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Interesting and unusual facts. A collection of strange facts from around the world. About the animal world

They make an attentive observer think about it, wonder at the diversity of life, or laugh properly.

But in the hustle and bustle of everyday chores, we sometimes do not notice these things. Do you want to broaden your horizons?

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

According to statistics, chronic alcoholics live 15 years longer than those who work without a vacation. Rest more, gentlemen, but do not abuse alcohol!
25% of our compatriots think about sex while in traffic. Oddly enough, only 6% think about work.
Blue-eyed people are less likely to suffer from visual impairments than brown-eyed and gray-eyed people.
Brown-eyed people are more adapted to everyday difficulties.
An interesting fact of life: the more often a man makes love, the lower his risk of heart attack. Consider this an instruction for action! Unfortunately, this does not apply to women.
In the morning we are about 1 centimeter taller. During the day, the joints are compressed, which makes us a little lower in the evening.
No person in the world can sneeze with open eyes. Want to check it out? Please! Just don't do this while driving. According to statistics, 2% of all accidents occur due to the fact that the driver sneezed and lost his guard for a couple of seconds.
Women pronounce 13 thousand more words per day than men. All men will agree with this fact, but women may be indignant!
Interestingly, nightmares are more common in a cold bedroom.
Obscene language can dull the pain for a while. Probably, Russian builders feel it on an intuitive level!
The more often you overeat, the worse your hearing becomes.
A cat's taste buds are not sensitive to sweets. By the way, read in a separate article.
Men are tougher and thicker than women. However, there is twice as much hair on a woman's head!
If a woman periodically listens to an audio recording of a baby crying, her breasts can increase by 2 centimeters in a week.
There is that a small pocket for male designers came up with in order to hide a condom there. In fact, it is meant for watches. Recommended reading.
The best cleaner for kettles, bathtubs, toilets and ovens is regular Coca-Cola!
Unpainted Coca-Cola is green.
Flavored cigarettes contain urea.
The timbre of the voice of women who work in a male team is much lower than that of women who work side by side with other women.
Regular sex relieves headaches. Interestingly, this fact is not used by all women in their lives. But men can take it on board as an argument!
It is more convenient for left-handed people to chew food with the left side of their jaws.
You can stop yawning by touching your tongue with your finger.
When talking with a person we like, our pupils involuntarily dilate.
When there are many, it is a herd. Many horses are called herds. A large group is a flock. But when there are many frogs - this is ... an army! At least that's what zoologists call them.
A 4-5 year old child asks about 400 questions per day.
Fear of Friday the 13th is considered a disease and is successfully treated by psychotherapists.
An obvious fact from life: the average person eats 35 tons of food in their entire life.
know how to breathe anus.
OK (okay) is the most commonly used word in most of the world's languages.
95% of emails sent by email are spam.
The champagne cork can jump to a height of 12 meters.
Interestingly, in the entire history of the Earth, no two identical snowflakes have existed. However, as well as people. Even twins have slight differences.
In 2 years, a couple is capable of giving birth to more than a million cubs. For comparison, a domestic cat gives birth to no more than 100 kittens in a lifetime.
The first president, George Washington, loved to admire the lush cannabis bushes that grew in his garden in his free time.
Do not microwave grapes or they will explode!
The cow is unable to climb down the stairs.
Incredible but true: the largest eyes on Earth belong to a giant (colossal) squid. They are about the size of a soccer ball.
Humpback whales are the loudest animals on Earth. The cry of these mammals is louder than the roar of an aircraft and is heard in the open ocean for more than 500 kilometers.
Believe it or not, a caterpillar has more than a human.
People in white bathing suits and swimming trunks are more likely to fall prey to sharks on the beaches.
The nostrils are the organ of smell, but not breathing. Sharks breathe with gills.
Babies have more bones than adults.
The lighter the beard, the faster it grows.
An interesting fact from life: the smartest woman (according to the results of the IQ test) was ... a housewife.
More than 1000 people die every year from lightning strikes.
Initially, the plague was treated with cologne.
sleep 22 hours a day. Eh! ..
Household injuries and heart attacks peak on Monday.
13 new varieties of children's toys appear in the world every day.
The most common tree in the world is Siberian larch.
And this is an eerie fact, despite the fact that it is about life. Some sharks eat their siblings while still in the womb. Truly, the fittest survives!
Contrary to popular belief, anteaters do not eat ants. Their main food is
In the late 19th century, cocaine was used to treat insomnia and colds.
If you chew gum while peeling onions, you cannot cry.
Ticks can go without food for 10 years.
Until the end of the 19th century, vodka could be bought in Russia only in a 12-liter bucket. People once knew the measure! By the way, we recommend reading, where we have collected a very interesting selection.
There are more color blind people among men than among women.
This fact from life may surprise you. The fact is that some men are terrified of virgins. Psychologists call this phenomenon parthenophobia.
The hibernation period in snails can last 3 years.
Vinegar can dissolve pearls.
99% of living things that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct.
Every day on Earth, 3 people undergo gender reassignment surgery.

