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Everyday life a person is not as boring as it seems to many. make the attentive observer think about it, be surprised at the diversity of life, or laugh hard.

But in the bustle of everyday troubles, we sometimes do not notice these things. Do you want to expand your horizons?

We are offering to you interesting facts from life which will certainly cheer you up and teach you to look at the world in a new way.

According to statistics, chronic alcoholics live 15 years longer than 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 impairment than brown-eyed and gray-eyed people.
Brown-eyed people are more adapted to everyday difficulties.
Interesting fact of life: the more often a man makes love, the lower his risk of a heart attack. Consider this a guide to action! Unfortunately, this does not apply to women.
In the morning we are about 1 centimeter taller. During the day, the joints are compressed, which makes us a little lower in the evening.
No person in the world can sneeze with their eyes open. Want to check it out? You are welcome! Just don't do it while driving. According to statistics, 2% of all accidents occur due to the fact that the driver sneezed and lost his vigilance for a couple of seconds.
Women speak 13,000 more words per day than men. All men will agree with this fact, but women may be outraged!
Interestingly, in a cold bedroom, nightmares are more common.
Swearing can dull the pain for a while. Probably, Russian builders feel it on an intuitive level!
The more you overeat, the worse your hearing gets.
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 are twice as many hairs on a woman's head!
If a woman periodically listens to an audio recording of a baby crying, her breasts can increase by 2 centimeters in a week.
There is a small pocket on men's jeans that designers came up with in order to hide a condom there. In fact, it is designed for hours. Recommended reading.
The best cleaner for kettles, bathtubs, toilets and ovens is regular Coca-Cola!
Unpainted Coca-Cola is green.
Flavored cigarettes contain urea.
The timbre of the voice of women who work in a male team is much lower than that of ladies 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 take it into service as an argument!
It is more convenient for left-handers to chew food with the left side of the 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. Many horses are called a herd. A large group of sheep - a flock. But when there are a lot of frogs - this is ... 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 cured by psychotherapists.
A clear fact from life: the average person eats 35 tons of food in a lifetime.
Turtles can breathe through their anus.
OK (okay) is the most frequently used word in most languages of the world.
95% of emails sent to e-mail, spam.
A champagne cork can jump up to a height of 12 meters.
Interestingly, in the entire history of the Earth, there have not been two identical snowflakes. However, like people. Even twins have slight differences.
In 2 years, a pair of rats can give birth to more than a million cubs. For comparison, a domestic cat gives birth to no more than 100 kittens in a lifetime.
The first President of the United States, George Washington free time he loved to admire the lush hemp bushes that grew in his garden.
Do not microwave grapes or they will explode!
The cow is not able to go down the stairs.
Incredible, but true: the largest eyes on Earth belong to a giant (colossal) squid. They are about the size of a soccer ball.
Humpback whales scream louder than all animals on Earth. The cry of these mammals is louder than the roar of an airplane and is heard in open ocean over 500 kilometers.
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.
The nostrils of a shark are an organ of smell, but not of breathing. Sharks breathe with 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 the IQ test) was ... a housewife.
Over 1,000 people die each year from lightning strikes.
Initially, cologne was used to treat the plague.
Koalas sleep 22 hours a day. Eh!..
Domestic injuries and heart attacks peak 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 fact is terrible, despite the fact that it is about life. Some sharks eat their siblings while still in the womb. Truly, the fittest survive!
Contrary to popular belief, anteaters do not eat ants. Their main food is termites.
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 the intentions of the owners. Pay attention to .
The heart of a shrimp is located in the head, in the back of the head. Nearby are the genitals.
The tongue of a giraffe reaches a length of up to half a meter.
A blue whale can not breathe for 2 hours.
Surprisingly, it is a fact: the female nightingale cannot sing.
A postage stamp contains one tenth of a calorie.
Tongue prints, like fingerprints, are unique and unrepeatable.
As a sign of mourning in Turkey, they put on purple clothes. In all the rest Muslim countries mourning is white.
In the late 19th century, cocaine was used to treat insomnia and the common cold.
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, it was only possible to buy vodka in Russia in a 12-liter bucket. People knew the measure once! By the way, we recommend reading where we have put together a very interesting selection.
There are more color blind people among men than among women.
This fact from life may surprise you. The fact is that some men are terribly afraid of virgins. Psychologists call this phenomenon parthenophobia.
The hibernation period in snails can last 3 years.
Vinegar can dissolve pearls.
99% of the living things that ever lived on Earth are now extinct.
Every day on Earth, 3 people undergo a sex change operation.

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

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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 sets are sold for hunting vampires. 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 also included in this book.

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

Animal gecko is a camouflage champion. No one knows how to hide from the eyes of a predator as cleverly as this type of lizard.

