Incredible facts

No matter how much knowledge you have, there is always something interesting in the world that you could learn about today.

6. The biggest wave we rode was height with 10-story building.

7. Hearing - the fastest of feelings person.

8. Since the rotation of the Earth’s axis has slowed down, dayduring the time when dinosaurs lived,lasted approximately 23 hours.

9. On Earth more plastic flamingos than real ones.

10. To cook eggs on the sidewalk, its temperature should reach 70 degrees Celsius.

11. 54 million people alive today they will die in a year.

12. Charlie Chaplin once participated in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike competition and took 3rd place there.

13. Most entries off-screen laughter in comedy shows was recorded in the 1950s. So many of that audience are no longer alive.

14. Antarctica – the only continent where corn is not grown.

15. Lighters were invented before matches..

16. Napoleon was not short. His height is 170 cm, which was considered average height for the French in those days.

17. Best time For nap between 1 and 2:30 p.m., since at this time the body temperature drops.

18. Children do not feel salty taste until 4 months.

19. Male pandas perform handstand, when they urinate to mark a tree.

20. If only The earth would be the size of a grain of sand, The sun would be the size of an orange.

21. The Dead Sea is not completely dead. Microbes halophiles live in its salty water.

22. The first horses were the size of Siamese cats. These were the smallest horses that ever lived.

23. Only about 100 people in the world can speak Latin fluently.

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

Fact #1: Hawaiian women are not shy about “confessing” to men that they crave their attention. They show this with the help of flowers, which they place behind their right ear. Stronger desire- more flowers.

Fact #2: 44% of people love watching their partner's emotions while kissing. But others prefer to indulge in kisses, closing their eyelids tightly.

Fact No. 3: not all lovers rejected by their partners are able to calmly endure the breakup. 40% of them get rid of depression in the clinic.

Fact No. 4: Adults laugh on average about 15 times a day, while children laugh about 400 times.

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

Fact No. 6: First love ends in marriage for only 2 out of 5 people.

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

Fact #8: By visiting public toilet, only 75% of the stronger sex and 90% of the weaker sex wash their hands.

Fact No. 9: Women, not men, are better at parking a car.

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

Fact No. 11: On average, women have sex with 4 partners in their entire lives.

Fact No. 12: People between 20 and 70 years old devote approximately 36,000 minutes or 25 days to sexual fun.

Fact No. 13: The natives of England organize tea ceremonies more often than residents of other countries. For comparison: 20 times more people in America.

Fact No. 14: a lady uses so much lipstick in 5 years that if this amount is represented in the form of a tube, then it would be equal to her height.

Fact No. 15: the tallest people (on average) are the inhabitants of Holland.

Fact No. 16: out of 10 people, 8 are sure that future relationships depend entirely on the first kiss.

Fact No. 17: If we take an average, then the people in Japan are considered the shortest in height.

Fact No. 18: ancient mountains all over the world dividing Russian land into Asia and Europe are the Ural mountains.

Fact No. 19: the higher a person’s intelligence, the higher the zinc and copper content in his hair.

Fact No. 20: Demodex live in the eyelashes of many of us - micro mites that have an oral cavity and even claws.

Fact No. 21: throughout our lives, each of us produces saliva so much that it would be enough to fill 2 swimming pools, each of medium size.

Fact No. 22: If we take an average, then in a lifetime people kiss about 2 weeks, and have sex 3,000 times.

Fact #23: Men shave 8.4 meters of stubble in their lifetime, spending 3,350 hours doing so.

Fact No. 24: of all humanity trying to meet people for sex through virtual communication, 35% of people are married.

Fact No. 25: 47% of people have nightmares at least once a month.

Fact No. 26: almost every person during his life “winds” a straight line equal to 5 earth equators.

Fact No. 27: Mostly babies 1-3 months old cry without tears.

Fact No. 28: it is documented that the largest number of orgasms that can be had in 1 hour is 16 for one man and 134 for one woman.

On our planet there are heaven and hell, seamounts that make the Himalayas look like toys. In this land there are cities whose area is larger than Austria or Belgium, and states that do not have an official capital. The strangest, most interesting and surprising facts about the world are included in today's selection.

