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Who parks a car better - girls or men, in which country do the largest people live, how much time do we spend kissing in terms of our entire lives, and what is demodex. About this and much more in a selection of interesting facts about everything in the world. We only have, stay with us and see for yourself.

Fact #1: Hawaiian women are not shy about “confessing” to men that they crave their attention. They show this with the help of flowers, which they place behind their right ear. The stronger the desire - more flowers.

Fact #2: 44% of people love watching their partner's emotions while kissing. But others prefer to indulge in kisses, closing their eyelids tightly.

Fact No. 3: not all lovers rejected by their partners are able to calmly endure the breakup. 40% of them get rid of depression in the clinic.

Fact No. 4: Adults laugh on average about 15 times a day, while children laugh about 400 times.

Fact #5: It takes each of us an average of 7 minutes to fall asleep.

Fact No. 6: First love ends in marriage for only 2 out of 5 people.

Fact #7: People spend an average of half a month or 20,160 minutes kissing in their entire lives.

Fact No. 8: After visiting a public toilet, only 75% of the stronger sex and 90% of the weaker sex wash their hands.

Fact No. 9: Women, not men, are better at parking a car.

Fact #10: When kissing, 65% of people prefer to tilt their heads to the right.

Fact No. 11: On average, women have sex with 4 partners in their entire lives.

Fact No. 12: People between 20 and 70 years old devote approximately 36,000 minutes or 25 days to sexual fun.

Fact No. 13: The natives of England organize tea ceremonies more often than residents of other countries. For comparison: 20 times more people in America.

Fact No. 14: a lady uses so much lipstick in 5 years that if this amount is represented in the form of a tube, then it would be equal to her height.

Fact No. 15: the tallest people (on average) are the inhabitants of Holland.

Fact No. 16: out of 10 people, 8 are sure that future relationships depend entirely on the first kiss.

Fact No. 17: If we take an average, then the people in Japan are considered the shortest in height.

Fact No. 18: ancient mountains all over the world dividing Russian land into Asia and Europe are the Ural mountains.

Fact No. 19: the higher a person’s intelligence, the higher the zinc and copper content in his hair.

Fact No. 20: Demodex live in the eyelashes of many of us - micro mites that have an oral cavity and even claws.

Fact No. 21: throughout our lives, each of us produces saliva so much that it would be enough to fill 2 swimming pools, each of medium size.

Fact No. 22: If we take an average, then in a lifetime people kiss about 2 weeks, and have sex 3,000 times.

Fact #23: Men shave 8.4 meters of stubble in their lifetime, spending 3,350 hours doing so.

Fact No. 24: of all humanity trying to meet people for sex through virtual communication, 35% of people are married.

Fact No. 25: 47% of people have nightmares at least once a month.

Fact No. 26: almost every person during his life “winds” a straight line equal to 5 earth equators.

Fact No. 27: Mostly babies 1-3 months old cry without tears.

Fact No. 28: it is documented that the largest number of orgasms that can be had in 1 hour is 16 for one man and 134 for one woman.

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If you're bored and have ten minutes to spare, why not read 100 of the most interesting and funniest facts from life on our planet.

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.

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 each 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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Incredible facts

No matter how much knowledge you have, there is always something interesting in the world that you could learn about today.

6. The biggest wave we rode was height with 10-story building.

7. Hearing - the fastest of feelings person.

8. Since the rotation of the Earth’s axis has slowed down, dayduring the time when dinosaurs lived,lasted approximately 23 hours.

9. On Earth more plastic flamingos than real ones.

10. To cook eggs on the sidewalk, its temperature should reach 70 degrees Celsius.

11. 54 million people alive today they will die in a year.

12. Charlie Chaplin once participated in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike competition and took 3rd place there.

13. Most entries off-screen laughter in comedy shows was recorded in the 1950s. So many of that audience are no longer alive.

