Interesting scientific facts about everything. The most interesting historical facts about different things

ABOUT COUNTRIES AND PEOPLES

• 1. The flag of Alaska was created by a 13-year-old boy.
• 2. Military honor in no country is given with the left hand.
• 3. The international dialing code of Antarctica is 672.
• 4. Captain Cook was the first person whose foot set foot on all continents of the Earth, except Antarctica.
• 5. West African tribe mats plays football with a human skull.
• 6. In Australia, the fifty cent coin originally contained two dollars worth of silver.
• 7. Most often in English libraries they steal the Guinness Book of Records.
• 8. The National Orchestra of Monaco is bigger than its army.
• 9. In the Sahara Desert one day - February 18, 1979 - it snowed.
• 10. Canada is larger in area than China, and China is larger than the United States.
• 11. The only country where no births were registered in 1983 is the Vatican.
• 12. The Nile froze twice - in the 9th and 11th centuries.
• 13. In Siena, Italy, you cannot be a prostitute if your name is Maria.
• 14. In ancient Rome, a man taking an oath or taking an oath, put his hand on the scrotum.
• 15. Tickling was prohibited by law in some ancient countries of the East, as it was considered a sinful stimulating activity.
• 16. There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
• 17. In the language of the Eskimos for the name of snow, there are more than 20 words.
• 18. In Italy, there are more Barbie dolls than Canadians in Canada.
• 19. In France, the law prohibits the sale of dolls with a non-human face, for example, "aliens".
• 20. Canada has been declared the best country for life by the UN 4 times over the past 5 years.
• 21. In ancient Rome, if a patient died during an operation, the doctor's hands were cut off.
• ABOUT CULTURE
  
• 22. As shown by X-ray, under the known to us "Mona Lisa" there are three more of its original versions.
• 23. John Lennon's song “I’m a Walrus” was inspired by the sounds of a police siren.
• 24. The most frequently performed 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, Oscars were made of wood.
• 28. The original name of "Gone with the Wind" is "Be-be, black sheep."
• 29. In Cameroon's film "Titanic", the most frequently spoken word is "Rose."

ABOUT THE SMALLER BROTHERS

• 30. A cat that falls from the 12th floor is more likely to survive than a cat that falls from the 7th.
• 31. When the Europeans first saw the giraffe, they called it “camel-bird”, thinking it was a hybrid of a camel and a leopard.
• 32. The animal with the largest brain in relation to the body is an ant.
• 33. About 70 percent of living things on Earth are bacteria.
• 34. In their youth, Black Sea perches are mostly girls, but by the age of 5 they radically change their sex!
• 35. The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
• 36. The Tokyo Zoo closes for 2 months each year to give the animals a break from visitors.
• 37. Anteaters prefer to eat not ants, but termites.
• 38. When a giraffe gives birth, its cub 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 dogs.
• 41. Every year more people die from bee stings than from snake bites.
• 42. Sharks are immune to cancer.
• 43. Contraceptive pills work on gorillas.
• 44. Pig orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
• 45. A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
• 46. ​​The animal that can not drink the longest is the rat.
• 47. The only animals with leprosy other than humans are armadillos.
• 48. Hippos are born underwater.
• 49. Orangutans warn of aggression by belching loudly.
• 50. A mole can dig a 76-meter-long tunnel 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, tapeworms can eat up to 95 percent of their body weight - and nothing!
• 54. Crocodiles are responsible for over 1000 deaths on the banks of the Nile per year.
• 55. The ancient Egyptians taught baboons to serve them at the table.
• 56. The St. Bernards, famous climber rescuers, do not wear brandy flasks around their necks.
• 57. It takes 4 hours to boil a hard-boiled ostrich egg.
• 58. Inside the lion's pride, lionesses supply 9/10 prey to the “family”.
• 59. Sloths spend 75% of their lives sleeping.
• 60. Hummingbirds cannot walk.
• 61. A moth has no stomach.
• 62. The Europeans, having arrived in Australia, asked the aborigines: "What are these strange jumping animals here?" The natives answered: "Kangaroo" - which meant: "We do not 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. For vegetarians - on both sides of the head to see the enemy.
• 64. The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
• 65. 99% of living things that lived on Earth are extinct.
• 66. To make a kilogram of honey, a bee must fly around 2 million flowers.
• 67. The blood of the grasshopper is white, the blood of the lobster is blue.
• 68. The only animals that have sex for pleasure are humans and dolphins.
• 69. No new animal has been domesticated in the last 4000 years.
• 70. Penguins can jump more than one and a half meters in height.
• 71. The only domestic animal 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 in some African languages ​​"man from the jungle"
• 74. Emu in Portuguese means "ostrich".
• 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 GREAT

