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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. Additionally, those same 100 million happy minutes 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.
Most long life lived Thomas Carne from England. 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 by 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, the government mandated that one of the elected officials 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, more than 550 kings, presidents, and prime ministers of different countries died violent deaths.
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 demonstrated in 1989 by a resident of Athens named Samson: a block of marble 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.
On average for a human life 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 back in the 19th century, in America average duration was no older than 40 years old. 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 remarkable construction material like a 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.
Dentists were 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 lack of magnesium 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 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.
Brain weight healthy person 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 creative productivity cycles of two to three and five to seven years. 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. Maximum speed 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.
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Frogs do not drink water, but absorb it through their skin.
The giraffe's tongue is completely black, and its length can reach 50 cm. Giraffes use their tongue to clean their ears.
A dragonfly lives 24 hours.
The elephant is the only animal that cannot jump.
A slug has four noses.
There are more cars in Los Angeles than people.
To make a kilogram of honey, a bee must fly around 2 million flowers.
Lightning kills 1,000 people every year.
People with blue eyes are more sensitive to pain than others.
did you know that a dog’s nose print is individual, just like a person’s papillary lines? Simply put, you can find a dog by its nose print.
Mosquitoes are attracted to the smell of people who have recently eaten bananas.
Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.
A person can perceive only four tastes: salty, bitter, sour, sweet. The entire picturesque picture of taste is painted solely by the sense of smell.
Did you know that a goat has square pupils?
The heart of a human fetus begins beating on the 18th day after conception and does not stop throughout its life.
Sloths spend almost their entire lives hanging with their backs down.
Did you know that there are rivers without water? They are found mainly in deserts and are called “wadis”. Water appears in the riverbeds only during rains; the rest of the time they are dry depressions.
Did you know that the best pretender among mammals is the possum? There is even an expression in English that translates as “play possum,” and is used to mean “pretend,” “deceive.”
In 1998, miracle tights were invented - with three legs - the third leg was supposed to be used if one of those the girl was wearing broke
Butterflies have taste buds on their legs.
Did you know that Napoleon could have become a great Russian commander? In 1785, Bonaparte graduated from the Paris Military School with the rank of lieutenant, and in 1788 he tried to enlist in the Russian army!
The only animal whose upper jaw is movable is the crocodile. Other animals have a mobile lower jaw. Crocodiles are the only animals on Earth that do not naturally have a tongue.
Do you know that gorillas sleep in nests? These large, muscular primates build themselves a new nest every evening (or even after a hearty dinner) - on the ground or on the lower branches of trees.
The rarest spoken language on our planet is the Bikya language. It is spoken only by one 87-year-old woman from a village on the border between Cameroon and Nigeria. And she has no one to talk to.
Was it Peter I who invented the original way to combat drunkenness? Alcoholics were given... a medal. Medal for drunkenness. Its weight was approximately 7 kg, and this was without chains, because it was made of pure cast iron. The medal was “presented” at the police station, and the structure was attached to the neck so that the “awardee” could not remove it. You had to wear the insignia for a week.
Not only people use the services of nannies, but also, for example, owls? North American owls use... narrow-mouthed snakes as these nannies.
There are so many interesting and unknown things in our lives that we don’t even know about, living next to the simplest things in our opinion.
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“Did you know that...” - selection amazing facts within the framework of the project “Educational about Russia!”
"Swan Lake"
“Swan Lake” is the first outstanding example of the ballet genre in Russian musical art and one of the best works of the great Russian composer P.I. Tchaikovsky. The ballet was commissioned from Tchaikovsky in the spring of 1875 by the management of the Moscow Bolshoi Theater. The premiere of the play took place on February 20, 1877 on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater.
At first, the production was received rather coldly by both spectators and critics. Both the first and second found Tchaikovsky's music too boring and difficult to understand.
For residents former USSR the ballet has a rather sinister meaning, because during the August coup in 1991, all television channels in the country showed it. Why “Swan Lake” and not “The Nutcracker”, for example, is difficult to say, but the fact remains that long years Tchaikovsky's creation has become for many citizens a symbol of anticipation of something alarming and significant.