14. Antarctica – the only continent where corn is not grown.

15. Lighters were invented before matches..

16. Napoleon was not short. His height is 170 cm, which was considered average height for the French in those days.

17. Best time to nap between 1 and 2:30 p.m., since at this time the body temperature drops.

18. Children do not feel salty taste until 4 months.

19. Male pandas perform handstand, when they urinate to mark a tree.

20. If only The earth would be the size of a grain of sand, The sun would be the size of an orange.

21. The Dead Sea is not completely dead. Microbes halophiles live in its salty water.

22. The first horses were the size of Siamese cats. These were the smallest horses that ever lived.

23. Only about 100 people in the world can speak Latin fluently.

ABOUT COUNTRIES AND PEOPLES

• 1. The Alaska flag was created by a 13-year-old boy.
• 2. Military honor in no country is given with the left hand.
• 3. The international dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
• 4. Captain Cook was the first person to set foot on all the continents of the Earth except Antarctica.
• 5. The West African Matami tribe plays football with a human skull.
• 6. In Australia, the fifty cent coin initially contained two dollars worth of silver.
• 7. Most often, the Guinness Book of Records is stolen from English libraries.
• 8. The National Orchestra of Monaco is larger than its army.
• 9. One day - February 18, 1979 - it snowed in the Sahara Desert.
• 10. Canada is larger in area than China, and China is larger than the United States.
• 11. The only country where not a single birth was registered in 1983 is the Vatican.
• 12. The Nile froze twice - in the 9th and 11th centuries.
• 13. In Siena, Italy, you can't be a prostitute if your name is Maria.
• 14. In ancient Rome, a man taking an oath or making an oath would place his hand on the scrotum.
• 15. Tickling was prohibited by law in some ancient countries of the East, as it was considered a sinful arousing activity.
• 16. There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
• 17. In the Eskimo language, there are more than 20 words for snow.
• 18. There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.
• 19. In France, the law prohibits the sale of dolls with non-human faces, such as “alien girls.”
• 20. Canada has been declared the best country to live by the UN 4 times over the past 5 years.
• 21. In ancient Rome, if a patient died during an operation, the doctor's hands were cut off.
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• 22. As X-rays have shown, under the “Mona Lisa” we know, there are three more of its original versions.
• 23. John Lennon's song "I'm a Walrus" was inspired by the sound of a police siren.
• 24. The most frequently performed song in the world - “Happy birthday to you” - is protected by copyright.
• 25. There is only one Western directed by a woman.
• 26. George Harrison's toilet seat sang "Lusy in the sky with diamonds."
• 27. During World War II, in order to save metal, Oscar figurines were made of wood.
• 28. The original title of “Gone with the Wind” is “Be-be, black sheep.”
• 29. In Cameroon's film Titanic, the most frequently spoken word is "Rose".

ABOUT THE LITTLE BROTHERS

• 30. A cat falling from the 12th floor has a better chance of surviving than a cat falling from the 7th floor.
• 31. When Europeans first saw a giraffe, they called it a “camelback,” thinking that it was a hybrid of a camel and a leopard.
• 32. The animal with the largest brain in relation to its body is the ant.
• 33. About 70 percent of living creatures on Earth are bacteria.
• 34. When young, Black Sea perches are mostly girls, but by the age of 5 they radically change sex!
• 35. The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
• 36. The Tokyo Zoo closes for 2 months every year so that the animals can take a break from visitors.
• 37. Anteaters prefer to eat termites rather than ants.
• 38. When a giraffe gives birth, her baby falls from a height of one and a half meters.
• 39. Despite the hump, the camel’s spine is straight.
• 40. Female dogs bite more often than male dogs.
• 41. Every year, more people die from bee stings than from snake bites.
• 42. Sharks are immune to cancer.
• 43. Birth control pills work on gorillas.
• 44. A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
• 45. A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
• 46. ​​The animal that can go the longest without drinking is the rat.
• 47. The only animals that suffer from leprosy, besides humans, are armadillos.
• 48. Hippos are born under water.
• 49. Orangutans warn of aggression with loud burps.
• 50. A mole can dig a tunnel 76 meters long in one night.
• 51. A snail has about 25,000 teeth.
• 52. A black spider can eat up to 20 spiders a day.
• 53. With a lack of food, a tapeworm can eat up to 95 percent of its body weight - and nothing!
• 54. Crocodiles are responsible for more than 1,000 deaths on the banks of the Nile per year.
• 55. The ancient Egyptians taught baboons to serve them at table.
• 56. Saint Bernards, the famous rescuers of mountaineers, do not wear a flask of brandy around their necks.
• 57. It takes 4 hours to hard-boil an ostrich egg.
• 58. Within a pride of lions, 9/10 of the prey is supplied to the “family” by lionesses.
• 59. Sloths spend 75% of their lives sleeping.
• 60. Hummingbirds cannot walk.
• 61. A moth has no stomach.
• 62. Europeans, having arrived in Australia, asked the aborigines: “What are these strange jumping animals you have here?” The Aborigines answered: “Kangaroo,” which meant: “We don’t understand!”
• 63. The easiest way to distinguish a vegetarian animal from a predator: predators have eyes located on the front of the muzzle to see the prey. Vegetarians have them on both sides of their heads to see the enemy.
• 64. The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
• 65. 99% of living creatures that lived on Earth became extinct.
• 66. To make a kilogram of honey, a bee must fly around 2 million flowers.
• 67. The blood of a grasshopper is white, the blood of a lobster is blue.
• 68. The only animals that have sex for pleasure are humans and dolphins.
• 69. Over the past 4,000 years, not a single new animal has been domesticated.
• 70. Penguins can jump more than one and a half meters in height.
• 71. The only pet that is not mentioned in the Bible is a cat.
• 72. Chimpanzees are the only animals that can recognize themselves in the mirror.
• 73. The word “orangutan” means “jungle man” in some African languages.
• 74. Emu means "ostrich" in Portuguese.
• 75. Elephants and humans are the only mammals that can stand on their heads.
• 76. Crocodiles swallow stones to dive deeper.
• 77. Polar bears can run at a speed of 40 km/h.
• 78. Dogs have elbows.

ABOUT THE GREATS

• 79. “The Thinker” by Rodin - a portrait of the Italian poet Dante.
• 80. Singer Nick Cave was born with a ponytail.
• 81. Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day - April 23, 1616.
• 82. English Writer Virginia Woolf wrote most of her books standing.
• 83. Sarah Bernhardt played 13-year-old Juliet at 70 years old.
• 84. When Walt Disney was a child, he tortured an owl. Since then, he decided to bring animals to life in cartoons.
• 85. Beethoven was once arrested for vagrancy.
• 86. Buzz Aldrin, one of the astronauts who walked on the Moon, has his mother’s maiden name Moon (Moon).
• 87. When Einstein died, his last words died with him: the nurse did not understand German.
• 88. Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath to hide his beginning baldness.
• 89. D. Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
• 90. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, never called his mother and wife: they were both deaf.
• 91. Saint Patrick, the patron saint of the Irish, was not Irish.
• 92. Leonardo da Vinci invented an alarm clock that rubbed the feet of a sleeping person.
• 93. Napoleon suffered from ailurophobia - fear of cats.

ABOUT PEOPLE

• 94. The nose grows throughout a person’s life.
• 95. Only one child out of 20 is born on the day prescribed by the doctor.
• 96. The ancient Greeks believed that boys grow on the right side of the abdomen, and girls on the left.
• 97. If you remove space from all the atoms of the human body, then what remains can be threaded through the eye of a needle.
• 98. In the Middle Ages, in the dark spots of the Moon, people saw the figure of Cain carrying an armful of brushwood.
• 99. A sperm is the smallest single cell in the body. The egg is the largest.
• 100. If a real woman had the proportions of a Barbie doll, she would only be able to walk on 4 limbs.
• 101. Blonde beards grow faster than dark ones.
• 102. In Russian and English there is no word for the name of the back of the knee.
• 103. In the 15th century, it was believed that the color red heals. Patients wore red and surrounded themselves with red things.
• 104. Tongue imprints are individual for all people.
• 105. When you blush, your stomach turns red too.
• 106. There is enough body fat in the human body to make 7 bars of soap.
• 107. 80% of the human body’s heat leaves the head.
• 108. A person has fewer muscles than a caterpillar.
• 109. At the time of death, Lenin's brain was a quarter of normal size.
• 110. The world's highest IQ scores on standardized tests belong to two women.
• 111. Most people lose 50% of their sense of taste by age 60.
• 112. House dust consists of 70% shed skin.
• 113. The tooth is the only part of a person that lacks the ability to repair itself.
• 114. The brain is 80% water.
• 115. More living organisms live on the body of one person than there are people on Earth.
• 116. One hair can support a weight of 3 kg.
• 117. The average human head weighs 3.6 kg.
• 118. Over the course of his entire life, a person produces so much saliva that it would be enough for 2 large swimming pools.

