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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 100 million sexual acts are performed every day. If you consider that there are approximately 5.5 billion people on our planet, and of these, about 3.5 billion are between the ages of 15 and 65, then this is not so much. WHO estimates that the number of sexual contacts leads (every day) to 910,000 conceptions, of which half are unplanned and another quarter are “strongly unwanted”, resulting in 150,000 abortions every day. In addition, these same 100 million “ happy moments” lead to 356,000 bacterial or viral infections. So not every act is for good. WHO considers the state of genetic health of the population to be rather mediocre.

According to Rome-based doctor Giulio Biagiotti, a specialist in male hormones, tireless philanderers risk sexual burnout by the age of forty. He studied 1,500 cases of impotence and concluded that those at greatest risk of “sexual demise” were those who were promiscuous. sex life(at the risk of catching some kind of sexually transmitted infection), smokes, eats irregularly...

According to statistics, almost half of humanity suffers from snoring...

Pierre Defornel of France was the father of three sons, all of whom were born in different centuries. The first boy in the 17th century was in 1699, the second in the 18th century in 1738, and the third in the 19th century in 1801.

Nils Paulsen of Uppsala, Sweden, died in 1907 at the age of 160, leaving two sons: a 9-year-old boy and an old man aged 103.

Thomas Carne from England lived the longest life. According to church records, he was born in London and lived to be 207 years old.

The human body is 2/3 water. So, almost all of this water is completely replaced with new water in 30 days. So after 30 days, you are two-thirds you. Half of all proteins that form the basis of any organism are replaced with new ones due to dietary proteins in 90 days. Fats are renewed even faster. What else remains? Salt - salt lasts a little longer. So after a year you are not you at all.

Thomas Vedder from England had the longest nose; he was called the “Miracle Nose” - this organ was 19 cm long.

Sometimes a person endures such severe tests of strength that doctors wonder how this could happen. Judge for yourself: 16-year-old George Lawrence (1964), riding a bicycle along the edge of a cliff at Niagara Falls, lost his balance. He fell and, having flown a distance equal to the height of a 9-story building, fell onto a rock ledge. This flight only cost George a head wound and damaged ribs.

IN Ancient China criminals were sentenced to death penalty sleep deprivation. It is known that the man who attempted the life of King Louis XV of France was sentenced to death through sleep deprivation.

Queen Ranavalona (Madagascar) forbade her associates to appear to her in dreams. All those who “violated” her orders were punished.

IN Ancient Sparta According to government regulations, one of the elected officials was to get drunk and stagger around the city streets drunk as an object lesson for the young citizens.

In 1220 BC, the Chinese Emperor Wu Weng issued an edict according to which all persons captured during a drinking binge were subject to the death penalty.

IN Ancient India abstinence from alcohol was considered mandatory for all classes. People who were caught drunk were given molten silver, lead or copper to drink.

Charlemagne dealt with drunkards this way: drunkards who were caught the first time were punished indoors, then in public. If these measures did not help, the drunkards were executed.

The world's youngest killer is an Australian boy who shot and killed 27-year-old Patrick Elliott with a .22 caliber shotgun in August 1991. The boy was only 2 years old. The fault lies with the stupidity of the owner of the gun, who left it loaded in the back seat of the car. The child accidentally pulled the trigger and hit the owner in the head.

It is not so easy to kill a person, even if the execution weapon is the electric chair. In Alabama, on April 22, 1983, 33-year-old John Louis Evans survived a shock of 1900 volts. The blow was quite strong - the straps with which he was tied burst, and the smell of burnt meat was heard, but the doctors stated that his heart was still beating. After 4 minutes, the second shock was delivered - and again Evans survived! Only from the third category he was killed! Horace Dunkens was shocked four times in the electric chair (July 14, 1989). But the unofficial “champion” was William Vandiver, executed on October 16, 1985. To kill him, the switch was turned on 5 times.

Most deaths from lightning occur in India. In 1991, 1,506 people died from this cause.
A record number of people (21 people) were killed by one lightning strike. This happened near Matari (Zimbabwe) on December 23, 1975, when a powerful lightning strike hit a peasant hut.

The most dangerous profession in the world (based on the ratio of the number of people employed to the number of deaths) is the leader of a state. In the 20th century violent death More than 550 kings, presidents, and prime ministers of different countries died.

1961 - A hailstone weighing 3 kg killed an elephant in Northern India. During the April 1981 hailstorm in China, individual hailstones reached 7 kg. The largest hail in the Soviet Union fell in Kazakhstan - hailstones weighing up to 2 kg. On April 14, 1995, a hailstorm killed 6 people in China.

In one day, the human heart produces enough energy to lift 68,000 kg of weight.

Truly limitless human capabilities were demonstrated in 1989 by a resident of Athens named Samson: a marble block was split on his head.

West German biologists in the late 1980s were surprised to estimate that an ordinary horse eats only 8-9 times its weight in food per year. Man, according to their research, is much more gluttonous... he eats on average 16 times more food per year than he weighs.

In an average human life, the salivary glands produce about 23,600 liters of saliva.

On average, the human brain weighs about 1.3 kg.

Small blood vessels (capillaries) are 50 times thinner than the thinnest human hair. The average capillary diameter is approximately 0.008 mm.

The human body consists of 639 muscles.

A healthy man’s body contains about 10% fat, and a healthy woman’s body contains about 25%.

average life expectancy ancient man was significantly different from the modern one. So, in Ancient Rome people lived on average no more than 23 years, and even in XIX century, in America the average lifespan was no more than 40 years. But how do people live nowadays? Today people live long. In the UK - about 71 years (men) and 77 years (women), in Japan - about 75 years (men) and 81 years (women).

The length of the human intestine - the passage through which food moves during the digestion process - is approximately 3 meters.

The walls of the human small intestine contain 20 glands, which, when eating food, produce from 5 to 10 liters of digestive juice.

The average person blinks every 6 seconds, which means that during our lifetime we lower and raise our eyelids about 250 million times.

On average, human hair grows at a rate of 12 mm per month.

One of the most terrible epidemics in human history, the plague epidemic in Europe in 1347–1353 claimed about 24 million human lives. In history this disaster is called the “Black Death”.

The heaviest organ in the human body (other than the brain) is the liver, which weighs about one kilogram.

Human bone can withstand a load 30 times greater than such a wonderful building material as brick.

The strongest human bone is the shin bone, which can support 1600 kg.

Human thought travels along the nerve fibers of our body at a speed of about 250 km/h. To put it another way, television, radio and telephone transmit information much faster than our nervous system.

Approximately a person stops growing and even begins to decrease in height, “shrinking” by an average of 10 mm every 10 years. The reason for this “drying” is dehydration of the cartilage in the joints and spine.

The human body always contains about one gram of alcohol, which is formed during the decomposition of starch and sugar.

There were dentists already 2,500 thousand years ago in Ancient Greece. For the first time, teeth began to be filled in the Middle Ages, and at first wax and rubber were used as fillings, and then metals - lead and even gold.

The human body on average needs 300–500 milligrams of magnesium daily. Possible symptoms of magnesium deficiency in the body: causeless internal anxiety, stress, heart rhythm disturbances.

The survival time of a person caught in water depends mainly on the temperature of the water. So, at a water temperature below 2 degrees Celsius, a person in a life jacket can live no more than 45 minutes, at a temperature from 2 to 4 degrees Celsius - no more than 1.5 hours, at a temperature from 4 to 10 degrees Celsius - no more than 3 hours , at temperatures from 10 to 15 degrees Celsius - no more than 6 hours, at water temperatures from 15 to 20 degrees Celsius - no more than 12 hours. In warmer weather it will depend on the fatigue of the person in distress...

During a lifetime, an average person eats 50 tons of food and drinks 42,000 liters of liquid.

From the iron found in the human body, it would be possible to make a nail 2.5 cm high...

Maintaining balance when a person stands still requires the work of approximately 300 muscles.

Human hair is stronger than lead, copper, platinum and can rival steel in strength. So, with a thickness of 0.05 mm, hair can withstand a load weighing 100 grams, thus, a woman's braid, consisting of an average of 200,000 hairs, can easily withstand a 20-ton load.

Short people live longer than tall people, and the difference reaches 10%.

The top layer of human skin is completely renewed in 27 days.

As scientists have calculated, every person living at the beginning of the 20th century managed to walk an average of about 75,000 kilometers during his life. And here modern man covers only 24,000 km. This is understandable - modern people They prefer to drive and are always in a hurry.

A person spends almost a third of his entire life sleeping.

8 out of 10 patients suffer from diseases of a so-called psychosomatic nature, that is, those with the root cause of fear, irritation, envy and other negative emotions.

As scientists have shown, laughter improves immunity (when a person laughs, an additional amount of white blood cells are released into the blood, heart activity improves and muscle tone increases. Moreover, three minutes of healthy laughter a day will replace 10 minutes of active physical exercise.

About 4% of people are left-handed.

Man is more perfect than all others only by the development of his brain and nervous activity, but our other features (in particular, physiological) remained not at a very high level. Our digestion, stomach, kidneys, heart are much more primitive and less adapted to the conditions environment than our animal neighbors. Moreover, we might have died out, unable to withstand the struggle for existence, if not for our brain.

The weight of a healthy person's brain ranges from 1020 to 1970 grams. A man's brain is 100–150 grams heavier than a woman's brain.

A person senses taste using 3,000 special taste organs located on the tongue. But we are very mediocre “tasters,” since even a pig has 5,500 taste organs, while cows have 35,000, and an antelope has 50,000.

An adult man has from 300 to 500,000 hairs on his body, with blondes having the finest hairs and more of them than brunettes and, especially, redheads, who have the coarsest hairs and the fewest of them.

During the day, the human heart pumps a total of about 10,000 liters of blood.

The human body consists mainly of water. It contains 100 trillion cells, which contain 10 kg of oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen, 2 kg of calcium and phosphorus, several tens of grams of potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine and 6 g of iron.

The longest bone is the femur (27.5% of height), the shortest is the “stirrup” in the ear (3–4 mm). A man's total muscle weight is 40%, a woman's is 30%.

The total length of blood vessels is 100,000 km. Blood is distributed as follows: 25% in the muscles, 25 in the kidneys, 15 in the intestinal walls, 10 in the liver, 8 in the brain, 4 in the coronary vessels of the heart, 13% in the vessels of the lungs and other organs.

Starting from the thirteenth year of life, 30–50,000 nerve cells die every day in a person. With age, his weight decreases.

