Incredible facts
People are half bananas, and a piece of paper can reach the moon. These facts seem implausible, although in fact they are absolutely true.
1. The human eye is so sensitive that if the Earth were flat, we would see a candle in the dark at a distance of 32 kilometers.
The most distant object visible to the naked eye is the Andromeda galaxy, which is located 2.6 million light-years from Earth.
2. If you remove all the empty space in the atoms of all people, then the entire human race can fit into a sugar cube.
Humanity, or the atoms that make us up, is 99.9999999999999% empty space. In theory, if you remove all the empty space, you can fit humanity into the volume of a sugar cube.
3. Alaska is the northernmost, western and eastern state of the USA.
Alaska is considered the easternmost and westernmost state. The Aleutian Islands of Alaska straddle the western and eastern hemispheres.
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4. The deck of cards is never shuffled in the same order.
If every star in our galaxy had a trillion planets, and every planet had a trillion people living on it, and everyone had a trillion decks of cards, and they were shuffling the cards 1000 times a second and have been doing this since the Big Bang, then it is only possible now the order would be repeated.
5. Every 200th person living today is a descendant of Genghis Khan.
The ruler of one of the largest empires in history, Genghis Khan went to great lengths to pass on his genes.
6. If a nickel were the size of the Earth, an atom would be the size of a nickel.
If you received an atom of gold every second since the Big Bang, your gold jewelry would weigh no more than 0.14 milligrams.
7. 1 out of 10 photographs taken in human history was taken in the last 12 months.
By some estimates, people took about 880 billion photos in 2014, mostly selfies.
8. Your blood vessels are long enough to circle the Earth 12 times.
There are 160,000 km of blood vessels in the human body. This is enough to circle the Earth with a diameter of 12,742 km.
9. There are more stars in the Universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches of our planet.
There are about 10 sextillion stars in the Universe (1 followed by 22 zeros). There are approximately 5 sextillion grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth.
10. Antarctica is the world's largest desert.
Although Antarctica is not desert-like, it receives less than 5 cm of precipitation per year. The Sahara Desert receives up to 10 cm of precipitation per year.
11. A line of all possible combinations of a Rubik's cube can reach the Sun more than 17 million times.
If you had a separate cube for each possible permutation of the Rubik's Cube, and you laid them out in a continuous chain, it would stretch over 262 light years. For comparison, the Sun is 8 light-minutes away, and the nearest star is Proxima Centauri at a distance of 4 light-years from Earth.
12. If you fold a piece of paper 42 times, it will be thick enough to reach the moon.
Every time you fold a piece of paper, its thickness increases exponentially. By the time you fold a piece of paper 20 times, it will be 9.6 km high, taller than Everest. This means that 42 folds would be thick enough to reach 239,000 km to the Moon.
13. Your brain has more nerve connections than stars in the galaxy.
The number of synapses in the average human brain is in the trillions, namely 0.15 quadrillion. There are about 100 billion stars in the Milky Way.
14. If there are 57 people in a room, there is a 99 percent chance that at least two of them will have the same birthday.
Add 13 more people and the odds increase to 99.99 percent.
15. There is a whole “jungle” in your navel.
In the tiny pit of your belly lies an ecosystem the size of a jungle. After studying 60 navels, scientists found 2,368 species of bacteria there, 1,458 of which are unknown to science.
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16. The world population of ants has the same weight as the world population of people.
Ants outnumber humans by 1 million to one, which compensates for their small size.
17. The weight of the Internet is equal to one strawberry
Most digital information in motion is made up of electrons, just like everything else. It is estimated that global Internet traffic weighs about 50 grams.
18. A calculator more powerful than the computers that landed people on the moon in 1969
And the iPhone5's memory capacity is 240,000 times greater than that of the Voyager spacecraft.
19. 50 percent of human DNA is similar to banana
Our DNA is 95 percent shares chimpanzee DNA, and 50 percent bananas. We all come from the same family tree, the tree of life, and therefore we have similar characteristics.
20. The surface of Mars is better explored than the ocean floor.
About 72 percent of the Earth's surface is covered with water. So far we have explored only 5 percent of this vast area.
21. Human fingers are so sensitive that if they were the size of the Earth, they would feel the difference between houses and cars.
Human fingers are capable of feeling incredibly small imperfections on a nanoscale on an apparently completely smooth surface.
22. Plankton produces 50 percent of the Earth's oxygen.
Phytoplankton, like trees and plants, use photosynthesis to convert light into energy.
23. Russia's landmass is greater than that of Pluto
Pluto is one of the largest dwarf planets. Pluto's surface area is 1.67 x 10^7 square meters. km. Pluto's size is approximately 3.3 percent of Earth's surface.