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Polyp hydra has a high regenerative capacity. If you cut a hydra in two, they both regenerate to a full-grown hydra. Hydras have been proven to be theoretically immortal.
American mathematician George Danzig, as a graduate student at the university, once arrived late for class and mistook the equations written on the blackboard for homework. It seemed to him more difficult than usual, but after a few days he was able to complete it. It turned out that he solved two "unsolvable" problems in statistics, over which many scientists were struggling.
During the Second World War, trained dogs actively helped the sappers to clear mines. One of them, nicknamed Dzhulbars, discovered 7468 mines and more than 150 shells while clearing areas in European countries in the last year of the war. Shortly before the Victory Parade in Moscow on June 24, Dzhulbars was wounded and could not pass as part of the military dog school. Then Stalin ordered to carry the dog across Red Square in his greatcoat.
74-year-old Australian James Harrison donated blood nearly 1,000 times in his life. Antibodies in its rare blood group help newborns with severe anemia survive. In total, thanks to the donation of Harrison, according to rough estimates, more than 2 million babies were saved.
The dog Laika was sent into space, knowing in advance that she would die. After that, the UN received a letter from a group of women from Mississippi. They demanded to condemn the inhuman attitude towards 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 negrites as you like.
On April 1, 1976, the English astronomer Patrick Moore pranked listeners on the BBC radio, 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 the listeners jump up at this moment, they must feel a strange feeling. Beginning at 9:47 am, the BBC received hundreds of calls with stories of the strange feeling, and one woman even stated that she and her friends had lifted themselves from chairs and were flying around the room.
When eating celery, a person spends more calories than they receive.
During the immense popularity of Charlie Chaplin, "Chapliniads" were held throughout America - contests for the best imitation of an actor. Chaplin himself participated in one of these contests in San Francisco incognito, but failed to win.

Englishman Horace de Veer Cole became famous as a famous joker. One of his best jokes was the ticket distribution at the theater. Having distributed strictly defined places to bald men, he made sure that together these bald skulls from the balcony were read like a swear word.
During the conquest of Weinsberg in 1140, King Conrad III of Germany allowed women to leave the ruined city and take whatever they wanted in their hands. The women carried their husbands on their shoulders.
Only in Russian and in some languages of the former Soviet republics the @ sign is 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), marinated herring (in Czech and Slovak), moon ear (in Kazakh).
If two pieces of bread are simultaneously placed on the ground at two opposite points on our planet, you will get a sandwich with a globe. The first such sandwich was made in 2006 by calculating the coordinates of a place in Spain and the corresponding antipode place in New Zealand. Subsequently, the experience was repeated in many other parts of the world. But it is very difficult for the inhabitants of Russia to make a sandwich with the Earth, since for the vast majority of the country's territory, opposite points are located in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
The intestines of the Japanese contain unique microbes that make it possible to process the carbohydrates of the seaweed used to make sushi much better than that of people of other nationalities.
The name of Russia is not in all languages derived from the root "ros-" or "rus-". For example, in Latvia it is called Krievia from the Krivichi tribe, neighboring with the ancient Latvians in the east. Another ancient tribe, the Wends, gave the name to Russia in the Estonian (Venemaa) and Finnish (Veniaia) languages. The Chinese call our country Elos and can shorten it to just E, and the Vietnamese read the same hieroglyph as Nga, and call Russia that way.
According to legend, Robin Hood took from the rich and distributed the loot to the poor. However, the nickname Hood does not mean “good” at all, as it might seem at first glance, because in English it is spelled Hood and translates as “hood, hide with a hood” (which is a traditional element of Robin Hood's clothing).
Almost all words of the Russian language beginning with the letter "a" are borrowed. There are very few nouns of Russian origin with "a" in modern speech - these are the words "alphabet", "az" and "maybe".
The tea bag was invented by the American Thomas Sullivan in 1904 by accident. He decided to ship tea to customers in silk bags instead of traditional cans. However, customers thought they were offered a new way - to brew tea directly in these bags, and found this method very convenient.