For a woman, periods of intense creativity range from 2 to 3 years and from 5 to 6 years, and the maximum rise occurs at 24, 29, 39, 40, 44, 46 and 52 years. A man has cycles creative productivity two-three and five-seven year olds. There are longer ones: 10–11 and even 14 years. There is a hypothesis that the rise of creativity is closely related to solar activity.

Western researchers have calculated the time spent on human life needs. As it turned out, the “average” person spends 3 years of his life waiting, dressing and washing take him another 5 years, talking on the phone takes a year. A person spends 6 years eating, another 5 years traveling, and another 9 years entertaining.

During his life, a person eats 40 tons of food and inhales 380,000 cubic meters of air. Every year, the heart expends as much energy as is necessary to lift a load weighing about 900 kilograms to a height of 14 meters.
There are approximately 125,000 hairs on the human head. And over the course of his life, 1.5 million hairs fall out and grow back.

The human brain consists of 10 billion nerve cells and has the ability to remember 86 million pieces of information. About one hundred thousand chemical reactions occur in the human brain every second. In 0.05 seconds the brain recognizes an object whose image has been recorded by the eye. The maximum speed of signal transmission from neuron to neuron in the brain is 400 km/h. A piece of human skin with an area of ​​6.5 square centimeters contains 25 meters of nerve fibers, more than a thousand nerve endings, 65 hair follicles and 6 meters of blood vessels.

In humans, the total area of ​​receptors, that is, receivers that respond to smell, is only 4.8 square centimeters, while in a dog it is 64.3; in a shark it is 130, and in a rabbit it is equal to the total surface area of ​​its body.

1. Over the past 50 years, humanity has destroyed 70% of the world's forests.

2. More than half of the world's population has never seen snow.

3. The heart of a white whale is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.


4. If you collect all the iron contained in the human body, you will only get a small screw for a women's watch.

5. Everyone abroad is sure that Cheburashka is SHE


6. In the town of Creskill, New Jersey, all cats must wear 3 bells so that the birds are always aware of their location.

7. If you fill a teaspoon with the substance that neutron stars are made of, then its weight will be = approximately 110 million tons.

8. Pipidastras are furry multi-colored things that are beautifully waved by girls from sports team support groups.


9. Only women and horses have a hymen.

10. Female pigeons cannot lay eggs alone. They definitely need to see a dove for this. In captivity they can be deceived with the help of a mirror.

11. The rubber armrest of the escalator in the subway moves at a different speed so that the passenger does not fall asleep on the escalator.


12. Sharks can be dangerous even before they are born. Thus, scientist Stuart Springer was bitten by an embryo while he was examining the insides of a pregnant shark.


13. To free yourself from the crocodile's jaws, press thumbs on his eyeballs. He will release you immediately.

14. A chameleon's tongue is twice as long as its body.


15. Michael Jordan was not accepted into the basketball team in his sophomore year of college because of his short stature.
By the way, he celebrated his 50th birthday yesterday!

16. In Kenya, bribes account for one third of the household budget.

17. A runner is able to outpace a racing car in the first 10 meters from the start.


18. Acne can be removed with a mixture of crushed tablets of any antibiotic, aspirin and suprastin (one at a time), with the addition of a drop of water.

19. Hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.


20. Giant Komodo lizards even attack deer and wild boar.

21. One in four Americans has been seen on television.


22. Half of men do not wash their hands after visiting the toilet.

23. If you feed a yellow canary red pepper, the color of its feathers will turn bright orange.

24. To accurately maintain balance and aerodynamic properties, when an eagle loses a feather from one wing, it loses the same feather from the other wing.

25. In the 18th century. soldiers who fought against Frederick's armies brought cockroaches to Moscow and St. Petersburg. Before this there were no cockroaches.

26. To crack a nut, just put it in hot water for 48 hours.


27. It is impossible to insert a blade between the plates of the Cheops pyramid.

28. In Finland there is a championship in dragging wives. The winner receives a quantity of beer equivalent to the weight of his wife.

29. Eagles mate in flight.

30. Drivers kill more deer than hunters.

31. Some types of tapeworms eat themselves when there is no food. However, they can eat up to 95% of their body.

32. There are no penguins at the North Pole, contrary to popular stereotype.


33. No one has yet been able to tame the African elephant. Only the Indian elephant can be trained.

34. A rat can fall from a five-story building without any damage.


35. Even a small drop of alcohol placed on a scorpio drives him crazy. Scorpio stings himself to death.

36. The most common language is Chinese. And the second most common is Spanish. The English team gets an honorary bronze.

37. Average life expectancy Japanese women is 84 years old; while the life expectancy of women in Botswana is only 39 years.

38. Same-sex sexual relations are illegal in more than 70 countries. In nine, including Afghanistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia, they are punishable by death.


39. More than 70 percent of the world's population has never heard a telephone ring. In Africa, only one in 40 people has a telephone.

