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Every day, 12 newborns fall into the hands of the wrong parents due to the fault of medical personnel.
99% of the total mass of the solar system is in.
There are 32 muscles in a cat's ear, thanks to which the animal can move it in different directions.
Surprisingly, without a head, a cockroach can live for another 2 weeks!
In Taiwan, scientists have developed dishes made from wheat. Therefore, after eating the main course, you can safely eat the plate.
In order for a tanker loaded with oil to come to a complete stop, it must brake for 20 minutes.
With its half-meter long tongue, a giraffe can clean its own ears.
A giraffe can live without water longer than a camel.
A person busy with any activity loses about 4 liters of fluid per day.
Interestingly, the smallest bird weighs less than a coin.
Jellyfish are 95% composed of . This is why they are so transparent.
And this is a very interesting fact. A jet plane has to use 4000 liters of fuel to take off!
The record holder is Charles Osborne, who suffered from this disease for about 6 years.
An interesting fact is that a mole is able to dig a 9 m long tunnel in just one night.
A funny incident happened in the USA, in the state of Indiana: authorities arrested a monkey for smoking in a public place.
According to scientific research, pigs can experience orgasm within 30 minutes.
Women in Saudi Arabia are legally allowed to divorce their spouses if they refuse to give them .
An interesting fact is that sharks are the only animals that can blink with both eyes.
Sharks are so sensitive to presence in the water that they can detect one gram in 100 thousand liters.
When a skunk senses danger to its life, it can spread a stinking odor within a radius of 10 m. Perhaps this is the most unpleasant-smelling animal.
In 1845, a very interesting law was adopted. According to him, a person attempting to commit suicide would face hanging.
An interesting fact is that 25% of Los Angeles' area is occupied by vehicles.
slept on stone pillows. I just wonder why?
It is believed that the average person laughs 15 times a day.
Iguanas can swim underwater for half an hour.
It's funny, but an ostrich's eye is larger than its brain.
Among animals, only armadillos suffer from leprosy.
Armadillos always have only 4 children, and all of them are born of only one sex.
Did you know that babies are born without kneecaps? They are formed only 2 years after birth.
If a Barbie doll were 175 cm tall, then her proportions would be as follows: 39-23-33 cm; despite the fact that the generally accepted ideal is the ratio 90-60-90.
When bats fly out of caves, they always turn left.
In the tiny state of Nauru, the main export product is poultry manure.
Chewing gum contains rubber.
Camel milk does not sour or curdle.
can make about 100 different sounds, and no more than 10.
Every year, people buy food for dogs and cats totaling $7 billion. This is one of the most interesting facts.
Did you know that dolphins always sleep with one eye open?
In Paraguay, dueling is officially permitted, provided that both duelists are blood donors.
The most famous scientist of the 20th century could not speak clearly until he was 9 years old.
Before sitting down to compose his compositions, he dipped his head in ice water.
Giraffes do not have vocal cords.
Incredibly, bees grow hair in front of their eyes!
According to Bangladeshi law, a student can go to jail for cheating in exams.
Half of Kentuckians who marry for the first time are teenagers.
Due to the lack of gravity, astronauts are physically unable to cry. The most interesting thing is that the need for this still arises periodically even in .
You can buy wigs for dogs.
Once upon a time in Iceland, the law prohibited citizens from keeping dogs.
There was a time when residents of Switzerland were prohibited from slamming car doors.
In Kansas, people are prohibited from fishing with their bare hands.
It has been scientifically proven that a person cannot sneeze with his eyes open. Although many probably continue to check this statement.
When Kotex began, it produced bandages, not personal care products.
The Great One is the creator of scissors.
Every second, 100 lightning strikes can be seen in the world. The most interesting thing is that they are not amenable to statistics, since their nature has not yet been studied.
In fact, banknotes are not made of paper, as many people believe, but of cotton. That's why they don't spoil for so long. By the way, .
An interesting fact is that more people die in donkey riding than in plane crashes. We have already talked about.
Out of two billion people, only one manages to live to be 116 years old.
Mosquitoes have teeth.
Scientists have long noticed that cows produce much more milk when classical music is played to them.
Did you know that most of the dust in homes comes from dead skin cells?
Most lipsticks contain fish scales.
Few people know that 25% of all human bones are in his legs. We told you all the most interesting things about the human musculoskeletal system.
Only half of American citizens know that the sun is a star.
have been the same size since birth. But the ears and nose grow until death.
Dynamite contains peanut extract.
Surprisingly, the clumsy penguins can jump up to 2 m in height. By the way, read about and watch the most terrible footage of this ritual.
If you give deer bananas, they will happily eat them.
Scientists managed to prove an interesting fact. It turns out that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Sigmund Freud was terrified of ferns.
Slugs have four noses. This is probably someone who knows how to “breathe deeply”!
Interestingly, a cat falling from the 20th floor is more likely to survive than if it fell from the 10th.
It takes the average person 7 minutes to fall asleep.
The author of the electric chair was a simple dentist. Still, there is something sadistic about them.
Among all mammals, only elephants cannot jump. Pay attention - you will learn a lot of new things.
Green grasshoppers hear sounds thanks to holes located on their hind legs.
One day, an employee of one enterprise, passing by the radar, noticed that the chocolate in his pocket had melted. Thanks to this ridiculous accident, the microwave oven was invented.
Muhammad is the most common name on the planet.
The Greek hymn consists of 158 verses, but it is very difficult to find those who know them by heart ().
The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but cannot fly.
The donkey's eyes are placed in such a way that all 4 legs are always in its field of vision.
Among insects, only the praying mantis can turn its head.
The first bomb dropped on Berlin during World War II killed only one elephant.
The expression in chess “Checkmate” translated from Persian means “the king is dead.”
There are approximately the same number of chickens on the planet as there are people.
Tigers not only have striped fur, but also their skin itself.
To free yourself from the jaws of a crocodile, you should “simply” press your fingers on its eyes. The most interesting thing is that you are unlikely to remember this fact if you fall into a crocodile’s mouth.
Snakes have this strange pathology where they are born with two heads. But the most interesting thing is that both heads of the mutant snake behave not like one animal, but like two: they fight for food, snatching prey from each other.
All windmills rotate counterclockwise, and only in Ireland the opposite happens.
A man's heart beats slower than a woman's.
There are about 300 bones in a baby's body, but as they grow older, only 206 remain (more on that).
The human heart beats about 100,000 times per day.

