Interesting information from life. The most incredible facts in the world

For sure the most incredible facts shock you. After all, not every day you have to hear what we are 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.

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 being sold. Yes, there is everything you need to defend and counterattack the vicious 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 most trained dogs in the world are police dogs. They are capable of incredible endurance. We have collected everything in a separate article.

The animal gecko is a champion in camouflage. No one knows how to hide from the eyes of a predator as deftly as this species 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 the Russian island of Ratmanov and the American island of Kruzenshtern, there is really only 4 km of distance. 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, the plant takes all the strength to do this, and immediately after flowering it dies.

Scientists have long noticed that a person, in any unknown place, is more inclined to walk 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 considered the Ford F650. Its weight is 12 tons, and its cost is relatively low: only 70-80 thousand dollars.

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

The most expensive tea in the world is considered to be Dahunpao - "Big Red Robe". This is a 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 over 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 for music lovers, including the author of this article. The fact is that one hour of listening to music with headphones helps to increase the number of ear bacteria by 700 times. Yes, sir, I wish I didn’t know that, 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 animals 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 nutrients. It's time to write a separate article about it, but now let's just say that it is buckwheat that is able to 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.

It is considered an evergreen sequoia specimen. 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 disrupt the ecosystem that has developed there.

Pablo Escobar

This fact is so incredible that you might think that it is not true. However, before you is an absolutely 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. As she froze, her dad made a fire.

But there was no brushwood anywhere, so he burned about $ 2 million overnight. Despite the extreme cruelty and many bloody murders lying 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, this is where we will end. Of course, these are not all the most incredible facts. But we hope that it was interesting for you to read them.

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Almost all peoples, nations and countries have historical facts. Today we want to tell you about various interesting facts that were in the world, which many know about, but it will also be interesting to read again. The world is not perfect, like a person, and the facts about which we will tell will be bad. It will be interesting for you, since each reader learns something informative within the framework of their interests.

After 1703 Filthy Ponds in Moscow began to be called ... Chistye Prudy.

During the time of Genghis Khan in Mongolia, everyone who dared to urinate in any body of water was executed. Because the water in the desert was worth more than gold.

On December 9, 1968, the computer mouse was unveiled at the interactive display in California. Douglas Engelbart received a patent for this gadget in 1970.

In England, in 1665-1666, the plague devastated entire villages. It was then that medicine recognized smoking as useful, which supposedly destroyed the deadly infection. Children and adolescents were punished if they refused to smoke.

It was only 26 years after the founding of the Federal Bureau of Investigation that its agents were granted the right to carry weapons.

In the Middle Ages, sailors deliberately inserted at least one gold tooth, even sacrificing a healthy one. What for? It turns out, for a rainy day, so that in case of death he could be buried with honor away from home.

The world's first mobile phone is the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x (1983).

14 years before the sinking of the Titanic (April 15, 1912), Morgan Robertson's story was published, foreshadowing the tragedy. Interestingly, according to the book, the Titan ship collided with an iceberg and sank, exactly as it actually happened.

DEAN - The eldest over the soldiers in tents, in which the Roman army lived for 10 people, was called the dean.

The most expensive bathtub in the world is carved from a very rare stone called Caijou. They say that it has healing properties, and the places of its extraction are kept secret to this day! It was owned by a billionaire from the United Arab Emirates, who wished to remain anonymous. The price of Le Gran Queen is $ 1,700,000.

The English Admiral Nelson, who lived from 1758 to 1805, slept in his cabin in a coffin that had been knocked out of the mast of an enemy French ship.

The list of gifts for Stalin in honor of the 70th anniversary was printed in advance in newspapers more than three years before the event.

How many types of cheese are produced in France? The famous cheese maker André Simon mentioned 839 varieties in his book "On the cheese business". Camembert and Roquefort are the most famous, and the first appeared relatively recently, only 300 years ago. This type of cheese is made from milk with the addition of cream. After 4-5 days of ripening, a mold crust appears on the surface of the cheese, which is a special fungal culture

The famous inventor of the sewing machine Isaac Singer was simultaneously married to five women at once. In general, he had 15 children from all women. He called all his daughters Mary.

27 million people died in the Great Patriotic War.

One of the unusual records in car travel belongs to two Americans - James Hargis and Charles Creighton. In 1930, they covered over 11,000 kilometers in reverse, traveling from New York to Los Angeles, and then returning.

Two hundred years ago, not only men, but also women took part in the famous Spanish bullfights. This took place in Madrid, and on January 27, 1839, a very significant bullfight took place, because only the fairer sex took part in it. The Spaniard Pahuelera is best known as a matador. Women were banned from participating in bullfighting in the early 20th century, when Spain was ruled by the Nazis. Women were able to defend their right to enter the arena only in 1974.

The first computer to include a mouse was the Xerox 8010 Star Information System mini-computer, introduced in 1981. The Xerox mouse had three buttons and was priced at $ 400, which equates to almost $ 1,000 in 2012 inflation prices. In 1983, Apple released its own one-button mouse for the Lisa computer, which was reduced in price to $ 25. The mouse gained wide popularity due to its use in Apple Macintosh computers and later in Windows OS for IBM PC compatible computers.

Jules Verne wrote 66 novels, including unfinished ones, as well as more than 20 novellas and short stories, 30 plays, several documentary and scientific works.

When Napoleon was heading for Egypt in 1798 with his army, he captured Malta along the way.

During the six days that Napoleon spent on the island, he:

Abolished the power of the Knights of the Order of Malta
-Conducted administration reform with the creation of municipalities and financial management
- Abolished slavery and all feudal privileges
-Appointed 12 judges
-Layed the foundations of family law
- Introduced primary and general public education

65-year-old David Baird ran his own marathon to raise money for research on prostate and breast cancer. For 112 days, David covered 4115 kilometers, while pushing a wheelbarrow in front of him. And so he crossed the Australian continent. At the same time, he was on the move every day for 10-12 hours, and during the entire jogging with a wheelbarrow he covered a distance equal to 100 traditional marathons. This courageous man, having visited 70 cities, collected donations from Australian residents in the amount of about 20 thousand local dollars.

In Europe, lollipops appeared in the 17th century. At first, they were actively used by healers.

The group "Aria" has a song called "Will and Reason", few people know that this is the motto of the Nazis in fascist Italy.

A Frenchman from the town of Landes - Silvain Dornon made his way from Paris to Moscow, walking on stilts. Having set off on March 12, 1891, covering 60 kilometers every day, the brave Frenchman reached Moscow in less than 2 months.

The capital of Japan, Tokyo, is currently the largest city in the world with a population of 37.5 million.

Rokossovsky - Marshal of both the USSR and Poland.

Despite the widespread belief that the transfer of Alaska to the United States of America was carried out by Catherine II, the Russian empress has nothing to do with this historic deal.

One of the main reasons for this event is considered to be the military weakness of the Russian Empire, which became obvious during the Crimean War.

The decision to sell Alaska was made during a special meeting that took place in St. Petersburg on December 16, 1866. It was attended by all the top leadership of the country.

The decision was taken unanimously.

Some time later, the Russian envoy to the US capital, Baron Eduard Andreevich Stekl, offered the American government to buy Alaska from the Republic of Ingushetia. The proposal was approved.

And in 1867, for 7.2 million gold, Alaska came under the jurisdiction of the United States of America.

In 1502-1506. Leonardo da Vinci painted his most significant work - the portrait of Mona Lisa, wife of Messer Francesco del Giocondo. Many years later, the picture received a simpler name - "La Gioconda".

Girls in Ancient Greece got married at the age of 15. For men, the average age for marriage was a more substantial period - 30 - 35 years. The father of the bride himself chose a husband for his daughter and gave money or things as a dowry.

ABOUT COUNTRIES AND PEOPLES

1. The flag of Alaska 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 of Antarctica is 672.
4. Captain Cook was the first person whose foot set foot on all continents of the Earth, except Antarctica.
5. West African tribe mats plays football with a human skull.
6. In Australia, the fifty cent coin originally contained two dollars worth of silver.
7. Most often in English libraries they steal the Guinness Book of Records.
8. The National Orchestra of Monaco is bigger than its army.
9. In the Sahara Desert one day - February 18, 1979 - it snowed.
10. Canada is larger in area than China, and China is larger than the United States.
11. The only country where no births were registered in 1983 is the Vatican.
12. The Nile froze twice - in the 9th and 11th centuries.
13. In Siena, Italy, you cannot be a prostitute if your name is Maria.
14. In ancient Rome, a man taking an oath or taking an oath, put his hand on the scrotum.
15. Tickling was prohibited by law in some ancient countries of the East, as it was considered a sinful stimulating activity.
16. There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
17. In the language of the Eskimos for the name of snow, there are more than 20 words.
18. In Italy, there are more Barbie dolls than Canadians in Canada.
19. In France, the law prohibits the sale of dolls with a non-human face, for example, "aliens".
20. Canada has been declared the best country for life 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 shown by X-ray, under the known to us "Mona Lisa" there are three more of its original versions.
23. John Lennon's song “I’m a Walrus” was inspired by the sounds 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, Oscars were made of wood.
28. The original name 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 SMALLER BROTHERS

30. A cat that falls from the 12th floor is more likely to survive than a cat that falls from the 7th.
31. When the Europeans first saw the giraffe, they called it “camel-bird”, thinking it was a hybrid of a camel and a leopard.
32. The animal with the largest brain in relation to the body is an ant.
33. About 70 percent of living things on Earth are bacteria.
34. In their youth, Black Sea perches are mostly girls, but by the age of 5 they radically change their sex!
35. The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
36. The Tokyo Zoo closes for 2 months each year to give the animals a break from visitors.
37. Anteaters prefer to eat not ants, but termites.
38. When a giraffe gives birth, its cub 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 dogs.
41. Every year more people die from bee stings than from snake bites.
42. Sharks are immune to cancer.
43. Contraceptive pills work on gorillas.
44. Pig orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
45. A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
46. The animal that can not drink the longest is the rat.
47. The only animals with leprosy other than humans are armadillos.
48. Hippos are born underwater.
49. Orangutans warn of aggression by belching loudly.
50. A mole can dig a 76-meter-long tunnel 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, tapeworms can eat up to 95 percent of their body weight - and nothing!
54. Crocodiles are responsible for over 1000 deaths on the banks of the Nile per year.
55. The ancient Egyptians taught baboons to serve them at the table.
56. The St. Bernards, famous climber rescuers, do not wear brandy flasks around their necks.
57. It takes 4 hours to boil a hard-boiled ostrich egg.
58. Inside the lion's pride, lionesses supply 9/10 prey to the “family”.
59. Sloths spend 75% of their lives sleeping.
60. Hummingbirds cannot walk.
61. A moth has no stomach.
62. The Europeans, having arrived in Australia, asked the aborigines: "What are these strange jumping animals here?" The natives answered: "Kangaroo" - which meant: "We do not 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. For vegetarians - on both sides of the head to see the enemy.
64. The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
65. 99% of living things that lived on Earth are extinct.
66. To make a kilogram of honey, a bee must fly around 2 million flowers.
67. The blood of the grasshopper is white, the blood of the lobster is blue.
68. The only animals that have sex for pleasure are humans and dolphins.
69. No new animal has been domesticated in the last 4000 years.
70. Penguins can jump more than one and a half meters in height.
71. The only domestic animal 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 in some African languages "man from the jungle"
74. Emu in Portuguese means "ostrich".
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 GREAT

79. Rodin's The Thinker is 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. Eng. writer Virginia Woolf wrote most of her books while 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 has decided to bring animals to life in cartoons.
85. Beethoven was once arrested for vagrancy.
86. Buzz Aldrin, one of the astronomers who visited the Moon, has the 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 the incipient bald spot.
89. D. Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
90. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his mom and wife: they were both deaf.
91. Saint Patrick, the patron saint of the Irish, was not Irish.
92. Leonardo da Vinci invented the alarm clock, which rubbed the sleeping feet.
93. Napoleon suffered from ailurophobia - a fear of cats.

ABOUT PEOPLE

94. The nose grows throughout a person's life.
95. Only one child in 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 will be able to fall into 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. Sperm is the smallest single cell in the body. The ovum is the largest.
100. If a real woman had the proportions of a Barbie doll, she would only be able to move on 4 limbs.
101. Blond beards grow faster than dark beards.
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. The patients wore red and surrounded themselves with red things.
104. Imprints of language are individual for all people.
105. When you blush, your stomach turns red too.
106. The human body has enough body fat for 7 bars of soap.
107. 80% of the heat of the human body leaves the head.
108. A man has less muscles than a caterpillar.
109. At the time of death, Lenin's brain was a quarter of its normal size.
110. The world's highest IQ scores on standardized tests are held by two women.
111. Most people lose 50% of their sense of taste by the age of 60.
112. Household dust is 70% discarded skin.
113. A tooth is the only part of a person deprived of the ability to self-repair.
114. The brain is 80% water.
115. More living organisms live on the body of one person than people on Earth.
116. One hair can support 3 kg.
117. The average human head weighs 3.6 kg.
118. Throughout his life, a person produces so much saliva that it would be enough for 2 large pools.

Well, Miscellaneous

Repellents don't repel mosquitoes - they hide you. The substances contained in repellents block the receptors that mosquitoes use to 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.
Donkeys kill more people on the ground every year than in plane crashes.
You burn more calories in your sleep than when you watch TV.
The first item to be barcoded was Wrigley's gum.
The Boeing 747 has a wingspan greater than the Wright brothers' first flight distance.
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 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 in the company's factories in Malaysia.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
All US presidents have worn glasses. It was just that some did not like to be shown in public in them.
Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.
Pearls dissolve in vinegar.
Among people who publish marriage ads, 35 percent are already married or married.
The three most expensive brand names on earth are Marlboro, Coca-Cola and Budweiser, in that order.
A cow can be forced to climb a ladder, but it cannot be forced to descend.
Duck croaking does not echo, no one knows why.
The reason why American fire departments have spiral staircases dates back to the days when pumps and other objects were lifted by horses. The horses huddled below, unable to figure out how to climb the straight flight 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 (William Jefferson Clinton).
On average, 100 people die each year by choking on a ballpoint pen.
90 percent of New York taxi drivers are immigrants.
The elephant is the only animal that cannot jump.
One person in two million has a chance to live to be 116 years old.
Women, on average, blink twice as often as men.
Licking one's own elbow is anatomically impossible for a person.
Indiana State University's main library building has a one-inch drawdown every year because the 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.
Learning 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 is enough to warm up one cup of coffee.
If you fart continuously for 6 years and 9 months, then the amount of gas that you release is 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 ahead.
You will use up 150 calories if you bang your head against the wall for an hour.
Murave can lift a weight 50 times more than his own, and pull a weight that is 30 times his own. And when the animals are poisoned with chemicals, he always falls on his right side.
Tarakan is able to live 9 days without a head, after which he will die of hunger.
A male praying mantis is incapable of scooping when it has a head. Therefore, sexual intercourse in praying mantises begins with the fact that the female rips off the male head.
Some species of lions can be scooped up to 50 times a day.
Butterflies will eat with their feet.
Elephants are the only animals that are unable to jump.
Cat urine glows under ultraviolet light.
The stray's eye is larger than his brain.
The sea star has no brain.
All polar bears are left-handed.
Humans and dolphins are the only animal species that have sex for fun.
Cockroaches have existed on Earth for 250 million years and have not undergone any evolutionary changes since then.
Crocodiles have never lived in the Australian Alligator River.
Drinking glasses began to clink glasses in ancient times. It was believed that in this way they drive away evil spirits.
Thanks to gravity, a person weighs a little less when the moon is at its zenith.
Polar bears have black skin.
"Spain" in translation means "land of rabbits".
For acorns to grow on an oak, it must be at least 50 years old.
Pacific Tiwi girls are married off at birth.
In the 70s, the question of a tax on sex was seriously discussed in the United States. The tax was supposed to be $ 2.
Bees have five eyes.
Peanuts are used in dynamite production.
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.
The beard consists of 7-15 thousand hairs. And it grows at a rate of 14 centimeters per year.
The ant has the largest brain of all living things. 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 hardly write a single word competently.
On Mondays, there are 25% more back injuries and 33% more heart attacks.
Every day, an average of 33 new products appear around the world. 13 of them are toys.
The average person spends two weeks in their entire life waiting for the signal to change.
A person gets used to tea faster than heroin.
Toilet paper was invented in 1857.
Every day, Americans throw away 20,000 televisions, 150,000 tons of packaging materials and 43,000 tons of food in the trash.
Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day is like drinking a coffee cup of nicotine every year.
The ancient Egyptians used eye shadow to ward off conjunctivitis and trachoma.
The body of a sleeping person is half a centimeter longer than that of a waking one.
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's brain was larger than yours and mine.
Some public toilets in Singapore are equipped with karaoke video consoles.
The yaks have pink milk.
The shortest river in the world is the Saginau in the US state of Michigan.
The average ATM makes a $ 250 mistake in a year - and not in their favor.
Christopher Columbus was blond.
The penguin can jump three meters in height.
If 111.111.111 is multiplied by 111.111.111, you get 12345678987654321.
In 1863, Jules Verne wrote Paris in the 20th Century, detailing the automobile, the fax machine and the electric chair. The publisher returned the manuscript to him, calling him an idiot.
Gasoline accounts for the largest turnover in the world. In second place is coffee.
In South Korea, marriage between namesakes is prohibited.
The English nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" is dedicated to King Richard III, who actually fell from the wall during the battle of 1485.
Human ribs perform 5 million movements per year.
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
Michael Jordan receives more money from Nike every year than all of the workers in its factories in Malaysia combined.
In the world, only 1 theft out of 7 is revealed.
The 3 smartest dog breeds are the Border Collie, Poodle and German Shepherd, the dumbest are the Afghan Hound, Bulldog and Chow Chow.
Some types of toothpaste contain antifreeze.
Most of all Coca-Cola is drunk by Icelanders, least of all - by Scots, preferring to it "airn-bru".
If you put a person on soap, 7 pieces will turn out from him.
No other 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 is angry, she sticks out her tongue.
The largest number of Rolls-Royces per capita is in Hong Kong.
Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors.
The area of a person's alveoli is equal to a tennis court.
Over the past 4 thousand years, man has not tamed a single new species of animals.
The Speaker of the English House of Lords is prohibited from speaking during sessions.
A bee has two stomachs - one for honey and the other for food.
Every minute there are 2 earthquakes in the world.
It takes a normal person an average of 7 minutes to fall asleep.
The word "doctor" comes from the word "lie". In Russia, healers often treated with conspiracies, spells. Mumbling, chatter up to the beginning of the 19th century was called a lie.
There are about 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
Most lipsticks contain fish scales. And every woman eats, on average, about 4 kilograms of this cosmetic product in her life.
Watching color TV is less harmful than black and white: bright colors stimulate the color-receiving apparatus of the eye, removing part of the load from the accommodative muscles.
All swans in England are the property of the Queen.
On average, a person drinks 60560 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) has the Republic of San Marino.
Drinking vodka (and other spirits ...) is much more harmful than having a snack.
Las Vegas is visible from space as the brightest place on Earth.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong made his famous "small step of one person - and a huge step of all mankind" to the moon with his left foot.
Cholera bacilli die in beer in a few hours and the disease does not develop. The discoverer of the causative agents of cholera, 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.
More than 150 million hot dogs are eaten annually on July 4 in the United States.
