Do you know what man. Short unusual facts: did you know

1. Many Russians think that Catherine II sold Alaska to the United States, but this is not so. The transition of the territory of Alaska was completed under Alexander II.
2. If a Hawaiian woman places a flower behind her left ear, then she is married. If for the right, then it is available for the courtship of men.
3. Not all people, as is commonly believed, kiss with eyes closed, about 60% of them. The rest like to watch the reaction of a partner.
4. The most ancient mountains are located on the territory of Russia and are called the Ural Mountains, which amaze with their picturesqueness.
5. The most unusual school is located in Cambodia, it is located in the middle of the river and is called Kompong Luong. It is noteworthy that children swim to it on basins.
6. On the territory of the DPRK there is the largest prison for political prisoners, more than 50 thousand people sit in camp No. 22 almost for life.
7. Light-eyed people are better at distinguishing colors than those with brown eyes. Everything is explained by the pigmentation of the iris, which in blue-eyed people is more sensitive to light.

1. In the Altai Territory in Russia, there is an amazing place where you can’t stay for more than 20 minutes. This is the famous "Valley of Death", whose volcanic fumes kill all life in just half an hour.
2. The most radioactive place in Russia is Lake Karachay. Fifteen minutes of being on the shore of the lake is enough to get exposure to 600 roentgens, which is considered deadly.
3. The most expensive potato in the world costs more than 500 euros per kilogram. It is called "La Bonnote" and is grown on the French island of Nurmuaitier in Atlantic Ocean. Connoisseurs of this potato declare its excellent taste.
4. Petite Jyoti Amge is considered the smallest girl in the world. Her height is only 62 centimeters, the baby lives in the Indian city of Nagpur.
5. The most expensive and valuable mushroom in the world is called the black truffle, the price of a large specimen can reach up to seven thousand euros. Not every simple layman can afford such a treat.
6. Most dirty city on the planet, this is the Russian Karabash. For almost a century of history of the work of the local copper smelter, the whole nature of Karabash has become more like Martian. In this place, acid rains fall, and the rivers have an unnatural color due to iron oxides.
7. The real pole of cold is the Russian city of Verkhoyansk. It was there that the lowest record low temperatures with a minus sign on the planet were recorded in those places where people live.
8. Demotex mites live in the eyelashes of most people on earth; under a microscope, these are real monsters!
9. Whatever date you have a birthday, twenty million people around the world celebrate it at the same time.
10. The longest reality show in the world is Dom-2. It has been going on for more than ten years, and it is obvious that the TV set will become the second "Santa Barbara".
11. When a man watches porn, he pays attention to the face of the actress. And women, on the contrary, consider the genitals.
12. People with blue eyes see better in the dark. It is believed that fewer and fewer blue-eyed children are born in the world every time.
13. In the west of China people drink salted tea. The tradition is deeply rooted in the past, and instead of sugar, salt is put in hot tea.
14. Russia is not only the largest country in the world in terms of territory, it is also the only state that is washed by 12 seas.
15. The most common name on the planet is Muhammad, and the last name is Lee. Among Russian surnames, the surname Kuznetsov is widespread.
16. A marabou stork during flights can fall asleep and soar in the air for ten minutes.
17. The cleaner fish is a hermaphrodite. The female can be reborn into a male and fertilize offspring.
18. The only animals in the world that have a rectangular elongated pupil are goats, sheep and octopuses.
19. All people with blue eyes are potential relatives, since the blue color is a mutation of the HERC 2 gene. People with this eye color appeared on the planet about 10 thousand years ago.
20. Substances in mosquito repellents do not repel insects, but mask a person. As a result, special receptors are blocked, and the mosquito simply does not “feel” its prey.