24. Every day a video is uploaded to YouTube,equivalent to 16 years
6 billion hours of recorded human history are uploaded every month.
25. The deepest place in the ocean is so deep that if Everest were placed on the bottom, the top would still be 1.6 km underwater.
The Mariana Trench, which is about 11 km deep, is located in the Pacific Ocean and is home to the most mysterious marine life.
Interesting historical facts attract with their diversity. Thanks to them, humanity has a unique opportunity to understand what happened in a given period of development of a nation, society and states. Facts from history are not just what we were told at school. There is a lot that is classified in this area of knowledge.
1. Peter the Great had his own method to combat alcoholism in the country. Drunkards were awarded medals that weighed approximately 7 kilograms and could not be removed from their person.
2. In the times of Ancient Rus', grasshoppers were called dragonflies.
3.The anthem of Thailand was written by a Russian composer.
5.Those who urinated in the pond were executed during the time of Genghis Khan.
7. Braids were a sign of feudalism in China.
8.The virginity of English women in Tudor times was symbolized by bracelets on their arms and a tightly tightened corset.
9.Nero, who was an emperor in ancient Rome, married his male slave.
10. In ancient times in India, ear mutilation was used as a punishment.
11.Arabic numerals were not invented by Arabs, but by mathematicians from India.
13.Binding feet was considered an ancient tradition of the Chinese people. The essence of this was to make the foot smaller, and therefore more feminine and beautiful.
14.Morphine was once used to relieve cough.
15.The ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun had a sister and brother.
16. Gaius Julius Caesar had the nickname “boots”.
17.Elizabeth the First covered her own face with lead white and vinegar. This is how she hid traces of smallpox.
18. The symbol of the Russian tsars was precisely the Monomakh cap.
19. Pre-revolutionary Russia was considered the most non-drinking country.
20.Until the 18th century, Russia did not have a flag.
21. Since November 1941, the Soviet Union had a tax on childlessness. It amounted to 6% of the entire salary.
22.Trained dogs provided assistance in clearing mines during World War II.
23. Almost no earthquakes were recorded during the large-scale nuclear tests of 1960-1990.
24. For Hitler, the main enemy was not Stalin, but Yuri Levitan. He even announced a reward of 250,000 marks for his head.
25.The Icelandic “Saga of Hakon Hakonarson” talked about Alexander Nevsky.
26. Fist fights have long been famous in Rus'.
27. Catherine the Second abolished flogging for the military for same-sex contacts.
28. Only Joan of Arc, who called herself a messenger of God, managed to expel the invaders from France.
29.The length of the Cossack seagull, which we remember from the history of the Zaporozhye Sich, reached approximately 18 meters.
30. Genghis Khan defeated the Keraits, Merkits and Naimans.
31. By order of Emperor Augustus, houses that were taller than 21 meters were not built in Ancient Rome. This minimized the risk of being buried alive.
32.The Colosseum is considered the bloodiest place in history.
33. Alexander Nevsky had the military rank of “khan”.
34.During the time of the Russian Empire, it was allowed to carry edged weapons.
35.Soldiers in Napoleon's army addressed the generals on a first name basis.
36.During the Roman war, soldiers lived in tents of 10 people.
37. Any touching of the emperor in Japan before World War II was blasphemy.
38.Boris and Gleb are the first Russian saints who were canonized in 1072.
39. A Red Army machine gunner named Semyon Konstantinovich Hitler, who was Jewish by nationality, took part in the Great Patriotic War.
40. In the old days in Rus', to clean pearls, they were given to a chicken to peck at them. After this, the chicken was slaughtered and the pearls were pulled out of its stomach.
41. From the very beginning, people who cannot speak Greek were called barbarians.
42. In pre-revolutionary Russia, name days for Orthodox people were a more important holiday than birthdays.
43.When England and Scotland came to a union, Great Britain was created.
44.After Alexander the Great brought cane sugar from one of his Indian campaigns to Greece, it immediately began to be called “Indian salt.”
45. In the 17th century, thermometers were filled not with mercury, but with cognac.
46.The first condom in the world was invented by the Aztecs. It was made from a fish bladder.
47. In 1983, not a single human birth was registered in the Vatican.
48.From the 9th to the 16th centuries in England there was a law that every man must practice archery daily.
49.When the Winter Palace was stormed, only 6 people died.
50.About 13,500 houses were destroyed during the great and famous fire of London in 1666.