Well and Miscellaneous

• Repellents don't repel mosquitoes - they hide you. The substances contained in repellents block the receptors with which mosquitoes find their prey.
• Dentists recommend keeping your toothbrush at least two meters away from the toilet.
• No sheet of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
• Every year, donkeys kill more people on earth than die in plane crashes.
• You burn more calories while sleeping than while watching TV.
• The first product with a barcode was Wrigley's chewing gum.
• The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is greater than the distance of the Wright brothers' first flight.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 by removing just one olive from salads served to first class passengers.
• Venus is the only planet in the solar system that rotates counterclockwise.
• Apples help you wake up in the morning better than coffee.
• The plastic things at the ends of the laces are called aiguillettes.
• The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
• Michael Jordan received more money from Nike than all the workers at the company's factories in Malaysia.
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes on her feet.
• All US presidents wore glasses. It’s just that some people didn’t like to appear in public wearing them.
• Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.
• Pearls dissolve in vinegar.
• Among people posting marriage advertisements, 35 percent are already married.
• The three most expensive brand names on earth are Marlboro, Coca-Cola and Budweiser, in that order.
• You can make a cow go up a ladder, but you can't make it go down.
• Duck croaking does not echo, no one knows why.
• The reason American firehouses have spiral staircases dates back to the days when pumps and other heavy objects were lifted by horses. The horses crowded below, unable to figure out how to climb the straight flights of stairs.
• Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president to have all the letters of the word "criminal" in his name.
• The second was Bill Clinton.
• On average, 100 people die every year from choking on a ballpoint pen.
• 90 percent of New York taxi drivers are immigrants.
• The elephant is the only animal that cannot jump.
• One in two million people have a chance of living to 116 years old.
• Women, on average, blink twice as often as men.
• It is anatomically impossible for a person to lick his own elbow.
• Indiana University's main library building is sinking one inch each year because engineers did not take into account the weight of the books it contained during construction.
• Snails can sleep for up to three years.
• Crocodiles cannot stick out their tongues.
• The lighter was invented before matches.
• Every day, US residents eat 18 hectares of pizza.
• Almost everyone who read this text tried to lick their elbow.
• Having learned that, according to Plato, Man is a biped without feathers, Diogenes plucked the rooster and, bringing it to the Academy, announced: “Here is Plato’s man” ;)
• If you scream for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, the amount of acoustic energy you generate will be enough to heat one cup of coffee.
• If you fart continuously for 6 years and 9 months, the amount of gas you release will be enough to create an amount of energy equal to the explosion of an atomic bomb.
• When pumping blood in the body, the human heart creates pressure sufficient to eject blood 10 meters forward.
• You will burn 150 calories if you bang your head against the wall for an hour.
• An ant can lift 50 times its own weight and pull 30 times its own weight. And when an ant is poisoned with chemicals, it always falls on its right side.
• A cockroach can live 9 days without a head, after which it will die of hunger.
• The male praying mantis is not capable of copulation when he has a head. Therefore, sexual intercourse in praying mantises begins with the female tearing off the male’s head.
• Some species of lions can copulate up to 50 times a day.
• Butterflies taste food with their feet.
• Elephants are the only animals that are unable to jump
• Cat urine glows under ultraviolet light.
• An ostrich's eye is larger than its brain.
• A starfish has no brain.
• All polar bears are left-handed.
• Humans and dolphins are the only species of animals that have sex for pleasure.
• Cockroaches have existed on Earth for 250 million years and have not undergone any evolutionary changes since then.
• Crocodiles have never lived in Australia's Alligator River.
• Drinkers began clinking glasses in ancient times. It was believed that in this way they ward off evil spirits.
• Thanks to gravity, a person weighs a little less when the Moon is at its zenith.
• Polar bears have black skin.
• "Spain" literally means "land of rabbits".
• For an oak tree to grow acorns, it must be at least 50 years old.
• Pacific Tiwi girls are married off at birth.
• In the 70s, the issue of a sex tax was seriously discussed in the United States. The fee was supposed to be 2 dollars.
• Bees have five eyes.
• Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.
• The first cologne in history appeared as a means of preventing the plague.
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
• Every second, 1% of the world's population is dead drunk.
• A beard consists of 7-15 thousand hairs. And it grows at a speed of 14 centimeters per year.
• The ant has the largest brain of all living creatures. In relation to the body, of course.