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Ten days after the Chernobyl disaster, there was a threat of another massive thermal explosion. Three engineers who were later called "Chernobyl divers" - Valery Bezpalov, Alexey Ananenko and Boris Baranov - volunteered to dive under water with a lethal dose of radiation to find and open the safety valves. They prevented another disaster and died within days.

A Cambodian man named Aki Ra spent 22 years of his life single-handedly clearing an area of 130 square kilometers of mines. He works without any protective equipment, using a penknife, pliers and an ordinary stick.

Methuselah funds are trust funds created for the purpose of accumulating vast wealth over hundreds of years using compound interest. One such giant fund was formed at the American Hartwick College in 1936. Experts seriously feared that this giant would ultimately crush the financial structure of the entire United States.

In the 1970s, researchers conducted a series of experiments on rats to study the nature of drug addiction. Rats living in single, cramped cages were given a choice of pure water or water with added morphine. They all chose drugs and died. Then the researchers repeated the same experiment in the so-called “rat park”, where everything was colorful, there was a lot of space for mating and cozy nests, a lot of interesting balls, fragrant cedar shavings and all sorts of other rat entertainment. The inhabitants of the rat park were almost never tempted by drugs (even if the water with it was deliberately sweetened) and never died from an overdose.

The world's first roofed city is being built in Dubai. Its area will be 4-5 million square meters. The city's infrastructure facilities will be connected to each other by seven kilometers of streets covered with a transparent dome to maintain a comfortable temperature regime.

Feeding ducks bread in the park is slowly killing them. In such cases, ducks do not receive enough proteins and other necessary substances, which they easily find if they get their own food. According to experts, over the past ten years, most waterfowl have died for reasons one way or another related to artificial feeding.