21. After forty years, people begin to grow down. A person decreases with age by about one centimeter. This happens due to the drying of cartilage tissue in the joints.
22. The most terrible and unusual road in the world is called "The Road to Nowhere". This is a fifteen-kilometer section of the highway in New Mexico, which ends in an absolute dead end. There are not very good rumors about this road among the locals.
23. Venus is the only planet in the solar system that rotates counterclockwise. Why is this happening? Scientists give this phenomenon a variety of explanations, but the most obvious is the dense atmosphere of the planet.
24. In the nineteenth century, Horace Fletcher proposed a diet called Fletcherism. The bottom line was to chew food at least 30 times and then spit it out. It was assumed that the stomach is saturated, and the person does not gain weight.
25. The most terrible slums in the world are located in Kenya, right in the capital of the state, Nairobi. More than twenty million people live in a world without electricity, water, sanitation, schools and hospitals.
26. The largest meteorite that fell to the ground is considered to be the Goba meteorite, which reaches almost three meters in length. Discovered heavenly body was in Namibia. It weighs over 60 tons and is 90 percent iron.
27. The ancient representatives of snakes had legs. Scientists assumed that more than 130 million years ago, snakes had limbs that allowed them to move quite quickly.
28. Hong Kong is recognized as the largest and most populous metropolis on the planet. More than thirty-five million people live in the city.
29. Why wear wedding rings on the ring finger? The tradition came from Ancient Greece, where it was believed that a “vein of love” passes through the ring finger, going straight to the heart.
30. Bob Marley's crypt contains his guitar, bible, soccer ball and marijuana.
31. The human femur inspired Eiffel's iconic Parisian tower.
32. Perfume was invented in the 16th century to remove stench from unwashed bodies. In Europe, people have not swum all their lives!
33. To keep fit, a person must take at least ten thousand steps a day.
34. Americans have the healthiest teeth, with approximately forty percent of US citizens never having caries problems.
35. Every three seconds, one child is born on earth, and every 5 seconds someone dies.
36. In a lifetime, an average person eats 30 tons of food, if you imagine it in volume, then the weight of all the food eaten in a lifetime is equal to the weight of 8 elephants.
37. Most billionaires do not live in United Arab Emirates, but in Moscow. But still, the most expensive city in the world is not Moscow, but Hong Kong.
38. The mythical creature of the mothman or mothman during the collapse of the bridge in Jersey in the late 60s saw about a hundred people at the same time.
39. American Charles Osborne hiccupped for 65 years non-stop. Nothing helped the poor man.
40. Russia and the United States are separated by only four kilometers. Don't believe? Find Chukotka on the map and measure the distance from Chukotka region to Alaska.
41. Bolivia has the most dangerous road in the world, its length is 70 kilometers. Drivers are driving along a narrow track without bumpers over an abyss of three thousand meters!
42. There are a lot of transvestites in Thailand. The authorities of the country have reached the point that in the cities of Thailand there are schools where young transvestites study, in ordinary schools there is a special toilet for such children.
43. We often hear off-screen laughter in soap operas, but few people know that the same 1950 recording has been dubbed over the years. Many of these people are no longer alive.
44. Napoleon Bonaparte has always been considered a short man. But during the 18-19 centuries, people did not differ in stature. Napoleon's height was 170 centimeters, and he was even considered at that time above average.
45. On the planet Uranus there is no such off-season as on Earth. There is always winter after summer. Winter or summer lasts exactly forty-two Earth years.
46. Pluto has long been considered one of the planets solar system. Discovered this unusual celestial object in 1930, and was named after 11 girls, Venetia Burney, from Old England.
47. There is an amazing underground city on our planet. It is located in Australia and is called Coober Pedy. Precious opals are mined there, and locals live in apartments hollowed out literally in caves.