Flat-tailed Madagascar gecko

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

Surely you have not heard anything about such an amazing plant as cardiocrinum, which translates as "Heart-shaped lily". It seems incredible, but this miracle of nature blooms only once in a lifetime. Moreover, all the forces of the plant go to this business, and immediately after flowering it dies.

Scientists have long noticed that a person, in any incomprehensible terrain, 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 any hypermarket, pay attention to how the stands are located in it.

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 true: more than half of the world's population uses rice as their staple food.

The most expensive tea in the world is Dahongpao - "Big Red Robe". It's a rocky Chinese tea. It can only be bought at an auction, and the cost can reach 70 thousand dollars per 100 grams.

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

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

This incredible fact will seem unpleasant for music lovers, which include the author of this article. The fact is that one hour of listening to music on headphones contributes to an increase in the number of ear bacteria by 700 times. Yes, sir, it would be better if I didn’t know this, because I still can’t refuse headphones!

Nature never ceases to amaze us with its "tricks". So, for example, in a shrimp, the heart is in the head. Poor thing!

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

As you know, rats are one of the smartest animals in the world. They are also the only members of the animal kingdom capable of laughing. This is truly an incredible fact.

Among young people, buckwheat is rarely respected. However, it is different from many cereals. unique properties and the presence huge amount useful substances. Time to write about it separate article, but now let's 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 different 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 copy of the sequoia is considered evergreen. This unique tree grows in the USA and has own name— Hyperion. The height of this giant is 115.61 meters, and the age is 700-800 years. Its exact location is not disclosed so that the flow of tourists does not disrupt the ecosystem that has developed there.

This fact is so incredible that you might think it's not true. However, before you 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. 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 that lay 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.

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Hydra polyp has a high regenerative capacity. If you cut the hydra into two parts, then they both regenerate to an adult hydra. It has been proven that hydras are theoretically immortal.
American mathematician George Dantzig, being a graduate student at the university, one day was late for a lesson and mistook the equations written on the blackboard for homework. It seemed to him more complicated 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 struggled with.
During the Second World War, trained dogs actively helped sappers clear mines. One of them, nicknamed Dzhulbars, was discovered during demining sites in European countries in Last year war 7468 mines and more than 150 shells. Shortly before the Victory Parade in Moscow on June 24, Dzhulbars was wounded and could not pass as part of the military dog school. Then Stalin ordered to carry the dog across Red Square on his overcoat.
James Harrison, 74, has donated blood nearly 1,000 times in his lifetime. Antibodies in his rare blood type help newborns with severe anemia survive. In total, thanks to Harrison's donation, according to rough estimates, more than 2 million babies were saved.
The dog Laika was sent into space, knowing in advance that she would die. After that, a letter came to the UN from a group of women from Mississippi. They demanded to condemn the inhuman 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 Negroes as you want for this.
On April 1, 1976, English astronomer Patrick Moore pranked listeners on BBC radio by announcing that at 9:47 a rare astronomical effect would happen: Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, enter into gravitational interaction with it and slightly weaken the Earth's gravitational field. If the listeners jump at this point, they must experience a strange feeling. Starting at 9:47 a.m., the BBC received hundreds of calls reporting the strange feeling, with one woman even claiming she and her friends were up from their chairs and flying around the room.
When eating celery, a person spends more calories than they receive.
During the huge popularity of Charlie Chaplin, "Chapliniads" were held all over America - competitions for the best imitation of an actor. Chaplin himself participated in one of these competitions in San Francisco incognito, but failed to win.

The Englishman Horace de Veer Cole became famous as a famous joker. One of his best jokes was the distribution of tickets in the theater. By handing out strictly defined places to bald men, he ensured that together these bald skulls from the balcony were read like a swear word.
When Weinsberg was conquered in 1140, King Conrad III of Germany allowed the women to leave the ruined city and take whatever they wished in their hands. 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, and there are also such exotic options as strudel (in Hebrew), marinated herring (in Czech and Slovak), moon ear (in Kazakh).
If at two opposite points of our planet at the same time put two pieces of bread on the ground, you get a sandwich with the globe. The first such sandwich was made in 2006 by calculating the coordinates of a place in Spain and the corresponding antipode place in New Zealand. Subsequently, the experience was repeated in many other parts of the world. But it is very difficult for the inhabitants of Russia to make a sandwich with the Earth, since for the vast majority of the country's territory, the opposite points are in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
The intestines of the Japanese contain unique microbes that allow them to process the carbohydrates of seaweed used to make sushi much better than people of other nationalities.
The name of Russia does not in all languages come from the root "ros-" or "rus-". For example, in Latvia it is called Krievia from the Krivichi tribe, who neighbored the ancient Latvians in the east. One more ancient tribe- Wends - gave the name to Russia in Estonian (Venemaa) and Finnish (Venyaja) languages. The Chinese call our country Elos and can shorten it to just E, and 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 Russian words that begin with the letter "a" are borrowed. Nouns of Russian origin starting with "a" in modern speech very little - 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 the traditional tin cans. However, the buyers thought that they were offered new way- to brew tea directly in these bags, and found this method very convenient.

The signature recipe of an American restaurant where George Crum worked in 1853 was french fries. One day, a customer returned a fried potato to the kitchen, complaining that it was "too fat". Krum, deciding to play a trick on him, cut the potatoes literally paper-thin and fried. 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, but it sounded like to take French leave (“leave in French”). It appeared during the Seven Years' War in the 18th century as a mockery of French soldiers who arbitrarily left the location of the unit. Then the French copied this expression, but in relation to the British, and in this form it was fixed in the Russian language.
The French singer Edith Piaf during the occupation period performed in prisoner of war camps in Germany, after which she was photographed for memory with them and German officers. Then, in Paris, the faces of prisoners of war were cut out and pasted into fake documents. Piaf went to the camp for a second visit and secretly carried 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 a 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 lines: "The jumping dragonfly sang red summer." However, the dragonfly is known to make no sound. The fact is that at that time the word "dragonfly" served as a generalized name for several species 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 each time he was put on complex makeup. Millyar hardly needed him only for the role of Kashchei the Immortal. The actor was thin by nature, in addition to this, during the Second World War, he contracted malaria while evacuating to Dushanbe, turning into a living skeleton weighing 45 kilograms.

The English can use the Yellow-blue bus mnemonic to successfully master the difficult phrase "I love you".
Once a year, the sea parted between the two islands of the South Korean county of Jindo, exposing a passage 2 km long and 40 m wide. Within an hour locals and tourists, many of whom associate this phenomenon with the biblical parable of the waters of the Red Sea parted before Moses, walk on the open land and collect sea delicacies that have fallen into this trap.
Leonid Gaidai was drafted into the army in 1942 and first served in Mongolia, where he rode horses for the front. Once a military commissar came to the unit to recruit reinforcements for the army in the field. To the officer’s question: “Who is in the artillery?” - Gaidai answered: "I!". He also answered other questions: “Who is in the cavalry?”, “In the navy?”, “In intelligence?”, Which caused discontent of the chief. “Yes, you wait, Gaidai,” said the military commissar, “Let me announce the entire list.” Later, the director adapted this episode for the film "Operation" Y "and other adventures of Shurik."
In the 1970s, in the capital of Sweden, Stockholm, the dog Siv Gustavson was in the municipal service, who knew how to bark in a large number of ways, corresponding to different breeds of dogs. Her job was to bark in city streets to elicit a response from dogs. In this way, she collected information about houses whose owners did not pay tax on dogs.
Born in 1993, American girl Brooke Greenberg is still a baby in her physical and mental parameters. Her height is 76 cm, weight - 7 kg, her teeth are milk. Medical tests showed that there are no mutations in her genes responsible for aging. However, scientists do not lose hope with the help of new studies of this girl to get closer to understanding the causes of human aging.
At the New York Museum contemporary art in 1961, Henri Matisse's painting "The Boat" was exhibited. Only 40 days later, someone noticed 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 after the HMHS Britannic hit a German mine in 1916, and the lifeboat she was boarding for evacuation was pulled under a spinning propeller. Four years earlier, this same nurse had been aboard the Titanic - a ship of the same class and the same company - and also managed to survive. And in 1911, Violet was on board the “big brother” of these two liners, the Olympic, when it collided with the Hawk cruiser, although no one was injured in that accident.
Vietnamese Thai Ngoc, born in 1942, has not slept for over 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 inconvenience or illness due to lack of sleep, but several years ago he admitted that he "feels like a plant without water."
The Swedish king Gustav III once decided to personally check what is more harmful to humans - tea or coffee. For this, 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.
1 April 2010 UK online retailer computer games GameStation added a clause in the user agreement, which buyers must read before making a payment, according to which the buyer also gives his soul to the store for perpetual use. As a result, 7,500 people, or 88% of the total number of users, agreed with this paragraph. It showed how easily the vast majority of users who don't read such documents can legally agree to the craziest seller's demand.
The novel about the adventures of Robinson Crusoe has a continuation in which the hero is shipwrecked off the coast of Southeast Asia and forced to travel to Europe through all of Russia. In particular, he waits out the winter in Tobolsk for 8 months.
The journalists of The Daily Telegraph called the Croatian Frane Selak the luckiest person in the world. The first time luck smiled at him in 1964, when the train derailed and fell into the river. 17 people died, but Frane managed to swim ashore. Then such cases happened to Frane: he fell into a haystack from an airplane, during the flight of which the door opened, 19 people died; swam ashore after the bus crashed 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; fell by car from a mountain road, having managed to jump out and catch on a tree. Finally, in 2003, for the first time in his life, Frane bought lottery ticket and won £600,000.