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

The British can use the Yellow-blue bus mnemonics to successfully master the difficult phrase "I love you".
Once a year, the sea parted between the two islands of the South Korean county of Chindo, revealing a passage 2 km long and 40 m wide. For an hour, locals and tourists, many of whom associate this phenomenon with the biblical parable of the land and collect the seafood trapped in this trap.
Leonid Gaidai was drafted into the army in 1942 and first served in Mongolia, where he circled horses for the front. Once he came to the unit as a military commissar to recruit replenishment for the active army. To the officer's question: "Who is in the artillery?" - Gaidai answered: "Me!". He also answered other questions: "Who is in the cavalry?", "To the navy?", "To reconnaissance?" "Wait, Gaidai," said the military commissar, "Let me read out the entire list." Later the director adapted this episode for the film "Operation Y" and other adventures of Shurik.
In the 1970s, a dog named Siv Gustavson was on municipal service in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, and was able to bark in a variety of ways, corresponding to different breeds of dogs. Her job consisted of barking on city streets to elicit responses from dogs. In this way, she collected information about houses whose owners did not pay tax on dogs.
Born in 1993, American girl Brooke Greenberg is still a baby in terms of her physical and mental parameters. Her height - 76 cm, weight - 7 kg, teeth - milk. Analyzes by doctors have shown that there are no mutations in her genes responsible for aging. However, scientists do not lose hope with the help of new studies of this girl to come closer to understanding the cause of aging in humans.
In 1961, the New York Museum of Modern Art exhibited a painting by Henri Matisse "The Boat". Only 40 days later did someone notice that the painting was hanging upside down.

The production costs of all Russian coins up to and including 5 rubles exceed the denomination of these coins. For example, the cost of minting a 5-kopeck coin is 71 kopeck.
Nurse Violet Jessop managed to survive after the HMHS Britannic was blown up by a German mine in 1916, and the lifeboat in which she boarded for evacuation was pulled under a rotating propeller. Four years earlier, this same nurse was aboard the Titanic - a ship of the same class and the same company - and also managed to survive. And in 1911, Wylett was aboard the "older brother" of these two liners, the Olympic, when it collided with the cruiser Hawk, although no one was injured in that accident.
Vietnamese Thai Ngoc, born in 1942, has not slept for over 30 years. He lost his craving for 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 a few years ago he admitted that "he feels like a plant without water."
The Swedish king Gustav III once decided to personally check what is more harmful to humans - tea or coffee. To do this, selected two twins, sentenced to death. The former was given a large cup of tea three times a day, and the latter was given coffee. The king himself did not survive until the end of the experiment, being killed. The twins lived a long time, but the first to die at the age of 83 was the one who drank the tea.
On April 1, 2010, the British online seller of computer games GameStation introduced a clause in the user agreement, which buyers must read before making a payment, according to which the buyer also gives his soul for the eternal use of the store. As a result, 7,500 people, or 88% of the total number of users, agreed with this paragraph. This showed how easily the vast majority of users who do not read such documents can legally go along with the craziest demand of the seller.
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 travel to Europe through all of Russia. In particular, he waits out the winter in Tobolsk for 8 months.
The Daily Telegraph reporters named the Croatian Frane Selak the luckiest person in the world. The first time he was lucky was in 1964, when the train derailed and fell into the river. 17 people died, but Frane managed to swim ashore. Then the following incidents happened to Frane: fell into a haystack from an airplane, during the flight of which the door was flung open, 19 people died; swam ashore after a bus fell into a river; got out of a car that caught fire a few seconds before the gas tank exploded; got off with bruises after being hit by a bus; he fell off a mountain road in a car, having managed to jump out and catch on to a tree. Finally, in 2003, Franet bought a lottery ticket for the first time in his life and won £ 600,000.

On December 9, 1708, Peter I issued a decree on how to relate to the authorities: "The subordinate in the face of the superiors must look dashing and silly, so as not to confuse the authorities with his understanding."
Korney Chukovsky was actually called Nikolai Vasilievich Korneichukov.
If you go in the Moscow metro in the direction of the city center, the stations will be announced in a male voice, and when moving from the center - in a female voice. On a circular line, a male voice can be heard moving clockwise and a female counterclockwise. This is done for the convenience of orienting blind passengers.
In the era of black and white television, red filters were often used in cameras, which made the lips look pale on TV screens. Therefore, the announcer and actresses were made up with green blush and lipstick.
Alexandre Dumas once participated in a duel, where the participants drew lots, and the loser had to shoot himself. The lot went to Dumas, who retired to the next room. A shot rang out, and then Dumas returned to the participants with the words: "I fired, but missed."
The island of Barbados got its name from the Portuguese explorer Pedro Campos, who saw many fig trees growing here, entwined with beard-like epiphytes. Barbados means bearded in Portuguese.
In 1910, a criminal sentenced to death shouted into the crowd: "Drink Van Gutten's cocoa!" in exchange for a substantial sum from the cocoa producer for the heirs. The phrase made it into all the newspapers and sales skyrocketed.
South African legislation allows any degree of self-defense when it comes to a threat to human life or property. Traps, stun guns and even flamethrowers are popular here to protect cars from theft.
The popular belief is that kangaroos and emu cannot walk backwards. That is why these animals are depicted on the coat of arms of Australia as a symbol of movement forward, progress.
Max Factor, a world famous cosmetics company, was founded by Maximilian Factorovich, who was born in 1877 in Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire. He opened his first store in the city of Ryazan, gradually achieved the status of a supplier to the royal family, and in 1904 he emigrated to the United States.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy brought a lot of income to New Zealand, where the filming took place. The New Zealand government even established the post of the Lord of the Rings Minister to deal with any emerging economic issues.
The American extravagant writer Timothy Dexter wrote a book in 1802 with a very peculiar language and the absence of any punctuation. In response to the outrage of readers in the second edition of the book, he added a special page with punctuation marks, asking readers to arrange them in the text to their liking.
An ordinary book of a standard format of 500 pages cannot be crushed even if 15 wagons loaded with coal are placed on it.
Pushkin was a master of sarcastic impromptu. When he was still a chamber junker, Pushkin once appeared in front of a high-ranking person who was lying on the sofa and yawning with boredom. When the young poet appeared, the high-ranking person did not even think to change his position. Pushkin gave the owner of the house everything he needed and wanted to leave, but was ordered to say an impromptu. Pushkin squeezed out through clenched teeth: "Children on the floor - smart on the couch." The person was disappointed impromptu: “Well, what's so witty - children on the floor, smart on the couch? I can't understand ... I expected more from you. " Pushkin was silent, and the high-ranking person, repeating the phrase and moving the syllables, finally came to the following result: "The kid is half-witted on the sofa." After the sense of the impromptu reached the owner, Pushkin was immediately and indignantly thrown out the door.

Apples help you wake up in the morning better than coffee.
During flights, storks can periodically fall asleep without sinking to the ground for up to ten minutes. A tired stork moves to the center of the school, closes its eyes and dozes, and sharpened hearing helps to maintain the direction and altitude of the flight at this time.
The famous phrase of Khrushchev "I'll show you Kuzka's mother!" at the UN Assembly they translated literally - "Kuzma's mother". The meaning of the phrase was completely incomprehensible and from this the threat acquired a completely ominous character. Subsequently, the expression "kuz'kina mother" was also used to refer to the atomic bombs of the USSR.
The Cuban poet Julian del Casal, whose poems were distinguished by deep pessimism, died of laughter. He was having dinner with friends, one of whom told a joke. The poet began a fit of uncontrollable laughter, which caused aortic dissection, bleeding and sudden death.
When developing the Pobeda car, it was planned that the name of the car would be Rodina. Upon learning of this, Stalin ironically asked: "Well, how much will we have a Motherland?" Therefore, the name was changed to "Victory".
Tsetse flies attack any warm moving object, even a car. The exception is the zebra, which the fly perceives as just a flickering of black and white stripes.
If the body of an adult sponge is pushed through the mesh tissue, then all the cells will separate from each other. If you then put them in water and mix, completely destroying all the bonds between them, then after a while they begin to gradually converge and reunite, forming a whole sponge, similar to the previous one.
French writer and humorist Alphonse Allay a quarter of a century before Kazimir Malevich painted a black square - a painting called "The Battle of Blacks in a Cave in the Deep of Night". He also anticipated John Cage's "4'33", a minimalist piece of music from one silence by almost seventy years, with his similar work "Funeral March for the funeral of the great deaf."
The panther is not a separate animal, but the name of a biological genus, which includes four species: lions, tigers, leopards and jaguars. Often the term "panther" is used in relation to big black cats - this is a genetic variant of the color of leopards or jaguars, a manifestation of melanism.

A person cannot laugh when he tickles himself. The cerebellum, which is responsible for the sensations caused by its own movements, interferes with this, and sends commands to other parts of the brain to ignore these sensations. An exception to this rule is tongue tickling of the palate.
It is possible to distinguish herbivores from predators by the location of the eyes. Predators have eyes on the front of the muzzle, which allows them to accurately focus on their prey while tracking and chasing. In herbivores, eyes are usually set apart on opposite sides of the muzzle, which increases the field of view for early detection of danger from a predator. Exceptions include monkeys, which have binocular vision and are not predators.
French writer Guy de Maupassant was one of those who were irritated by the Eiffel Tower. Nevertheless, he dined daily at her restaurant, explaining this by the fact that here is the only place in Paris from where the tower is not visible.
Sofya Kovalevskaya got acquainted with mathematics in early childhood, when there was not enough wallpaper for her room, instead of which were pasted sheets with Ostrogradsky's lectures on differential and integral calculus.
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 a speed of 320 km / h. In some areas of this area, there has been no rain for two million years.

For a long time it was believed that ancient Greek sculptures made of white marble were originally colorless. However, recent research by scientists has confirmed the hypothesis that the statues were painted in a wide range of colors, which eventually disappeared under prolonged exposure to light and air.
When Pablo Picasso was born, the midwife considered him stillborn. The child was saved by his uncle, who smoked cigars and, seeing the baby lying on the table, blew smoke in his face, after which Pablo roared. Thus, it can be said that smoking saved Picasso's life.
Earlier, in Russia, an alternative name for the constellation Ursa Major, together with the Pole Star, was circulated - Horse on a pin (meaning a grazing horse tied with a rope to a peg). And the North Star, respectively, was called the Joke Star.
Scientists still have not figured out what is the physiological cause of the yawning process. There are several theories: for example, that when yawning, a person receives a large portion of oxygen when it is lacking in the body, or that in this way an overheated brain "drops" its temperature, but no theory has yet been convincingly proven. However, yawning has been proven to be contagious. The person is more likely to yawn at the sight of another yawning, or when someone on the phone yawns. Contagious yawning has also been reported in chimpanzees.
According to the Hebrew rite, on the day of the forgiveness of sins, the high priest put his hands on the head of the goat and thereby laid the sins of the entire people on it. Then the goat was taken to the Judean desert and released. Hence the expression "scapegoat" came from.
Initially, on the grave of Gogol in the monastery cemetery, there was a stone called Golgotha because of its resemblance to the Mount of Jerusalem. When they decided to destroy the cemetery, they decided to install a bust of Gogol on the grave during reburial in another place. And the same stone was later put on the grave of Bulgakov 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 greatcoat."
Spiral staircases in the towers of medieval castles were built in such a way that the ascent along them was carried out in a clockwise direction. This was done so that in the event of a siege of the castle, the defenders of the tower had an advantage during hand-to-hand combat, since the most powerful blow with the right hand can only be inflicted from right to left, which was inaccessible to the attackers. There is only one reverse-twist lock - the fortress of the Counts of Wallenstein, since most of the men of this kind were left-handed.
If powerful lightning strikes the surface of the earth, it can leave its mark - a hollow glass tube called fulgurite. Such a tube consists of silica (or sand) melted down by the action of an electric current of lightning. Fulgurites can go deep into the ground for several meters, although due to their fragility it is very difficult to dig them out completely.

In the 17th and 18th centuries in England there was a position of the royal opener of ocean bottles with letters. Everyone else who opened the bottles on their own was entitled to the death penalty.
The tiger not only has striped fur, but also striped skin underneath.
During the explosive development of dentistry in the 17th and 19th centuries, one of the most popular sources for artificial teeth was the teeth of those who fell on the battlefield. For the special quality of the material, the Waterloo Teeth brand went down in history, because many young soldiers with healthy teeth died in that battle.
The expressive look of Elizabeth Taylor was explained not only by her natural charm, but also by a rare genetic mutation - the actress had a double row of eyelashes.
In one of the first editions of Ozhegov's explanatory dictionary, it was decided not to include the names of city dwellers, so as not to increase its size once again. An exception was made only for the word "Leningrad", but not as a sign of special respect for the inhabitants of Leningrad. It was just necessary to separate the words "lazy" and "Leninist", which stood side by side, so as not to defame the image of young Leninists.
Artist Vladislav Koval, while studying in Moscow, sent letters to his relatives. At the same time, he did not stick stamps on envelopes, but drew, and all the letters arrived in this form. When the press ministry announced a competition for sketches of new stamps, student Koval brought a pack of envelopes to the organizers and became the winner.
It is generally accepted that Napoleon was very small in stature - 157 cm. This figure is obtained by converting 5 feet 2 inches into the metric system. However, at that time, the feet were not only English, in almost every country the feet were different. Translated from French feet, Napoleon's height is 169 cm and is the average for his era.
The Bengal ficus tree is distinguished by a special life form, which is called a banyan tree. On the large horizontal branches of an adult tree, aerial roots are formed, growing downward. Growing to the ground, they take root in it and become new trunks. Thus, the banyan tree can grow over an area of several hectares.