• 79. Rodin's The Thinker is 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. Eng. writer Virginia Woolf wrote most of her books while standing.
• 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 has decided to bring animals to life in cartoons.
• 85. Beethoven was once arrested for vagrancy.
• 86. Buzz Aldrin, one of the astronomers who visited the Moon, has the mother's maiden name Moon (Moon).
• 87. When Einstein died, his last words died with him: the nurse did not understand German.
• 88. Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath to hide the incipient bald spot.
• 89. D. Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
• 90. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his mom and wife: they were both deaf.
• 91. Saint Patrick, the patron saint of the Irish, was not Irish.
• 92. Leonardo da Vinci invented the alarm clock, which rubbed the sleeping feet.
• 93. Napoleon suffered from ailurophobia - a fear of cats.

ABOUT PEOPLE

• 94. The nose grows throughout a person's life.
• 95. Only one child in 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 the atoms of the human body, then what remains will be able to fall into the eye of a 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. Sperm is the smallest single cell in the body. The ovum is the largest.
• 100. If a real woman had the proportions of a Barbie doll, she would only be able to move on 4 limbs.
• 101. Blond beards grow faster than dark beards.
• 102. In Russian and English, there is no word for the name of the back of the knee.
• 103. In the 15th century, it was believed that the color red heals. The patients wore red and surrounded themselves with red things.
• 104. Imprints of language are individual for all people.
• 105. When you blush, your stomach turns red too.
• 106. The human body has enough body fat for 7 bars of soap.
• 107. 80% of the heat of the human body leaves the head.
• 108. A man has less muscles than a caterpillar.
• 109. At the time of death, Lenin's brain was a quarter of its normal size.
• 110. The world's highest IQ scores on standardized tests are held by two women.
• 111. Most people lose 50% of their sense of taste by the age of 60.
• 112. Household dust is 70% discarded skin.
• 113. A tooth is the only part of a person deprived of the ability to self-repair.
• 114. The brain is 80% water.
• 115. More living organisms live on the body of one person than people on Earth.
• 116. One hair can support 3 kg.
• 117. The average human head weighs 3.6 kg.
• 118. Throughout his life, a person produces so much saliva that it would be enough for 2 large pools.

Well, Miscellaneous

• Repellents don't repel mosquitoes - they hide you. The substances contained in repellents block the receptors that mosquitoes use to find their prey.
• Dentists recommend keeping your toothbrush at least two meters away from the toilet.
• No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
• Donkeys kill more people on the ground every year than in plane crashes.
• You burn more calories in your sleep than when you watch TV.
• The first item to be barcoded was Wrigley's gum.
• The Boeing 747 has a wingspan greater than the Wright brothers' first flight distance.
• 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 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 more money from Nike than all the workers in the company's factories in Malaysia.
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
• All US presidents have worn glasses. It was just that some did not like to be shown in public in them.
• Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.
• Pearls dissolve in vinegar.
• Among people who publish marriage ads, 35 percent are already married or married.
• The three most expensive brand names on earth are Marlboro, Coca-Cola and Budweiser, in that order.
• A cow can be forced to climb a ladder, but it cannot be forced to descend.
• Duck croaking does not echo, no one knows why.
• The reason why American fire departments have spiral staircases dates back to the days when pumps and other objects were lifted by horses. The horses huddled below, unable to figure out how to climb the straight flight 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 (William Jefferson Clinton).
• On average, 100 people die each year by choking on a ballpoint pen.
• 90 percent of New York taxi drivers are immigrants.
• The elephant is the only animal that cannot jump.
• One person in two million has a chance to live to be 116 years old.
• Women, on average, blink twice as often as men.
• Licking one's own elbow is anatomically impossible for a person.
• Indiana State University's main library building has a one-inch drawdown every year because the 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.
• Learning 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 is enough to warm up one cup of coffee.
• If you fart continuously for 6 years and 9 months, then the amount of gas that you release is 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 ahead.
• You will use up 150 calories if you bang your head against the wall for an hour.
• Murave can lift a weight 50 times more than his own, and pull a weight that is 30 times his own. And when the animals are poisoned with chemicals, he always falls on his right side.
• Tarakan is able to live 9 days without a head, after which he will die of hunger.
• A male praying mantis is incapable of scooping when it has a head. Therefore, sexual intercourse in praying mantises begins with the fact that the female rips off the male head.
• Some species of lions can be scooped up to 50 times a day.
• Butterflies will eat with their feet.
• Elephants are the only animals that are unable to jump.
• Cat urine glows under ultraviolet light.
• The stray's eye is larger than his brain.
• The sea star has no brain.
• All polar bears are left-handed.
• Humans and dolphins are the only animal species that have sex for fun.
• Cockroaches have existed on Earth for 250 million years and have not undergone any evolutionary changes since then.
• Crocodiles have never lived in the Australian Alligator River.
• Drinking glasses began to clink glasses in ancient times. It was believed that in this way they drive away evil spirits.
• Thanks to gravity, a person weighs a little less when the moon is at its zenith.
• Polar bears have black skin.
• "Spain" in translation means "land of rabbits".
• For acorns to grow on an oak, it must be at least 50 years old.
• Pacific Tiwi girls are married off at birth.
• In the 70s, the question of a tax on sex was seriously discussed in the United States. The tax was supposed to be $ 2.
• Bees have five eyes.
• Peanuts are used in dynamite production.
• 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.
• The beard consists of 7-15 thousand hairs. And it grows at a rate of 14 centimeters per year.
• The ant has the largest brain of all living things. 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 hardly write a single word competently.
• On Mondays, there are 25% more back injuries and 33% more heart attacks.
• Every day, an average of 33 new products appear around the world. 13 of them are toys.
• The average person spends two weeks in their entire life waiting for the signal to change.
• A person gets used to tea faster than heroin.
• Toilet paper was invented in 1857.
• Every day, Americans throw away 20,000 televisions, 150,000 tons of packaging materials and 43,000 tons of food in the trash.
• Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day is like drinking a coffee cup of nicotine every year.
• The ancient Egyptians used eye shadow to ward off conjunctivitis and trachoma.
• The body of a sleeping person is half a centimeter longer than that of a waking one.
• 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's brain was larger than yours and mine.
• Some public toilets in Singapore are equipped with karaoke video consoles.
• The yaks have pink milk.
• The shortest river in the world is the Saginau in the US state of Michigan.
• The average ATM makes a $ 250 mistake in a year - and not in their favor.
• Christopher Columbus was blond.
• The penguin can jump three meters in height.
• If 111.111.111 is multiplied by 111.111.111, you get 12345678987654321.
• In 1863, Jules Verne wrote Paris in the 20th Century, detailing the automobile, the fax machine and the electric chair. The publisher returned the manuscript to him, calling him an idiot.
• Gasoline accounts for the largest turnover in the world. In second place is coffee.
• In South Korea, marriage between namesakes is prohibited.
• The English nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" is dedicated to King Richard III, who actually fell from the wall during the battle of 1485.
• Human ribs perform 5 million movements per year.
• The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
• Michael Jordan receives more money from Nike every year than all of the workers in its factories in Malaysia combined.
• In the world, only 1 theft out of 7 is revealed.
• The 3 smartest dog breeds are the Border Collie, Poodle and German Shepherd, the dumbest are the Afghan Hound, Bulldog and Chow Chow.
• Some types of toothpaste contain antifreeze.
• Most of all Coca-Cola is drunk by Icelanders, least of all - by Scots, preferring to it "airn-bru".
• If you put a person on soap, 7 pieces will turn out from him.
• No other language in the world has a word for the back of the knee.