One of the parts of the work will be recognized by any resident of Russia, young and old - of course, this is the legendary “Dance of the Little Swans”, of which there are a huge number of parodies - in particular, one of them is shown in the 15th issue of the cartoon “Well, wait a minute!” .
"Soyuz" and "Apollo"
On July 17, 1975, the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft and the American Apollo docked. It was planned that at the moment of docking the ships were supposed to fly over Moscow, but the calculations turned out to be not entirely correct, and the astronauts shook hands while flying over the Elbe River. It is symbolic that 30 years earlier, a meeting of Soviet and American soldiers, allies in the Second World War, took place on the Elbe.
"Cruiser Aurora"
It would seem that we have known everything about Aurora since childhood. However, it turns out there are many interesting little-known facts.
Despite its high-profile historical fate, the cruiser was built according to far from the best design of that time. It was inferior to its foreign counterparts in both the power of its vehicles and the strength of its artillery. At that time, there was a joke in the Navy that the Aurora differed from an ordinary steamship only in its low speed and a certain number of low-power guns.
BUT: Over 45 years of service, the legendary cruiser managed to take part in four wars and three revolutions. And despite all these historical events, St. Andrew's flag is raised every day on the ship - the Aurora Museum.
The cruiser "Aurora" was not distinguished by its fighting qualities. There were only eight main caliber guns, the ship developed a speed of 19 knots (miles) per hour, and the engine reached a power of 11 thousand horsepower. For comparison, the power of the Titanic was five times greater. Then it was impossible to imagine that “Aurora” would become a real legend. The cruiser made her first voyage in 1903, from Kronstadt to Far East to strengthen the Port Arthur squadron. The ship's crew consisted of six hundred people.
The baptism of fire took place on May 14, 1905 at the Battle of Tsushima. During the battle, the Aurora received ten hits from enemy guns. Several compartments were completely flooded, the guns were out of action, and fire was blazing on the ship. Despite this, the cruiser survived the battle.
However, the cruiser is no longer known as a warship, but as a symbol of the October Revolution of 1917. October 25, 1917 blank shot from the ship served as a signal to begin the assault on the Winter Palace.
The service life of military cruisers is 25 years. Aurora served almost twice as long - 45 years. The ship managed to take part in the defense of Kronstadt from fascist shelling. In 1948, the cruiser was sent to eternal parking, and a museum was opened on its premises. Over the years, Yuri Gagarin, Margaret Thatcher and the Princess of Monaco visited the cruiser. In the 80s, the ship passed major renovation. The underwater part had to be completely replaced - it was not subject to reconstruction.
"The first capital of Rus'"
There are constant disputes about which city has the right and status to be named. But most historians agree that it was Ladoga, which arose in the middle of the 8th century, that was the residence of Rurik and they all refer to the main source: “The Tale of Bygone Years.”
According to this version, Rurik sat in Ladoga until 864, and only after that he founded Veliky Novgorod.
Popularization of Ladoga (now the village Staraya Ladoga V Leningrad region) as the “first capital of Rus'” received a strong boost during the celebration of its 1250th anniversary in 2003. However, not all historians recognize this status for her.
Now Staraya Ladoga is a village located twelve kilometers above the mouth of the Volkhov River. Even before 1704 it retained its status and name - Ladoga. Staraya Ladoga is included in the list of the oldest Russian cities.
"Trans-Siberian Railway"
The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest Railway in the world. The length of the Trans-Siberian Railway is 9,300 kilometers, being an absolute record that has no analogues throughout the world.
According to scientists, the highway has a history of approximately a century, connecting Southern Siberia, the Far East, the Urals and the Western part of Russia. Although the highway was built so long ago, its full electrification took place only at the beginning of 2002. You can overcome it all in 7 days and 6 nights, that is, in 146 hours of continuous movement. The main line consists of 40 stations located on the section between Moscow and Vladivostok.
Traveling along the Trans-Siberian Railway - The best way see Russia in all its diversity. The Trans-Siberian Railway crosses exactly 3901 bridges.
Even more amazing facts.
"Lena Pillars, Yakutia, Russia"
The Lena Pillars are a forty-kilometer-long series of steep cliffs stretching along the right bank of the Lena River. The city of Yakutsk is located two hundred kilometers downstream of the river, and the city of Pokrovsk is about a hundred kilometers away.
Today it is a natural reserve of Yakutia - rocks from 40 to 100 meters high every year become more beautiful and mysterious due to local climatic conditions. The view of the Pillars is especially beautiful at sunrise.
It is interesting that on the slopes of the rocks of the Lena Pillars, many caves were discovered, on the walls of which drawings of ancient people who lived in this area were painted in yellow paint, and tools were also found. In the territory national park The remains of mammoths, rhinoceroses, bison were discovered, and in rock fragments - fossils of trilobites, an extinct class of marine arthropods that lived more than 200 million years ago.
For the Yakuts, these rocks are a monument to love, loyalty and courage, since the Lena Pillars are actually nothing more than a pair of lovers who were bewitched by a dragon: the young man in a mortal duel defeated the evil snake, who wanted to marry his beloved, but he managed to take revenge .
In 2012, the Lena Pillars were included in the list of World Heritage Sites.
"Clock on the Spasskaya Tower"
Initially, the clock on the Spasskaya Tower was English. They were made in 1625 under the direction of the English mechanic Christopher Galovey. But in 1705, by decree of Peter I, the clock was remade in accordance with German traditions - with a dial at 12 o'clock.
Modern clocks weigh 25 tons and are driven by three weights weighing from 160 to 224 kg. The watch has four dials with a diameter of 6.12 m, the height of the numbers is 72 cm, the length of the hour hand is 2.97 m, the length of the minute hand is 3.28 m. They are wound 2 times a day.
That's all for today. I hope you liked the first portion of impressions. Develop curiosity in yourself, and as old Einstein used to say: “It is important not to stop asking questions... Do not lose your holy curiosity over the years.”
To be continued…
A cockroach can live with its head cut off for several weeks. Beetles taste like apples, wasps taste like pine nuts. And worms look like fried bacon.
What is called a "French kiss" in English-speaking countries is called an "English kiss" in France.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
Horace Nelson, one of the most famous English admirals, was never able to overcome “sea sickness” throughout his life.
In 1386, in France, a pig was sentenced to hang for killing a child.
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is pronounced the same as if the last four letters were missing. Among all the words in the English language, the word "set" has greatest number values. The word "Almost" is the longest word in the English language, in which all the letters are arranged in alphabetical order. "Rhythm" is the longest English word without vowels.
You can kill yourself by holding your breath.
A city called Rome exists on every continent.
In Iceland it is illegal to own a pet dog.
Your heart beats, on average, about 100 thousand times a day.
The dressed skeleton of Jeremy Bentham (albeit with an artificial head) is present at all the most important meetings at the University of London.
Right-handed people live, on average, 9 years longer than left-handed people.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year.
The elephant is the only mammal that cannot jump.
A quarter of all the bones in your body are in your legs.
Just like fingerprints, each person has a unique tongue print.
The world's first blood transfusion was performed in 1667, when Jean-Baptiste gave two pints of sheep's blood to a young man.
Your fingernails grow almost 4 times faster than your toenails.
Most of the dust in your home comes from dry human skin.
It is predicted that the total number of people inhabiting our planet today will grow to 15 billion by 2080.
A woman blinks almost twice as much as a man.
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian and only had one testicle.
Honey is the only food product that does not spoil. Honey discovered in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs was tasted by archaeologists and found to be edible.
In months whose first day falls on a Sunday, there is always Friday the thirteenth.
Coca-Cola would be green if it weren't for the dyes added to it.
A hedgehog's heart beats, on average, 300 times per minute.
