There are so many interesting things in the world!
1. The Goniurellia tridens fly found in the UAE has… two more flies on its wings. Thus, the fly is protected from predators, pretending to be a “fly flock”.

2. The 1934 $100,000 note is the largest banknote ever issued. It was not widely used and was used for various transactions between banks.


3. There are "antivitamins" - substances that suppress the activity of vitamins in the body. For example, thiaminase, found in fish, destroys the beneficial vitamin B1 (thiamine), which is necessary for the functioning of the cardiovascular and digestive systems.


4. Kiribati was recognized as the fattest country in the world a couple of years ago: it has only 100,000 inhabitants and about 82,000 of them are obese.


5. Dinosaur bones displayed in paleontological museums around the world are not actually bones. Strictly speaking, these are stones, since the bone tissue collapsed millions of years ago, leaving behind an organic sediment. Under influence chemical processes, this bone sediment has turned to stone in the form of bones over the years.


6. Once a year in Honduras comes the season of fish rains. Between May and July, a dark cloud appears in the sky, lightning flashes, thunder rumbles, and heavy rain pours for 2-3 hours. As soon as it stops, hundreds of live fish remain on the ground.


7. The "smell of leather" that comes from leather products is the smell of fragrances. Real leather does not smell.


8. Basenji or African barking dog is one of the oldest dog breeds. The uniqueness of the breed is that its representatives do not bark, but make special sounds peculiar only to the basenji, similar to rumbling, but they can only be heard when the dog is excited.


9. In 2003, Shelley Jackson invited everyone to become "pages" of her book. 2095 volunteers responded to the call, on whose bodies the words that make up the story were tattooed. The book "Skin" exists only in this form.

10. American entomologist Derek Morley described many unusual behaviors in ants. For example, he noted that when an ant wakes up, it stretches all six of its legs, as if stretching, and then opens its jaws, as if yawning.


11. About half a billion Chinese have never brushed their teeth. Instead of buying a toothbrush and a tube of toothpaste, the Chinese resort to twigs and green tea.


12. Fredrik J. Baur was so proud of his invention that he wanted to be buried in it. Baur passed away in May 2008 at the age of 89, and his children complied with this request - his ashes were divided between a pair of urns and ... packaging from under Pringles.

13. In the Middle Ages, farm animals were often subjected to human punishment. In 1470, for example, a rooster was burned in public for allegedly laying an egg.

14. Platinum used to be considered “wrong silver” and thrown into rivers or seas so as not to get underfoot. Only later, when jewelers from Spain discovered that platinum is perfectly alloyed with gold, they began to use it as a jewelry raw material.


15. The total tension of all strings of a tuned piano is 7 tons (7000 kg).


16. The Chinese mountain Jiankunzhu (“Southern Pillar of Heaven”), which became the prototype for some of the landscapes in the James Cameron film “Avatar”, was renamed by local authorities and has since been called “Hallelujah, Avatar!”.

17. It is difficult to say whether the American stuntman Evel Knievel was lucky or unlucky. During his life, he did many motorcycle stunts, but in doing so, he broke 37 different bones in his body and spent a total of three years of his life in hospitals. However, despite this, he managed to live up to 69 years!


18. The disciples of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato once asked him to give a definition of man, to which he replied: "Man is an animal on two legs, devoid of feathers." However, after Diogenes of Sinop brought a plucked rooster to the Academy and presented it as a "Platonic man", Plato had to add: "And with flat nails."

19. The fluid that flows from raw meat is not blood. It consists mainly of water, and the presence of the protein myoglobin gives it a reddish hue.


20. To stop the illegal cutting of trees in parks before Christmas, the authorities of some cities sprinkle the trees with fox urine. On the street, it freezes and is not felt at all. However, if such a sprinkled Christmas tree is brought home, it begins to spread an unbearable stench that cannot be got rid of.

This article presents an assortment of which you probably did not know about before.

However, there may be facts familiar to you. But, as you know, "repetition is the mother of learning." So happy reading!

In front of you are the most Interesting Facts about everything.

1. Every day, 12 newborns fall into the hands of other parents, through the fault of medical personnel.
2. 99% of the total mass solar system is in .
3. There are 32 muscles in the cat's ear, thanks to which the animal can move it in different directions.
4. Surprisingly, without a head, a cockroach can live for another 2 weeks!
5. In Taiwan, scientists have developed utensils made from wheat. Therefore, after eating the main course, you can safely eat a plate.
6. In order for a tanker loaded with oil to come to a complete stop, it must brake for 20 minutes.
7. With its half-meter tongue, a giraffe can clean its own ears.
8. A giraffe can live longer without water than a camel.
9. A person engaged in any business loses about 4 liters of fluid per day.
10. Interestingly, the weight of the smallest bird is less than a coin.
11. Jellyfish are 95% made up of. That is why they are so transparent.
12. And this is a very interesting fact. A jet plane has to use 4,000 liters of fuel to take off!
13. The record holder is Charles Osborne, who suffered from this disease for about 6 years.
14. An interesting fact is that the mole is able to dig a tunnel 9 m long in just one night.
15. A funny incident occurred in, in Indiana: the authorities arrested a monkey for smoking in a public place.
16. According to scientists, pigs can experience an orgasm for 30 minutes.
17. Women in Saudi Arabia are legally allowed to divorce their spouses if they refuse to give them.
18. An interesting fact is that only sharks can blink with two eyes.
19. Sharks are so sensitive to the presence in the water that they can detect one gram in 100,000 liters.
20. When a skunk senses a danger to his life, he can spread a stinky smell within a radius of 10 m. Perhaps this is the most unpleasant-smelling animal.
21. In 1845, a very interesting law was adopted. According to him, a person trying to commit suicide was waiting by hanging.
22. An interesting fact is that 25% of the area of ​​​​Los Angeles is occupied by vehicles.
23. slept on stone pillows. Interesting, but why?
24. It is believed that the average person laughs 15 times a day.
25. Iguanas can swim underwater for half an hour.
26. It's funny, but the eye of an ostrich is larger than its brain.
27. Among animals, only armadillos suffer from leprosy.
28. Armadillos always have only 4 children, and all of them are born of only one sex.
29. Did you know that babies are born without kneecaps? They are formed only 2 years after birth.
30. If the Barbie doll had a height of 175 cm, then its proportions would be as follows: 39-23-33 cm; despite the fact that the generally accepted ideal is the ratio of 90-60-90.
31. When bats fly out of caves, they always turn left.
32. In the tiny state of Nauru, the main export product is bird droppings.
33. Chewing gum contains rubber.
34. Camel milk does not turn sour or coagulate.
35. can make about 100 different sounds, not more than 10.
36. Every year, people buy food for dogs and cats for a total of 7 billion dollars. This is one of the most interesting facts.
37. Did you know that dolphins always sleep with one eye open?
38. In Paraguay, a duel is officially allowed, provided that both duelists are blood donors.
    
39. The most famous scientist of the 20th century could not speak clearly until the age of 9.
40. Before sitting down to compose his compositions, he dipped his head in ice water.
41. Giraffes do not have vocal cords.
42. Incredibly, hair grows before the eyes of the bees!
43. Under Bangladeshi law, a student can end up in jail for cheating on exams.
44. Half of Kentuckians who marry for the first time are teenagers.
45. Due to the lack of gravity, astronauts are physically unable to cry. The most interesting thing is that the need for this still periodically arises even in.
46. In you can buy wigs for dogs.
47. Once in Iceland, the law forbade citizens to keep dogs.
48. There was a time when people in Switzerland were forbidden to slam car doors.
49. In Kansas, people are not allowed to fish with their bare hands.
50. It has been scientifically proven that a person cannot sneeze with their eyes open. Although many probably continue to check this statement.
51. In its early days, Kotex made bandages, not personal care products.
52. The Great One is the creator of scissors.
53. Every second, 100 lightning bolts can be seen in the world. The most interesting thing is that they are not amenable to statistics, since their nature has not yet been studied.
    
54. In fact, banknotes are not made of paper, as many believe, but of cotton. That's why they don't spoil for so long. By the way, .
55. An interesting fact is that more people die while riding donkeys than in plane crashes. We have already talked about.
56. Of the two billion people, only one manages to live to be 116 years old.
57. Mosquitoes have teeth.
58. Scientists have long noticed that cows give much more milk when classical music is played to them.
59. Did you know that most of the dust in your home is dead skin cells?
60. Most lipsticks contain fish scales.
61. Few people know that 25% of all human bones are in his legs. We told all the most interesting about the human musculoskeletal system.
62. Only half of American citizens know that the sun is a star.
63. have the same size from birth. But the ears and nose grow until death.
64. Dynamite contains peanut extract.
65. Surprisingly, clumsy penguins can jump up to 2 m in height. By the way, read about and see the most terrible shots of this ritual.
66. If you give bananas to deer, they will eat them with pleasure.
67. Scientists managed to prove an interesting fact. It turns out that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
    
68. Sigmund Freud was terrified of ferns.
69. Slugs have four noses. That's really, probably, who knows how to "breathe deeply"!
70. Interestingly, a cat that falls from the 20th floor is more likely to survive than if it fell from the 10th.
71. The average person takes 7 minutes to fall asleep.
72. The author of the electric chair was a simple dentist. Still, there is something sadistic about them.
73. Among all mammals, only elephants cannot jump. Pay attention to - you will learn a lot of new things.
74. Green grasshoppers hear sounds through holes located on their hind legs.
75. Once an employee of one enterprise, passing by the radar, noticed that the chocolate in his pocket had melted. Thanks to this ridiculous accident, the microwave oven was invented.
76. Muhammad is the most common name on the planet.
77. The Greek hymn consists of 158 verses, but it is very difficult to find those who know them by heart ().
    
78. The penguin is the only bird that can swim but cannot fly.
79. The donkey's eyes are placed in such a way that all 4 legs are always in its field of vision.
80. Among insects, only the praying mantis can turn its head.
81. The first bomb dropped on Berlin during World War II only killed one elephant.
82. The expression in chess "Checkmate" in Persian means "the king is dead."
83. There are approximately the same number of chickens on the planet as people.
84. Tigers have striped not only fur, but also the skin itself.
85. To free yourself from the jaws of a crocodile, you should “simply” press your fingers on his eyes. The most interesting thing is that you are unlikely to remember this fact if you fall into the mouth of a crocodile.
86. Snakes have this strange pathology when they are born with two heads. But the most interesting thing is that both heads of the mutant snake behave not like one animal, but like two: they fight for food, snatching prey from each other.
87. All windmills spin counter-clockwise, and only in Ireland does the opposite happen.
88. A man's heart beats slower than a woman's.
89. There are about 300 bones in a baby's body, but as they grow older, only 206 remain (more on this).
    
90. The human heart makes about 100,000 beats a day.

Well, friends, this is where our list of the most interesting facts ends. Of course, they can be written much more, but it is unlikely that anyone will read these to the end.

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1. The Queen of Great Britain owns a sixth of the entire earth's land.

3. In Austria there is a village called Fucking. All road signs in it are made of cement. This is necessary so that the signs do not steal.

5. Until 2008, there was a ban on toasters in Havana.

6. The Queen of England is a relative of Vlad Kolovnik (aka Dracula).

7. Summer on the planet Neptune lasts 40 years in a row, however, the temperature at the same time reaches -200 ° C. By the way, Neptune is included in.

8. Wombats poop in cubes.

9. 8 out of 10 people, when they eat gummy figurines, first bite off the head of the figurine.

10. All hurricanes are divided into 5 categories, and the slowest category will overtake the cheetah.

11. If you weigh a newborn panda, it will weigh like a cup of tea.

12. If you open a dictionary Latin, then you will not find the translation of the word “interesting” there.

13. The Eskimos have refrigerators, but they need them so that the food does not freeze.

14. In Parliament Square, the statue of Winston Churchill is under electric shock. This is necessary so that the pigeons do not sit on the monument.

15. Red Bull is banned in Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Uruguay.

16. If acid from your stomach gets on your hand, it will burn a hole in your skin.

17. You can listen to the radio on the moon, but not on board a submarine. This is due to the fact that the radio wave propagates easily in air and with difficulty in water.

18. Brazil nuts contain so much radiation that if you carry them on nuclear power plant, there will be an alarm.

19. Vatican ATMs also work in Latin, and this.

From the history

20. The Spanish Inquisition had to give 30 days' notice of its arrival.

22. Winston Churchill was the worst student in the first grade.

23. In late XIX century, it was customary to give the 21st anniversary of the removal of teeth and their complete replacement with false ones. Victorian era.

24. The Times newspaper of 1894 predicted that by 1950 London would be immersed in horse dung.

25. Democracy in Ancient Greece lasted 185 years.

26. When Gillette launched their razors in 1903, they were only able to sell 168 pieces.

27. When the first supermarkets appeared in Britain, customers were afraid to take food from the shelves for fear of being scolded.

28. The tin can was invented in 1810, and the can opener in 1858. 48 years before the invention of the can opener, people used a chisel with a hammer.

