There are so many interesting things in the world!
1. The fly Goniurellia tridens, discovered in the UAE, has... two more flies on its wings. In this way, the fly protects itself from predators by pretending to be a “flock of flies.”

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


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


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


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


6. Once a year, the fishing season comes in Honduras. Between May and July, a dark cloud appears in the sky, lightning flashes, thunder roars, and heavy rain falls for 2–3 hours. As soon as it stops, hundreds of living fish remain on the ground.


7. The “leather smell” that comes from leather products is the smell of fragrances. Real tanned leather does not smell of anything.


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


9. In 2003, Shelley Jackson invited everyone to become “pages” of her book. 2,095 volunteers responded to the call, with the words that make up the narrative tattooed on their bodies. The book "Skin" exists only in this form.

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


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


12. Fredrick J. Baur was so proud of his invention that he wanted to be buried in it. Baur died in May 2008 at the age of 89, and his children fulfilled this request - his ashes were divided between a pair of urns and ... a Pringles package.

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

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


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


16. China's Jiankunzhu Mountain ("Southern Sky Pillar"), which inspired some of the landscapes in James Cameron's film Avatar, was renamed by local authorities and has since been called "Hallelujah Avatar!"

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


18. Disciples of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato once asked him to define a person, to which he replied: “A person is an animal on two legs, devoid of feathers.” However, after Diogenes of Sinope brought a plucked rooster to the Academy and presented it as “Plato’s man,” Plato had to add: “And with flat nails.”

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


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

The world is beautiful and amazing, and it is also full of mysterious and interesting things that you may not have even imagined. Users of the popular site Reddit have collected a whole collection of funny and true facts that can truly capture your imagination.

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

1. There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy - 3 trillion trees versus “only” 100 billion stars.

2. The largest living organism on the planet is the giant honey fungus, or rather its mycelium, which stretches 4 km underground. It grows in the foothills of the Blue Mountains in Oregon.

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

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

5. In Japan, printing traditional manga comics uses more pulp than producing toilet paper.

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

7. Chinese broccoli, kale, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts and broccoli come from the same plant - brassica oleracea - they are just different varieties.

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

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

10. The Spanish national anthem has no words.

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

12. Dead people can get goosebumps.

13. A small part of the noise that we see on the TV screen when there is no signal is residual radiation from the time of the Big Bang. This is how we observe the consequences of the creation of the Universe.

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

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

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

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

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

19. If a way was found to extract all the gold from the Earth's core, it could cover the planet in a knee-high layer.

20. To drink all the blood from the average person, it would take 1.2 million mosquitoes (assuming each of them makes one bite).

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

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

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

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

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

26. The kakapo bird (owl parrot) emits a strong and pleasant musky aroma, which makes it easy for predators to find it. That is why it is endangered.

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

There are so many amazing things in the world that we will never cease to be amazed. We invite you to read the most interesting facts about everything in the world. We have a lot of them.

funny

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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Before alarm clocks appeared, in England and Ireland there was a profession of “alarm clocks,” who knocked on windows in the morning with long sticks or shot dried peas from tubes.

The Japanese have invented robots that warn people that they smell bad. One is in the form of a bulldog, which sniffs the feet and gives one of four possible reactions depending on the intensity of the odor. If everything is good, he will bury his nose in his legs, and if everything is really bad, he will pretend to lose consciousness. The second robot is made in the form of a woman’s head - breathe, and she will honestly tell you everything as it is.

The oldest vineyard in existence today was planted in the 17th century. They still harvest 35-55 kilograms of grapes from it and make wine.

Millions of Chinese people post statements on social media that they do not intend to commit suicide. It began after police ruled the death of one woman a “suicide,” despite persistent rumors that she had been killed.

Dacryphilia is the tendency to get sexual arousal from a partner's crying. Such people often deliberately bring their partners to tears in order to get into the right frame of mind.

French writer Victor Hugo is revered as a saint in the Vietnamese Cao Dai religion.

Leonardo DiCaprio's first agent tried to convince the actor to take the pseudonym Lenny Williams because he thought his real name sounded too ethnic.

In Japan, 90 percent of adopted people are adults 20-30 years old. Often, influential businessmen who do not have sons of their own look for smart young people who they could entrust with the reins of their enterprises.

On the outskirts of Shanghai (China) there is a ghost town, which is a copy of the central part of Paris with its own Eiffel Tower.

Smells coming through the right and left nostrils are interpreted differently by the brain.

When Ashton Kutcher was preparing to play Steve Jobs, he tried to adhere to the latter's diet and, as a result, ended up in the hospital due to problems with his pancreas. Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer.