Interesting facts about interesting things (10 photos). History of ordinary things
A new children's book from National Geographic reveals a lot interesting facts, which many of you probably didn’t know about. By the way, the book is called “5000 amazing facts (about everything) 2.” If you need to show off your intelligence in a company or start some kind of debate or conversation, these interesting facts can help you. Replenishing our stock of erudite.
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1. In 1889, Queen Margaret of Savoy of Italy ordered the first pizza delivery.
2. In Japan you can buy eel flavored ice cream.
3. In Portugal it is considered indecent to write in red ink.
4. Although rarely seen in the wild, the bobcat is the most common wild cat species in North America.
5. A cat's tail contains almost 10% of all the bones in its body.
6. A gecko's feet have millions of tiny fibers that stick to surfaces with the help of a special chemical bond, which allows these reptiles to climb walls and hang on just one finger.
7. The word "astronaut" comes from Greek words, which mean "star" and "sailor".
8. The calcium in our bones and the iron in our blood came from the ancient explosion of huge stars.
9. The Nile crocodile can hold its breath underwater for up to 2 hours while waiting for prey.
10. Jellyfish in English are called jellyfish - literally “jelly fish”, but in fact they are not fish, because they have no brain, no heart and no bones.
11. The Chinese giant salamander can grow up to 1.8 m in length, making it the largest salamander in the world.
12. According to studies, people prefer blue toothbrushes more than red ones.
13. Previously people They thought that if you kissed a donkey, your toothache would go away.
14. Scientists say that best time to take a nap is between 13:00 and 14:30, because that is when the drop in temperature in our body makes us sleepy.
15. Due to changes in the speed of the Earth's rotation over time, during the era of dinosaurs, a day consisted of only 23 hours.
16. Hummingbirds' wings can beat 200 times per second.
17. On the territory North America more than 1200 water parks.
18. A seahorse can move its eyes in the opposite direction - to find food in the water and notice predators in time.
19. To cook eggs on the sidewalk, the sidewalk needs to be heated to 70°C.
20. A group of jellyfish is not called a flock, a school, or a herd. It's called relish.
21. The mass of the Sun is 99.8% of the total mass solar system, and the diameter is 109 times greater than the diameter of the Earth - the Sun can accommodate 1 million planets Earth.
22. There is no ice on only 1% of Antarctica.
23. Most big wave, which has ever been sailed on a surfboard, was as tall as a 10-story building.
24. A team of beagle dogs, used at 21 airports in the United States, help customs officials find and prevent about 75,000 illegal items from entering the country a year.
25. Some apples can weigh almost as much as 2 liters of milk.
26. Corn is grown on all continents except Antarctica.
27. Unlike most fish, seahorses are covered with bony plates rather than scales.
28. Every day you lose from 50 to 100 hairs.
29. The second name of the armadillo - “armadillo” - means “armored baby” translated from Spanish.
30. The world's smallest fruit - the achene - is the size of a tiny ant.
31. New Jersey has the most shopping centers.
32. Komodo dragons can eat 2 kg of meat in less than a minute. Extra fat is stored in their tail.
33. Not all moons are dry and dusty like ours. For example, Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean beneath an icy crust.
34. Some Viking leaders were buried with their ships.
35. Clouds constantly cover about 60% of the Earth.
36. All monkeys laugh when you tickle them.
37. Spotted hyenas can digest skin and bones.
38. The length of the quill of African porcupines is 3 pencils.
In what ways did people make fire before the advent of matches? Rubbing each other wooden surfaces, knocked out a spark with silicon, tried to catch a sunbeam through a piece of glass. And when they managed to do this, they carefully maintained the burning coals in clay pots.
We bring to your attention new facts about famous things:
1. The voice of Lajos Kossuth was recorded on the very first gramophone record (1890).
2. First national flag USA and the first Levi's jeans were made from hemp.
3. Every third American family has the game Scrabble (similar to the game Scrabble).
4. CDs are read from the center to the edge, and written from the edge to the center.
5. Shoe sizes were invented in 1792 by shoemaker James Smith.
6. The American 25 cent coin has 119 serifs on the side.
7. There are 293 different combinations for exchanging the American dollar.
8. One good ballpoint pen can write approximately 50,000 words.
9. One of Napoleon's many drinking cups was made from the skull of the famous Italian adventurer Cagliostro.
10. In 1890, figurines of the sage Fukurimi were brought from Japan to Russia. Now we call such figures... nesting dolls.
11. The Ramses brand of condoms is named after Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II, who, by the way, had 160 (!) children.
12. There are exactly 1,783 diamonds on the British Imperial Crown, including the famous “Star of Africa” (weight - 309 carats).
13. John Kennedy's rocking chair was auctioned for $442,000.
14.V ancient China the best gift The coffin was considered the birthday of the parents.