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1. Many Russians think that Catherine II sold Alaska to the United States, but this is not so. The transfer of the territory of Alaska was completed under Alexander II.
2. If a Hawaiian woman puts a flower behind left ear, then she is married. If she is for the right, then she is available for men to court.
3. Not all people, as is commonly believed, kiss with their eyes closed; about 60% do. Others like to watch their partner's reaction.
4. The most ancient mountains are located on the territory of Russia and are called 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 in basins.
6. On the territory of the DPRK there is the most big prison for political prisoners, more than 50 thousand people are imprisoned practically for life in camp No. 22.
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. Located in the Altai Territory in Russia amazing place, in which you cannot stay for more than 20 minutes. This is the famous “Valley of Death”, the volcanic fumes of which kill all living things in just half an hour.
2. The most radioactive place in Russia is Lake Karachay. Fifteen minutes on the shore of the lake is enough to receive radiation of 600 roentgens, which is considered fatal.
3. The most expensive potatoes in the world cost more than 500 euros per kilogram. It is called “La Bonnote” and is grown on the French island of Nurmoitier in the Atlantic Ocean. Connoisseurs of this potato claim 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 common man can afford such a treat.
6. The dirtiest city on the planet is Russian Karabash. For almost hundred year history Since the work of the local copper smelter, the entire nature of Karabash has become more like that of Mars. Acid rain occurs in this place, and the rivers have an unnatural color due to iron oxides.
7. The real pole of cold is the Russian city of Verkhoyansk. It is there that the lowest record-low temperatures with a minus sign were recorded on the planet in those places where people live.
8. Most people on earth have demotex mites living in their eyelashes; under microscope magnification these are real monsters!
9. Whatever the date of your birthday, twenty million people around the world celebrate it with you at the same time.
10. The longest reality show in the world is Dom-2. It has been running for more than ten years, and it is obvious that the television production will become the second “Santa Barbara”.
11. When a man watches porn, he pays attention to the actress's face. On the contrary, women look at 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 each time.
13. In the west of China they drink salty tea. The tradition is deeply rooted in the past, and instead of sugar, table salt is added to hot tea.
14. Russia is not only the largest country in the world by 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 surname is Lee. Among Russian surnames, the surname Kuznetsov is widespread.
16. During flights, the marabou stork can fall asleep and hover in the air for ten minutes.
17. Cleaner fish are hermaphrodites. The female can degenerate into a male and fertilize the 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 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. The substances in mosquito repellents do not repel insects, but camouflage 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 shrinks with age by about one centimeter. This happens due to the drying out of the cartilage tissue in the joints.
22. The creepiest and most unusual road in the world is called “Road to Nowhere”. This is a fifteen-kilometer stretch of highway in New Mexico that ends in an absolute dead end. There are not very good rumors about this expensive place among the locals.
23. Venus is the only planet in the solar system that rotates counterclockwise. Why is this happening? Scientists give this phenomenon the most different explanations, but the most obvious thing is the dense atmosphere of the planet.
24. In the nineteenth century, Horace Fletcher proposed a diet called Fletcherism. The idea was to chew your food at least 30 times and then spit it out. It was assumed that the stomach is full and the person does not gain weight.
25. The worst slums in the world are located in Kenya, right in the capital of Nairobi. More than twenty million people live in a world without electricity, water, sewerage, schools or hospitals.
26. The largest meteorite that fell to earth is considered to be the Goba meteorite, which reaches almost three meters in length. A celestial body was discovered in Namibia. It weighs more than 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. The city is home to more than thirty-five million people.
29. Why do they wear wedding rings on the ring finger? The tradition comes from Ancient Greece, where it was believed that the “vein of love” passes through the ring finger, going straight to the heart.
30. In Bob Marley's crypt lies his guitar, bible, soccer ball and a package of marijuana.
31. The human femur inspired Eiffel to create the famous Parisian tower.
32. Perfume was invented in the 16th century to remove the stench from unwashed bodies. In Europe, people haven't swam all their lives!
33. To keep fit, a person must take at least ten thousand steps a day.
34. Americans have the healthiest teeth; approximately forty percent of US citizens have never experienced problems with caries.
35. Every three seconds one child is born on earth, and every 5 seconds someone dies.
36. Over the course of a lifetime, the average person eats 30 tons of food; if you imagine this 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, and in Moscow. But still, the most expensive city in the world is not Moscow, but Hong Kong.
38. The mythical creature mothman or mothman in the Jersey bridge collapse in the late 60s was seen by about a hundred people at a time.
39. American Charles Osborne hiccupped for 65 years without stopping. Nothing helped the poor man.
40. Russia and the United States are separated by only four kilometers. Don't believe me? Find Chukotka on the map and measure the distance from the Chukotka Territory to Alaska.
41. Bolivia has the most dangerous road in the world, its length is 70 kilometers. Drivers drive on a narrow track without bumpers over an abyss of three thousand meters!
42. There are a lot of transvestites living in Thailand. The country's authorities have gone so far as to say 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 voice-over laughter in soap operas, but few people know that the same recording from 1950 has been dubbed over and over again for many years. Many of these people are no longer alive.
44. Napoleon Bonaparte has always been considered a short man. But during the 18th and 19th centuries, people were not tall. Napoleon's height was 170 centimeters, and he was even considered above average at that time.
45. On the planet Uranus there is no such off-season as on Earth. There winter constantly gives way to summer. Winter or summer lasts exactly forty-two Earth years.