One of the strangest cults exists among the inhabitants of the island of Tanna. These people worship the American World War II pilot John Frum - “the king of fabulous America, who descended to the land of the Melanesian people with wonderful cargo” (that is, “with cargo” in English). The local population dresses in some semblance of American military uniforms and builds fake runways with fake planes. They believe that one day John will return and bring with him trucks, Coca-Cola, radios and other “priceless treasures.”

Every time you remember something, what is actually being recalled in your memory is an image of a previous memory of that event or person. It turns out something like a game of broken telephone: the more often you remember something, the more this memory is distorted.

The Basque language is the oldest European language. Its roots go back to the Stone Age, it is older than Latin and Ancient Greek and has no related languages.

In 2010, an Indian Gurkha soldier named Bishnu Shrestha single-handedly repelled an attack by forty armed bandits who tried to rob the train he was traveling on and rape his girlfriend. Wielding one knife, Bishnu killed three bandits, wounded eight, and put the rest to flight.

In 1970, America's entire semiconductor industry was forced to shut down production because manufacturers couldn't buy blades to cut circuit boards. All the major companies purchased these blades from the same man, who was working in his own garage and suddenly fell ill.

An American woman from Los Angeles won $1.3 million in the lottery and decided to immediately divorce her husband so as not to split the money in half. After the divorce, the duped husband found out about this trick and filed a lawsuit. The judge found the woman guilty of falsifying property documents during the divorce and ordered her to give her husband all the winnings.

During a powerful earthquake of magnitude 8.0 in Mexico City, one of the maternity hospitals collapsed, but almost all the babies survived. The “miracle children” spent seven days without food, water, warmth or contact with adults.

If we could harvest just 0.1 percent of the kinetic energy of ocean waves, we would generate five times more electricity than is currently required to meet the world's needs.

The international charity Make-A-Wish (translated from English as “make your dream come true”) offered a hopelessly ill six-year-old boy named Levi Mayhew to make his every wish come true. He asked for a trip to Disneyland for his little pen pal. The girl cut out his figure from an enlarged photograph, went to Florida and rode all the rides in the company of paper Levi.

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

Morocco- the only country in the world where goats, due to a lack of grass, climb trees and graze in whole herds, feasting on the fruits of the argan tree, the nuts of which are used to make a fragrant place.

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

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

This photo shows a rally of Hitler supporters, which took place in 1937.

Hitler supporters rally - 1937

No rally in the history of mankind has brought together such a number of people. After 8 years (in 1945) they will say that they never supported Hitler’s ideas.

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

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

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

The executioner bird impales mice on the thorns of bushes, thus making provisions for a rainy day.

The English Mastiff is the largest living dog on earth. Antique English breed of Great Dane, the largest Great Dane in Europe and the largest of mastiffs.

The world's smallest private library belongs to Hungarian Jozsef Tari and contains more than 4,500 items.

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

Helicopter flights are banned over Antarctica because short-necked penguins try to look at them and fall over like dominoes.

Box with the blood of poets, 1965-1968.
In 1965, Eleanor Antin (a conceptual artist) began collecting blood samples and within 3 years she had 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”, Piedmonte in the province of Cuneo, in 2013. A woman's handbag is a very important wardrobe item. Psychologists say that a handbag can determine the character, hobbies and much more about its owner.

Guardian 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, the guardians had enormous power at court, and the expression “licking ass” came to mean: “moving up the career ladder.”

Until the twentieth century, the position of “Groom of the King’s Close Stool” was highly valued at the British court. He was a courtier responsible for assisting the monarch in fulfilling his natural needs. Considering the fact that the king’s body was considered almost sacred, only representatives of noble blood could touch it. It is worth noting that lords and counts very willingly became Guardians of the Royal Chair, despite the fact that they literally had to wipe the king’s ass.

Under King George III, his courtier John Stewart, 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 an engineer 22 years of work to develop a modern zipper.

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

The biggest catch ever made in the world. This fish was caught in Kazan in 1921.

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1. If you want to burn more than 150 calories in an hour, bang your head against the wall.