A lot of strange things happen in this world, and it is almost impossible to immediately believe in the reality of some stories. It is stories like this that are a true journalistic success. After all, an ordinary quiet life can never become the topic of a news story. We offer our readers a small selection of such short and amazing facts.
You probably won't be able to resist checking out some of the facts on our list. Here are 60 facts that are incredibly difficult to believe:
1. You can get a fractal tattoo from a lightning strike (the so-called Lichtenberg figure).
2. About one child in five thousand is born without an anus. This phenomenon is called an imperforate anus, which is repaired through surgery.
3. If a Google employee dies, his or her spouse receives half salary for 10 years and their children receive a benefit of $1,000 per month until age 19.
4. Indian housewives own 11% of the world's gold reserves. This is more than the reserves of the US, IMF, Switzerland and Germany combined.
5. Lobsters do not age and die. In fact, as far as scientists know, they die only from external factors.
6. Saturn's rings are only 9 to 90 meters thick.
7. If you eat polar bear liver, you will die. People cannot handle that amount of vitamin A.
8. Honey does not spoil. It is quite possible to eat honey that is more than 5,000 years old.
9. In 1982, a man entered Buckingham Palace and spent half an hour there, eating cheddar cheese he found and walking around the palace chambers. The alarm systems never worked because they were faulty. He looked at the royal portraits and rested on the throne for some time. Then the attacker drank half a bottle of wine, got tired and left the palace.
10. If you remove all the empty space in the atoms that make up every inhabitant of our planet, then the entire population of the Earth could fit in one apple.
11. The human eye is so sensitive that if the Earth were flat, we would see a candle in the dark at a distance of 32 kilometers. The most distant object visible to the naked eye is the Andromeda Galaxy, which is located 2.6 million light-years from Earth.
12. If you remove all the empty space in the atoms of all people, then the entire human race can fit into a sugar cube. The atoms that make us up are 99.9999999999999% of empty space. In theory, if you remove all the empty space, you can fit humanity into the volume of a sugar cube.
13. On September 11, after the collapse of both towers of the World Trade Center in New York, several fighter planes were scrambled without combat equipment in order to prevent attacks on other targets by hijacked terrorist aircraft. At the same time, the pilots received orders to ram the hijacked planes and thus destroy their own aircraft, using the ejection system at the last moment.
14. A deck of cards is never shuffled in the same order. If every star in our galaxy had a trillion planets, and every planet had a trillion people, and everyone had a trillion decks of cards, and they were shuffling the cards a thousand times a second, and they've been doing this since the Big Bang, then maybe Only now the order would be repeated.
15. Every 200th person living today is a descendant of Genghis Khan. The Great Khan had a large harem and a huge offspring. Scientists come to the conclusion that the great ancestor of 16 million Asians could have been the Great Khan or one of his direct descendants.
16. Every tenth photograph taken in human history was taken in the last 12 months. By some estimates, people took about 880 billion photos in 2014, mostly selfies.
17. To become a driver of the famous London black cab taxi, you need to know more than 25 thousand roads and the location of 50 thousand attractions, as well as pass a special test called “theKnowledge”. To pass the exam, candidates usually need twelve attempts and about 34 months of preparation.
18. Your blood vessels are long enough to circle the Earth two and a half times. The total length of the blood vessels of the human body is about 100 thousand kilometers. This is more than twice the length of the Earth's equator.
19. There are more stars in the Universe than grains of sand on all the beaches of our planet. There are about 10 sextillion stars in the Universe (one followed by 22 zeros). There are approximately 5 sextillion grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth.
20. At the end of the Vietnam War, the crew of the USS Midway pushed $10 million worth of helicopters overboard so that a Cessna plane carrying evacuees could land on its deck.
21. Antarctica is the largest desert in the world. Although Antarctica is not desert-like, it receives less than 5 cm of precipitation per year. The Sahara Desert receives up to 10 cm of precipitation per year.
22. If you fold a piece of paper 42 times, it will be thick enough to reach the moon. And again theoretical calculations. Every time you fold a piece of paper, its thickness doubles. If we assume that the thickness of a sheet of office paper is 0.1 millimeters, then at the first fold it will be 0.2 millimeters, at the second 0.4, at the third 0.8 and so on. That is, if a sheet of paper could be folded 42 times, the thickness of the resulting structure would be almost 440 thousand kilometers. Whereas the distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,400 kilometers.
23. Your brain has more nerve connections than stars in the galaxy. The average human brain contains about 200 billion nerve cells, which connect to each other at hundreds of trillions of synapses. According to modern estimates, there are from 200 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
24. A line of all possible combinations of a Rubik's cube can reach the Sun more than 17 million times. The number of possible different states of a Rubik's cube is more than 43 quintillion combinations. If you had a separate cube for each possible permutation of the Rubik's Cube, and you laid them out in a continuous chain, it would stretch over 262 light years.