46. Pluto has long been considered one of the planets of the solar system. This unusual celestial object was discovered in 1930, and its name was given to it by the 11th girl Venice Bernie 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 local residents They live in apartments literally hollowed out in caves.
48. According to statistics, a person kisses for about three years of his life. By the way, in some countries the French kiss is still considered extremely indecent and is equivalent to 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 beehive; the queen bee lays more than a thousand eggs a day and lives on average two years. When the queen dies, the bees leave their hive.
51. Most copiers in the world break down after people try to “photocopy” their butt.
52. The most expensive houses are those painted in yellow. There is less purchasing activity for white houses.
53. The famous yo-yo was once used in the Philippines as a weapon against enemies.
54. Bolivia is the only country in the world where there is Navy, but there is no access to the sea or 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 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 animal 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 most a big difference age has been recorded in Malaysia. The groom was 105 years old, and the young bride was only 22 years old.
60. One day Pablo Escobar was very cold while hiding from the police. To keep warm, he threw wads of money into the fire; as a result, two million US dollars flew into the fire.
61. Every minute, mobile operators earn almost a million dollars from SMS.
62. In India, a man must marry his elder sister's daughter. According to Indian canons, this is not considered incest.
63. Ancient Egyptian nobles kept crocodiles as pet cats, and even bought them jewelry made of gold and precious stones.
64. The tallest man on earth lives in Turkey. His name is Sultan Kosen, and his height reaches a full two and a half meters. Such a giant can be seen 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 love 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, on every street in Pyongyang there are loudspeakers that blare sirens at seven in the morning, signaling that people have to go to work.
67. Amancio Ortega is recognized as the richest man in Europe; he owns such companies as Pull and Bear, Bershka, Zara. At the same time, Amancio Ortega leads a rather secluded lifestyle and does not at all look like a rich man.
68. A child up to five years of age can learn several foreign languages. Children in at a young age remember words well and foreign expressions, and this knowledge is retained by a person almost until old age.
69. The most poisonous fish in the world, fugu, has tetrotoxin poison, which kills an adult in almost a few minutes. The poison is found in the innards, skin, gills and eyes of the fugu.
70. IN ancient japan There was a cult of miniature female legs. Therefore, girls from rich families literally had their feet tightly bandaged from birth so that the bones practically did not grow. Such feet were compared to a lotus, and the smaller the foot, the more noble the bride was.
71. Color blindness is a rather unpleasant phenomenon. Most colorblind people live in Europe, namely in the Czech Republic. Scientists noted that there are no colorblind 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 a 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 gains about fifty tons in weight and sheds about a hundred tons. Scientists have not yet found an explanation for this phenomenon.
74. Have you ever thought about why the rabbit is the symbol of Playboy? The logo was created and developed by Aruthor Paul back in 1953, as a funny 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 algae that tastes like bacon and ham. They contain a huge amount of vitamins and minerals necessary for our body. The main purpose of the invention is to fight hunger in a number of African countries. Seaweed is inexpensive and comes in a wide variety of flavors.
76. The most environmentally friendly city is located in Switzerland. In the city of Zermatt it is prohibited to drive cars, as they pollute the atmosphere. Horse-drawn vehicles, bicycles or electric vehicle travel are permitted.
77. The largest dinosaur was found in Argentina. His height was 32 meters, and the giant weighed approximately 80 tons.
78. The most big dog in the world, this is a cute Great Dane 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 this is usually just an optical illusion. Of course, there have been mass UFO sightings, but there has always been a rational explanation for unidentified objects in the sky.
80. A jellyfish that kills with just one touch lives in Australia. Its venom is a hundred times more dangerous than that of a cobra. This baby only weighs a couple of grams!
81. The largest star in the visible universe is Betelgeuse. It is located at a distance of more than six hundred million light years from our planet. If you 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 ground.
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 humans. 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 like "Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit" in Thai. It’s surprising that every Thai should know this fancy name by heart.
84. A lightning strike can incinerate a person in literally seconds. But it’s not for nothing that the American Roy Cleveland is called a “lightning rod man.” Throughout his life, he survived seven lightning strikes and remained alive. 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 Saint Petersburg. It's all about the rocks; during the construction of the metro it was necessary to make tunnels 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 tree reached 50 meters in height. The record for the tallest tree has not yet been broken.
87. Humanity litters on a simply enormous scale. The largest and most impressive landfill is found in the Pacific Ocean. Right in the middle of the ocean there is a many-kilometer-long landfill of plastic, technical waste, fuel oil and oil.
88. In the Middle Ages there were rather strange beauty rules for women. To achieve a white complexion, ladies used lead powder, removed freckles with sulfur, and brushed their teeth with arsenic paste.
89. American scientists have found that the best relaxation in the world is contemplation of aquarium fish. A 550-liter aquarium with multi-colored lighting was created especially for visitors to one of the New York parks.
90. Russia is considered the most big country in the world by territory. For quite a long time, Russia occupied third place in the honorable list of empires. Square Russian state is more than seventeen square million kilometers!
91. The crocodile is an amazing creature. Although the Nile crocodile breathes through its lungs, it can hold its breath underwater for about two hours.
92. The most terrible disease that has 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 malaria mosquito. In some parts of the planet, malaria is still rampant.