2. Did you know that eating pies in the UK at Christmas is illegal.

3. Pteronophobia causes panic in people from being tickled by bird feathers.

4. Did you know that hippos sweat? And their sweat when they are upset is red.

5. A flying flock of crows is very dangerous to life; it is better to avoid meeting them.

6. On average, over the course of 5 years, a woman applies so much lipstick to her lips that if they were put into one tube, its length would be equal to the woman’s height.

7. Cherophobia is an inexplicable fear of received pleasure (fun).

8. Have you heard that human saliva is three times higher than the boiling point of water?

9. If you lift a kangaroo's tail, it will not be able to jump.

10. Ed Handrick was the man who invented Frisbee (flying saucers) and was cremated after his death. Plates were made from his remains and given to relatives as a sign of his memory.

11. A person produces so much saliva throughout his life that it can fill an entire swimming pool.

12. An eagle can grab a young deer and even kill it.

13. A polar bear can eat as many as 86 penguins in one sitting.

14. King Henry VIII carried a giant ax with him at night.

15. Do you imagine that women's tampons and bikinis were invented by a man?

16. Doctors have found that on Monday a large number of people have heart attacks.

17. Beans, corn, bell peppers, cauliflower, cabbage and milk, these foods will turn your intestines upside down.

18. Hobo Spider, this is another species of spider recently discovered by scientists.

19. Penis fencing is a scientific term that refers to the beginning of a mating ritual between flatworms. It consists in the one who “pricks” the other one the most, he wins. The prize is that the winner becomes a queen.

20. A toaster uses almost half the energy that full-size ovens use.

21. The spider's child is called Spiderling.

22. A person cannot snore and dream at the same time.

23. A baby octopus is born the size of a flea.

24. A duck, a sheep and a rooster were the first passengers to take off in a hot air balloon.

25. In Uganda, 50% of the population are minors, their age reaches 15 years.

26. Arab women can file for divorce only because their husbands did not make them a cup of coffee.

27. Dog feces diluted in vinegar help relieve itching and swelling from an insect bite.

28. Catfish is the only animal that has an odd number of antennae.

29. Facebook, Skype and Twitter are prohibited in China.

30. 95% of people cannot say in person their opinion about any things.

31. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

32. In the town of Poole, England, the Pound of the World store went bankrupt, only because the store across the road called 99p. sold the same goods, but only 1 pence cheaper!

33. Approximately 8,000 Americans are injured by musical instruments every year.

34. Almost 3% of the ice in Antarctica consists of penguin urine.

35. When sea otters sleep, they hold on to each other so as not to move away during the current.

36. A small child can swim through the veins of a blue whale.

38. The name of the Hewlett-Packard company was drawn by lot.

39. The total number of steps on the Eiffel Tower is 1665 steps.

40. The Pokémon Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan were the “children” of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.

41. Colgate toothpaste in Spanish translates to “go hang yourself!”

42. Pirates wear earrings because they believe it will improve their eyesight.

43. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula."

44. Dr. Kellogg introduced Kellogg's Corn Flakes in the hope that it would reduce masturbation.

45. The octopus's testicles are in his head!

46. In England, in the 1880s, "Trousers" was considered a dirty word.

48. Each person spends about half an hour looking at one point.

49. If you leave everything until the last minute... it will only take a minute.

50. Ithyphallophobia means fear of erection.

51. The first alarm clock can only ring at 4 am.

52. Birds don't pee.

53. The word “ejaculation” is translated from Latin as “throw away”

55. A slug has 4 noses.

56. Potatoes, apples and onions all taste the same when you eat them with your nose closed.

57. George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

58. A company in Taiwan makes tableware from wheat, so you can eat your own plate for lunch!

59. The Bible is one of the most stolen books in stores.

60. Marco Hort set a world record for placing 264 straws in his mouth at once!

61. Mel Blanc, the man who voiced Bugs Bunny, suffered from an allergy to carrots.

62. In California, 6 drivers named Jesus Christ were given driving licenses.

63. Genesis 1:20-22 says the chicken came before the egg.

64. In the Caribbean, there are oysters that can climb trees.

65. Worms drink their urine.

66. More than 1,000 birds die every year from being smashed into windows.

67. The inventor of the waffle iron hates waffles.

68. George Bush was once an amateur.

69. In Japan, it is quite acceptable to call your child "Ass" or "Prostitute".

70. Every year, there are more than 40,000 toilet injuries in the United States.

71. Madonna suffers from gamophobia, this is the fear of entering into marriage.

72. More people speak English in China than in the USA.

73. Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th!