15. Toilet paper was invented by New Yorker Joseph Gayetti in 1857.
16. The cost of the Rolls-Royce bumper statue is $5,000.
17. The weight of the largest diamond ever found on Earth (before processing) was 3106 carats.
18. The first ballpoint pens went on sale in 1945. Each cost $12.
19. The first coin issued in the United States was the silver dollar, introduced on October 15, 1794.
20. American John Winthrop first used a fork at the dinner table. This happened on June 25, 1630.
21. Total weight air in a glass of milk is approximately equal to the weight of one aspirin tablet.
22. In England, the capacity of the toilet cistern is 4 liters, and in France - 6 liters.
23. Lighter flint is actually made up of cerium, lanthanum, iron, magnesium and copper.
24. First greeting cards appeared in England for Christmas on December 9, 1842.
25. The corkscrew was invented by M.L. Brian in 1860.
26. More than 200 types of Barbie dolls are produced in the world.
27. Kid gloves are made from llama skin.
28. The violin consists of almost 70 wooden parts.
29. The smallest denomination coin ever minted in Russia is half a half - 1/8 kopeck.
30. Men's skirts are included in the dress uniform of not only the Scottish military, but also the Greek one.
31. In 1850, Levi Strauss sold the first jeans he produced for $6 in gold.
32. All American presidents except Gerald Ford and George Bush had their own piano.
33. The first product made of aluminum was a rattle made for the French Emperor Napoleon III in the 50s of the 19th century. In addition, Napoleon very often gave his most honored guests knives and forks made of pure aluminum. At that time, aluminum was so rare that its price exceeded the price of gold.
34. In 1880, Procter & Gamble launched new brand white soap. This soap immediately became popular among Americans due to the fact that it did not sink in water. The reason for this was initially a technological error in production - a foreign impurity got into the soap mixture.
35. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was recommended to make a condom like this: “Buy completely fresh veal intestines from the butcher, immediately thoroughly clean and wash them, disinfect them for safety, for which you keep them for a day in a solution of sublimate, and you can immediately use them.”
36. “Black velvet” is a procedure for checking the quality of sharpening razor blades. If you stack the blades, the surface formed by the cutting edges should be completely black when sharpened perfectly. The slightest defect is revealed by a bright dot.
37. The violin has only 4 strings.
38. In India playing cards round.
39. The bra appeared in the 1900s in the United States.
40. The diameter of Soviet cigarettes is 7.62 mm.
41. In ancient times in Rus', a sundress was exclusively men's clothing.
42. Half a million toothpicks can be made from one cubic meter of wood.
43. According to etiquette business card should measure 3 by 1.5 inches.
44. Musical instrument the bassoon is always made of maple.
45. The first car for a Barbie doll appeared in 1962. It was a coral-colored Austin from the Irwin Corporation.
46. In 1939-41. the largest German newspaper "Voelkischer Beobachter" was published under the motto... "Workers of all countries, unite!"
47. The first ties appeared in Croatia. Apparently this explains English name tie - cravat (Croatia - Croatia).
48. A tag from the body of Lee Harvey Oswald, a suspect in the assassination of President Kennedy, was auctioned for $6,600 in 1992.
49. A piano has 52 white keys and 36 black keys.
50. The coarsest plane is called a sastrugi.
51. The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
52. The diameter of the Soviet penny coin is 15 mm.
53. Each thread of a woman's stocking is woven from 100 microfibers. Moreover, one microfiber is 60 times thinner than a human hair. The length of the threads of one stocking reaches 5500 meters. It weighs only 6 grams and consists of 1500 loops.
54. In the Middle Ages, the best swords in the world were made in Toledo. They were distinguished by unsurpassed flexibility and strength. To demonstrate this, they were sold bent into a ring.
55. Some Chinese typewriters have up to 5700 characters. The width of the keyboard on them is about a meter and the fastest and most professional typists achieve a typing speed of only 11 words per minute.
56. An amount of $1,000,000 exchanged in $1 bills would weigh approximately 1 ton. If you put all the banknotes in a pile, its height would be approximately 100 meters.
57. In the cold hourglass go faster than in warm weather.
58. In Persia, chess was a mandatory wedding gift.
59. In the 17th century, Brandy was used in thermometers instead of mercury.
60. Thread N40 means that 40 meters of thread weigh one gram.
What is the most popular word in the world, can bees count and when did it snow in the Sahara Desert? Read about this and much more in this collection of unusual facts.
