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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.

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 at 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.

1. Hydra polyp has a high regenerative ability. If a hydra is cut into two parts, they both regenerate into an adult hydra. Hydras have been proven to be theoretically immortal.
2. American mathematician George Dantzig, while a graduate student at the university, was late for class one day and mistook the equations written on the blackboard for homework. It seemed more difficult to him than usual, but after a few days he was able to complete it. It turned out that he solved two “unsolvable” problems in statistics that many scientists had struggled with.
3. During World War II, trained dogs actively helped sappers clear mines. One of them, nicknamed Dzhulbars, discovered 7,468 mines and more than 150 shells while clearing mines in European countries in the last year of the war. Shortly before the Victory Parade in Moscow on June 24, Dzhulbars was injured and could not participate in the military dog ​​school. Then Stalin ordered the dog to be carried across Red Square on his overcoat.
4. 74-year-old Australian James Harrison has donated blood almost 1,000 times in his life. Antibodies in his rare blood type help newborns with severe anemia survive. In total, thanks to Harrison's donation, it is estimated that more than 2 million babies were saved.
5. The dog Laika was sent into space, knowing in advance that she would die. After this, the UN received a letter from a group of women from Mississippi. They demanded to condemn the inhumane treatment of dogs in the USSR and put forward a proposal: if for the development of science it is necessary to send living beings into space, in our city there are as many black children as possible for this purpose.
6. On April 1, 1976, English astronomer Patrick Moore played a prank on BBC radio by announcing that at 9:47 a.m. a rare astronomical effect would occur: Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, enter into gravitational interaction with it, and slightly weaken the Earth’s gravitational field. If listeners jump at this moment, they should experience a strange feeling. Since 9.47am the BBC has received hundreds of calls reporting strange feelings, with one woman even saying she and her friends left their chairs and flew around the room.
7. When eating celery, a person spends more calories than he takes in.
8. During the enormous popularity of Charlie Chaplin, “Chapliniads” were held throughout America - competitions for the best imitation of the actor. Chaplin himself participated in one of these competitions in San Francisco incognito, but failed to win.



9. The Englishman Horace de Vere Cole became famous as a famous joker. One of his best jokes was handing out tickets at the theater. By allocating strictly defined places to bald men, he ensured that together these bald skulls from the balcony were read as a swear word.
10. During the conquest of Weinsberg in 1140, King Conrad III of Germany allowed women to leave the destroyed city and carry in their hands what they wished. The women carried their husbands on their shoulders.
11. Only in Russian and some languages ​​of the former Soviet republics is the @ sign called a dog. In other languages, @ is most often called a monkey or a snail; there are also such exotic variants as strudel (in Hebrew), pickled herring (in Czech and Slovak), moon ear (in Kazakh).
12. If you simultaneously place two pieces of bread on the ground at two opposite points on our planet, you will get a sandwich with the globe. The first such sandwich was made in 2006, calculating the coordinates of a place in Spain and the corresponding antipodean place in New Zealand. Subsequently, the experience was repeated in many other parts of the planet. But it is very difficult for residents of Russia to make a sandwich with the Earth, since for the vast majority of the country the opposite points are located in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
13. The Japanese intestines contain unique microbes that allow them to process carbohydrates from seaweed used to make sushi much better than people of other nationalities.
14. The name of Russia does not come from the root “ros-” or “rus-” in all languages. For example, in Latvia it is called Krievija from the Krivichi tribe, who neighbored the ancient Latvians in the east. Another ancient tribe - the Wends - gave the name to Russia in the Estonian (Venemaa) and Finnish (Venäja) languages. The Chinese call our country Elos and can shorten it to simply E, but the Vietnamese read the same hieroglyph as Nga, and call Russia that way.
15. According to legend, Robin Hood took from the rich and distributed the loot to the poor. However, the nickname Hood does not mean “good” at all, as it might seem at first glance, because in English it is written Hood and translates as “hood, hide with a hood” (which is a traditional element of Robin Hood’s clothing).
16. Almost all words in the Russian language starting with the letter “a” are borrowed. There are very few nouns of Russian origin starting with “a” in modern speech - these are the words “alphabet”, “az” and “maybe”.
17. The tea bag was invented by American Thomas Sullivan in 1904 by accident. He decided to send tea to customers in silk bags instead of traditional tin cans. However, customers thought that they were offered a new way - to brew tea directly in these bags, and found this method very convenient.



18. The signature recipe of one American restaurant where George Crum worked in 1853 was French fries. One day, a customer returned fried potatoes to the kitchen, complaining that they were “too thick.” Krum, deciding to play a trick on him, cut the potatoes literally paper-thin and fried them. Thus, he invented chips, which became the restaurant's most popular dish.
19. When someone leaves without saying goodbye, we use the expression “left in English.” Although in the original this idiom was invented by the British themselves, and it sounded like “to take French leave”. It appeared during the Seven Years' War in the 18th century as a mockery of French soldiers who left their unit without permission. At the same time, the French copied this expression, but in relation to the British, and in this form it became entrenched in the Russian language.
20. During the occupation, French singer Edith Piaf performed in prisoner-of-war camps in Germany, after which she took souvenir photographs with them and German officers. Then in Paris, the faces of the prisoners of war were cut out and pasted into false documents. Piaf went to the camp on a return visit and secretly smuggled these passports, with which some prisoners managed to escape.
21. Emperor Nicholas I did not like music and, as a punishment for officers, gave them a choice between the guardhouse and listening to Glinka's operas.
22. Goats, sheep, mongooses and octopuses have rectangular pupils.
23. In Krylov’s fable “The Dragonfly and the Ant” there are the lines: “The jumping dragonfly sang the red summer.” However, the dragonfly is not known to make sounds. The fact is that at that time the word “dragonfly” served as a general name for several types of insects. And the hero of the fable is actually a grasshopper.
24. Georgy Millyar played almost all the evil spirits in Soviet fairy-tale films, and every time he was given complex makeup. Millyar hardly needed him only for the role of Kashchei the Immortal. The actor was naturally thin; in addition, during World War II, he contracted malaria while being evacuated to Dushanbe, turning into a living skeleton weighing 45 kilograms.