• Only 55% of Americans know that the Sun is a star.
• When a gorilla is angry, she sticks out her tongue.
• The largest number of Rolls-Royces per capita is in Hong Kong.
• Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors.
• The area of ​​a person's alveoli is equal to a tennis court.
• Over the past 4 thousand years, man has not tamed a single new species of animals.
• The Speaker of the English House of Lords is prohibited from speaking during sessions.
• A bee has two stomachs - one for honey and the other for food.
• Every minute there are 2 earthquakes in the world.
• It takes a normal person an average of 7 minutes to fall asleep.
• The word "doctor" comes from the word "lie". In Russia, healers often treated with conspiracies, spells. Mumbling, chatter up to the beginning of the 19th century was called a lie.
• There are about 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
• Most lipsticks contain fish scales. And every woman eats, on average, about 4 kilograms of this cosmetic product in her life.
• Watching color TV is less harmful than black and white: bright colors stimulate the color-receiving 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 60560 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) has the Republic of San Marino.
• Drinking vodka (and other spirits ...) is much more harmful than having a snack.
• Las Vegas is visible from space as the brightest place on Earth.
• Astronaut Neil Armstrong made his famous "small step of one person - and a huge step of all mankind" to the moon with his left foot.
• Cholera bacilli die in beer in a few hours and the disease does not develop. The discoverer of the causative agents of cholera, 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.
• More than 150 million hot dogs are eaten annually on July 4 in the United States.
• About 100 lightning strikes on Earth every second.
• The human eye is capable of distinguishing 130-250 pure color tones and 5-10 million mixed shades.
• The owl can turn its head 270 degrees.
• Tooth enamel is the hardest tissue produced by the human body.
• Full 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.
• There are twice as many kangaroos living in Australia as there are people.
• The surface pattern of a cat's nose is as unique as a human fingerprint.
• A man swallows an average of 21 milliliters of liquid in one gulp, while 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 a speed of one star per second - it would take the "astrologer" about 3000 years.
• If you scream for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will produce enough acoustic energy to boil a glass of water.
• An ant poisoned with chemicals always falls on its right side.
• The polar bear is left-handed.
• The crocodile cannot stick out his tongue.
• The word "mouse" comes from the ancient Sanskrit word "mus", that is, "thief".
• If someone annoys you and you twist your face, 42 muscles are involved.
• You only need to use 4 muscles to hit someone on the head.
• When you bang your head against the wall, you burn 150 calories per hour.
• A flea can jump 350 times its body length. It is like a person jumping over a football field.
• Catfish have over 27,000 taste buds.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue!
• In one of the issues of "Moscow Provincial Gazette" for 1848, you can read the following: "Bourgeois Nikifor Nikitin for seditious speech about the flight to the moon, exile to the remote settlement of Baikonur"
• In ancient Greece, women counted their age not from the date of birth, but from the day of marriage. By this they showed that only marriage life has meaning for them.
• Over the past 200 years, 150 species of the animal world have become extinct. The next 600 species of the animal world are on the verge of extinction.
• To fill a half-liter suck with honey, bees are forced to collect nectar from nearly 2,000,000 flowers.
• Boiling water extinguishes fire faster than cold water, since it immediately takes away the heat of vaporization from the flame and surrounds the fire with a layer of steam, which impedes the access of air.
• Today, a person weighs on average 5 kg more than in 1960.
• The Russian word "bath" goes back to the Latin "valneum" (bathing, ablution), which has another meaning - "expulsion of sadness".
• The Kwaktul 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 beckon him with a movement of his hand or inarticulate cries.
• In the movie Pulp Fiction, the word "fuck" is used 257 times (plus or minus a couple for a gagged Marcellus).
• Tickling was prohibited by law in some ancient countries of the East, as it was considered a sinful arousal.
• 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 an inhuman face, for example, "aliens".
• Canada has been declared the best country for life 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 over France for a total of 15 minutes.
• Nebraska has more cows than people.
• In the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" by S. Kubrick, the astronauts used the enraged supercomputer HAL, if in the word H-A-L we change each letter to the next alphabetically, we get I-B-M.
• Bulls do not distinguish between colors, red is used for brightness, beauty and blood is less noticeable on it.
• Web is stronger than steel
• The most durable of all that nature has created are shark teeth.
• A shark has about 1000 constantly changing teeth.
• The largest shark ever lived in the mouth could fit a full-length human. (something struck me on sharks)
• Cats sometimes lay out killed mice in a strict semicircle with their tails outward / inward, and put another one in the center.
• at dusk, red appears redder.
• Some people are able to live long in icy water.
• Unconscious in water, a person does not breathe.
• A person falls asleep from lack of air.
• A person is immune to mad cow disease, which means that even Europeans, no matter how they boast of good decency, hunted cannibalism.
• Herbivores do not spread rabies.
• Red cockroaches are not Russians (Prussians).
• Animals have dreams.
• Wasps kill more people than cars kill (old fact, could have changed)
• The plastic is almost non-degradable.
• The spider is the only insect with eight legs.
• The horse spider has intelligence comparable to that of a small rodent, due to the "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.
• octopus has 10 legs
• the goat and octopus have rectangular pupils.
• From the bite of vampire mice, more blood flows out than she drinks.
• A vampire is anatomically uncomfortable to drink blood with fangs - they are designed to hold the victim, and for that they have hands. To drink blood, they need sharp incisors, not fangs (like bats)
• there is only one kind of crocodile that can run on land.
• Crocodiles cannot chew.
• The yew grows out of itself.

