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If you're bored and have ten minutes to spare, why not read 100 of the most interesting and funniest facts from life on our planet.

1. If you want to burn more than 150 calories in an hour, bang your head against the wall.

2. Did you know that eating pies in the UK at Christmas is illegal.

3. Pteronophobia causes panic in people from being tickled by bird feathers.

4. Did you know that hippos sweat? And their sweat when they are upset is red.

5. A flying flock of crows is very dangerous to life; it is better to avoid meeting them.

6. On average, over the course of 5 years, a woman puts on so much lipstick on her lips that if they were put into one tube, its length would be equal to the woman’s height.

7. Cherophobia is an inexplicable fear of received pleasure (fun).

8. Have you heard that human saliva is three times higher than the boiling point of water?

9. If you lift a kangaroo's tail, it will not be able to jump.

10. Ed Handrick was the man who invented Frisbee (flying saucers), and was cremated after his death. Plates were made from his remains and given to relatives as a sign of his memory.

11. A person produces so much saliva throughout his life that it can fill an entire swimming pool.

12. An eagle can grab a young deer and even kill it.

13. A polar bear can eat as many as 86 penguins in one sitting.

14. King Henry VIII carried a giant ax with him at night.

15. Do you imagine that women's tampons and bikinis were invented by a man?

16. Doctors found that on Monday he large quantity people have heart attacks.

17. Beans, corn, bell peppers, cauliflower, cabbage and milk, these foods will turn your intestines upside down.

18. Hobo Spider, this is another species of spider recently discovered by scientists.

19. Penis fencing is a scientific term that refers to the beginning of a mating ritual between flatworms. It consists in the one who “pricks” the other one the most, he wins. The prize is that the winner becomes a queen.

20. A toaster uses almost half the energy that full-size ovens use.

21. The spider's child is called Spiderling.

22. A person cannot snore and dream at the same time.

23. A baby octopus is born the size of a flea.

24. A duck, a sheep and a rooster were the first passengers to take off in a hot air balloon.

25. In Uganda, 50% of the population are minors, their age reaches 15 years.

26. Arab women can file for divorce only because their husbands did not make them a cup of coffee.

27. Dog feces diluted in vinegar help relieve itching and swelling from an insect bite.

28. Catfish is the only animal that has an odd number of antennae.

29. Facebook, Skype and Twitter are prohibited in China.

30. 95% of people cannot say in person their opinion about any things.

31. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

32. In the town of Poole, England, the Pound of the World store went bankrupt, only because the store across the road called 99p. sold the same goods, but only 1 pence cheaper!

33. Approximately 8,000 Americans are injured by musical instruments every year.

34. Almost 3% of the ice in Antarctica consists of penguin urine.

35. When sea otters sleep, they hold on to each other so as not to move away during the current.

36. little child can swim through the veins of a blue whale.

38. The name of the Hewlett-Packard company was drawn by lot.

39. Total number of steps Eiffel Tower is 1665 steps.

40. The Pokémon Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan were the “children” of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.

41. Colgate toothpaste in Spanish translates to “go hang yourself!”

42. Pirates wear earrings because they believe it will improve their eyesight.

43. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula."

44. Dr. Kellogg introduced Kellogg's Corn Flakes in the hope that it would reduce masturbation.

45. The octopus's testicles are in his head!

46. ​​In England, in the 1880s, "Trousers" was considered a dirty word.

48. Each person spends about half an hour looking at one point.

49. If you leave everything until the last minute... it will only take a minute.

50. Ithyphallophobia means fear of erection.

51. The first alarm clock can only ring at 4 am.

52. Birds don't pee.

53. The word “ejaculation” is translated from Latin as “throw away”

55. A slug has 4 noses.

56. Potatoes, apples and onions all taste the same when you eat them with your nose closed.

57. George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

58. A company in Taiwan makes tableware from wheat, so you can eat your own plate for lunch!

59. The Bible is one of the most stolen books in stores.

60. Marco Hort set a world record for placing 264 straws in his mouth at once!

61. Mel Blanc, the man who voiced Bugs Bunny, suffered from an allergy to carrots.

62. In California, 6 drivers named Jesus Christ were given driving licenses.

63. Genesis 1:20-22 says the chicken came before the egg.

64. In the Caribbean, there are oysters that can climb trees.

65. Worms drink their urine.

66. More than 1,000 birds die every year from being smashed into windows.

67. The inventor of the waffle iron hates waffles.

68. George Bush was once an amateur.

69. In Japan, it is quite acceptable to call your child "Ass" or "Prostitute".

70. Every year, there are more than 40,000 toilet injuries in the United States.

71. Madonna suffers from gamophobia, this is the fear of entering into marriage.

72. People in China speak English more people than in the USA.

73. Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th!