The most psychedelic writer

Did you know that Lewis Carroll, a shy British mathematician who wrote fairy tales about Alice, should be recognized as the most psychedelic writer of all time? His writings were inspired by the Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Tim Burton and others. Lewis Carroll's real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He had the church rank of deacon, and also in personal diaries Carroll constantly repented of some sin. However, these pages were destroyed by the writer’s family so as not to discredit his image.

Poe's Source of Horror

Did you know that Edgar Allan Poe was afraid of the dark all his life? Perhaps one of the reasons for this fear was that in childhood future writer studied... in the cemetery. The school where the boy went was so poor that it was impossible to buy textbooks for the children. A resourceful math teacher taught classes in a nearby cemetery, among the graves. Each student chose tombstone and calculated how many years the deceased had lived by subtracting the date of birth from the date of death. It is not surprising that Poe grew up to become what he became - the founder of the world's horror literature.

Unexpected guest

Did you know that in 1857 Hans Christian Andersen came to visit Dickens? Andersen and Dickens met back in 1847, were completely delighted with each other, and now, 10 years later, the Dane decided to take advantage of the invitation given to him. The trouble is that over the years in Dickens’s life everything has changed and become more complicated - he was not ready to accept Andersen, and he lived with him for almost five weeks! “He doesn’t speak any languages ​​except his Danish, although there are suspicions that he doesn’t know that either,” Dickens told his friends about his guest in this way. Poor Andersen became the target of ridicule from the numerous descendants of the author of Little Dorrit, and when he left, Dad Dickens left a note in his room: “Hans Andersen slept in this room for five weeks, which seemed like years to our family.” And you also ask why Andersen wrote such sad fairy tales?

About love for our smaller brothers

Did you know that great poet Byron loved animals very much. The romantic poet adored animals and even kept a menagerie in which a badger, monkeys, horses, a parrot, a crocodile and many other animals lived.

About birth and death

Did you know that William Shakespeare was born and died on the same day (but, fortunately, on different years) - On April 23, 1564, he was born and, 52 years later, died on the same day.
Another one died on the same day as Shakespeare. great writer— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. The author of Don Quixote died on April 23, 1616.

Nobel laureate

Did you know that in 1925 Nobel Prize on literature
awarded to Bernard Shaw, who called the event "a token of gratitude for the relief he has given the world by not publishing anything this year."

Dickens' sad childhood

Did you know that Charles Dickens had a very difficult childhood? When his dad went to debtor's prison, little Charlie was sent to work... no, not in a chocolate factory, but in a blacking factory, where he stuck labels on jars from morning to evening. Not dusty, you say? But stick them from morning to evening instead of playing football with the boys, and you will understand why Dickens’ images of unfortunate orphans were so convincing.

Stendhal syndrome

Did you know that French writer Stendhal after his visit to
Florence in 1817 wrote: “When I left the Church of the Holy Cross, my heart began to beat, it seemed to me that the source of life had dried up, I walked, afraid of collapsing to the ground...” The masterpieces of art that excite the writer can have a similar effect on other people, causing rapid heartbeat and dizziness - this psychosomatic disorder is called Stendhal syndrome. The person who has “picked up” it experiences extremely heightened emotions from contemplating the paintings, as if transported into the space of the image. Often the feelings are so strong that people try to destroy works of art. In a broader sense, Stendhal syndrome can be caused by any observed beauty - for example, nature or women.

Death of a pseudonym

Did you know that in the 1970s, American publishers considered it undesirable for authors to publish more than one book per year. Stephen King, who wanted to be published more, began writing some works under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. In 1984, a bookstore clerk suspected the resemblance literary styles authors and discovered a record in the Library of Congress that King was the author of one of Bachman's novels, notifying King's publishers of his discovery. The writer himself called this seller and offered to write an exposing article, agreeing to an interview. It resulted in a press release announcing the death of Richard Bachman from “alias cancer.”

Cat lover

Did you know that Ernest Hemingway had a weakness for cats and He constantly kept several pets in his house. One day he was given a Maine Coon named Snowball, who, due to a genetic mutation, was polydactyl, that is, he had extra toes. Today, more than 50 cats live in the Hemingway House Museum, half of which are also polydactyl, as many are descendants of Snowball. A significant part of tourists visit this museum primarily because of the cats, and not in order to join the writer’s heritage.

About the strange story of Jekyll and Hyde

Did you know that Stevenson’s first manuscript of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” was burned by his wife. Biographers have two versions of why she did this: some say that she considered such a plot unworthy of a writer, others say that she was dissatisfied with the incomplete disclosure of the topic of split personality. Nevertheless, Stevenson, suffering from tuberculosis, re-wrote this novella in three days, which became one of his most commercially successful works and allowed his family to get out of debt.

The shortest correspondence

Did you know that Victor Hugo in 1862, while on vacation, wanted to know about the reaction of readers to the just published novel “Les Miserables” and sent a telegram to his publisher using only the character “?”. He sent a telegram in response, also with one sign - “!”. This was probably the shortest correspondence in history.

Twain's pseudonym

Did you know that Samuel Langhorne Clemens' pseudonym, "Mark Twain," comes from his work on steam ships on the Mississippi River?
The safe water depth was considered to be a mark of 2 phantoms (3.6 m), which the boatmen measured using a stick with markings. In those days, the word "twins" (then spelled "twain" in English) usually meant "two", so boatmen would shout when they reached a safe depth: "There are two on the mark" (which in English was "by mark twain" ).

Addiction

Did you know that Charles Dickens drank half a liter every day? champagne. To take his popularity to a new level, he decided to give lectures. And where there is a lecture, there is a subsequent meeting with readers! How can we live here without champagne! In addition, Dickens's personal life was extremely disorderly.