During childbirth, the giraffe falls to the ground from almost two meters in height.
Tyutelka is a diminutive of the dialectal tyutya ("hit, hit") the name of an exact hit with an ax in the same place during carpentry work. Today, the expression "tuft to tuft" is used to denote high accuracy.
There is a widespread legend that the idea of the periodic table of chemical elements came to Mendeleev in a dream. Once he was asked if this is so, to which the scientist replied: "I have been thinking about it for maybe twenty years, but you think: I was sitting and suddenly ... it was ready."
Ears are needed by humans and animals not only to hear. The inner ear also contains an organ that is responsible for the balance of the body.
In the 19th century, Stevens Island in New Zealand was home to a population of flightless birds - New Zealand wrens. In 1894, the cat of the lighthouse keeper on this island completely exterminated all representatives of this species. When the caretaker presented the carcasses to the scientists, they compiled the first scientific description of the species, and immediately declared it extinct.
Giordano Bruno was burned by the Catholic Church not for scientific (namely, support for the Copernican heliocentric theory), but for anti-Christian and anti-church views (for example, the statement that Christ performed imaginary miracles and was a magician).
During World War II, Oscar figurines were made of plaster.
John Rockefeller Jr. was the only son of the famous billionaire, surrounded by four sisters. The children were brought up in austerity and economy, and John wore the sisters' dresses until the age of eight. Later, he did not hide this fact, but, on the contrary, was proud of him, considering this approach an important component of the family's prosperity.
After the completion of the construction of the Winter Palace, the entire area was littered with construction waste. Emperor Peter III decided to get rid of him in an original way - he ordered to announce to the people that anyone who wants to can take anything from the square, and for free. After a few hours, all the rubbish was cleared away.

The expression "after a rain on Thursday" arose out of distrust of Perun, the Slavic god of thunder and lightning, whose day was Thursday. Prayers to him often did not reach the goal, so they began to say about the unrealizable that it would happen after the rain on Thursday.
For a long time, the value of coins was equivalent to the amount of metal they contained. In this regard, there was a problem - the scammers cut off 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 in the edges of the coin, because of which the chamfered edges would be immediately noticeable. This part on the coins is designed in this way to this day and is called the herd.
Whales, dolphins and other cetaceans are also called secondary aquatic: their ancestors, in the process of evolution, first came out of the water, and then returned there again.
In public libraries in medieval Europe, books were chained to shelves. Such chains were long enough to take a book off 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, which was due to the great value of each copy of the book.
Female large red kangaroos can mate at any time of the year and are usually constantly pregnant. However, they have the ability to delay the birth of a cub while another newborn is still growing in the bag and cannot leave it. Usually they resort to such freezing of embryo development under unfavorable external conditions, for example, drought. Also, females of this species of kangaroo can simultaneously produce milk of different fat content for cubs of different ages.
The myth of the hedgehog storing apples and mushrooms was invented by Pliny the Elder. According to him, the hedgehog knows how to "deliberately" cling to grapes, and in some cases, apples. In reality, the hedgehog is physically unable to roll on its back, while piercing the fruit.

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15. Dolphins eat toxic puffer fish on purpose to get high

Dolphins are sometimes more human than we can imagine. The filmmakers noticed a strange thing: the teenage dolphins carefully chewed the puffer fish and passed it to each other. Fugu is known for containing a lethal dose of neurotoxin in her body, but in small doses this substance is narcotic, and dolphins seem to know this very well.

14. Internet speed in NASA - 91 GB per second

And this means that with such a speed you could download all seasons of all your favorite TV series in 1 second. In the highest resolution. But, like all interesting facts, there are nuances here: such a speed is developed by the internal network that serves the scientific institutes of the United States. Since there are huge amounts of data moving in NASA, such a record speed was recorded there.

13. Japan changed its flag in 1999

Japan is an unusual country in every sense. Take at least such a concept as "national symbols" - it was hard to understand the Japanese population. Hinomaru (jap. "Solar circle") appeared as a mark of distinction of the ships of Japan, it also had to be used to communicate with other states. Only in 1999 did they decide to put an end to this issue, issued a law and slightly changed the design of the flag itself.

12.In 2012, J.K. Rowling dropped out of the Forbes list, spending $ 160 million on charity

For the richest woman in the UK, success came unexpectedly, but this is a great example of the fact that really good people do not spoil money: the writer actively helps single parents and supports a clinic that studies multiple sclerosis. Thanks to her impressive income, Rowling always has a spot on various lists, except for 2012. This year, the writer spent an estimated $ 160 million on charity.

11. Instead of a signature in Japan, they put a seal - hanko

To open a bank account or confirm the delivery of goods, the Japanese will need a hanko - a personal seal. In some cases, a handwritten autograph is now used, but hanko remains the main way to verify your identity during transactions or banking transactions.

10. After a lightning strike, drawings appear on the body

The lucky few survive after being struck by lightning. On the body of those who succeed, may appear, which scientists call "figures of Lichtenberg." In addition to the human body, they appear on any material that has interacted with high voltage. However, science still does not know the reason for the origin of drawings on the body of people who survived a lightning strike. Lichtenberg's figures are also poetically called "flowers of lightning".