74. The Kleenex company provided its fabrics for filters in gas masks.

75. In 1998, Sony sold more than 700,000 video cameras that filmed people through their clothes. These cameras had special lenses that were used infrared radiation, which made it possible to see through several layers of clothing.

76. When the monkeys finish fighting, they start masturbating.

77. In Japan, Ronald McDonald is called "Donald McDonald" because the pronunciation is easier for the Japanese, and in Singapore he is known as "Uncle McDonald".

78. American archer Matt Stutzman, who was born without arms, set a Guinness record and plans to compete at the Olympics.

79. Scientists in Germany have produced candies that do not cause tooth decay.

80. In 1964, Randy Gardner, who was 17 years old at the time, set a wakefulness record of 264 hours and 12 minutes. Afterwards he slept for 15 hours.

81. About 4 billion years ago there was oxygen on the planet Mars.

82. Astronauts in space cannot burp.

83. A fruit like avocado is poisonous to birds.

84. Any spacecraft must move at a speed of 7 km/s.

85. An elephant does not have a single bone in its trunk, but there are 4000 muscles.

86. A rodent's teeth never stop growing.

87. On average, a person spends 3 years of his life “reading a newspaper” on the toilet.

88. In 2006, a woman farted on a plane and tried to hide the smell, resulting in an emergency landing and an FBI investigation.

89. B Russian army During the march, the soldiers sing a song from the cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants instead of the anthem.

90. Most people who read the word “yawning” begin to yawn.

91. 99 hours is the record time for playing Monopoly.

92. Men who kiss their wives in the morning live 5 years longer than those who don’t.

93. Statistics prove that Australian women have sex on the first date.

94. More than 30% of Chinese adults live with their parents.

95. Harvard scientists believe that if you eat chocolate regularly, you can live longer.

97. When the ancient Romans took the oath, they placed their hands on their kokushki.

98. During the gold rush in 1849, only $100 was paid for a glass of water.

99. The can opener was invented 48 years after the invention of the can.

100. Close to 150 people die each year from coconuts.

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ABOUT COUNTRIES AND PEOPLES

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

ABOUT THE LITTLE BROTHERS

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

ABOUT THE GREATS

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

ABOUT PEOPLE

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

Well and Miscellaneous

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

There are many legends about outstanding scientists and inventors, emphasizing their eccentricity, the unusualness of their discoveries and the unexpected twists and turns of fate. Below in chronological order Here are 10 stories from the lives of outstanding scientists who, thanks to their discoveries and scientific achievements, gained worldwide fame.

The most interesting facts, legends, speculations and gossip

According to information recently “declassified” on the Christian Internet resource “Megaportal”, a British scientist, the founder of mathematical foundations natural philosophy Isaac Newton(Isaac Newton), being a deeply religious man, devoted most of his life to the rational interpretation of the Bible. In records dating back to 1700, he provided the transcript “ Revelations of John the Theologian", from which it is clear that the start date of the Apocalypse is 2060. Having studied Old Testament, the scientist reconstructed the exact dimensions of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem.

Around the same years, the German alchemist Hennig Brand(Hennig Brand), like most of his “colleagues,” was searching for philosopher's stone. He used human urine as his starting material. After numerous chemical experiments and physical influences in the form of evaporation, calcination and grinding, the scientist obtained a white powder that glows in the dark, which today is explained by its phosphorus content, the concentration of which was significantly increased during chemical transformations. Brand dubbed it “light-bearer” and, deciding that the powder belonged to the primary matter, tried to transform it into gold. After nothing came of this venture, the scientist began to trade in the powder itself, selling the luminous substance at a much higher price than the gold-containing substance. Associated with phosphorus at least interesting story which happened to a Soviet chemist, academician Semyon Isaakovich Volfkovich. While creating phosphate mineral fertilizers, the scientist in his laboratory was exposed to phosphorus fumes, which soaked his clothes, raincoat and hat. When he returned home on foot, exercising through the dark streets, a glow emanated from his robes, which gave rise to rumors among Muscovites about a “luminous monk” who had appeared.