74. The Kleenex company provided its fabrics for filters in gas masks.

75. In 1998, Sony sold more than 700,000 video cameras that filmed people through their clothes. These cameras had special lenses that used infrared radiation, which made it possible to see through several layers of clothing.

76. When the monkeys finish fighting, they start masturbating.

77. In Japan, Ronald McDonald is called "Donald McDonald" because the pronunciation is easier for the Japanese, and in Singapore he is known as "Uncle McDonald".

78. American archer Matt Stutzman, who was born without arms, set a Guinness record and plans to compete at the Olympics.

79. Scientists in Germany have produced candies that do not cause tooth decay.

80. In 1964, Randy Gardner, who was 17 years old at the time, set a wakefulness record of 264 hours and 12 minutes. Afterwards he slept for 15 hours.

81. About 4 billion years ago there was oxygen on the planet Mars.

82. Astronauts in space cannot burp.

83. A fruit like avocado is poisonous to birds.

84. Any spacecraft must move at a speed of 7 km/s.

85. An elephant does not have a single bone in its trunk, but there are 4000 muscles.

86. A rodent's teeth never stop growing.

87. On average, a person spends 3 years of his life “reading a newspaper” on the toilet.

88. In 2006, a woman farted on a plane and tried to hide the smell, resulting in an emergency landing and an FBI investigation.

89. In the Russian army, during the march, instead of the anthem, soldiers sing a song from the cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants.

90. Most people who read the word “yawning” begin to yawn.

91. 99 hours is the record time for playing Monopoly.

92. Men who kiss their wives in the morning live 5 years longer than those who don’t.

93. Statistics prove that Australian women have sex on the first date.

94. More than 30% of Chinese adults live with their parents.

95. Harvard scientists believe that if you eat chocolate regularly, you can live longer.

97. When the ancient Romans took the oath, they placed their hands on their kokushki.

98. During the gold rush in 1849, only $100 was paid for a glass of water.

99. The can opener was invented 48 years after the invention of the can.

100. Close to 150 people die each year from coconuts.

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

3. There is a village called Fucking in Austria. All road signs in it are made of cement. This is necessary to prevent signs from being stolen.

5. In Havana there was a ban on toasters until 2008.

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

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

8. Wombats poop cubes.

9. 8 out of 10 people, when eating marmalade figures, first bite off the figure's head.

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

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

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

13. Eskimos have refrigerators, but they need them to keep their food from freezing.

14. In Parliament Square, the statue of Winston Churchill is electrocuted. This is necessary to prevent pigeons from perching on the monument.

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

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

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

18. Brazil nuts contain so much radiation that if you take them into a nuclear power plant, the alarm will go off.

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

From the history

20. The Spanish Inquisition was required to give 30 days notice of its arrival.

22. Winston Churchill studied worse than others in first grade.

23. At the end of the 19th century, it was customary to give the 21st birthday as a gift for the removal of teeth and their complete replacement with false ones. Victorian era.

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

25. Democracy in Ancient Greece lasted 185 years.

26. When Gillette released their razors in 1903, they could only sell 168 units.

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

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

29. The secret password that the US President had to enter to launch a nuclear missile was 00000000. This password was in effect from 1960 to 1977.

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

31. For 99% of history, man was a hunter-gatherer.

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

Some numbers

34. 40% of humanity have not lived even a year on the planet.

35. 10% of photographs were taken within the last year.

36. Half of NASA employees are dyslexic.

37. In the UK, 98% of homes are carpeted, but in Italy only 2%.

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

39. There are 6,900 languages in the world, but 50% of the population uses only 20 of them.

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

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

42. Television broadcasts 10 times more crimes than actually happen.

43. The population of the United States is only 5% of the entire globe, but 25% of prisoners around the world are Americans.

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

45. contains 10 thousand times more photos than the American Library of Congress.

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

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