In this collection of interesting and incredible facts, we have collected for you the most interesting, unexpected, informative and funny facts from around the world.

Morocco- the only country in the world where goats, due to a lack of grass, climb trees to graze there in whole herds, feasting on the fruits of argan, a tree from whose nuts a fragrant place is made.

We can change jobs, spouses, or religions, but until we change internally, we will attract the same people and the same circumstances.

April 11, 1909. About a hundred people cast lots to equally divide 12 acres of purchased sand dunes. Then it will become Tel Aviv.

This photo shows a rally of Hitler's supporters in 1937.

Meeting of Hitler's supporters - 1937

Not a single meeting in the history of mankind has gathered such a number of people. After 8 years (in the 45th) they will say that they never supported Hitler's ideas.

Saint Petersburg
The only European capital that has never been captured by the enemy, at any period of history.

For the cartoon "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" Walt Disney in 1937 was awarded a special prize "Oscar"- one large figurine and seven small ones.

In 1975, Academician Sakharov received the Nobel Peace Prize.
That is, the person who invented the hydrogen bomb received the peace prize named after the person who invented the dynamite ... Peace to the world.

The executioner bird pricks the mice on the thorns of the bush, thus making supplies for a rainy day.

The English Mastiff is the largest living dog on earth. Vintage english breed of mastiff-like dogs, the largest Great Dane in Europe and the largest of mastiffs.

The world's smallest private library is owned by Hungarian Jozsef Tari and contains more than 4,500 copies.

If a person under the influence of hypnosis is informed that cigarettes will touch his hand, the brain will send impulses and burn marks will appear on the hand on its own.

Helicopter flights are prohibited over Antarctica, as penguins, who have short necks, try to look at them and fall off their feet like dominoes.

A box with the blood of poets, 1965-1968.
In 1965, Eleanor Antin (conceptual artist) began collecting blood samples and in 3 years she collected samples from 100 poets.
She was inspired to do this by Jean Cocteau with his 1935 film “The Blood of a Poet”.
Among the poets who donated their blood were such personalities as Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jerome Rothenberg and others. Now this box is in the Tate Gallery (American foundation). Hence the question. For what?

Monument to a woman's handbag, Italy
The sculpture was first presented in Italy at the exhibition “Thoughts. Space. Dialogue between nature and imagination ”, Piedmont in the province of Cuneo, in 2013. A woman's handbag is a very important wardrobe item. Psychologists say that the character, hobbies and much more about its owner can be determined by the purse.

Keeper of the royal chair
This was the most coveted and honorable position at the court of monarchs. The duties of this courtier included nothing more than wiping the royal buttocks after fulfilling their natural needs. Oddly enough, but the keepers had tremendous power at court, and the expression "licking the ass" came to mean: "career advancement."

Until the twentieth century, at the British court, such a position as “Groom of the King’s Close Stool” was highly valued. He was a courtier responsible for helping the monarch to fulfill his natural needs. Considering the fact that the body of the king was considered almost sacred, only representatives of noble blood could touch it. It is worth noting that the Lords and Earls were very willing to become the Keepers of the Royal Chair, despite the fact that they literally had to wipe the king's ass.

Under King George III, his courtier John Stuart, Earl of Bute, performed his duties in the dressing room so well that he rose to the rank of Prime Minister of England.

It turns out that it took the engineer 22 years of work to develop the modern zipper.

In Norway, in December, the income tax is reduced by half, This is done so that people can buy more gifts for the New Year.

The largest catch ever made in the world. We caught this fish in Kazan in 1921.

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In the history of mankind, there are facts and cases that remain in the memory of people for a long time and do not fit into the framework we are used to. The most interesting and unusual achievements are collected in one book - the Guinness Book of Records. But even she is unable to accommodate the most incredible facts in the world that you can hear about.