On December 9, 1708, Peter I issued a decree on how to treat superiors: “A subordinate in the face of superiors must look dashing and foolish, so as not to confuse the authorities with his understanding.”
Korney Chukovsky's real name was Nikolai Vasilievich Korneichukov.
If you travel towards the city center in the Moscow metro, the 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, and the female when moving counterclockwise. This was done for the convenience of orienting blind passengers.
In the era of black-and-white television, red filters were often used in cameras, due to which red lipstick made lips look pale on TV screens. Therefore, announcers and actresses were made up with green blush and lipstick.
Alexandre Dumas once participated 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 here, entwined with beard-like epiphytes. Barbados is Portuguese for bearded.
In 1910, a criminal on death row called out to the crowd, "Drink Van Houtten's cocoa!" in exchange for a substantial sum from the cocoa manufacturer for the heirs. This phrase hit all the newspapers, and sales increased dramatically.
South African law allows for any degree of self-defence if we are talking threat to human life or property. Traps, stun guns and even flamethrowers are popular here to protect cars from theft.
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, 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 a supplier royal family and emigrated to the United States in 1904.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy brought in a lot of income in New Zealand, where filming took place. The New Zealand government even established the position of Minister for the "Lord of the Rings", who was supposed to deal with all emerging economic issues.
American extravagant writer Timothy Dexter wrote a book in 1802 with very peculiar language and lack of any punctuation. In response to reader outrage, 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 standard format book of 500 pages cannot be crushed even if 15 wagons loaded with coal are placed on it.
Pushkin was a master of sarcastic impromptu. When he was still a chamber junker, Pushkin once appeared before a high-ranking person who was lying on the sofa and yawning from boredom. When the young poet appeared, the dignitary did not even think to change his position. Pushkin handed over to the owner of the house everything that was needed, and wanted to leave, but was ordered to utter an impromptu. Pushkin squeezed out through his teeth: "Children on the floor - smart on the couch." The person was disappointed with the impromptu: “Well, what's so witty about it - children on the floor, smart on the couch? I can’t understand… I expected more from you.” Pushkin was silent, and the dignitary, repeating the phrase and moving the syllables, finally came to the following result: "The half-witted kid is on the couch." After the meaning of the impromptu had reached the owner, Pushkin was immediately and indignantly thrown out the door.

Apples help to wake up in the morning better than coffee.
Storks during flights 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 takes a nap, and at this time it is helped by its heightened hearing to maintain the direction and altitude of the flight.
famous phrase Khrushchev "I'll show you Kuz'kin's mother!" at the UN Assembly translated literally - "Kuzma's mother". The meaning of the phrase was completely incomprehensible and from this the threat acquired a completely sinister character. Subsequently, the expression "kuzkina mother" was also used to refer to the atomic bombs of the USSR.
The Cuban poet Julián del Casal, whose poetry was deeply pessimistic, died of laughter. He was having dinner with friends, one of whom told a joke. The poet has an attack 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 Rodina. Upon learning of this, Stalin ironically asked: "Well, how much will our Motherland be?" Therefore, the name was changed to "Victory".
Tsetse flies attack any moving warm object, even a car. An exception is the zebra, which the fly perceives as just a flicker 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 put them in water and mix, completely destroying all the bonds between them, then after a while they begin to gradually approach each other and reunite, forming a whole sponge similar to the previous one.
French writer and humorist Alphonse Allais, a quarter of a century before Kazimir Malevich, painted a black square - a picture called "Battle of Negroes in a cave in the dead of night." He also anticipated John Cage's minimalist all-silence musical piece "4'33"" by nearly seventy years with his similar work, "Funeral March for the Burial of a 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. Often the term "panther" is used in relation to large black cats - this is a genetic variant of the color of leopards or jaguars, a manifestation of melanism.

A person cannot laugh by tickling himself. The cerebellum prevents this, which is responsible for the sensations caused by 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.
It is possible to distinguish herbivores from predators by the location of the eyes. Predators have their eyes on the front of their snouts, allowing them to accurately focus on their prey while stalking and chasing. In herbivores, the eyes are usually set apart on opposite sides of the muzzle, which increases the viewing radius 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 annoyed the Eiffel Tower. However, he dined daily at her restaurant, explaining that this was the only place in Paris where the tower was not visible.
Sofia Kovalevskaya got acquainted with mathematics in early childhood when there was not enough wallpaper for her room, instead of which sheets with Ostrogradsky's lectures on differential and integral calculus were pasted.
The driest place on Earth is not the Sahara or any other well-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 parts of this area, it has not rained for two million years.