About 100 lightning strikes on Earth every second.
The human eye is capable of distinguishing 130-250 pure color tones and 5-10 million mixed shades.
The owl can turn its head 270 degrees.
Tooth enamel is the hardest tissue produced by the human body.
Full 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.
There are twice as many kangaroos living in Australia as there are people.
The surface pattern of a cat's nose is as unique as a human fingerprint.
A man swallows an average of 21 milliliters of liquid in one gulp, while a woman swallows 14 milliliters.
March 8 - 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 a speed of one star per second - it would take the "astrologer" about 3000 years.
If you scream for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will produce enough acoustic energy to boil a glass of water.
An ant poisoned with chemicals always falls on its right side.
The polar bear is left-handed.
The crocodile cannot stick out his tongue.
The word "mouse" comes from the ancient Sanskrit word "mus", that is, "thief".
If someone annoys you and you twist your face, 42 muscles are involved.
You only need to use 4 muscles to hit someone on the head.
When you bang your head against the wall, you burn 150 calories per hour.
A flea can jump 350 times its body length. It is like a person jumping over a football field.
Catfish have over 27,000 taste buds.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue!
In one of the issues of "Moscow Provincial Gazette" for 1848, you can read the following: "Bourgeois Nikifor Nikitin for seditious speech about the flight to the moon, exile to the remote settlement of Baikonur"
In ancient Greece, women counted their age not from the date of birth, but from the day of marriage. By this they showed that only marriage life has meaning for them.
Over the past 200 years, 150 species of the animal world have become extinct. The next 600 species of the animal world are on the verge of extinction.
To fill a half-liter suck with honey, bees are forced to collect nectar from nearly 2,000,000 flowers.
Boiling water extinguishes fire faster than cold water, since it immediately takes away the heat of vaporization from the flame and surrounds the fire with a layer of steam, which impedes the access of air.
Today, a person weighs on average 5 kg more than in 1960.
The Russian word "bath" goes back to the Latin "valneum" (bathing, ablution), which has another meaning - "expulsion of sadness".
The Kwaktul 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 beckon him with a movement of his hand or inarticulate cries.
In the movie Pulp Fiction, the word "fuck" is used 257 times (plus or minus a couple for a gagged Marcellus).
Tickling was prohibited by law in some ancient countries of the East, as it was considered a sinful arousal.
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 an inhuman face, for example, "aliens".
Canada has been declared the best country for life 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 over France for a total of 15 minutes.
Nebraska has more cows than people.
In the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" by S. Kubrick, the astronauts used the enraged supercomputer HAL, if in the word H-A-L we change each letter to the next alphabetically, we get I-B-M.
Bulls do not distinguish between colors, red is used for brightness, beauty and blood is less noticeable on it.
Web is stronger than steel
The most durable of all that nature has created are shark teeth.
A shark has about 1000 constantly changing teeth.
The largest shark ever lived in the mouth could fit a full-length human. (something struck me on sharks)
Cats sometimes lay out killed mice in a strict semicircle with their tails outward / inward, and put another one in the center.
at dusk, red appears redder.
Some people are able to live long in icy water.
Unconscious in water, a person does not breathe.
A person falls asleep from lack of air.
A person is immune to mad cow disease, which means that even Europeans, no matter how they boast of good decency, hunted cannibalism.
Herbivores do not spread rabies.
Red cockroaches are not Russians (Prussians).
Animals have dreams.
Wasps kill more people than cars kill (old fact, could have changed)
The plastic is almost non-degradable.
The spider is the only insect with eight legs.
The horse spider has intelligence comparable to that of a small rodent, due to the "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.
octopus has 10 legs
the goat and octopus have rectangular pupils.
From the bite of vampire mice, more blood flows out than she drinks.
A vampire is anatomically uncomfortable to drink blood with fangs - they are designed to hold the victim, and for that they have hands. To drink blood, they need sharp incisors, not fangs (like bats)
there is only one kind of crocodile that can run on land.
Crocodiles cannot chew.
The yew grows out of itself.

A selection of interesting facts from different fields that will prove to be very interesting and informative for many of us.

In 1988, Arnold Schwarzenegger refused to star in the sequel to Commando. The script was reworked for the new protagonist and called "Die Hard". Thus began the rise of Bruce Willis' career.

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

As a young man, George Clooney lived with a lazy roommate who owned a cat. He once had to wash a litter box for four days in a row. On the fifth day, Clooney got tired of it and he shit in the tray himself. The neighbor got scared that the cat was constipated and dragged the animal to the vet.

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 caused the terrible crop failure, and then the "Great Famine" that fell during the reign of Boris Godunov.

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

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

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 fall on the monument at such an angle that they pass through all the rings in 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 off the Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco), but survived. He later admitted that this "flight" completely turned his whole idea of life. “I suddenly realized that there is absolutely nothing in my life that could not be corrected. Except for one thing - this very jump, which I have just made up my mind. "

The first visitor to Disneyland was a college student named Dave McPherson. But that time he did not have time to ride any of the attractions, because he was in a hurry to classes. But later he had a chance to more than make up for lost time - he was given a life pass to all Disneylands on the planet.

Japan imports rice from the United States - but only to meet the requirements of the World Trade Organization. The Japanese hardly eat this rice. Most are sent to North Korea as humanitarian aid, the rest is fed to pigs or rotted in warehouses.

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

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

In 2006, a resident of the American city of Orlando, Claudia Mejia, went to give birth to 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 all the limbs were amputated to the woman, the hospital replies that, they say, they cannot voice the reason, since, in this way, the rights of other patients will 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 figure out why she was left without arms and legs.

In Vilnius (Lithuania) there is a small district of Uzupis, which has declared itself an independent republic. This republic has its own flag, its own currency, a president, a 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 figuring out who was in front of him, allowed himself a sarcastic remark that, they say, "you obviously cannot 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, the sisters Serena and Venus Williams recklessly declared that they would easily beat any man below the 200th in the ranking of tennis players. The German tennis player Karsten Braasch, the 203rd racket of the world, responded to the challenge. He came to the match, refueled with beer and without really straining, beat first Serena, and then Venus with a score of 6: 1 and 6: 2, respectively.

Due to the 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 destroyed in a fire.

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

The daughters of President John F. Kennedy presented 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.

The color pink does not exist. The fact that we see him is a great scientific mystery. This color is a combination of red and violet - two opposite spectra of the rainbow, and such a mixture is impossible in nature. In fact, certain wavelengths are reflected and converted into pink in our brain.

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

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

During the 9/11 rescue operation, the dogs were so rarely able to locate survivors that they experienced great stress as they felt guilty and unable to cope. Therefore, rescuers had to regularly hide in the ruins themselves, in order to enable the dogs to find them and, thus, to maintain their "fighting spirit."

Billionaire and cocaine smuggler Sal Magluta has won the US National Speedboat Race three times and made frequent television appearances even though he was wanted. Nobody noticed anything for 6 years.

The chemical name for titin is 189819 characters long. It will take at least three hours to pronounce it in full.

It turns out that eggs are even better kept dirty because they have a protective layer that can be washed off with water. In many countries, eggs are washed before being sold 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 to HIV.

Legend has it that Orson Welles' radio show "War of the Worlds", aired on CBS on October 30, 1938, was taken at face value, causing more than a million people in the northeastern United States to believe the Martian attack and panic. It was said that entire families barricaded themselves with weapons in the basements of their homes, or hurriedly packed up their belongings to leave the country. In fact, the effect was not that strong, it was just that CBS's competitors tried to compromise it as a news source.