48. According to statistics, a person kisses for about three years of his life. By the way, in some states, a French kiss is still considered extremely indecent and is equated with a kiss on the genitals.
49. The smallest dog breed is the Chihuahua. Usually these dogs do not reach a weight of more than two kilograms.
50. Up to 100 thousand bees live in one bee hive, the queen bee lays more than a thousand eggs a day and lives on average for two years. When the queen dies, the bees leave their hive.
51. Most of the photocopiers in the world break down after people try to "photocopy" their ass.
52. The most expensive houses sold are painted in yellow. Less buying activity in white houses.
53. The famous yo-yo toy used to be used in the Philippines as a weapon against enemies.
54. Bolivia is the only country in the world with Navy but no access to the sea and ocean.
55. Everest is not the best high mountain in the world, there is a higher peak. It is called Mauna Kea, its height is ten thousand meters and it is located in the Hawaiian Islands.
56. The largest car in the world is the Ford F 650. Such a colossus weighs as much as twelve tons!
57. Half an hour of listening to music on headphones increases the number of bacteria in the ear canal by 700 times!
58. The only animals that can laugh are ordinary rats. At the same time, all other animals in the world are deprived of this due to the lack of facial expressions.
59. Love is not a hindrance to marriage. The biggest age difference was recorded in Malaysia. The groom was 105 years old, and the young bride was only 22 years old.
60. Once Pablo Escobar was very cold, hiding from the police. To keep warm, he threw wads of money on the fire, as a result, two million US dollars flew into the fire.
61. Operators every minute mobile communications earn almost a million dollars on SMS.
62. In India, a man must marry his elder sister's daughter. According to Indian canons, this is not considered incest.
63. The ancient noble Egyptians kept crocodiles as pet cats, and even bought them jewelry made of gold and precious stones.
64. Most tall man on earth lives in Turkey. His name is Sultan Kosen, and his height reaches as much as two and a half meters. Such a giant can be seen from a mile away, and in Turkey Sultan is a local celebrity who is often invited to TV shows.
65. The deepest hole in the ocean is Dean's Blue Hole. According to scientists, its depth is more than two hundred meters. Divers and ordinary travelers adore this place. It is very picturesque.
66. North Korea is the most closed country in the world. She terrifies the common man with her strict rules. For example, there are loudspeakers on every street in Pyongyang, which at seven in the morning are broken by the howling of sirens, signaling that it is time for people to go to work.
67. Amancio Ortega is recognized as the richest person in Europe, he owns such companies as Pull and Bear, Bershka, Zara. At the same time, Amancio Ortega leads a rather secluded life and does not at all look like a rich man.
68. A child under the age of five can learn several foreign languages. Children in young age perfectly remember words and foreign expressions, and this knowledge is retained by a person almost to old age.
69. The most poisonous fish in the world, fugu, has the poison tetrotoxin, which kills an adult in almost a few minutes. The poison is found in the viscera, skin, gills, and eyes of the fugu.
70. AT ancient japan there was a cult of miniature female legs. Therefore, girls from wealthy families literally from birth had their feet tightly bandaged so that the bones practically did not grow. Such feet were compared with a lotus, and the smaller the foot, the more noble the bride.
71. Daltonism is a rather unpleasant phenomenon. Most color blind people live in Europe, namely in the Czech Republic. Scientists noted that there are no color blind people in Fiji and in a number of other island settlements.
72. Are you often annoyed by the fact that you did not have time to cross the road at a traffic light? Scientists have found that the average person living in the city spends three whole weeks in front of a traffic light.
73. The weight of our planet is not constant. The most amazing thing is that the earth annually adds about fifty tons in weight and dumps about a hundred tons. Scientists have not yet found an explanation for this phenomenon.