For a long time it was 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 thought he was stillborn. The child was saved by his uncle, who smoked cigars and, seeing the baby lying on the table, blew smoke in his face, after which Pablo roared. Thus, it can be said that smoking saved Picasso's life.
Previously, an alternative name for the constellation was common in Russia Ursa Major together with the North Star - the horse is laid up (meaning a grazing horse tied with a rope to a peg). BUT polar star, respectively, was called the Fun Star.
Scientists have not yet figured out what the physiological cause of the yawning process is. There are several theories: for example, that when a person yawns, a person receives a large portion of oxygen when it is lacking in the body, or that an overheated brain “resets” its temperature in this way, but not a single theory has yet been convincingly proven. However, yawning has been proven to be contagious. A person is more likely to yawn when they see another person yawning, or when a person on the phone yawns. Contagious yawning has also been identified in chimpanzees.
According to the Hebrew rite, on the day of the absolution of sins, the high priest put his hands on the goat's head and thereby laid on him the sins of the whole people. Then the goat was taken to the Judean desert and released. This is where the expression “scapegoat” comes from.
Initially, on the grave of Gogol in the monastery cemetery lay a stone, nicknamed Golgotha because of its similarity with Mount Jerusalem. When they decided to destroy the cemetery, when reburial in another place, they decided to install a bust of Gogol on the grave. And the same stone was subsequently placed on the grave of Bulgakov by his wife. In this regard, Bulgakov's phrase is noteworthy, which he repeatedly addressed to Gogol during his lifetime: "Teacher, cover me with your overcoat."
The spiral staircases in the towers of medieval castles were built in such a way that they were climbed in a clockwise direction. 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 strongest blow right hand can only be applied from right to left, which was not available to the attackers. There is only one reverse twist castle, the fortress of the Counts of 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 down by the action of an electric current of lightning. Fulgurites can go deep into the earth for several meters, 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 the royal opener of ocean bottles with letters. Everyone else who opened the bottles on their own was entitled to the death penalty.
The tiger not only has striped fur, but also striped skin underneath.
During the rapid development of dentistry in the 17th and 19th centuries, one of the most popular sources for artificial teeth was the teeth of the fallen on the battlefield. For the special quality of the material, the Waterloo Teeth brand went down in history, because many young soldiers with healthy teeth died in that battle.
The expressive look of Elizabeth Taylor was explained not only by her natural charm but also rare genetic mutation- the actress had a double row of eyelashes.
In one of the first editions explanatory dictionary Ozhegov decided not to include the names of the inhabitants of the cities, so as not to increase its size once again. An exception was made only for the word "Leningrader", but not as a sign of special respect for the inhabitants of Leningrad. It was simply necessary to separate the words "lazy" and "Leninist", which stood side by side, so as not to defame the image of young Leninists.
The artist Vladislav Koval sent letters to his relatives while studying in Moscow. At the same time, he did not stick stamps on envelopes, but drew them, and all letters reached him 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 translated into metric system size 5 feet 2 inches. However, at that time, the feet were not only English, in almost every country the feet were different. If translated from French feet, Napoleon's height is 169 cm and is average for his era.
The Bengal ficus tree is distinguished by its special life form which is called banyan. On the large horizontal branches of an adult tree, aerial roots are formed, growing down. Growing to the ground, they take root in it and become new trunks. Thus, a banyan can grow over an area of several hectares.

During childbirth, a giraffe falls to the ground from almost two meters in height.
Tyutelka is a diminutive of the dialectal tyutya (“hit, hit”), the name of an exact hit with an ax in the same place during carpentry work. Today to signify high precision the expression "tutelka in tyutelka" is used.
There is a widespread legend that the idea of periodic table chemical elements came to Mendeleev in a dream. Once he was asked if this was so, to which the scientist replied: “I’ve been thinking about it for maybe twenty years, and you think: I sat and suddenly ... it’s ready.”
Ears are needed for man and animals not only to hear. The inner ear also contains an organ that is responsible for the balance of the body.
Stevens Island in New Zealand was home to a population of flightless birds, the New Zealand wrens, back in the 19th century. In 1894, the cat of the lighthouse keeper on this island completely exterminated all representatives of this species. When the caretaker provided the bird carcasses to the scientists, they compiled the first scientific description species, and immediately declared it extinct.
Giordano Bruno was burned catholic church not for scientific (namely, support for the Copernican heliocentric theory), but for anti-Christian and anti-church views (for example, the assertion that Christ performed imaginary miracles and was a magician).
During World War II, Oscar figurines 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 strictness and economy, and John wore the sisters' dresses until the age of eight. 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 construction of the Winter Palace was completed, the entire area was littered with construction debris. Emperor Peter III decided to get rid of him in an original way - he ordered to announce to the people that everyone can take anything from the square, and for free. A few hours later, all debris was cleared away.