Chongqing is called the second capital of China, and it is famous for the fact that it occupies an area larger than the whole of Austria or Belgium. The metropolis is home to 30 million people - a number that makes it the absolute record holder of the planet.

And this is not the limit, because Chongqing is growing and expanding. The city cannot even be called beautiful - narrow, cramped streets, piles of ugly buildings, gloomy alleys, dozens of automobile factories and chemical plants. In Chongqing, the same number of houses, buildings, bridges and other structures are built in a year as in 20 years in Moscow.

Perhaps in a few years the appearance of the largest metropolis will change, because old neighborhoods are being actively demolished, and modern skyscrapers are rising in their place. But this is unlikely to make Chongqing any more comfortable.

Countries without railways

There are many such states not only in Asia, but also in Europe. In Iceland, the transport infrastructure is well developed - passengers are served by buses, planes, ships, but there are no railways here.

In Qatar, where the population exceeds 800 thousand people, there is also no railway service. It is absent in Guinea, Bhutan, Nepal, and Afghanistan.

This list also includes the European countries Liechtenstein, Malta, and Andorra. They, like Iceland, occupy a small territory. Land in the states is expensive, there is a shortage of it, and the terrain is mountainous, so the construction of railway lines is impractical.

There are no trains on the Caribbean islands, with the exception of Cuba. It is the only island in the region where a railway is built.

E, O, I, Yu

These are not vowel letters of the alphabet, but names of cities. E is located in France, on the coast of the Bresle River. It is home to about 8 thousand inhabitants. Indigenous people are called Eytsy.

In Lofoten, Norway, tourists can hear one local inviting another to go fishing in O. This is not a joke, but an unusual name for a fishing village. It comes from the word "A", which in Old Icelandic meant "river".

Mentions of the settlement date back to the mid-16th century. It attracts tourists not only with its short name, but also with the museums of fish and the history of the village that operate here.

Ypsilonians - this is what the residents of the French commune I, located 100 km from Paris, call themselves. Its population is less than 100 people, but even in such sparsely populated places of our world there are amazing facts.

Yi, for example, has a sister village with the unpronounceable name Llanwirepullgwyngillgogerychverndrobullllantysilyogogogoch. One can only guess how customers pronounce it when they order tickets at train stations.

8 thousand people permanently live in the Swedish city of Yu. The medieval town is popular among travelers, because most of its buildings are wooden. And these are not only residential buildings, but also churches and public institutions.

It seems that residents are satisfied with short names, although the authorities of the countries periodically raise the topic of their possible renaming. They believe that the renaming will make it easier for users to find information of interest on the Internet.

The resort to which they usually send

In the southwestern part of Mexico there is a beautiful resort with pristine coastline. It stretches for almost 4 km along the Pacific coast. The beach areas are wide, sandy, and secluded bays are created especially for lovers. They are protected from the wind by green hills and a transparent blue sky.

In this resort location, anyone can buy a villa or condominium apartment with stunning views from the windows. A 2-room apartment costs 30-40 thousand dollars. This place is called Nahui and looks very picturesque.

Nauru is a country without a capital

This state can be walked around in 2 hours - length 6 km, width 4 km. Nauru is located on the coral island of the same name in western Oceania and is considered the only country in the world that does not have an official capital. The compact territory is divided into districts.

The first people appeared in Nauru more than 3 thousand years ago. When Captain Firn discovered the island in 1798, it was already inhabited by 12 tribes. They had no idea about the political system and way of life, they survived by fishing, growing coconuts and knew how to do without the benefits of civilization.

Today, the tiny country is barely surviving - tours to the island are not popular due to the lack of local color, high humidity and heat of 40-42 degrees. Nauru is located almost on the equator. The state of the ecology is deplorable - over the decades that phosphorites were mined here, instead of soil, a “lunar landscape” remained.

The longest mountains are at the bottom

Sometimes, to find the most amazing facts in the world, you need to go down to the ocean floor. In our case - to the bottom Atlantic Ocean, which the Mid-Atlantic Ridge divided into two almost equal parts - western and eastern.

The mountain range under water is a world record holder for the longest. Its length is 18 thousand km, its width is almost a thousand km, and its height is small for mountains - at the peaks it does not exceed 3 km.