The world is dying more people from bee stings than from snake bites.
With an ordinary graphite pencil you can draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50 thousand English words.
There are more people allergic to cow's milk than people allergic to any other food.
To protect against sandstorms, camels have three centuries.
The donkey's eyes are placed in such a way that he can see all four of his paws at the same time.
The six official languages of the United Nations
are English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
Earth is the only (out of eight existing) planet Solar System, which was not named after any god.
In churches in Nebraska, USA, it is illegal to burp or sneeze.
When a person is born, he has 300 bones in his body, but when he grows up, he only has 206.
Some worms eat themselves if they cannot find any food.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The oldest piece of chewing gum is 9 thousand years old.
The longest flight of a chicken was 13 seconds.
Queen Elizabeth I considered herself a paragon of purity. She stated that she takes a bath every 3 months whether she needs it or not.
Larvae have 4 noses.
The owl is the only bird that can see the color blue.
One man named Charles Osborne suffered from hiccups until he was 69 years old.
A giraffe can clean its eyes with its 21-inch tongue.
The average person laughs, on average, 10 times a day.
An ostrich's eye is larger than its brain.
1. An oyster's eye is larger than its brain.
2. 97% of people who are offered a new pen will write their name first.
3. Before World War II, there were 22 Hitlers in the New York telephone book... and none after..
4. Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian.
5. Your stomach produces a new layer of lining every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.
6. Currently living in China are: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
7. To avoid the danger of being crushed in the mouth of a crocodile, experts advise piercing thumbs his eyes, and he will immediately let you out.
8. In the Czech Republic, Margaret Thatcher is called Malgorzata Thatcherova.
9. If the statue of a horse rider has both front legs raised, this means that the person died in battle. If the horse has only one leg raised, it means the person died from wounds received in battle. If a horse has all 4 legs on the ground, then the person died of natural causes.
10. Everyone knows that English language very poor. It is especially difficult for poets. It turns out that not a single word rhymes with the words "month", "orange", "silver", and "purple".
11. Men commit suicide three times more than women. However, women attempt suicide three times more often than men.
12. As you know, people are animals too. However, we are the only ones among them who can copulate face to face.
13. The most common name in the world is Muhammad.
14. Catholic priests who died during sex: Leo VII (936-9) died of a heart attack, John VII (955-64) - beaten to death by the husband of the woman he was with at the time, John XIII (965-72) ) was also killed by a jealous husband, Paul II (1467-71) died during an outrage with a page boy.
15. The first bomb dropped on Berlin during World War II only killed an elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
16. Approximately 10% of people in the world are left-handed.
17. Sherlock Holmes never said: “It’s elementary, Watson.”
18. Soldiers in the First World War were the first to use the prototype of the modern flush toilet. Unbelievable but true!
19. Beware of riding donkeys. Every year, more people die because of this than in plane crashes. You are much more likely to break your neck if you fall off a donkey than if you fall off a horse.
20. In Israel, it is prohibited to talk on a cell phone while driving.
21. It takes an average person 7 minutes to fall asleep.
22. In 1880, cocaine was freely sold to treat colds, neuralgia, headaches and insomnia.
23. Every time you lick a postage stamp, you gain 1/10 calories.
24. A chameleon's tongue is twice as long as itself.
25. Ants never sleep.
26. In psychiatry, a syndrome accompanied by depersonalization, impaired perception of time and space, one’s own body and the environment, is officially (!) called “Alice in Wonderland.”
During life, the human small intestine is about 2.5 meters long. After his death, when the muscles of the intestinal wall relax, its length reaches 6 meters.
27. Man is the only representative of the animal world capable of drawing straight lines.
28.The shortest war in history was the war between Great Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896. It lasted exactly 38 minutes.
Under Peter I, a special agency was created in Russia to receive petitions and complaints, which was called... racketeering.
On June 4, 1888, the New York State Congress passed a bill abolishing hanging. The reason for this “humane” act was the introduction of a new method of death penalty - the electric chair.
