have collected a very interesting selection.
There are more colorblind men than women.
This fact of life may surprise you. The fact is that some men are terrified of virgins. Psychologists call this phenomenon parthenophobia.
The hibernation period of snails can last 3 years.
Vinegar can dissolve pearls.
99% of living things that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct.
Every day on Earth, 3 people undergo gender reassignment surgery.

Well, friends, we hope that you liked the interesting facts from life. Of course, we do not call them either the most important or the most interesting. It’s just that selections like these help keep your brain in good shape and exercise your memory.

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