While studying the relief of the mountain range, scientists discovered an interesting pattern: the further away from the rift valley, the older the basalt rocks. Their age was determined by archaeologists and geologists - 70 million years.

Mississippi changed direction

In 1811, an earthquake occurred in New Madrid, and in 1812, another occurred in the town of Missouri. Seismologists estimated the power of the elements at 8 points on the Richter scale.

Those earthquakes were the most powerful in North America - as a result, huge areas went underground, and new lakes formed in their place. Mississippi River behind a short time changed course and flowed in the opposite direction. Its waters formed the Kentucky Bend.

There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia

They were there before, but they dried up. During rains, dry river beds fill with water, but this water is stagnant and there is no flow in it. The Saudis are careful about fresh water.

In total, there are 17 states in the world that do not have a single river. In addition to Saudi Arabia, the list includes Oman, Kuwait, Yemen, UAE, Monaco, Vatican and others.

There are no rivers in Monaco and the Vatican, because the territory of the states is small, there are no channels from which they could appear.

Sea without shores

The Sargasso Sea is the only one that has no shores. It is located in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean and poses a mystery to humanity. The fact is that the water in the Sargasso Sea has unique properties that are not typical for ocean waters.

The weather here is calm all year round and the sea is never stormy. For this property, the reservoir has gained notoriety as a ship graveyard. In the Middle Ages, sailing ships could not navigate when there was calm. The sailors were also unable to row with their hands - numerous algae got in the way. So, waiting for a fair wind, entire teams died.

This line is considered the longest railway in the world. The Great Siberian Road, as it was called in Tsarist Russia, connects Moscow and St. Petersburg with the largest cities in Siberia and the Far East.

The railway route stretches for almost 9.3 thousand km, crosses 3901 bridges, which is also an absolute record.

UFO exists

The fact of its existence was recognized by Chile, Italy and France. But Japan came first. This happened on April 17, 1981. The crew of a Japanese cargo ship saw a disk rise into the sky from the ocean waters. It glowed blue.

Taking off, the UFO stirred up such a powerful wave that it completely covered the ship. After this, the luminous plate circled over the ship for about 15 minutes, sometimes moving quickly, sometimes hovering in the air.

Then the UFO went into the water again, and the second wave damaged the ship's hull. Following the incident, the Coast Guard press officer officially stated that the atypical damage was due to a collision with a UFO.

Uganda is the youngest country

Experts predict that in 2100, 192.5 million people will live in Uganda.

It is curious that half of the residents are children and teenagers under 15 years old. Uganda is considered the youngest country on the planet.

Hell and Heaven on earth

Anyone can see what Hell looks like. True, for this you need to come to Norway and get to the city of Trondheim. From there it is 24 km to Hell.

Norwegian Hell has its own train station, shops, and a blues music festival every September. Unusual name the village inherited from the Old Norse word “hellir”, which is interpreted as “cave”, “rock”. But local residents prefer the meaning of the homonym – “luck”.

Earthly Paradise is located in Great Britain, 80 km from London. It is permanently home to 4 thousand people. This compact town is built on a hill. Previously, it was surrounded by sea water, but now, when there is no sea, only 3 rivers remain.

Paradise - ancient city, the first mention of it is in sources of 1024. The amazing thing is that its ancient streets, alleys, fortresses, houses, windows, roofs have been preserved almost in their original form. Rai has several charming cafes and shops where you can enjoy delicious coffee, tea and desserts. There is a complete feeling that time has turned back - to the 16-17th centuries.

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



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



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



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



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



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



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





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



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



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



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



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



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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2) Cats and dogs consume food by 7 billion dollars a year. Modern food industry does not particularly favor our pets with good products. Although giving food is much more convenient than preparing food, consider whether it is worth stuffing your cats and dogs with unknown things. Most foods do not carry any nutritional value , and animal fats are replaced with vegetable fats.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If such a worm is deliberately divided into parts, each part will have 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 using holes in their hind legs.

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

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

24) Starfish- the only animal that can turn your stomach inside out.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

17) Sigmund Freud had an unhealthy fear of ferns.

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

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

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