• To commit suicide with coffee, you need to drink 100 cups in a row.
• Hans Christian Andersen could not write almost a single word correctly.
• There are 25% more back injuries and 33% more heart attacks on Mondays.
• Every day, an average of 33 new products appear in the world. 13 of them are toys.
• The average person spends two weeks in their entire life waiting for a traffic light to change.
• A person gets used to tea faster than to heroin.
• Toilet paper was invented in 1857.
• Every day, Americans throw away 20 thousand televisions, 150 thousand tons of packaging materials and 43 thousand tons of food.
• Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day is equivalent to drinking a coffee cup of nicotine every year.
• Ancient Egyptians used eye shadow to protect against conjunctivitis and trachoma.
• The body of a sleeping person is half a centimeter longer than that of a waking person.
• Mosquitoes are attracted to the smell of people who have recently eaten bananas.
• A hockey puck can reach a speed of 160 kilometers per hour.
• The Neanderthal brain was larger than yours and mine.
• Some public toilets in Singapore have video karaoke machines.
• Yaks have pink milk.
• The shortest river in the world is the Saginaw in the US state of Michigan.
• The average ATM makes a mistake of $250 per year - and not in its favor.
• Christopher Columbus was blond.
• A penguin can jump three meters high.
• If you multiply 111.111.111 by 111.111.111, you get 12345678987654321.
• In 1863, Jules Verne wrote Paris in the 20th Century, in which he described in detail the automobile, the fax machine and the electric chair. The publisher returned the manuscript to him, calling him an idiot.
• The largest trade turnover in the world is gasoline. In second place is coffee.
• In South Korea, marriages between namesakes are prohibited.
• The English nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" is dedicated to King Richard III, who actually fell from the wall during the 1485 battle.
• Over the course of a year, a person's ribs make 5 million movements.
• The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
• Michael Jordan receives more money from Nike every year than all the workers at its factories in Malaysia combined.
• Only 1 out of 7 thefts are solved in the world.
• The 3 smartest dog breeds are the border collie, poodle and German shepherd, the dumbest are the Afghan hound, bulldog and chow chow.
• Some brands of toothpaste contain antifreeze.
• Icelanders drink Coca-Cola the most, Scots drink the least, preferring Irn Bru.
• If you put a person on soap, he will get 7 pieces.
• No language in the world has a word for the back of the knee.
• Only 55% of Americans know that the Sun is a star.
• When a gorilla gets angry, it sticks out its tongue.
• Hong Kong has the most Rolls-Royces per capita.
• Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.
• The area of ​​the human alveoli is equal to a tennis court.
• Over the past 4 thousand years, humans have not domesticated a single new species of animal.
• The Speaker of the English House of Lords is prohibited from speaking during meetings.
• A bee has two stomachs - one for honey, the other for food.
• Every minute there are 2 earthquakes in the world.
• It takes an average person 7 minutes to fall asleep.
• The word "doctor" comes from the word "to lie." In Rus', healers often treated with incantations and spells. Muttering and chatter were called lies until the beginning of the 19th century.
• There are about 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
• Most lipsticks contain fish scales. And each woman eats on average about 4 kilograms of this cosmetic product during her life.
• Watching color TV is less harmful than black and white: bright colors stimulate the color-perceiving apparatus of the eye, relieving some of the load from the accommodative muscles.
• All swans in England are the property of the Queen.
• On average, a person drinks 60,560 liters of liquid during his life.
• Until the eighteenth century, people did not use soap.
• The elephant is the only mammal that cannot jump.
• Humans and dolphins are the only animals that can have sex for pleasure.
• The smallest army in the world (12 people) is the Republic of San Marino.
• Drinking vodka (and other strong drinks...) is much more harmful than eating a snack.
• Las Vegas is visible from space as the brightest place on Earth.
• Astronaut Neil Armstrong took his famous “one man’s small step and all mankind’s giant step” to the Moon with his left foot.
• Cholera bacilli die in beer within a few hours and the disease does not develop. The discoverer of cholera pathogens, Professor Koch, recommended beer as a medicine.
• The mass of the human brain is 1/46 of the total body mass, the mass of the elephant's brain is only 1/560 of the body mass.
• Every year on the Fourth of July, Americans eat more than 150 million hot dogs.
• Every second, about 100 lightning flashes on Earth.
• The human eye is capable of distinguishing 130-250 pure color tones and 5-10 million mixed shades.
• The eagle owl can turn its head 270 degrees.
• Tooth enamel is the hardest tissue produced by the human body.
• Complete adaptation of the eye to darkness takes 60-80 minutes.
• On his deathbed, Salieri repented of all his sins, but his confession was considered the delirium of a dying man.
• Australia has twice as many kangaroos as people.
• The surface pattern of a cat's nose is unique, like a human fingerprint.