1. When you fly on an airplane, your hair grows 2 times faster.
2. Human DNA is 30% identical to lettuce DNA.
3. Sneeze with with open eyes impossible.
4. Global warming will deprive humanity of beer.
5. People with blue eyes more sensitive to pain than everyone else.
7. If you scream at a glass of water for 80 years, you can boil it.
8. A cockroach lives without a head for 9 days, after which it dies of hunger.
9. In Windows, you cannot create a folder called “Con”; this is the word Bill Gates was called as a child.
10. If Coca-Cola were not tinted, it would be green.
11. The film Titanic cost more than the Titanic itself.
33. Almost everyone who read this text tried to lick their elbow.
34. The nose grows throughout a person’s life.
35. In Russian and English languages there is no word for the back of the knee.
36. Tongue imprints are individual for all people.
37. More living organisms live on the body of one person than there are people on Earth.
38. One hair can support a weight of 3 kg.
39. If you add up all the numbers on a casino roulette wheel, you get magic number 666.
40. Coca-Cola Company for a long time I couldn’t find my name to sell in China. The fact is that the Chinese pronounce the name of this drink as “Kekukela”, which means “Bite the Wax Tadpole”. The company was forced to go through 40,000 spellings for its brand name before choosing “Coku Cola,” which means “Happiness in the Mouth.”
Heels were not invented for female legs, the umbrella was not used at all as protection from the rain, but the famous bubble wrap was invented for special purposes that hardly anyone would guess. There are many such things in our everyday life, and the initial application can be absolutely incredible. Especially when it comes to a regular pillow in the bedroom.
1. Shoes with heels
Hundreds of beauties will be disappointed, but heels were not invented for women's feet. In the 16th century, heeled shoes were made for Persian soldiers to help them stabilize while shooting archery while riding. Good new development in the next century, European women noticed and won the privilege of wearing heels. At first it was only ladies from upper strata society, but then fashion descended on everyone else.
2. Tea
Now we drink this delicious drink almost every day. But in ancient times, tea was available only to a few. It appeared in China, not as a drink, but as a medicine that gives strength and strengthens the immune system. Later, this wonderful remedy began to be used in Europe, where doctors gave tea to patients with gout. Some even claimed that they could save a dying person if he drank 50 cups in a day. This, of course, is too much, but now the benefits of tea in moderation are obvious to everyone.
3. Secret pocket on jeans
Almost any jeans have this strange addition. At first glance, it seems absolutely useless, but then we try to stuff coins, a lighter or other small objects into it. And then, completely disappointed in its convenience, we think that the manufacturers simply made fun of it by adding a completely unnecessary detail. But it's not that simple. It turns out that we just don't know, but this pocket was originally designed specifically for carrying small pocket watches. They fit there perfectly and can be taken out with ease. This is what it looks like:
4. Beer mug stand
A small detail that has long become a familiar attribute of a beer mug. This coaster is actually called a beer stand, which means “beer lid” in German. In the 19th century it was conceived for summer cafes, in which it is necessary to protect the foamy drink from various insects, dust and falling leaves. And only later did someone savvy decide to use a stand to protect the table from scratches and beer stains.
5. T-shirt
The US Navy used this item of clothing as underwear. It was worn under uniforms during the Spanish-American War. And on submarines, crew members wore T-shirts before going to bed instead of nightgowns. Their convenience captivated the military people so much that the clothes began to be used in everyday life. When the new thing reached civilians, it quickly gained popularity among millions.
6. Bubble wrap
Polyethylene bubble wrap provides excellent protection for fragile items during transportation. Previously, it was used for a completely different purpose. The creators of the film came up with it for gluing to walls in the form of wallpaper, which was very easy to clean. For the idea modern application we have marketer Frederick Bowers to thank. It was he who first used bubble wrap to package IBM computers.
7. Umbrella
Nowadays, an umbrella is an indispensable item for protection from rain. But before it was relevant in sunny weather. It’s not for nothing that it’s even in the title different languages There are hints about the true purpose of the umbrella: parasol means “from the sun”, and zondek is “canopy from the sun”. The use we are accustomed to appeared only in 1750.
8. Coca-Cola
The creator of the drink is considered to be a veteran Civil War in the USA and pharmacist John Pemberton. He invented it specifically to get rid of morphine addiction. Due to his wounds in the war, he suffered from pain, which he suppressed with morphine. The drink originally contained kola nuts, alcohol and coca leaves, the ingredient used to make cocaine. The pharmacist subsequently replaced the alcohol with a mixture of cane sugar and began selling Pemberton's French Coca Wine (the first name of the product) as a cure for morphine addiction. Later, he sold the rights to the drink and under the new name Coca-Cola, all the children of the world began to adore it.
9. Pillow
About nine thousand years ago, in the territory of modern Iraq, pillows were used to protect against insects. People who slept on the ground thus escaped from annoying bugs that tried to get into their noses, ears and even mouths. Only the pillow was not as comfortable and pleasant as it is now, because it was made of stone! This experience was also adopted by Japanese geishas, who slept on hard supports under their necks so that they could protect their voluminous hair while sleeping. And even in the Middle Ages, a pillow was not yet considered an item of everyday use. It was used only by monarchs and pregnant women as a symbol of effeminacy and capriciousness.