25. Paul Kern was a Hungarian soldier who was wounded in 1915 during one of the battles of the First World War. A Russian soldier's bullet hit him in the head and destroyed part of the frontal lobe of his brain. However, she did not kill Kern, but instead deprived him of his ability to sleep. He continued to live life to the fullest, without any need for sleep.
26. At the time of its release, the iPhone had the same computing power that NASA had in 1969, when the historic manned flight to the Moon was carried out.
27. There's a whole jungle in your belly button. Scientists from the University of North Carolina have found that this delicate part of the human body can concentrate up to 1.4 thousand different types of microbes, 662 of them are unique and, moreover, have never been known to science before. Scientists have compared the navel to a tropical forest of microbial fauna.
28. The world population of ants has the same weight as the world population of people. Ants outnumber humans by a million to one, which compensates for their small size.
29. The weight of the Internet is equal to one strawberry. It all started when one of the mathematicians calculated that an electronic reader gains weight every time we add a new book to the library. According to his version, this happens due to the energy received by electrons while they store information. Using the same mathematical principle, the scientific YouTube channel calculated the approximate mass of all traffic generated by the Internet. Surprisingly, it weighs only 50 grams - about the weight of one large strawberry.
30. In the African country of Lesotho, there is a runway where airplanes accelerate and then fall off a cliff until they gain enough speed to fly.
50% of human DNA is similar to banana. By compiling a human genetic map, scientists discovered that 50% of our genes are similar to the genes of a banana, and 40% are similar to the genes of a worm.
31. The surface of Mars is better explored than the ocean floor. About 72% of the Earth's surface is covered with water. So far we have only explored 5% of this vast area.
Every day, the equivalent of 16 years of video is uploaded to YouTube. More than 100 hours of video are uploaded to the most popular Internet resource YouTube every minute, that is, more than four full days of video are uploaded in a minute.
32. In 1995, someone dropped an antique 600-year-old plaster figure of Buddha. As a result, it was discovered that a layer of plaster hid a solid gold figurine underneath.
33. If Everest were placed at the bottom of the deepest place in the ocean, its top would be two kilometers under water. The depth of the Mariana Trench, one of the most poorly studied places on the planet, is about 11 thousand kilometers. The highest peak in the world rises above sea level to a height of 8848 meters.
34. A New Zealand truck driver fell on a high-pressure air valve. He pierced the left buttock and pumped air into the poor guy, doubling his size and nearly killing him. The driver survived, but it took him three days to get rid of excess air by emitting gases.
35. Alpacas can die from loneliness. When purchasing animals, you need to buy a pair of alpacas at once.
36. After hitting his head on the bottom of a swimming pool, one Derek Amato from Colorado woke up and discovered that he had an extraordinary talent. He developed the so-called savant syndrome, a rare condition of the brain in which the so-called “island of genius” begins to operate. He later became an outstanding pianist without taking a single music lesson.
37. A modern calculator is more powerful than the computers that landed people on the moon in 1969. And the amount of RAM of the IPhone5 is 15.5 thousand times higher than that of the computers of the Voyager spacecraft.
38. Throughout the entire song Coconut, only one chord is used. It is the only song without a chord change to appear on the Billboard Hot 100. It peaked at number 8 in 1972.
39. The longest sniper shot in history was made from a distance of 2475 meters by British cavalry corporal Craig Harrison in 2009. His bullet traveled to the target for more than 6 seconds.
40. There is a computer application containing information about all the inhabitants of Iceland since the eighteenth century. Since the country's population is very small, only about 320 thousand, this program can be used to prevent sexual relations between relatives. To do this, you just need to enter both names of lovers into it.
41. Mantis crabs can move their claws so quickly that water boils around them and creates a flash of light.
42. The number of possible combinations of moves in chess exceeds the number of atoms in the entire Universe (for those interested, read the articles on the Shannon number).
43. All the hair on a person’s head can support a weight of 12 tons.
44. Dead people get goosebumps.
45. There are more confirmed deaths from molasses drowning than from coyote attacks. (The Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919 killed 21 people. However, only two fatal coyote attacks on humans were recorded.)
46. If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, it would reach the moon (assuming an average sheet thickness of approximately 0.01 cm).
47. Neil Armstrong passed through US Customs in Honolulu, Hawaii on his way back from the Moon.
48. Pluto lost its status as a planet because it never made full revolutions around the Sun in a certain orbit that belonged only to it.