9. The baby in the womb heals the mother's heart

Scientists have found that a baby's stem cells can regenerate a pregnant mother's heart. It is believed that this process appeared in the course of evolution. By helping the mother's heart, the offspring also increases their chances of survival.

It's amazing that nature is sometimes lazy and creates a landscape using "copy-paste". Lake Taal is proof that Mother Nature has a sense of humor.

7. Another amazing story about Steve Jobs

The life of Steve Jobs has already been overgrown with a huge number of legends. Not all of them are true. This story was shared by a former Apple employee and proves once again that Steve Jobs was a bloody genius.

When the prototype of the iPod was brought to him, he turned it around in his hands for a long time, but in the end he rejected it: it was too big. The engineers who worked on the prototype tried to prove that making the player even smaller was impossible. Jobs was silent for a few seconds. Then he walked over to the aquarium and threw the iPod in there. When the gadget hit the bottom, bubbles began to pop up.

“These are air bubbles,” Steve Jobs said. - If there is air, then there is extra space. Make it thinner. "

Our world is full of mysteries, but over time, all the secret becomes clear. The selection below contains interesting and surprising facts from around the world.

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In the second half of 1948, the Reserve Bank of India issued a preliminary version of the Pakistani rupee overprinted by the government of Pakistan (until July 1948, the Indian rupee was used as the currency in Pakistan).

In 2011, a woman named Amy Davison bought an "invisible" painting called Fresh Air for $ 10,000. For this, Amy was promised to name an entire wing of the museum in her honor.

In 2006, one of the passengers on the flight lit a match to disguise the bad smell, thereby provoking an emergency landing. According to the woman, she suffered from a disease, one of the symptoms of which was flatulence.

Saddam Hussein wrote Zabiba and the King, which was published anonymously in Iraq in 2000.

There is a restaurant in Taiwan that serves food in miniature toilets.

Prince Charles and Prince William always travel on separate planes, so that in the event of an accident, one of them survives.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos. This is done to ensure that casino customers spend more time in the institution.

Every day 20 banks become victims of robbery. The average amount of money stolen is INR 1,72,100.

Cockroaches appeared 120 million years before the beginning of the era of dinosaurs.

As a child, Adolf Hitler wanted to be a priest.

He also suffered from ailurophobia - a fear of cats. The same phobia was observed in Napoleon Bonaparte and Benito Mussolini.

Global warming has helped resolve the 30-year-old territorial conflict between India and Bangladesh. In 2010, the subject of the dispute, New Moor Island went under water due to rising sea levels.

Butterflies were originally called flutterflies.

The carrots were originally purple. Thanks to crossing at the end of the 16th century, a previously unseen orange carrot appeared in Europe.

On Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, millions of crabs come ashore to breed. There are 43.2 million crabs on the island.

About 35 km off the coast of the state of São Paulo, Brazil, there is a rocky island with an area of about 430,000 square meters. m. Its official name is Keimada Grande, but it is better known as the "Snake Island". The territory is inhabited by 4 thousand snakes, that is, from one to six venomous individuals per square kilometer. It is home to some of the most dangerous snake species, including the island botrops, whose venom causes tissue death.

According to statistics, women worldwide earn $ 18 trillion and spend $ 28 trillion.

Charles Darwin ate almost every animal he found.

Russia is territorially larger than Pluto. Pluto's surface area is 16.65 million square meters. km, and Russia - 17,098,242 sq. km.

However, the population of the Russian Federation is significantly smaller than that of Bangladesh.

At the age of 19, Isaac Newton threatened to burn his parents alive.

Two actors playing the role of Judas Iscariot in biblical performances accidentally hang themselves in a character's suicide scene.

There are 1.6 million ants for every person.

The weight of all ants will be almost comparable to the weight of all humans combined.

The largest family in the world lives in India. The head of the family, Ziona Chana, has 39 wives, 94 offspring, 14 daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren. An Indian lives with his family in a 4-storey 100-room house in the state of Mizoram.

Amazon owns the patent for one-click payments. Since 2000, Apple has been paying royalties to use the tool.

In the long history of mankind, there are many such events that did not fit into any notions, and therefore were remembered by people for a long time. Many people know the Guinness Book of Records, in which the most diverse human achievements are recorded, but it was impossible to collect the most incredible facts in the world.