Russian academician Mikhailo Vasilievich Lomonosov, who came from Pomor fishermen, was distinguished by fair health and physical strength. Already in adulthood, being in high scientific ranks, he, well drunk, walked along Vasilyevsky Island. He came across three sailors who, seeing a drunk man, decided to rob him. However, this attempt ended tragicomically - the first sailor was beaten until he lost consciousness, the second ran away, and the third learned man himself decided to rob. He took off the sailor’s ports, jacket and camisole, and then, tying all this equipment in a bundle, he took it to his home. After the death of Mikhail Lomonosov, all his lifetime notes, sketches and drawings mysteriously disappeared from the library of the former favorite of Catherine the Great, Grigory Orlov, where they were kept by imperial command.

Few people know that the English traveler, ornithologist and naturalist Charles Darwin(Charles Darwin) considered tasting them as one of the methods for studying birds. Having joined the London gourmet club, Darwin ate dishes prepared from the great marsh bittern, sparrowhawk and other inedible and inedible birds, as a result of which the ornithologist came to the conclusion that starvation was not a terrible thing for Robinson Crusoe. However, after the guests at the club were treated to a roast from an old owl, the scientist vomited for a long time, and he terminated his membership in the gourmet society. But Charles Darwin did not lose his passion for exotic dishes and described in great detail the taste sensations when eating dishes from rare animals that the ship’s cook prepared for him while sailing on the brig Beagle. He not only ate various prepared dishes of agouti, Galapagos tortoise and rhea ostrich, but also dared to taste roasted armadillo and the South American mountain lion - cougar. Summarizing his gourmet experience, Charles Darwin noted that diversity meat dishes, prepared from the most unusual animals and birds, awakened the instincts of a predator in him.

The world's first woman professor of mathematics Sofya Vasilievna Kovalevskaya dreamed of getting higher education, but the Bestuzhev courses that existed in Russia in those years did not provide such an opportunity, and to study abroad at European universities, the written permission of the father or husband was required. Her father, a lieutenant general of artillery, considered higher education “not a woman’s business” and was categorically against his daughter’s foreign voyage. Sofya Korvin-Krukovskaya was forced to enter into a fictitious marriage with a young geologist, founder of the school of evolutionary paleontology, Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky. My husband graciously gave permission to study. However, the fictitious nature of the marriage did not prevent the emergence and development of tender feelings, and the couple had a daughter, Sophia.

Receiving primary education, deeply religious Albert Einstein(Albert Einstein) became famous among teachers and classmates as a poor student who was not good at exact sciences. However, after entering the gymnasium, he rethought his views after reading Euclidean “Elements” and Kant’s “Critique” pure reason" Unfortunately, this did not help him obtain a certificate of completion of six classes of gymnasium and enter the Zurich Polytechnic School. Since then, Albert has disdained any cramming, believing that knowledge is rethought and consolidated in the brain with the help of some kind of “insight.” Apparently, these factors affected the attitude of the discoverer of the theory of relativity towards teaching activities. As the scientist himself recalls with humor, by the end of his first lecture there were only three people left in the audience.

Professor at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia) Thomas Parnell(Thomas Parnell) became widely known for staging the longest experiment in the history of physical chemistry. After repeated debates about whether bitumen is a liquid or solid, a professor in 1927 sealed a measured dose of coal tar pitch in a funnel. The first drop at room temperature fell after 8 years. The experiment continues to the present day - in 2000, the eighth drop formed and fell, after which Parnell’s experiment was entered into the Guinness Book of Records as the longest experiment in the history of physics, and the professor himself was posthumously awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in 2005. Contemporary scientists joked about T. Parnell that, following in the footsteps of Isaac Newton, studying the Bible, he determined the ambient temperature in hell, which is + 718°C.

Interesting facts from the life of physicists

Physicists became famous for the most interesting facts, statements and incidents in their lives.