From 15 pages to 200

Did you know that the film " Misterious story Benjamin Button" (2008) was filmed based on story of the same name Francis Scott Fitzgerald? An interesting fact is that the creators of this film liked the story so much that they turned the several-page work into a 200-page script describing 80 years of Benjamin's life.

The Science of Love

Did you know that the world-famous book “Kama Sutra” includes not only a description of sexual positions (to which only 15 chapters out of 64 are devoted), but also reflections on the topic of relationships between men and women and life in general? Most the books are reflections on love in general, on girls, on men, on relationships between the sexes, on courtship and charm. The word “Kama Sutra” is translated as “instruction on kama,” that is, on all aspects of love. For scientists, it has another value: the book describes interesting facts about the life of India in those days.

"In the mountains of my Scotland..."

Did you know that one of the ancestors of M.Yu. Lermontov was legendary Scottish mystic poet? The poet always knew that his father, Yuri Petrovich Lermontov, traced his family back to the Scottish officer Georg Lermont. He served as a mercenary in Polish army, and in 1613, while defending the White Fortress, he was captured and went over to the side of Russia, where he became the ancestor of numerous descendants. But about his most famous ancestor - Thomas Learmonth, a poet of ancient Scotland who lived in the 13th century, M.Yu. Lermontov most likely had no idea. Only a few poems by Thomas Learmonth have survived to this day, often framed as predictions; many more legends about him have survived. It is said that on the ancient Eildon Hill, where, according to legend, King Arthur and his knights rest, there stood the Eildon Oak, which contained the entrance to the kingdom of fairies. In his youth, Thomas fell in love with a fairy, and she took him to her kingdom for 7 years. There he received his prophetic gift, and, upon returning, prophesied about the outcome of wars, about the fate of kings and cities, and then again went to his fairy - forever.

The most unusual book.

Did you know that one of the most unusual books in the world is Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” written on a sheet of paper measuring 80 by 60 cm by the Benedictine monk Gabriel Celani. All 14,000 verses can be easily read with the naked eye, and if you look at the sheet from some distance, you see a colorful map of Italy. Celani spent four years on this work.

Baby books.

Did you know that the twelve smallest books in the world fit into one tablespoon. Among them there is a miniature edition of the Koran, a dictionary in English 12 thousand words and the French Constitution.

You can't strangle this book, you can't kill it...

Did you know that an ordinary book of a standard format of 500 pages cannot be crushed, even if you put 15 wagons loaded with coal on it?

The longest work.

Did you know that the longest a work of artis the novel “People of Good Will” by Romain Jules. It was published in 27 (!) volumes in 1932-1946. The volume of the novel was 4959 pages, and there were approximately 2,070,000 words in it (for example, the number of words in the Bible is approximately 773,700).

The most prolific writer.

Did you know that one of the most prolific writers is Jose Carlos Ryoqui de Alpoim Inue from Brazil. He wrote 1,046 science fiction novels, westerns and thrillers, which were published between 1986 and 1996.

The most popular book.

Did you know that the most popular book remains the Bible. Between 1815 and 1999, 3.88 billion copies were sold.

Writer-leader.

Did you know that the absolute leader among the most popular writers Agatha Christie has remained for several decades now. Its 78 detective stories have been translated into 44 languages ​​and have sold more than 2 billion copies.

About the name Svetlana...

Did you know that the name Svetlana is not originally Slavic? It was invented and first used by the poet Vostokov in the romance “Svetlana and Mstislav”, and gained wide popularity after the publication of Zhukovsky’s ballad “Svetlana” in 1813.

Detective's fictitious address.

Did you know that at the time the stories about Sherlock Holmes were written, the house with the address 221b Baker Street did not exist. When the house appeared, a flood of letters fell to this address. One of the rooms in this building is considered the room of the great detective. Subsequently, the address 221b Baker Street was officially assigned to the house in which the Sherlock Holmes Museum is located. Moreover, to do this, they even had to break the numbering order of the houses on the street.

Hot Italian Othello.

Did you know that Shakespeare's hero had real prototypeItalian Maurizio Othello. He commanded the Venetian forces in Cyprus and lost his wife there under extremely suspicious circumstances. Diminutive name Mauro in Italian also means “Moor,” which led to Shakespeare’s mistake in assigning such a nationality to the hero.

F Rankenstein - a simple student?!

Did you know that Frankenstein is not the name of the famous monster? In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818, this same monster was simply called the “Monster.” Victor Frankenstein was the name of a young student scientist from Geneva who created Living being from nonliving material.

A terrible continuation of the legend

Did you know that the American writer William Burroughs was inspired by the legend of the medieval Swiss archer William Tell, who, for disobedience to the German governor, was forced to shoot at the apple on the head of his own son, and Tell did not miss. Interested in this story, Burroughs wanted to surprise the guests at one of the parties. The writer put a glass on the head of his wife Joan Vollmer and fired a pistol - the wife died from a hit in the head.

Jules Verne Card Index

Did you know that Jules Verne spent many hours a day studying scientific literature, writing down the facts that interest him on special cards. The card index he compiled could be the envy of the scientific community: it contained more than 20 thousand cards.