49. There are dead wasps in figs. This is due to the fact that the wasps climb inside, lay eggs and die. In this way, they help pollination and are digested over time by the fig's enzymes.
50. Initially, McDonald's is a real estate company. We are engaged in real estate transactions. The only reason we sell hamburgers is because they are the best way to generate the income that allows our tenants to pay rent, said company founder Harry Sonnenborn.
51. Elvis was a natural blond.
52. The song Happy Birthday to You is copyrighted.
53. On average, each chocolate bar contains 8 insect particles.
54. Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.
55. A supersonic jet once broke the sound barrier over a field of turkeys. The supersonic boom caused a heart attack in the turkeys, killing them all.
56. If you had a long enough straw, you would only be able to suck up water up to about 10 meters. After this, the water boils spontaneously.
57. Plankton produces half of the oxygen on Earth. Phytoplankton, like trees and plants, use photosynthesis to convert light into energy. As a result, the oxygen we breathe is produced.
58. Gary Numan (the surname means New Man) is older than Gary Oldman (the surname means Old Man or Old Man)
59. If you do not have a child, then you will become the first childless person in the family tree, going back to the very beginning of human history.
60. Portugal decriminalized all drugs eleven years ago and since then the number of drug addicts has halved. In the country, drug addiction is not considered a crime, but a health problem.
The new children's book from National Geographic contains many interesting facts that many of you probably didn't know about. By the way, the book is called “5000 amazing facts (about everything) 2.” If you need to show off your intelligence in a company or start some kind of debate or conversation, these interesting facts can help you. Replenishing our stock of erudite.
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1. In 1889, Queen Margaret of Savoy of Italy ordered the first pizza delivery.
2. In Japan you can buy eel flavored ice cream.
3. In Portugal it is considered indecent to write in red ink.
4. Although rarely seen in the wild, the bobcat is the most common wild cat species in North America.
5. A cat's tail contains almost 10% of all the bones in its body.
6. A gecko's feet have millions of tiny fibers that stick to surfaces with the help of a special chemical bond, which allows these reptiles to climb walls and hang on just one finger.
7. The word “astronaut” comes from Greek words that mean “star” and “sailor.”
8. The calcium in our bones and the iron in our blood came from the ancient explosion of huge stars.
9. The Nile crocodile can hold its breath underwater for up to 2 hours while waiting for prey.
10. Jellyfish in English are called jellyfish - literally “jelly fish”, but in fact they are not fish, because they have no brain, no heart and no bones.
11. The Chinese giant salamander can grow up to 1.8 m in length, making it the largest salamander in the world.
12. According to studies, people prefer blue toothbrushes more than red ones.
13. People used to think that if you kissed a donkey, your toothache would go away.
14. Scientists say that the best time to take a nap is between 13:00 and 14:30 because that is when the drop in temperature in our body makes us sleepy.
15. Due to changes in the speed of the Earth's rotation over time, during the era of dinosaurs, a day consisted of only 23 hours.
16. Hummingbirds' wings can beat 200 times per second.
17. There are more than 1,200 water parks in North America.
18. A seahorse can move its eyes in the opposite direction - to find food in the water and notice predators in time.
19. To cook eggs on the sidewalk, the sidewalk needs to be heated to 70°C.
20. A group of jellyfish is not called a flock, a school, or a herd. It's called relish.
21. The mass of the Sun is 99.8% of the total mass of the Solar System, and its diameter is 109 times greater than the diameter of the Earth - the Sun can accommodate 1 million Earth planets.
22. There is no ice on only 1% of Antarctica.
23. The largest wave ever ridden on a surfboard was as tall as a 10-story building.
24. A team of beagle dogs, used at 21 airports in the United States, help customs officials find and prevent about 75,000 illegal items from entering the country a year.
25. Some apples can weigh almost as much as 2 liters of milk.
26. Corn is grown on all continents except Antarctica.
27. Unlike most fish, seahorses are covered with bony plates rather than scales.
28. Every day you lose from 50 to 100 hairs.
29. The second name of the armadillo - “armadillo” - means “armored baby” translated from Spanish.
30. The world's smallest fruit - the achene - is the size of a tiny ant.
31. New Jersey has the most shopping centers.
32. Komodo dragons can eat 2 kg of meat in less than a minute. Extra fat is stored in their tail.
33. Not all moons are dry and dusty like ours. For example, Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean beneath an icy crust.
34. Some Viking leaders were buried with their ships.
35. Clouds constantly cover about 60% of the Earth.
36. All monkeys laugh when you tickle them.
37. Spotted hyenas can digest skin and bones.
38. The length of the quill of African porcupines is 3 pencils.