After the discovery by a German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen(Wilhelm Röntgen) “X” rays, later named after the inventor, Germany was filled with rumors about their healing and power. At that time, V. Roentgen was teaching at the University of Vienna, and one day he received an order from the Austrian police prohibiting him “until further notice” from dealing with “X” rays. Later, the scientist received a request to send several rays by mail and instructions on how to enlighten chest. Referring to the cumbersome nature of the equipment, Roentgen came up with a counter-proposal - to send the chest for diagnostics of the lungs.

British physicist Ernest Rezerford(Ernest Rutherford) answered one of his envious people, who reproached the scientist that the latter is always on the crest of a physical wave - “...how could it be otherwise, if I raised this wave.”

Soviet physicist Lev Davidovich Landau was known among his contemporaries not so much for his theoretical calculations in the field of quantum physics, but for the “theory of happiness” he personally developed. He considered marriage a cooperative, very far from true, sublime love, in which everything should be common and accessible to outsiders. True, the physicist extended this accessibility not so much to his wives and lovers, but to himself. The main postulate of this theory was a “non-aggression pact”, which prohibited the jealousy of one of the spouses for the betrayal of the other.

These are 10 from the lives of outstanding scientists who became famous not only for their eccentricities, outrageousness and originality of thinking, but also made a huge contribution to the development of science.

1. Once upon a time, a famous physicist had a chance to become the president of Israel. However, he refused this position with the caveat that he would not be able to decide state affairs due to their significance and scale.

2. Perhaps, while dying, Albert Einstein finally put forward another brilliant theory or said something equally significant. Alas, we will never know about this, since he died in the presence of a nurse who did not understand a word of German.

3. The last wish of the founder of the Nobel Prize was a request not to be considered a promoter of violence due to the fact that he invented dynamite.

4. Queen Anne of England was the mother of 17 children and outlived them all.

5. Elizabeth the First introduced a tax for those men who wore a beard.

6. She also passed a law obliging everyone, except very rich people, to wear special hats on Sunday.

7. One can only guess what happened during feasts before Catherine the First issued a law stating that no man had the right to get drunk during a feast before 21.00.

8. For her wedding, among other things, Queen Victoria received a “piece” of cheese weighing half a ton and three meters in diameter.

9. Lady Astor is credited with saying the following to Prime Minister Winston Churchill: “If you were my husband, I would put poison in your coffee.” They say that a worthy answer was received to this: “If you were my wife, I would drink it.”

10. And the British Prime Minister himself smoked about 15 cigars a day.

11. The autograph of a famous Roman emperor is valued at $2 million. The problem is that no one has been able to find it yet.

12. The appearance of a laurel wreath on the head of Julius Caesar is associated with his attempt to hide the beginning of hair loss.

13. The loving Israeli king Solomon had about 700 wives and at least a hundred mistresses.

14. The sex icon's bra, which Marilyn wore in Some Like It Hot, fetched $14,000 at auction.

15. Famous writer Charles Dickens slept exclusively facing north. He firmly believed that this contributed to the improvement of his writing talent.

16. What would US President Thomas Jefferson think of his descendants if he learned that the house in which he wrote the Declaration of Independence is now... a diner?

17. George Washington can be proud that his birthday is the only birthday that is an official holiday in all states of America.

18. During World War I, the future Pope John XXIII served as a sergeant in the Italian army.

19. Isaac Newton was interested in occult and supernatural ideas.

20. John Rockefeller gave away more than $500 million to charitable causes during his lifetime.

21. Personally, I am filled with bewilderment at the fact that a two-time Nobel Prize winner could not become a member of the prestigious French Academy solely because she was a woman.

22. Mozart never went to school.

23. There was a payphone in the mansion of one of the richest people in the world.

24. First Chairman communist party China worked as an assistant librarian at Beijing University before taking power.

25. Three most famous names in China they amaze with their modesty and originality: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley.

26. John Glenn became the first American astronaut to reach Earth's orbit.

27. This professional illusionist claimed that his extraordinary abilities came to him from the distant planet Huva.

And finally

Man has lived on earth for so long that throughout the history of his existence, coincidences have become an integral part of the life of our species and they occur with enviable regularity. Most often, people take them for a divine plan, sometimes they simply don’t pay attention. One way or another, even scientists who are well versed in probability theory are surprised by the accidents that happen in our lives.

the site also admires some coincidences, for which you don’t want to look for explanations, so as not to spoil your impression of interesting facts.