74. Have you ever wondered why the rabbit is the symbol of Playboy? The logo was created and designed by Aruthor Pohl back in 1953 as a fun sketch and a kind of comic caricature. It was thanks to this sketch that the layout of the first Playboy magazine was created in 1954.
75. Scientists have created seaweed that tastes like bacon and ham. They contain great amount the vitamins and minerals our body needs. The main purpose of the invention, the fight against hunger in several African countries. Algae are inexpensive and can have a wide variety of flavors.
76. The most environmentally friendly city is located in Switzerland. In the city of Zermatt, it is forbidden to travel by car, as they pollute the atmosphere. Horse-drawn vehicles, bicycles or electric vehicles are allowed.
77. The largest dinosaur found in Argentina. His height was 32 meters, and the giant weighed presumably 80 tons.
78. The largest dog in the world is a cute dog named Gibson. If Gibson stands on his hind legs, then his height is two meters!
79. Every three seconds, people claim to have seen a UFO, but it's usually just an optical illusion. Of course, there have been mass sightings of UFOs, but there has always been a rational explanation for unidentified objects in the sky.
80. A jellyfish that kills with one touch lives in Australia. Its venom is a hundred times more dangerous than that of a cobra. This baby weighs only a couple of grams!
81. The most big star in the visible universe it is Betelgeuse. It is located at a distance of more than six hundred million light years from our planet. If we compare it with the sun, then the sun is a poppy seed, and Betelgeuse is an orange. By the way, in the next 3 thousand years, the star will explode, and the glow from its explosion can be observed with the naked eye from the earth.
82. Robots are being developed not only for human needs in the field of science. Robotics is gradually entering everyday life. By 2070, scientists plan to invent robots that can replace people. Single people will have a chance to find their soul mate, robots will be able to express their feelings and even have sex.
83. The city that has the longest name in the world is Bangkok. The capital of Thailand sounds in Thai as "Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit". It is surprising that every Thai should know this pretentious name by heart.
84. A lightning strike can incinerate a person in just seconds. But the American Roy Cleveland is called the "lightning rod man" for a reason. In his entire life, he survived seven lightning strikes and survived. Roy is even listed in the Guinness Book of Records.
85. The deepest subway in the world is not located in New York, but in Russian city St. Petersburg. It's all about rocks, during the construction of the subway, tunnels had to be made at a depth of eighty meters.
86. The tallest Christmas tree was installed in Russia in 2013. The green beauty was placed on Poklonnaya Hill, and the height of the Christmas tree reached 50 meters in height. So far, the record for the tallest Christmas tree has not been broken.
87. Humanity litters on a huge scale. The largest and most impressive landfill is located in Pacific Ocean. Right in the middle of the ocean, there is a multi-kilometer dump of plastic, technical waste, fuel oil and oil.
88. In the Middle Ages there were quite strange rules beauty in women. To achieve a white face, the ladies used lead powder, freckles were removed with sulfur, and teeth were cleaned with arsenic paste.
89. American scientists have found that contemplation is considered the best relaxation in the world. aquarium fish. Especially for visitors in one of the New York parks, a 550 liter aquarium with multi-colored lighting was created.
90. Russia is considered the most big country in the world by territory. For quite a long time, Russia occupied the third place in the honorary list of empires. Square Russian state is over seventeen square million kilometers!
91. The crocodile is an amazing creature. The Nile crocodile, although it breathes with lungs, can hold its breath underwater for about two hours.
92. The most terrible disease that claimed the lives of almost half of the world's population is not the bubonic plague or the famous Spanish flu. This is malaria, which is caused by the malarial mosquito. In some parts of the world, malaria is still rampant.