• A man swallows an average of 21 milliliters of liquid in one gulp, and a woman swallows 14 milliliters.
• March 8 is the International Day for Women's Rights and International Peace.
• If someone wanted to count all the stars in the Galaxy - and began to count them at the speed of one star per second - then it would take the “stargazer” about 3000 years.
• If your scream lasts 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you will produce enough acoustic energy to boil a glass of water.
• An ant poisoned by chemicals always falls on its right side.
• The polar bear is left-handed.
• The crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
• The word "mouse" comes from the ancient Sanskrit word "mus", that is, "thief".
• If someone annoys you and you make a face, 42 muscles are involved.
• You only need to use 4 muscles to hit someone on the head.
• When you hit your head against a wall, you burn 150 calories per hour.
• A flea can jump a distance of 350 times its body length. It’s the same as a person jumping over a football field.
• Catfish have more than 27,000 taste buds.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue!
• In one of the issues of the Moscow Provincial Gazette for 1848, you can read the following: “The tradesman Nikifor Nikitin should be exiled to the remote settlement of Baikonur for seditious speeches about a flight to the moon.”
• In ancient Greece, women counted their age not from the day of birth, but from the day of marriage. By this they showed that only married life had meaning for them.
• Over the past 200 years, 150 animal species have become extinct. The next 600 species of the animal world are on the verge of extinction.
• To fill a half-liter sucker with honey, bees are forced to collect nectar from almost 2,000,000 flowers.
• Boiling water extinguishes fire faster than cold water, since it immediately removes the heat of vaporization from the flame and surrounds the fire with a layer of steam, making it difficult for air to reach.
• Today, the average person weighs 5 kg more than in 1960.
• The Russian word "banya" goes back to the Latin "valneum" (bathing, washing), which has another meaning - "expulsion of sadness."
• The Quaktul Indians living in British Columbia have a funny custom: if someone borrows money, they leave their name as collateral. Until the debt is repaid, the person remains nameless. At this time, other Indians call him with a wave of their hand or inarticulate screams.
• In the movie Pulp Fiction, the word "fuck" is used 257 times (give or take a couple for the gagged Marsellus).
• Tickling was prohibited by law in some ancient countries of the East, as it was considered a sinful arousing activity.
• In the Eskimo language there are more than 20 words for snow.
• There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.
• In France, the law prohibits the sale of dolls with non-human faces, such as “alien girls.”
• Canada has been declared the best country to live by the UN 4 times over the past 5 years.
• In ancient Rome, if a patient died during an operation, the doctor's hands were cut off.
• King Louis XIX ruled France for a total of 15 minutes.
• There are more cows in Nebraska than people.
• In the film “2001: A Space Odyssey” by S. Kubrick, the astronauts used the crazy supercomputer HAL; if in the word H-A-L we change each letter to the next one in the alphabet, we get I-B-M.
• Bulls do not distinguish colors; they use red for brightness and beauty, and blood is less noticeable on it.
• Spider web is stronger than steel
• The most durable thing that nature has created is shark teeth.
• A shark has about 1,000 constantly changing teeth.
• The largest shark that ever lived could fit a full-length man in its mouth. (something made me think of sharks)
• Cats sometimes lay out dead mice in a strict semicircle with their tails outward/inward, and place another one in the center.
• At dusk, red appears redder.
• Some people are able to live for a long time in icy water.
• In an unconscious state, a person does not breathe in water.
• From lack of air a person falls asleep.
• Humans are immune to mad cow disease, which means that even Europeans, no matter how much they boasted of good morals, indulged in cannibalism.
• Herbivores do not spread rabies.
• Red cockroaches are not Russians (Prussians).
• Animals dream.
• Wasps kill more people than are killed by cars (an old fact that may have changed)
• Plastic hardly decomposes.
• The spider is the only insect with eight legs.
• The jumping spider has an intelligence comparable to that of a small rodent, due to its “scanning” gaze.
• The ruff has purple eyes.
• Some frogs can change sex.
• It is impossible to die from hydrocyanic acid in an apartment with an open window.
• The first condoms appeared under Tutankhamun.
• Crabs and lobsters lack a central nervous system.
• Gogol suffered from manic-depressive psychosis.
• In the ancient concept, a martyr is a great martyr and should not at all kill a crowd of innocent people at his own death.
• the octopus has 10 legs
• Goats and octopuses have rectangular pupils.
• The bite of the vampire mice causes more blood to flow out than she drinks.
• It is anatomically inconvenient for a vampire to drink blood with fangs - they are designed to hold the victim, and for that they have hands. In order to drink blood, they need sharp incisors, not fangs (like bats)
• There is only one species of crocodile that can run on land.
• Crocodiles cannot chew.
• The yew grows out of itself.