Bird girl

Scientists cannot answer the question of why people with completely unusual anomalies are periodically born in the world. Few of these people become famous precisely because of their unforgettable appearance. But the girl, who was born in 1880 in Georgia, became not only famous all over the world, but even starred in a movie.

Minnie Woolsey (that was the girl's name) was born with Seckel syndrome. This rare condition involves dwarfism, developmental delay, and a small head with a bird's beak-like nose. As a result of her illness, Minnie was still bald, and it seemed that nothing good awaited the girl ahead. But thanks to one showman who had the so-called "freak circus", Minnie was saved and even became famous.

But the turning point in the life of the bird-girl was the shooting in the film "Freaks" in 1932. Dressed in a bird costume, Minnie became the highlight of the film, and the nickname "Koo Koo" was forever stuck to her. According to some reports, Minnie, up to 72 years old, participated in an exhibition of anomalous people.

The oldest car parking lot in the world

Among car enthusiasts, there are hardly any people who feel positive emotions about the parking lot. But many would like to see such a parking lot. She is in Naples. The king of both Sicilies, Ferdinand of Bourbon, wanted to build a tunnel at a depth of 45 meters. This happened in 1853. The monarch was worried about his safety, since there were strong revolutionary sentiments in Naples at that time. But he died a natural death, and the tunnel was left unfinished.

Many cars and motorcycles of pre-war production are buried right under the central part of Naples. After World War II, the tunnel was sealed for almost 60 years.

Betty Butler - age is not a hindrance to extreme

Each person has a secret dream that he carries through his whole life. But many still lack the courage to bring it to life. The same cannot be said about the 95-year-old resident of the American state of Indiana. It turns out that the woman dreamed of jumping with a parachute all her life, but somehow it didn’t work out. Caring children and grandchildren decided to give Betty a present for her 95th birthday. And the brave pensioner did not refuse and nevertheless fulfilled her wish, despite such an advanced age.

Indonesian traditions

There is a very unusual tradition on the island of Sulawesi since 1905. It turns out that in order to show respect for deceased relatives, Indonesians dig them out of their graves every year. There are even original contests among local residents: whoever has a better-dressed relative becomes the winner. But this does not end there either - a family photo as a souvenir becomes an obligatory end of the ceremony.

Mikaela is the star of "Instagram"

This girl has an unusual appearance, which exactly repeats the facial features of the character of the famous computer game. This attracted thousands of subscribers to her page, including even such famous personalities as Justin Bieber. Among her subscribers, there are still disputes about such a phenomenal similarity, and it was not possible to find out the reason. But this secret only adds to the girl's popularity.

Giant from West Java - Arya Permana

The fattest boy on the planet lives in Indonesia. His weight is more than 190 kilograms, and in fact he is only 10 years old. He is severely obese and his daily diet would be enough to feed 10 adults. Due to his size, he is unable to find clothes for himself, so he covers his thighs with a large piece of sarong. He is not able to attend school, and it is just very difficult for him to move around. The boy simply lies in the pool all day. What caused this anomaly is unknown, because up to 2 years old he developed like an ordinary normal child.

Rama Haruna - the girl with the body of a baby

In the Nigerian city of Cana lives a girl suffering from a rare disease. Her body stopped growing at 6 months and her limbs are not functioning. At the same time, Rama's head is completely normal for her age. According to her mother, at six months, the girl began to writhe from severe bouts of abdominal pain, which was accompanied by severe fever. There are other children in the family, and everyone is quite healthy.

Nigerian doctors are at a loss as to what could have caused such a strange anomaly. Some locals even claim that the girl's illness is a consequence of the genie's curse. But this has nothing to do with reality. The only thing that this Nigerian woman is very lucky in is her family. Despite the fact that caring for seriously ill Rama costs a pretty penny for the family, her parents have not abandoned the girl and are trying their best to earn money for her maintenance.

Shi Bao - a dog on two legs

In the Chinese province of Shanxi, there is a dog that has lost two legs when hit by a train. Surprisingly, despite such a severe injury, the animal survived and learned to walk on two front legs. And more recently, Shi Bao became a mother. The train station workers who have adopted the dog claim that she is a wonderful mother who never leaves her babies for long.