1. About our planet

Every student knows that the highest peak in the world is Chomolungma or Everest. But there is a mountain on the planet much higher. This is the Hawaiian volcano Mauna Kea, which rises only 4205 meters above the sea level, but from its base on the ocean floor it perched 10203 meters.
Between Russian Chukotka and American Alaska are the Diomede Islands, which are also divided between these countries. They are located just 4 km from each other, and the date dividing line runs along the line separating them. Therefore, the time difference between them is 24 hours.
The purest water can be found in Finland, but the most dangerous - in Italian Sicily, where 2 sources of rather strong sulfuric acid are beating in a volcanic lake. But in Azerbaijan there is a source of "combustible water" - as soon as you bring a lighted match to it, the "water" flares up with a blue flame.
In fact, there are so many diamonds on the planet that each inhabitant would get a full cup of this form of carbon.

2. About the plant world

The cardiocrinum plant is so strange and rare that it is almost not described anywhere. It blooms once in a lifetime with large flowers, which take all the strength of the plant. As a result, the plant dies immediately.
Bamboo can grow 75 centimeters per day.
The tallest tree in the world today is the evergreen sequoia, which, like its relatives, has its own name Hyperion. For 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 in order to protect him from the crowds of tourists.

3. About people

In most cases, a person who finds himself in an unfamiliar environment will turn to the right. This property of the psyche is successfully used by marketers.
Crime reporter and journalist Vlado Taneschi from Macedonia was also a serial killer who often described his own crimes. But in the end, he got it wrong when he published information that until that moment could not be known to anyone except the killer.
Australian truck driver Bill Morgan is truly lucky, and not only because he suffered a 14-minute clinical death after a heart attack. Shortly thereafter, he won a large sum in the lottery. The TV people decided to shoot a story about him and asked him to erase the protective layer from the instant lottery ticket on camera. And what do you think - he won $ 250,000 again!
40% of people did not live to see their first birthday.
Australian Aboriginal culture is no younger than the 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

In civilized countries, laws apply equally to all citizens, regardless of their status. And the effect of these laws is spreading ...

American vineyard owners during the "Prohibition" period adapted to concentrate grape juice to a semi-solid state - the so-called "wine bars". They warned customers not to leave the resulting liquid in the cupboard for three weeks after adding water to them, 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 the start, he will be disqualified.
In Thailand, the most expensive coffee in the world is made, 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 a rare delicacy at $ 50.
When buying bottled water, you should not rely too much on it, because 40% of it comes from the tap.

5. About countries

In 1781, an entry appeared among the articles of the American Confederation that if Canada suddenly wants to become part of the United States, it will immediately be accepted.
The annual incarceration 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 cheaper?
Arabs write texts from right to left, but numbers in the opposite direction. Therefore, when reading abundant numerical data in Arabic texts, 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 a martyr's death - they are ready to mate for 14 hours without a break, completely giving up all their energy and dying of exhaustion. Biologists have called this behavior "suicidal mating."
Have you ever seen pigeon chicks? Probably 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, already fertilized new females are born.
Beavers have transparent eyelids, so they calmly swim underwater with their eyes closed.
Rats are known as very intelligent animals, moreover, they are the only animals besides humans that can laugh.

7. About astronauts

Hardly anyone dreams of being on a plane flying with failed engines, caught in a storm or a strong side wind. But all this and much more ...

In zero gravity, the spine of the astronauts straightens out, as a result of which, immediately after landing, they are several centimeters taller than themselves before takeoff.
A person stops snoring in weightlessness, since weightlessness relieves the load that presses down on his airways. We snore because in sleep the soft tissues of the throat and tongue sink inward, especially when lying on our back. During breathing, sunken parts of the body and emit unpleasant snoring. Astronauts can only be envied, at least during sleep!

8. About diseases

At the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, on the 21st anniversary, it was fashionable to remove all the teeth of the birthday man and insert artificial ones.
The inhabitants of the Kazakh village of Kalachi have a strange sleeping sickness - they periodically plunge into deep sleep, in which they stay for up to 6 days. Recently, this disease has been associated with the impact of abandoned uranium mines.
On 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 cough 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 use McDonald's round-the-clock and live in these public catering establishments, for which they have been nicknamed “McDonald's”.
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 in 13 days the entire population of the planet would turn into vampires.
The whole world became aware of the name of the most cruel Colombian drug lord in 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 freeze at night, Escobar, in order to warm his daughter, made a fire from banknotes. The night of such "heating" cost him more than 2 million dollars.

10. About sports

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Objects resembling primitive pins were found in an Egyptian tomb - does it mean that bowling was played in the land of the pharaohs 5200 years ago?
In 1958, Jay Foster, who was only 8 years old at the time, became the winner of the Jamaica Table Tennis Championship.
One Detroit newspaper was able to establish that 68% of professional ice hockey players have lost at least one tooth during their careers.
The 1920 Olympic Games in Sweden went down in history by giving the world the oldest Olympic champion ever, 72-year-old shooter Oscar Swan.