The expression "after rain on Thursday" arose out of distrust of Perun, the Slavic god of thunder and lightning, whose day was Thursday. Prayers to him often did not reach the goal, so they began to say about the unrealizable that this would happen after a 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 off small pieces of metal from the edges in order to make new coins from them. The solution to the problem was proposed by Isaac Newton, who was part-time employee of the British Royal Mint. His idea was very simple - to cut small lines in the edges of the coin, because of which the beveled edges would be immediately noticeable. This part on the coins is made in this way to this day and is called the edge.
Whales, dolphins and other cetaceans are also called secondary water: their ancestors in the process of evolution first left the water, and then returned there again.
In public libraries medieval Europe books were chained to the shelves. Such chains were long enough to remove the book from the shelf and read, but did not allow the book to be taken out of the library. This practice was common until the 18th century, due to the great value of each copy of the book.
Female large 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. Usually they resort to such a freezing of embryo development under adverse external conditions, such as drought. Also, females of this species of kangaroo can simultaneously produce milk of different fat content for cubs of different ages.
The myth of a hedgehog hoarding apples and mushrooms was invented by Pliny the Elder. According to him, the hedgehog knows how to "deliberately" cling to itself grape berries, and in some cases, apples. In fact, the hedgehog is physically unable to ride on its back, while piercing the fruits.

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Do you know what average life expectancy was in Ancient Egypt, in which 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 seeing or thinking about a loved one is actually the result of a reaction to stress caused by adrenaline. A similar state of excitement can also be experienced with any other stressful situations, for example, before exams, an important meeting, going on stage, and so on.

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

3) In the UK in police cars you can find 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 appliances.

4) moonwalk appeared at least 50 years before birth michael jackson However, it is thanks to him that he 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" with 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 the Four Tribes", Luxembourg - "small castle" , Madagascar - "end of the world", Sri Lanka - "beautiful land", Thailand - "land of the free", Zimbabwe - "stone houses", Cyprus - "copper", Guinea - "women".

6) In order not to cry while peeling onions, you have to chew gum. There are a myriad of ways to avoid tears in the kitchen, including goggles, wetting a knife with water, or freezing onions before chopping.

7) You can't sneeze with your eyes open. During a 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 glands that produce mucus, blood vessels 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 to 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 easy to break.

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

10) In Sweden until September 3, 1967 it was right-hand traffic . On the day H at 5 am everyone vehicles had to change sides of the road, switching to left-hand traffic. Following these changes, the world of road transport saw a significant reduction in accidents during the first few months, since drivers were likely to drive more carefully to get used to the innovation. The center of Stockholm that day looked like this:

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

1) February 1865 is 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 may be two - at the beginning calendar month and at the very end. This full moon is called Blue Moon, and it happens about once every 2.7 years. In 2012 there were two blue moons- 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 has time to do. full turn 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 used to while on Earth.

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

Interesting statistics: interesting facts in numbers

1) Average people laugh about 15 times a day. If you laugh naturally, it will help you relax, calm your nerves, and improve your overall well-being. That is why laughter is very useful.

2) Cats and dogs consume food 7 billion dollars a year. Modern food industry does not particularly favor our pets with good products. Although giving food is much more convenient than preparing food, consider whether to feed your cats and dogs with anything you don't know. Most foods have no nutritional value., and animal fats are replaced in them by vegetable ones.

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

4) If you lick a stamp, you spend 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 an average of 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 the world dies more people through the fault of donkeys than in plane crashes. Airplanes are actually one of the safest modes of transport, as they are much less likely to get into accidents than the same cars or other types of ground transportation.

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

10) 40 percent owners dogs and cats carry pictures of their pets in their wallets. Even more sleep with them in the same bed and eat from the same plate, despite the warnings of 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, she 30 percent less chance survive than a cat that fell from the 12th floor. Probably, flying the first 8 floors, she understands what is happening to her, relaxes and can correct her position.

13) The average person sees over 1460 dreams annually. We simply do not remember most of our dreams, so we believe that we do not dream anything.

14) The number of chickens currently living on the planet, roughly equals the number of people living.

15) Most Popular man's name in the world - Muhammad(in honor of the prophet Muhammad), and the most popular woman's name – Anna.

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

17) Human scent 20 times weaker than the scent of a dog.

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. It has to do with evaporation. Hot water loses mass, so it will take less time to freeze it.

20) Statistically you more likely You will die from being hit by a champagne cork than from a spider bite.

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

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

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

4) Goldfish have a long memory 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 feels blood dissolved in water in proportions - 1 part of blood per 100 million parts of water.

5) The tallest tree on the planet - sequoia Hyperion, which grows in national park "Redwood", California. Its exact location is kept secret and known to only a few scientists. 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 among the few, other than rats and human-related primates, that can get leprosy.