1. The founders of Rome and the last emperor

Many people know that according to legend, Rome was founded by the brothers Romulus and Remus. Later, Romulus was recognized as the first ruler of Rome. Oddly enough, but at the end of the Roman Empire last emperor became a man named Romulus Augustulus (Flavius ​​Romulus Augustus), who reigned in 475-476 AD. Coincidentally, the story greatest empire in the history of mankind began and ended thanks to people named Romulus.

2. Girl from Petrovka

In 1974, when the film “The Girl from Petrovka” was being filmed, Anthony Hopkins, who played one of the main roles in this film, wanted to read the original book by George Feiffer in order to form his own idea of ​​​​the image of the hero. But it so happened that not a single bookstore had the book. Already in despair, Hopkins suddenly found a forgotten volume of the novel right on a bench in the subway. The actor couldn't believe his luck.

Later, when filming began, Hopkins met George Feiffer, and the writer complained in a conversation that he himself did not have a copy of his own book. All because he lent it to his friend, and he lost it somewhere in the subway.

3. Curse of the family?

In Bermuda in 1975, an incident occurred that still remains an example of an eerie coincidence for which no one dares to explain. A young guy named Erskine Lawrence Ebbin was riding along the road on his moped when he was unexpectedly hit and killed by a taxi. The accident itself would have been quite ordinary, if not for one “but”. About a year ago, in 1974, the guy’s brother died on the same road. Moreover, he was hit by the same moped, by the same taxi driver, and according to rumors, the same passenger was sitting in the taxi.

4. Edgar Allan Poe and time travel

Edgar Allan Poe is considered one of the most mysterious writers. Moreover, some facts associated with it really raise questions. For example, one of his books, entitled “The Tale of the Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym,” tells the story of four sailors who survived a shipwreck. The victims tried to survive at any cost, so they had to eat their cabin boy, whose name was Richard Parker. Moreover, Poe himself actively argued that he wrote the book based on real events.

The coincidence is that a full 46 years after the publication of the novel, a ship actually sank on the high seas, part of the crew of which escaped. To survive, the sailors had to eat their young comrade, whose name was Richard Parker.

5. The first and last victims

By complete coincidence, these graves are located nearby, at a distance of only a few meters. In one of them the first British soldier to die during the First World War is buried, and in the other the last. This was not planned.

6. Two presidents and many coincidences

As often happens, after the death of a celebrity, they begin to look for all sorts of coincidences with other historical events in her life. US history fans have found several interesting facts, which coincided in the biographies of two presidents: Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy.

For example, both presidents were shot in the back of the head on Friday, and both had their wives with them when they died. Also, each of the presidents had a friend whose name was Bill Graham. Each had four children. On purpose or not, Kennedy hired a secretary for his administration whose last name was Lincoln, while Abraham Lincoln had a secretary named John.

7. Incredible accident

Car accidents are not uncommon these days. However, at the end of the 19th century, when practically no one had cars, no one could even think about collisions. However, in 1895, a car accident occurred in America, which is due to one fact: at that time in the state of Ohio, in which the cars collided, there were only two cars, and they somehow managed to find each other.

8. The Curse of the Hoover Dam

The Hoover Dam in the USA is famous throughout the world. This ingenious construction has become one of the symbols of the fact that man can at least somehow cope with nature. But few people know an interesting fact about this dam.
People died during the construction of the dam, and one of the first was a man named George Tierney, who died during construction work on December 20, 1922. The public was shocked by the fact that the latest dead person Patrick Tierney, George's son, became the man at the Hoover Dam, and he also died on December 20.

9. The sinking of the Titanic was predicted in advance

Sometimes coincidences are so frightening that superstitious people get goosebumps. This is what happened with the sinking of the Titanic. The fact is that in 1898, the writer Morgan Robertson published a work called “Futility,” in which he described the death of a huge ship called the Titan. The coincidence would seem more random if not for other facts.

So, the writer described in detail the technical characteristics of his ship, and they surprisingly turned out to be similar to the characteristics of the Titanic. The developers of both ships considered their ships unsinkable. Both ships collided with an iceberg in the northern part Atlantic Ocean. And on both ships, passengers did not have enough lifeboats to escape. The Titanic sank 14 years after the novel was published.