Another and very interesting selection of amazing, strange and incredible but short facts from the rubric
"Did you know that..."

In Japan, there are more pets than children under the age of 15.
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Once, a laptop was stolen from the photographer Melanie Wilhide, in which all the works prepared for the exhibition were stored. To her great surprise, the police quickly found the computer, but by that time the thief had already managed to "work" on the hard drive. The photos were ruined, but Melanie liked them even better this way. She made an exhibition and dedicated it to the thief.

The wings of some insects have a structure that naturally “cuts” bacteria into pieces.
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Georgy Zhukov was the initiator of the creation in 1940 of colorless Coca-Cola. It was embarrassing for him to drink a foreign drink in public, and the marshal liked Coca-Cola very much. Therefore, a colorless Coca-Cola appeared, which could easily be passed off as vodka.
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One guy was arrested in California for driving with an expired license. And at the police station, law enforcement officers drew attention to the tattoos on the chest of the detainee - it turned out that they contained information about the "exploits" committed by his gang. Thanks to these tattoos, a robbery of a liquor store and a murder that the police no longer expected to solve were solved.

In men, a pregnancy test also sometimes gives a positive result. This may be a symptom of testicular cancer.

If necessary, a homemade flashlight can be made from an ordinary battery and a chewing gum wrapper:

An Englishwoman named Wendy Richmond falls into a coma every time she says "I love you" to her children. She suffers from a rare combination of cataplexy and narcolepsy.
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In Louisiana, if one person bites another with their teeth, it is considered a simple attack. And if with dentures, this is an aggravated assault.
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According to scientific research, parents who lick a dropped nipple before returning it to their baby are doing the right thing: these children are almost 60 percent less likely to develop eczema and 90 percent less likely to develop asthma over the next 18 months, compared to children who get pacifiers back washed under the tap or scalded with boiling water.
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The largest insect lived on Earth about 400 million years ago. It was a sea scorpion, reaching 2.5 meters in length.
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This picture was taken in an orphanage in Iraq. A little girl dreamed of a mother she had never seen. Tired of waiting, she drew her mother on the pavement and fell asleep on her chest.
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A list of short extraordinary facts that you did not know and did not guess. Read and surprise your friends with new discoveries!

Modern world is developing so rapidly that we are rarely surprised how scientific discoveries and the achievements of scientific and technological progress.

However, you will be surprised if you find out that, about which you had no idea, exist.

And there are enough of them.

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Short extraordinary facts about our world

Our world is full of mysteries that, God forbid, even our great-grandchildren will be able to solve.

And let a person imagine himself the crown of civilization, this world knows how to keep its secrets and does not get tired to amaze arrogant Homo sapiens.

Don't believe? I'm sure these short extraordinary facts will convince you otherwise.

1. Brewers beware!
   Global warming could rob you of your favorite drink.
2. Sahara - desert, heat and all that stuff?
   But no! It even snows here, it was more precisely February 18, 1979.
3. The planet Venus is a real rebel.
   She prefers to rotate counterclockwise.
4. Harmful clouds do not want to move in a southwesterly direction for some reason.
5. Nature can create two identical snowflakes, although it was long thought that this was impossible. Evidence is stored in the archive-refrigerator of the Smithsonian University (Washington, Columbia, USA).

Short extraordinary facts about a person

Of course, everyone studied anatomy and therefore at least approximately knows how a person works and what are the features of his body.

I thought so too, until I found out how many secrets are hidden behind the phenomena familiar to us.

"Fact is the most stubborn thing in the world."
Michael Bulgakov

1. Human DNA is almost the same as lettuce leaves.
   Well, at least 30% identical to them.
2. Staying at altitude speeds up hair growth.
   For example, when you fly in an airplane, your curls grow twice as fast.
3. Try sneezing with your eyes closed.
   What didn't work? For some reason, no one can do it.
4. Those with blue eyes are out of luck. All of them have a low pain threshold.
5. Human babies grow most intensively in spring.
6. Frightened people begin to see better.
7. Never chew ballpoint pens!
   Every year, 100 people die because of this.
8. Want to lick your elbow?
   But no! This is anatomically impossible.
9. The nose grows little by little throughout human life.
   Well, why not breasts, for example? 🙂
10. Most of those who have swallowed this text have tried to reach out with their tongues to their personal elbow.
    And you?
11. Unhappy back side of human knee.
    There is no name for it in many languages, including English and the one in which I write.
12. A person can be identified not only by fingerprints, but also by tongue.
13. But this fact really scared me: we have more diverse organisms than humans live on the entire planet.
14. Each of our hairs is a real strongman: it is able to hold a weight of about 3 thousand grams.
15. If one nostril of a person does not breathe for 72 hours, then he begins to lose the gift to distinguish colors.
    It is worth returning the ability to breathe to her and the color-distinctive function returns.