29. The secret password that the President of the United States had to enter in order to launch a nuclear missile was 00000000. This password was valid from 1960 to 1977.

30. Neanderthals were so strong that even a Neanderthal girl was stronger than a modern strong man.

31. 99% of history man has been a hunter-gatherer.

33. The battery charge on the first mobile phones was enough for 20 minutes.

Some numbers

34. 40% of humanity has not lived on the planet for a year.

35. 10% of the photos were taken in the last year.

36. Half of NASA employees are dyslexic.

37. In the UK, 98% of houses are covered with carpets, and in Italy - only 2%.

38. One issue of The New York Times contains as much information as a person of the 18th century did not receive in his entire life.

39. There are 6900 languages ​​in the world, but 50% of the population uses only 20 of them.

40. There are 300 earthquakes in the UK a year, but only 11 people have been affected by them.

41. The mass of the Internet is equal to the mass of a large strawberry.

42. Television broadcasts 10 times more crime than actually happens.

43. The US population is only 5% of the entire globe, but 25% of prisoners worldwide are Americans.

44. 2/3 of people who are already 65 years old are still alive.

45. Contains 10,000 times more photos than the US Library of Congress.

46. ​​Police surveillance cameras will not be able to notice an object on the highway if it moves at a speed of 45 thousand km per hour.

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The world is beautiful and amazing, and it is also full of mysterious and interesting things that you might not even know about. Users of the popular site Reddit have collected a whole collection of funny and true facts that can really blow your mind.

Perhaps these 27 facts will make you look at the world in a completely different way.

1. There are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy - 3 trillion trees against "only" 100 billion stars.

2. The largest living organism on the planet is a giant mushroom, or rather its mycelium, which stretches underground for 4 km. It grows at the foot of the Blue Mountains in Oregon.

3. Miss Piggy from The Muppet Show and Master Yoda from Star Wars speak with the same voice - they were both voiced by actor and puppeteer Frank Oz.

4. During World War II, Wojtek, a Syrian brown bear, was drafted into the Polish army. He rose to the rank of corporal and often drank beer and smoked cigarettes.

5. In Japan, traditional manga comics use more pulp to print than toilet paper.

6. From the discovery of Pluto in 1930 to its removal from the list of planets in 2006, he did not even have time to complete a complete revolution around the Sun. The full daily cycle of Pluto lasts 248 Earth years.

7. Chinese broccoli, collard greens, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts and broccoli come from the same plant - cabbage (brassica oleracea), they are just different varieties of it.

8. The time when Cleopatra lived is closer to the time of the landing of the first man on the moon than to the time of the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

9. The mantis shrimp can rotate its claws so quickly that the water around them boils, and flashes of light appear around them.

10. There are no words in the Spanish national anthem.

11. Honey never spoils. It is perfectly safe to eat even if it is 3,000 years old.

12. The dead can get goosebumps.

13. A small part of the interference that we see on the TV screen when it does not receive a signal is the residual radiation from the time of the Big Bang. This is how we observe the consequences of the creation of the universe.

14. The official sport of the US state of Maryland is jousting.

15. When breathing through the nose, we always inhale more air from one nostril than the other, and every 15 minutes they change.

16. If you remove all the empty space between the atoms of the bodies of all people on Earth, the population of the planet will fit in an apple.

17. When the pyramids were being built, mammoths were still alive.

18. There are more combinations in chess than there are atoms in the known part of the Universe.

19. If you find a way to extract all the gold from the core of the Earth, it can cover the planet with a knee-high layer.

20. It would take 1.2 million mosquitoes to drink all the blood from an average person (assuming each one takes one bite).

21. Writing was invented by the Egyptians, Sumerians, Chinese and Mayans independently.

22. To determine the right mating time, the male giraffe butts the female in the bladder area until she empties it, and then tastes the urine.

23. The path from the solar core to the surface can take a photon up to 40 thousand years, while the rest of the distance to the Earth it takes only eight minutes.

24. Tardigrades, or "little water bears", as they are also called, are about 0.5 mm in size. At the same time, they can survive in almost any conditions - even in the vacuum of space.

25. Glass can be made from almost any fusible material. You just need to cool the molten mass before the molecules have time to rearrange back into the structure in which they were before melting.

26. The bird kakapo (owl parrot) emits a strong and pleasant musky scent, by which predators easily find it. That is why it is endangered.

27. In 1903, the Wright brothers made the first flight over the earth. 66 years later, in 1969, a man landed on the moon for the first time.