Life is like a novel

Did you know that Danielle Steele's life is like one of her many stories. She was married five times, her second husband robbed a bank and was later convicted of rape, the third was a drug-addicted burglar. Everything is like in the song Via group Gra - “But my fifth is not like that at all, in his hands I melt like ice...”

The thorny path to fame

Did you know that Nora Roberts, the author of several hundred romantic short stories, and for several years included in the list of the most popular writers according to the publication New York Times, long time tried to get some publishing house to publish her novel. One of the publishing houses, Harlequin, refused the future celebrity for the reason that “they already have an American writer” with whom they are collaborating.

The study of man has always attracted researchers of all times and peoples. Diseases, origin, psyche, motivation, etc. - all this is aimed at getting to know a person and his stay on earth. Let's take a closer look at the knowledge that is known today.

We present to your attention the most interesting facts about the person:

• 1. Did you know that the average person weighs about 2 kg. bacteria. There are about 40,000 bacteria in everyone's mouth alone;

• 2. Many people are familiar with the sensation when, in bright light, a person loses the ability to see for some time. So scientists decided to label this phenomenon as snow blindness;

• 3. For many, the pressing question is how to understand whether your interlocutor is telling you the truth or not? Research has shown that when a person begins to tell a lie, he usually looks up to the left.

• 4. But if you look closely at the painting of Mona Lisa, you will notice that she has no eyebrows. This is due fashion trends the times when this picture was painted;

• 5. Today medicine has made great progress in the field of disease diagnosis. In the Middle Ages, such a luxury was not available to doctors, so if they could not accurately determine what the patient was sick with, they diagnosed syphilis;

• 6. Scientists have discovered one very interesting fact about man. As it turned out, when a person is born, there are already 14,000,000,000 cells in his brain. However, after 25 years this number decreases by 100,000;

• 7. Everyone loves the fairy tale “Alice in Wonderland,” but few people know that this is also the name of the syndrome in psychiatry, which characterizes depersonalization, as well as disturbances in the perception of space and time;

• 8. As scientific research shows, on average, each person eats 27 tons of food in his entire life. For comparison, this is equivalent to the weight of seven elephants;

• 9. But the question of whether life exists on other planets interests almost all of humanity. It’s not for nothing that every three minutes someone claims to have seen a UFO;

• 10. As researchers have found, the most smiling people on earth are children, because... Compared to adults, they laugh more, an average of 400 times a day;

• 11. For the information of our readers, as it turned out, it is impossible to sneeze without closing your eyes;

• 12. When a child is born, there are about three hundred bones in his body, however, the more he grows, the fewer of them remain. After all, already in an adult body there are approximately 206 bones;

• 13. But doctors in Mesopotamia had a hard time, because if he made a mistake and the patient stopped seeing, then he is also blinded; in cases where a person dies, the doctor is sentenced to death;

• 14. As scientists have found, the tongue is not only a means of expressing one’s thoughts, but is also the strongest muscle in the body;

• 15. Each of us in our entire life travels distances that can be compared with 5 equators of the Earth;

• 16. Everyone knows that the lungs provide us with air, but few people know the fact that the surface area of ​​the lungs can be compared to a tennis court;

• 17. According to statistics, 70% of men take a shower daily, but for women this figure is slightly lower - only 57%;

• 18. For the information of smokers, those who smoke an average of one pack per day drink approximately 0.5 cups of tar per year;

• 19. But as our great scientists have found out, only man, as a representative of the animal world, can draw a straight line;

• 20. Did you know that each person spends on average 5 years of his life on food?

• 21. But the navel in scientific circles sounds completely different - umbilicus is exactly the scientific name for the navel;

• 22. According to research, a beard will grow faster in blondes than in brunettes;

• 23. One of the features of a child’s body is that they can breathe and swallow at the same time;

• 24. To smile, a person needs to use 17 muscles;

• 25. But, according to scientists, human DNA contains about 80,000 genes;

• 26. Did you know that even with a height of 130 cm, a man will be considered a dwarf; for a woman this figure is slightly lower - 120 cm;

• 27. The lifespan of red blood cells is much longer than that of white blood cells. The former live 3-4 months, the latter 2-4 days;

• 28. But the French call fingers completely differently: pus, index, major, anuler, oriculer;

• 29. For the information of our readers, the fingers of each of us bend on average 25 million times throughout our lives;

• 30. Almost each of us knows that the heart of every person is equal in size to his fist, but few people know that the weight of an adult’s heart is 220-260 g;

• 31. Apatite, aragonite, calcite and cristobalite - these are the minerals that are part of the human body;

• 32. According to statistics, women who are over 35 are more likely to have twins than younger girls;

• 33. Did you know that the human brain can be compared to a real generator, because it produces much more electrical impulses per day than any telephone;

• 34. Here’s another interesting fact, as scientists tell us, in one second, 100,000 chemical reactions occur in the human brain;

• 35. For the information of parents, babies are born without kneecaps; they appear a little later, at 2-6 years;

• 36. But it’s better to walk with blue-eyed people, because their vision in the dark is stronger than others;

• 37. But the human small intestine increases more than 2 times after death. During life it is 2.5 m, and after death its dimensions reach 6 m;

• 38. Each person has about 2 million sweat glands. It is worth noting that every liter of sweat spent results in a loss of 540 calories;

• 39. But the air capacity in the lungs, as it turned out, is uneven - in the right lung it is slightly larger than in the left;