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19.10.2019 Education

ABOUT COUNTRIES AND PEOPLES

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

ABOUT THE LITTLE BROTHERS

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

ABOUT THE GREATS

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

ABOUT PEOPLE

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

Well and Miscellaneous

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

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Every day, 12 newborns fall into the hands of the wrong parents due to the fault of medical personnel.
99% of the total mass of the solar system is in.
There are 32 muscles in a 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 dishes made from wheat. Therefore, after eating the main course, you can safely eat the 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 long tongue, a giraffe can clean its own ears.
A giraffe can live without water longer than a camel.
A person busy with any activity loses about 4 liters of fluid per day.
Interestingly, the smallest bird weighs less than a coin.
Jellyfish are 95% composed of . This is why they are so transparent.
And this is a very interesting fact. A jet plane has to use 4000 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 a mole is able to dig a 9 m long tunnel in just one night.
A funny incident happened in the USA, in the state of Indiana: authorities arrested a monkey for smoking in a public place.
According to scientific research, pigs can experience orgasm within 30 minutes.
Women in Saudi Arabia are legally allowed to divorce their spouses if they refuse to give them .
An interesting fact is that sharks are the only animals that can blink with both eyes.
Sharks are so sensitive to presence in the water that they can detect one gram in 100 thousand liters.
When a skunk senses danger to its life, it can spread a stinking odor within a radius of 10 m. It is perhaps the most unpleasant-smelling animal.
In 1845, a very interesting law was adopted. According to him, a person attempting to commit suicide would face hanging.
An interesting fact is that 25% of Los Angeles is occupied by vehicles.
slept on stone pillows. Just wondering, 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 an ostrich's eye 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 a Barbie doll were 175 cm tall, then her proportions would be as follows: 39-23-33 cm; despite the fact that the generally accepted ideal is the ratio 90-60-90.
When the bats When flying out of caves, they always turn left.
In the tiny state of Nauru, the main export product is poultry manure.
Chewing gum contains rubber.
Camel milk does not sour or curdle.
can make about 100 different sounds, and no more than 10.
Every year, people buy food for dogs and cats totaling $7 billion. This is one of the most interesting facts.
Did you know that dolphins always sleep with one eye open?
In Paraguay, dueling is officially permitted, provided that both duelists are blood donors.
The most famous scientist of the 20th century could not speak clearly until he was 9 years old.
Before sitting down to compose his compositions, he dipped his head in ice water.
Giraffes do not have vocal cords.
Incredibly, bees grow hair in front of their eyes!
According to Bangladeshi law, a student can go to jail for cheating in 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 arises periodically even in .
You can buy wigs for dogs.
Once upon a time in Iceland, the law prohibited citizens from keeping dogs.
There was a time when residents of Switzerland were prohibited from slamming car doors.
In Kansas, people are prohibited from fishing with their bare hands.
It has been scientifically proven that a person cannot sneeze with his eyes open. Although many probably continue to check this statement.
When Kotex first started out, it made bandages, not personal care products.
The Great One is the creator of scissors.
Every second, 100 lightning strikes 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 people 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 in donkey riding than in plane crashes. We have already talked about.
Out of two billion people, only one manages to live to be 116 years old.
Mosquitoes have teeth.
Scientists have long noticed that cows produce much more milk when classical music is played to them.
Did you know that most of the dust in homes comes from dead skin cells?
Most lipsticks contain fish scales.
Few people know that 25% of all human bones are in his legs. We told you all the most interesting things about the human musculoskeletal system.
Only half of American citizens know that the sun is a star.
have been the same size since birth. But the ears and nose grow until death.
Dynamite contains peanut extract.
Surprisingly, the clumsy penguins can jump up to 2 m in height. By the way, read about and watch the most terrible footage of this ritual.
If you give deer bananas, they will happily eat them.
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. This is probably someone who knows how to “breathe deeply”!
Interestingly, a cat falling from the 20th floor is more likely to survive than if it fell from the 10th.
It takes the average person 7 minutes to fall asleep.
The author of the electric chair was a simple dentist. Still, there is something sadistic about them.
Among all mammals, only elephants cannot jump. Pay attention - you will learn a lot of new things.
Green grasshoppers hear sounds thanks to holes located on their hind legs.
One day, 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 killed only one elephant.
The expression in chess “Checkmate” translated from Persian means “the king is dead.”
There are approximately the same number of chickens on the planet as there are people.
Tigers not only have striped fur, but also their skin itself.
To free yourself from the jaws of a crocodile, you should “simply” press your fingers on its eyes. The most interesting thing is that you are unlikely to remember this fact if you fall into a crocodile’s mouth.
Snakes have this strange pathology where 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 rotate counterclockwise, and only in Ireland the opposite happens.
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 that).
Human heart makes about 100,000 strikes per day.

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in the world.

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

2. About the plant world

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

3. About people

A person who finds himself in an unfamiliar environment will in most cases turn right. This mental property is successfully used by marketers.
Crime reporter and journalist Vlado Taneski from Macedonia was also a serial killer who often described his own crimes. But in the end he made a mistake when he published information that until that moment could not have been known to anyone except the killer.
Australian truck driver Bill Morgan is a real lucky man and not only because he survived a 14-minute clinical death after a heart attack. Soon after, he won a large sum in the lottery. The TV crew decided to film a story about him and asked him to erase the protective layer from an instant lottery ticket on camera. And guess what - he won $250,000 again!
40% of people do not live to see their first birthday.
Australian Aboriginal culture is no younger ice age, so they remember the location and names of mountains that have been hidden under the waters of the Bass Strait for 8,000 years.

4. About food

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

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

5. About countries

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

6. About the animal world

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

7. About astronauts

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

8. About diseases

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

9. About society

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

10. About sports

The Trans-Siberian Railway or the Great Siberian Route, which connects the Russian capital Moscow with Vladivostok, until recently bore the honorary title of...

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