Emma Lyman - a diagnosis is not a sentence

This 21-year-old girl has a whole bunch of serious illnesses at once. This is a mild degree of autism, and Down syndrome, and deafness. But this did not prevent her from becoming a full-fledged member of society. And the fact that she cannot write and read did not prevent her from becoming a successful business woman. It all started with the fact that her mother sent out the girl's resume to the company, trying to find at least some kind of work for her.

She was taken to the office of a credit institution to destroy classified documents. It turned out that Emma is excellent at tearing paper into small pieces, and she does it with amazing speed. And today she has her own company and regular customers who are happy to use her services.

The most incredible facts in the world may relate to various areas of our lives, but one logical conclusion can be drawn. You should never despair even in the most difficult situations and look forward to tomorrow with optimism.

There are heaven and hell on our planet, seamounts, against which the Himalayas seem like toys. In this land there are cities, the area of ​​which is larger than Austria or Belgium, and states that do not have an official capital. The strangest, most interesting and amazing facts about the world are included in today's collection.

Chongqing is called the second capital of China, and it is famous for the fact that it covers an area larger than the whole of Austria or Belgium. The metropolis is home to 30 million people - a number that makes it the absolute record holder of the planet.

And this is not the end, because Chongqing is growing and expanding. The city cannot be called beautiful even with a stretch - narrow narrow streets, heaps of ugly buildings, gloomy alleys, dozens of automobile factories and chemical industries. In Chongqing, as many houses, buildings, bridges and other structures are built in a year as in Moscow in 20 years.

Perhaps, in a few years, the appearance of the largest metropolis will change, because the old quarters are being actively demolished, and modern skyscrapers are growing in their place. But this is unlikely to make Chongqing any more comfortable.

Countries without railways

There are many such states not only in Asia, but also in Europe. In Iceland, the transport infrastructure is well developed - buses, airplanes, motor ships serve passengers, but there are no railways here.

In Qatar, where the population exceeds 800 thousand people, there is also no railway connection. It is absent in Guinea, Bhutan, Nepal, Afghanistan.

This list also includes the European countries of Liechtenstein, Malta, Andorra. They, like Iceland, occupy a small area. Lands in the states are expensive, there is a shortage of them, and the terrain is mountainous, so the construction of railways is impractical.

There are no trains in the Caribbean, with the exception of Cuba. She is the only island in the region with a railway.

Uh, oh, i, u

These are not the vowels of the alphabet, but the names of cities. E is located in France, on the coast of the Bresl River. It is home to about 8 thousand inhabitants. The indigenous population is called the Eyes.

In Lofoten, Norway, tourists can hear one local inviting another to go fishing in O. This is not a joke, but an unusual name for a fishing village. It comes from the word "A", which in Old Norse meant "river".

The settlement is mentioned in the middle of the 16th century. It attracts tourists not only by its short name, but also by the fish and village history museums working here.

Upsilonians - this is how the inhabitants of the French commune I, located 100 km from Paris, call themselves. Its number is less than 100 people, but surprising facts can be found even in such sparsely populated places of our world.

Yi, for example, has a sister village with an unpronounceable name Llanwyrpullgwingyllgogherwerndrobullantysyogogogh. We can only guess how customers pronounce it when they order tickets at train stations.

8 thousand people permanently live in the Swedish city of Yu. The medieval town is popular with travelers, because most of the buildings in it are wooden. And these are not only residential buildings, but also churches, public institutions.

It seems that the residents are satisfied with the short names, although the authorities of the countries periodically raise the topic of their possible renaming. They believe that the renaming will make it easier for users to find information of interest on the Internet.

The resort usually sent to

In the southwestern part of Mexico, there is a beautiful resort with pristine coastline. It stretches for almost 4 km along the Pacific coast. The beach areas are wide, sandy, secluded bays created especially for lovers. Green hills protect them from the wind, the sky is transparent blue.

In this resort location, anyone can buy a villa or apartment in a condominium with a stunning view from the windows. A 2-room apartment costs 30-40 thousand dollars. And this place is called Nahui and looks very picturesque.

Nauru is a country without a capital

This state can be bypassed on foot in 2 hours - the length is 6 km, the width is 4 km. Nauru is located on the coral island of the same name in the western part of Oceania and is considered the only country in the world that does not have an official capital. The compact territory is divided into districts.

The first people appeared in Nauru more than 3 millennia ago. When Captain Firn discovered the island in 1798, it was already inhabited by 12 tribes. They had no idea about the state system and way of life, survived by fishing, growing coconuts and knew how to do without the benefits of civilization.

Today, the tiny country barely survives - tours to the island are not popular due to the lack of local flavor, high humidity and heat of 40-42 degrees. Nauru is located almost at the equator. The state of ecology is deplorable - over the decades that phosphorites were mined here, instead of soil, there was a "lunar landscape".

The longest mountains are at the bottom

Sometimes, to find the most amazing facts in the world, you need to descend to the ocean floor. In our case - to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, which the Mid-Atlantic Ridge has divided into two almost equal parts - the western and the eastern.

The mountain range under water is the world's longest record holder. Its length is 18 thousand km, width - almost a thousand km, and the height is small for the mountains - at the peaks it does not exceed 3 km.

During the study of the relief of the ridge, scientists discovered an interesting pattern: the further from the rift valley, the older the basaltic rocks. Their age was determined by archaeologists and geologists - 70 million years.

Mississippi changed direction

An earthquake struck New Madrid in 1811, and another in Missouri in 1812. Seismologists estimated the power of the elements at 8 points on the Richter scale.

Those earthquakes were the most powerful in North America - as a result, huge areas went underground, and new lakes formed in their place. The Mississippi River changed course in a short time and flowed in the opposite direction. Its waters formed the bend of Kentucky.

There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia

They were earlier, but dried up. During rains, dry river beds are filled with water, but this water is stagnant, there is no current in it. The Saudis are careful about fresh water.

In total, there are 17 states in the world in which there is not a single river. In addition to Saudi Arabia, the list includes Oman, Kuwait, Yemen, UAE, Monaco, Vatican and others.

There are no rivers in Monaco and the Vatican, because the territory of states is small, there are no channels from which they could appear.

Sea without shores

The Sargasso Sea is the only one that has no shores. It is located in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean and presents a mystery to humanity. The fact is that the water in the Sargasso Sea has unique properties that are not characteristic of ocean waters.

The weather is calm all year round, the sea never storms. For this property, the reservoir has earned a notoriety for the cemetery of ships. In the Middle Ages, sailing ships could not move when it was calm. The sailors did not manage to row their hands either - numerous algae interfered. So, in anticipation of a favorable wind, entire teams perished.

This line is considered the longest railway in the world. The Great Siberian Route, as it was called in Tsarist Russia, connects Moscow and St. Petersburg with the largest cities in Siberia and the Far East.

The railway route stretches for almost 9.3 thousand km, crosses 3901 bridges, which is also an absolute record.

UFO exists

The fact of its existence was recognized by Chile, Italy and France. But Japan was the first. It happened on April 17, 1981. The crew of a Japanese freighter saw a disc rise from the ocean waters into the sky. It glowed blue.

Taking off, the UFO stirred up such a powerful wave that it completely covered the ship. After that, the luminous plate circled over the ship for about 15 minutes, then moving quickly, then hovering in the air.

Then the UFO went into the water again, and the second wave damaged the ship's hull. As a result of the incident, the press officer of the Coast Guard officially stated that the atypical damage occurred as a result of a collision with a UFO.

Uganda is the youngest country

Experts predict that 192.5 million people will live in Uganda in 2100.

It is curious that half of the inhabitants are children and adolescents under 15 years of age. Uganda is considered the youngest country on the planet.

Hell and Heaven on earth

Anyone can see what Hell looks like. True, for this you need to come to Norway and get to the city of Trondheim. From there to Hell - 24 km.

Norwegian Hell has its own train station, shops, and a blues music festival is held every September. The village inherited its unusual name from the Old Scandinavian word “hellir”, which is interpreted as “cave”, “rock”. But the locals prefer the meaning of the homonym - "luck" more.

Earthly Paradise is located in Great Britain, 80 km from London. 4 thousand people permanently live in it. This compact town is built on a hill. Previously, it was surrounded by sea water, but now, when there is no sea, there are 3 rivers.

Paradise is an ancient city, the first mentions of it are in the sources of 1024 years. It is surprising that its old streets, lanes, fortresses, houses, windows, roofs have been preserved almost in their original form. Paradise has several charming cafes and shops where you can enjoy delicious coffee, tea and desserts. Full feeling that time has turned back - in the 16-17 centuries.