Short Extraordinary Facts About Animals and Plants

I don’t know about you, but I love to stare at extraordinary animals, admire the incredible beauty of landscapes, admire life force plants.

You can learn so many unusually interesting things about our smaller brothers.

1. We know that bees are an example of diligence.
   However, they are also incredibly smart.
   They can count to at least four.
2. It turns out that the joke “I need my head because I eat it” is not a joke at all.
   A cockroach can perfectly live without a head.
   He dies not from the loss of such an important organ, but from the fact that he is not able to eat. In other words, hunger.
3. Lemon contains more sugar than strawberries.
   And why is it so incredibly sour?
4. Sharks, never swim belly up or you'll end up in a coma!
5. All lazy people want to be, because these animals spend 70% of their lives in a dream.
6. The snail can hibernate for 3 years.

Weird but really unusual facts

Here I included discoveries that sometimes amaze with their stupidity, but that does not make them less interesting.

1. An experiment for patient idlers: if you shout at a glass of water, then in 80 years you will be able to boil it.
2. Bill Gates had a strange nickname as a child: Con, which he disliked so much that he made it impossible for all Windows users to create folders with that name.
3. The real color of Coca-Cola is green.
   It is specially darkened with a dye. What for?
4. The favorite day of the robbers is Tuesday, it is on this day that they most often misbehave.
5. The winner of the competition "The most popular word in the world" was "OK".
6. Publishers in England, print enough copies of the Guinness Book of Records already, librarians are tired of complaining that this book is most often stolen by readers.
7. Women with the name Maria in the city of Siena (Italy) are not allowed to engage in prostitution.
   Eh .. deprived the unfortunate girls! 🙂
8. In the Las Vegas casino you will not find a single watch, except perhaps in the hands of visitors.
9. No matter how big you take a paper sheet, over 7 times in half still do not fold it.
10. American Airlines saved $40,000 by putting one less olive in a salad for passengers flying first class.
11. If you collect all the pizza that Americans eat every year, then you can plant 18 hectares of land. What a harvest it would be!
12. The sum of all roulette numbers is the number of the devil: 666.

Extraordinary short facts about art

I think after studying them, you will never again say that art is boring.

1. Building the Titanic is incredibly expensive. But also over millions was spent on making a film about him.
2. Chupa Chups are incredibly cool candies. The logo for them was drawn by Salvador Dali himself.
3. Once, when the peak of Charlie Chaplin's popularity reached its peak, it was decided to hold a competition for his doubles.
   Chaplin decided to participate for the sake of laughter and ... took 3rd place.
4. A thirteen-year-old teenager won the "Make the Flag of Alaska" competition, and his project is still used today.
5. The Coca-Cola Company had to work hard to sell its products in China.
   The Chinese pronounce its name as "Kekukela" (bite a wax tadpole) and it is not surprising that few people wanted to buy such a strange drink. Top Artists different directions fought over the spelling of the name "Coca-Cola" in Chinese.
   40 thousand options were rejected.
   The name "Cocu Cola" won, which translates as "happiness in the mouth."

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Facts you may not have known. I read it and I'm surprised!

According to studies conducted in several countries of the world, in particular, in the USA, EU countries, the level of education and erudition of the population is steadily falling from year to year. The exception is Asian countries. Statistics compiled by pollsters at Beloit College show that a large proportion of young Americans struggle with capital letters. Recall that the ability to write is one of the manifestations fine motor skills, which, in turn, is associated with the development of the speech center of the brain. A similar degradation is observed in European teenagers: one in five of them has difficulty reading and writing!

As you know, only elephants, humans and Neanderthals have a burial ritual. The typical lifespan of an elephant is 60–80 years.
If the elephant is sick, then the members of the herd bring him food and support him when he stands. If the elephant is dead, then they will try to revive it with water and food for a while. When it becomes clear that the elephant is dead, the herd falls silent. Often they will dig a shallow grave and cover the dead elephant with mud and twigs, and after that they will stay near the grave for several days. If the elephant had a very close relationship with the deceased, then he may be depressed. A herd that happens upon an unknown, lonely, dead elephant will show a similar attitude. In addition, there were cases when elephants buried dead people in the same way that they found.