30. Only in 1947 in England was the position of the person who was supposed to fire a cannon upon entering England was abolished.
31. One of the American planes in Vietnam hit itself with a missile fired.
32. Abdul Kassim Ismail - the great vizier of Persia (10th century) was always near his library. If he went somewhere, the library “followed” him. 117 thousand book volumes were transported by four hundred camels. Moreover, the books (i.e. camels) were arranged in alphabetical order.
33.The Thai national anthem was written in 1902 by Russian (!) composer Pyotr Shchurovsky.
34. Before 1703 Chistye Prudy in Moscow they were called... Nasty ponds.
35. World population in 5000 BC. was 5 million people.
36. In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
37.In 213 BC Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi gave the order to burn all the books in the country.
38.Until 1361 in England, legal proceedings were carried out exclusively on French.
39.The inscription “Allah Akbar” is repeated 22 times on the flag of Iran.
40.Japan includes more than 3,900 islands.
41.Less than 1 percent of the Caribbean islands are inhabited.
42.The first capital of the Russian state was Ladoga.
43. The center of Europe is located on the territory of Ukraine in the Transcarpathian region between the cities of Tyachev and Rakhiv, near the village of Delovoye, and the center of Asia is in the city of Kizyl, Tuva Republic.
44. Several buildings in Manhattan have their own zip code. And at the World Shopping Center there are even several of them.
45.7 The most numerous peoples of the world: Chinese (Han), Hindustani, US Americans, Bengalis, Russians, Brazilians and Japanese.
46.The inhabitants of the island of Lesvos are called lesboians and lesbosians, not lesbians and lesbians.
47. In Moscow there is a river called Los, and the largest of the streams flowing into it is called... Losenok.
48.Unlike most African nations, Ethiopia was never a European colony.
49.In France, Italy and Chile, the existence of UFOs is officially recognized.
50.Apple vodka is called Calvados.
51. In Ukraine it’s called varenukha alcoholic drink from vodka, honey, dried apples, pears, and cherries boiled together.
52. The Hungarian artist M. Munkacsi has a painting “Desert Storm”, painted in... 1867.
53.Leonardo da Vinci spent almost 12 years painting the lips of the Mona Lisa.
54.Impressionism got its name from Claude Monet’s painting “Impression”.
55. Just one drop of oil makes 25 liters of water undrinkable.
56. In addition to fingerprints, the tongue print of each person is also unique.
57.In the Roman Catholic Church, the highest bishops are called... primates. It is for this reason that the first classification of the animal world, created by Carl Linnaeus, was anathema.
58.Chinese sages claimed that saints sleep on their backs, sinners sleep on their stomachs, kings sleep on their right sides, and sages sleep on their left.
59.The # symbol, often called the hash sign, number sign, or pound sign, actually has an official name: octothorpe.
60. The Greek philosopher Anacharsis divided all people into three kinds: those who died, those who are alive, and those ... who swim in the sea.
62. The usual “bow” on which boots are tied is called by sailors nothing more than a “reef knot”.
63. The most popular in the world female name- Anna. Almost 100 million women wear it.
64.The millionth resident of Moscow was born in 1897.
65.Two of the highest IQ scores ever recorded on Earth belong to women.
66. Every second, over 200 lightning flashes on Earth.
67.Over the past 500 years, the mass of the Earth has increased by a billion tons due to cosmic matter.
68.The world's largest planetarium is located in Moscow.
69.The largest number that has a name is a centillion. This is a one followed by 600 zeros. It was recorded in 1852.
70. Baghdad University awarded the eldest son of Saddam Hussein Uday, who did not even have a secondary education, a doctorate political sciences. His dissertation was entitled "The Decline of American Power by 2016."
From the moment of birth, there are already 14 billion cells in the human brain, and this number does not increase until death. On the contrary, after 25 years it decreases by 100 thousand per day. In the minute you spend reading a page, about 70 cells die. After 40 years, brain degradation accelerates sharply, and after 50, neurons (nerve cells) dry out and brain volume decreases.