In China, there is an organization called the Association of Lovers, which unites women who live off married wealthy men. On their website, these women not only share their impressions and experiences, but also help each other to 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, 125,000 transistors could already be bought for the price of a grain of rice. Electronic device with 16 GB memory contains more transistors than neurons in the human head

The biotech company Pembient has learned to 3D print "rhino horns" that are genetically identical to natural ones. The company plans to dump this product on the Chinese market at a price 8 times cheaper than real horns, hoping in this way to defeat poaching.

In 2009, an expert on anti-kidnapping in Mexico was kidnapped in Mexico right after he finished giving a lecture entitled “How to Avoid Being Kidnapped in Mexico”.

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

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

Nervous movements such as tapping your fingers on a table or kicking a rhythm can burn up to 350 calories a day. It is easy to see that such habits are inherent mainly in slender people.

One day, a 2.5-year-old girl named Michelle Funk fell into a river and was under water for 66 minutes. When rescuers lifted her to the surface, the baby had no pulse or breath. After more than 3 hours, her blood suddenly warmed up. When the temperature reached 25 degrees Celsius, the girl came back to life and lives to this day.

Who parks the car better - girls or men, in which country do the biggest people live, how much time do we spend on kissing in terms of our entire life, and what is demodex. About this and much more in a selection of interesting facts about everything in the world. With us only, stay with us and see for yourself.

Fact # 1: Hawaiians don't hesitate to “admit” to men that they crave their attention. They show this with the help of flowers, which they put behind their right ear. The stronger the desire, the more flowers.

Fact # 2: 44% of people love watching their partner kiss. But others prefer to be given kisses, tightly covering their eyelids.

Fact number 3: not all lovers, rejected by partners, know how to calmly endure a breakup. 40% of them get rid of depression in the clinic.

Fact # 4: Adults laugh an average of about 15 times a day, while kids laugh about 400 times.

Fact # 5: It takes each of us an average of 7 minutes to fall asleep soundly.

Fact number 6: the first love ends with a wedding only for 2 people out of 5.

Fact number 7: people spend an average of half a month or 20,160 minutes on kissing in their entire lives.

Fact number 8: after visiting a public toilet, only 75% of the stronger sex and 90% of the weak wash their hands.

Fact # 9: Women are best at parking, not men.

Fact # 10: When kissing, 65% of people prefer to tilt their head to the right.

Fact # 11: On average, women have sex with 4 partners in their entire lives.

Fact # 12: People in their 20s and 70s devote approximately 36,000 minutes or 25 days to sexual play.

Fact number 13: Aboriginal people in England arrange tea ceremonies more often than residents of other countries. For comparison: 20 times more people in America.

Fact number 14: a lady has been using so much lipstick for 5 years that if this amount is presented in the form of a tube, then it would be equal to her height.

Fact number 15: the tallest people (if you take on average) are the inhabitants of the Netherlands.

Fact number 16: out of 10 people, 8 are sure that further relationships are completely dependent on the first kiss.

Fact number 17: on average, the inhabitants of Japan are considered the smallest in height.

Fact number 18: ancient mountains all over the world, dividing the Russian land into Asia and Europe - the Ural mountains.

Fact number 19: the higher the intelligence of a person - there is more zinc and copper in his hair.

Fact number 20: in the eyelashes of many of us live demodex - micro mites with an oral cavity and even claws.

Fact number 21: throughout life, each of us produces saliva and so much that it would be enough to fill 2 pools, each of medium size.

Fact number 22: if you take an average, then in a lifetime people are attached to kisses for about 2 weeks, and having sex - 3,000 times.

Fact No. 23: Men shave off 8.4 meter stubble in their lifetime, spending 3,350 hours on this lesson.

Fact number 24: of all humanity trying to get acquainted for sex through virtual communication, 35% of people are married.

Fact # 25: 47% of people have nightmares at least once a month.

Fact number 26: almost every person in his life "winds" a straight line equal to the 5 Earth's equators.

Fact number 27: babies of 1-3 months cry without tears.

Fact # 28: It is documented that the largest number of orgasms that can be in 1 hour is 16 for one man and 134 for one woman.