Ronald Reagan (former before his political career) popular actor) did not get a role in the Broadway production of The Worthiest, because the playwright decided that he would not be convincing enough as the President of the United States.

Waste disposal in Germany is so complicated that the city administration has to send out a magazine every year with detailed instructions.

German scientists recently published interesting data: over the past 50 years, Germans have become, on average, 400% richer, and the number of unhappy people suffering from depression has increased by 38%.

In 1972, a Spanish postman was sentenced to 384,912 years in prison for failing to deliver more than 40,000 letters. He was just too lazy to spread them.

The first athlete to die during modern Olympic Games, was the Portuguese marathon runner Francisco Lazar. Before the competition, he covered his entire body with wax to protect against sunburn. But the wax clogged the pores, preventing sweat from evaporating from the surface of the skin. This led to a violation of the fluid balance in the athlete's body and, as a result, to death.

Researchers working in Antarctica have a tradition of running naked out of the sauna into the cold, running to the ceremonial South Pole and back. This means a temperature difference from +90 to -70 degrees Celsius. Polar explorers have to run very fast so as not to freeze their dignity and lose the opportunity to continue the race. Not everyone succeeds.

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Frogs do not drink water, but absorb it through their skin.

The tongue of a giraffe is absolutely black, and its length can reach 50 cm. Giraffes clean their ears with their tongue.

The dragonfly lives 24 hours.

The elephant is the only animal that cannot jump.

The slug has four noses.

Los Angeles has more cars than people.

To make a kilogram of honey, a bee must fly around 2 million flowers.

Lightning kills 1000 people every year.

People with blue eyes are more sensitive to pain than everyone else.

Did you know that the print of a dog's nose is individual, like the papillary lines of a person? Simply put, a dog can be found by its nose print.

Mosquitoes are attracted to the smell of people who have recently eaten bananas.

Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.

A person is able to feel only four tastes: salty, bitter, sour sweet. All picturesque picture Taste draws only the sense of smell.

Did you know that goats have square pupils?

The heart of the human fetus begins to beat on the 18th day after conception and does not stop all his life.

Sloths spend most of their lives hanging upside down.

Did you know that there are rivers without water. They are found mainly in deserts and are called "wadis". Water in the channels appears only during the rains, the rest of the time they are dry depressions.

Did you know that the best pretender among mammals is the opossum? There is even an expression in English that translates as “playing a possum”, but is used in the meaning of “pretend”, “deceive”.

In 1998, miracle tights were invented - with three legs - the third leg was supposed to be used if one of those worn by the girl was torn

butterflies taste buds placed on legs

Do you know that Napoleon could have become a great Russian commander? In 1785 Bonaparte graduated from the Paris military school in the rank of lieutenant, and in 1788 he tried to enlist in the Russian army!

The only animal with a movable upper jaw is the crocodile. In other animals, the lower jaw is mobile. Crocodiles are the only animals on Earth that do not naturally have a language.

Did you know that gorillas sleep in nests? These large, muscular primates every evening (and even after a hearty dinner) build a new nest for themselves - on the ground or on the lower branches of trees.

The rarest spoken language on our planet is the Bikya language. It is spoken by only one 87-year-old woman from a village on the border between Cameroon and Nigeria. And she has no one to talk to.

Did Peter I invent an original way to fight drunkenness? Alcoholics were given ... a medal. Drinking medal. Its weight was about 7 kg, and this is without chains, because it was made of pure cast iron. The medal was “handed over” at the police station, and the design was attached to the neck so that the “awarded” could not remove it. It took a week to wear the insignia.

Babysitting services are used not only by people, but also, for example, by owls? As these same nannies, North American scoops use ... narrow-mouthed snakes.

There are so many interesting and unknown things in our life that we don’t even know about living next to the simplest things in our opinion.

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