7) Newborn thrushes eat at first up to 4.5 meters of worms in a day.

8) When 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 so that sand does not get into them.

10) Dolphins sleep with one eye open. They may 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 unable to move backwards 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) At the bees hair growing in front of your 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 a man was a dog, and the last to domesticate guinea pigs and mice.

14) In Tokyo you can buy dog wigs. However, dog accessories " human origin You can already get it anywhere or order it online.

15) To lobster reached a weight of 0.5 kilograms, it takes 7 years. They cannot be bred in captivity, so this crustacean species is currently in danger of extinction.

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

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

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

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

Some ciliary worms capable under adverse environmental conditions break into pieces. These pieces are then recombined if conditions get better. Biologists call this phenomenon "self-healing".

If such a worm is deliberately divided into parts, each part has good conditions grow up 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 with 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 the eyes of the donkey 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) Cafe2Go in Dubai has started making lattes and cappuccinos using camel milk- an important food product of the Bedouin, the inhabitants of the desert. Products containing camel milk were called Camellos (it. camel).

Desert dwellers have been eating camel milk since ancient times, but for some time this product was no longer favored. Today it looks like it's coming back.

1) A nation without old people: About 3,000 years ago, most Egyptians did not live to be 30 years old. Also, the Egyptians had strange habits, for example, instead of pillows, they put stones under their heads. The Egyptians invented the contraceptive, which was made from crocodile skin as early as 2000 BC.

2) According to British law in force in 1845 attempted suicide was considered a crime punished death penalty . If a suicide, for example, could not kill himself in suicide attempts, the official authorities helped him in this by hanging.

3) In Germany, close to nursing homes there are fake bus stops. Signs about the movement of scheduled transport are installed in these places in order to make it easier to find older people who suddenly were about to leave the institution and go home.

We have already been waiting for 2 hours… maybe we should have taken a taxi?

4) According to the channel national geographic, redheads will be gone by 2060. There are many famous people with red hair in history, including William Shakespeare, Christopher Columbus and Queen Elizabeth.

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

On the tongue ayapaneco spoken by the ancient inhabitants of modern Mexico for many centuries. He survived the Spanish invasion, numerous warriors, revolutions, famines and floods. But today, like many other Aboriginal languages, it has practically disappeared.

Manuel Segovia thinks what to speak mother tongue he is no longer with anyone

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 apart 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) Most an old man in the world turned out to be fake.

In 2010, when the Tokyo authorities decided to congratulate the oldest person on the planet, who turned 111 years old, they found instead of the old man skeleton of a 30 year old man. Tricky family for many years received a pension for him, although in fact he was no longer alive.

7) 12 newborns per day go to 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 100,000 beats per day.

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

14) Goethe couldn't stand barking 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 the invention of the searchlight, the tank, and even the bicycle.

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

17) Sigmund Freud had an unhealthy fear of ferns.

18) Microwave Inventor 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 condom brand was named after 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 afraid of the dark.

This article presents an assortment of which you probably did not know about before.

However, there may be facts familiar to you. But, as you know, "repetition is the mother of learning." So happy reading!

Here are the most interesting facts about everything.

Every day, 12 newborns fall into the hands of other parents, through the fault of medical personnel.
99% off total mass The solar system is located in .
There are 32 muscles in the cat's ear, thanks to which the animal can move it in different directions.
Surprisingly, without a head, a cockroach can live for another 2 weeks!
In Taiwan, scientists have developed utensils made from wheat. Therefore, after eating the main course, you can safely eat a plate.
In order for a tanker loaded with oil to come to a complete stop, it must brake for 20 minutes.
With its half-meter tongue, a giraffe can clean its own ears.
A giraffe can live longer without water than a camel.
A person engaged in any business loses about 4 liters of fluid per day.
Interestingly, the weight of the smallest bird is less than a coin.
Jellyfish are 95% made up of. That is why they are so transparent.
And this is a very interesting fact. A jet plane has to use 4,000 liters of fuel to take off!
The record holder is Charles Osborne, who suffered from this disease for about 6 years.
An interesting fact is that the mole is able to dig a tunnel 9 m long in just one night.
A funny incident occurred in the United States, in the state of Indiana: the authorities arrested a monkey for smoking in a public place.
According to scientists, pigs can experience an orgasm for 30 minutes.
Women in Saudi Arabia are legally allowed to divorce their spouses if they refuse to give them.
An interesting fact is that only sharks can blink with two eyes.
Sharks are so sensitive to the presence in the water that they can detect one gram in 100,000 liters.
When a skunk senses a danger to his life, he can spread a stinky smell within a radius of 10 m. Perhaps this is the most unpleasant-smelling animal.
In 1845, a very interesting law was adopted. According to him, a person trying to commit suicide was waiting by hanging.
An interesting fact is that 25% of the area of Los Angeles is occupied by vehicles.
slept on stone pillows. Interesting, but why?
It is believed that the average person laughs 15 times a day.
Iguanas can swim underwater for half an hour.
It's funny, but the eye of an ostrich is larger than its brain.
Among animals, only armadillos suffer from leprosy.
Armadillos always have only 4 children, and all of them are born of only one sex.
Did you know that babies are born without kneecaps? They are formed only 2 years after birth.
If the Barbie doll had a height of 175 cm, then its proportions would be as follows: 39-23-33 cm; despite the fact that the generally accepted ideal is the ratio of 90-60-90.
When bats fly out of caves, they always turn left.
In the tiny state of Nauru, the main export product is bird droppings.
Chewing gum contains rubber.
Camel milk does not turn sour or coagulate.
can publish about 100 different sounds, not more than 10.
Every year, people buy food for dogs and cats for a total of 7 billion dollars. This is one of the most interesting facts.
Did you know that dolphins always sleep with one eye open?
In Paraguay, a duel is officially allowed, provided that both duelists are blood donors.
The most famous scientist of the 20th century could not speak clearly until the age of 9.
Before sitting down to compose his compositions, he dipped his head in ice water.
Giraffes do not have vocal cords.
Incredibly, hair grows before the eyes of the bees!
Under Bangladeshi law, a student can end up in jail for cheating on exams.
Half of Kentuckians who marry for the first time are teenagers.
Due to the lack of gravity, astronauts are physically unable to cry. The most interesting thing is that the need for this still periodically arises even in.
In you can buy wigs for dogs.
Once in Iceland, the law forbade citizens to keep dogs.
There was a time when people in Switzerland were forbidden to slam car doors.
In Kansas, people are not allowed to fish with their bare hands.
It has been scientifically proven that a person cannot sneeze with their eyes open. Although many probably continue to check this statement.
In its early days, Kotex made bandages, not personal care products.
The Great One is the creator of scissors.
Every second, 100 lightning bolts can be seen in the world. The most interesting thing is that they are not amenable to statistics, since their nature has not yet been studied.
In fact, banknotes are not made of paper, as many believe, but of cotton. That's why they don't spoil for so long. By the way, .
An interesting fact is that more people die while riding donkeys than in plane crashes. We have already talked about.
Of the two billion people, only one manages to live to be 116 years old.
Mosquitoes have teeth.
Scientists have long noticed that cows give much more milk when classical music is played to them.
Did you know that most of the dust in your home is dead skin cells?
Most lipsticks contain fish scales.
Few people know that 25% of all human bones are in his legs. We told all the most interesting about the human musculoskeletal system.
Only half of American citizens know that the sun is a star.
have the same size from birth. But the ears and nose grow until death.
Dynamite contains peanut extract.
Surprisingly, clumsy penguins can jump up to 2 m in height. By the way, read about and see the most terrible shots of this ritual.
If you give bananas to deer, they will eat them with pleasure.
Scientists managed to prove an interesting fact. It turns out that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Sigmund Freud was terrified of ferns.
Slugs have four noses. That's really, probably, who knows how to "breathe deeply"!
Interestingly, a cat that falls from the 20th floor is more likely to survive than if it fell from the 10th.
The average person takes 7 minutes to fall asleep.
Author electric chair was a simple dentist. Still, there is something sadistic about them.
Among all mammals, only elephants cannot jump. Pay attention to - you will learn a lot of new things.
Green grasshoppers hear sounds through holes located on their hind legs.
Once an employee of one enterprise, passing by the radar, noticed that the chocolate in his pocket had melted. Thanks to this ridiculous accident, the microwave oven was invented.
Muhammad is the most common name on the planet.
The Greek hymn consists of 158 verses, but it is very difficult to find those who know them by heart ().
The penguin is the only bird that can swim but cannot fly.
The donkey's eyes are placed in such a way that all 4 legs are always in its field of vision.
Among insects, only the praying mantis can turn its head.
The first bomb dropped on Berlin during World War II only killed one elephant.
The expression in chess "Checkmate" in Persian means "the king is dead."
There are approximately the same number of chickens on the planet as people.
Tigers have striped not only fur, but also the skin itself.
To free yourself from the jaws of a crocodile, you should “simply” press your fingers on his eyes. The most interesting thing is that you are unlikely to remember this fact if you fall into the mouth of a crocodile.
Snakes have this strange pathology when they are born with two heads. But the most interesting thing is that both heads of the mutant snake behave not like one animal, but like two: they fight for food, snatching prey from each other.
All windmills spin counter-clockwise, and only in Ireland does the opposite happen.
A man's heart beats slower than a woman's.
There are about 300 bones in a baby's body, but as they grow older, only 206 remain (more on this).
The human heart makes about 100,000 beats a day.

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