25. To successfully master the difficult phrase “I love you,” the British can use the mnemonic Yellow-blue bus.
26. Once a year, between the two islands of the South Korean county of Jindo, the sea parts, revealing a passage 2 km long and 40 m wide. For an hour, local residents and tourists, many of whom associate this phenomenon with the biblical parable about the waters of the Red Sea parting for Moses, walk along the opened drier and collect seafood caught in this trap.
27. Leonid Gaidai was drafted into the army in 1942 and first served in Mongolia, where he trained horses for the front. One day a military commissar came to the unit to recruit reinforcements for the active army. To the officer’s question: “Who’s in the artillery?” - Gaidai replied: “I am!” He also answered other questions: “Who is in the cavalry?”, “In the navy?”, “In reconnaissance?”, which displeased the boss. “Just wait, Gaidai,” said the military commissar, “Let me read out the whole list.” Later, the director adapted this episode for the film “Operation “Y” and other adventures of Shurik.”
28. In the 1970s, the Swedish capital Stockholm had a municipal service dog called Siv Gustavson, who could bark in a variety of ways, corresponding to different dog breeds. Her job was to bark on city streets to get dogs to bark in response. In this way, she collected information about houses whose owners did not pay dog ​​tax.
29. Born in 1993, the American girl Brooke Greenberg is still a baby in her physical and mental parameters. Her height is 76 cm, weight is 7 kg, her teeth are baby. Doctors' tests showed that there are no mutations in her genes responsible for aging. However, scientists do not lose hope with the help of new research from this girl to get closer to understanding the causes of aging in people.
30. Henri Matisse's painting "The Boat" was exhibited at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1961. Only after 40 days did someone notice that the painting was hanging upside down.



31. The production costs of all Russian coins up to and including 5 rubles exceed the face value of these coins. For example, the cost of minting a 5-kopeck coin is 71 kopecks.
32. Nurse Violet Jessop survived when the HMHS Britannic hit a German mine in 1916 and the lifeboat she boarded for evacuation was sucked under a spinning propeller. Four years earlier, the same nurse was on board the Titanic - a ship of the same class and of the same company - and also managed to survive. And in 1911, Vilett was on board the “big brother” of these two liners, the Olympic, when it collided with the cruiser Hawk, although no one was injured in that accident.
33. Vietnamese Thai Ngoc, born in 1942, has not slept for more than 30 years. He lost his desire to sleep in 1973 after suffering a bout of fever. The press has repeatedly reported that Thai Ngoc does not experience any discomfort or illness due to lack of sleep, but several years ago he admitted that he “feels like a plant without water.”
34. Swedish King Gustav III once decided to personally check which was more harmful to humans - tea or coffee. For this purpose, two twins sentenced to death were selected. The first was given a large cup of tea three times a day, the second - coffee. The king himself did not live to see the end of the experiment, being killed. The twins lived a long time, but the one who drank tea was the first to die at the age of 83.
35. On April 1, 2010, the British online seller of computer games GameStation included in the user agreement, which buyers must read before making a payment, a clause according to which the buyer also gives his soul to the store for eternal use. As a result, 7,500 people, or 88% of the total number of users, agreed with this point. This showed how easily the vast majority of users who don't read such documents can legally agree to a seller's most insane demand.
36. The novel about the adventures of Robinson Crusoe has a sequel, in which the hero is shipwrecked off the coast of Southeast Asia and is forced to get to Europe through all of Russia. In particular, he waits out the winter in Tobolsk for 8 months.
37. Journalists from The Daily Telegraph named Croatian Frane Selak the luckiest person in the world. The first time luck smiled at him was in 1964, when a train derailed and fell into the river. 17 people died, but Frane managed to swim ashore. Then the following incidents happened to Frane: he fell into a haystack from an airplane during the flight of which the door swung open, killing 19 people; swam ashore after a bus fell into the river; got out of a car that suddenly caught fire a few seconds before the gas tank exploded; escaped with bruises after being hit by a bus; drove his car off a mountain road, managing to jump out and catch on a tree. Finally, in 2003, Frane bought a lottery ticket for the first time in his life and won 600 thousand pounds.



38. On December 9, 1708, Peter I issued a decree on how to treat superiors: “A subordinate in front of his superiors should look dashing and stupid, so as not to embarrass his superiors with his understanding.”
39. Korney Chukovsky's real name was Nikolai Vasilyevich Korneychukov.
40. If you travel in the Moscow metro towards the city center, stations will be announced in a male voice, and when moving from the center - in a female voice. On the Circle Line, a man's voice can be heard when moving clockwise, and a woman's voice can be heard counterclockwise. This was done to make it easier for blind passengers to navigate.
41. In the era of black-and-white television, red filters were often used in cameras, causing red lipstick to make lips appear pale on television screens. Therefore, announcers and actresses were made up with green blush and lipstick.
42. Alexandre Dumas once took part in a duel where the participants drew lots, and the loser had to shoot himself. The lot went to Dumas, who retired to the next room. A shot rang out, and then Dumas returned to the participants with the words: “I shot, but missed.”
43. The island of Barbados got its name from the Portuguese explorer Pedro Campos, who saw many fig trees growing there, entwined with beard-like epiphytes. Barbados means "bearded" in Portuguese.
44. In 1910, a criminal sentenced to execution shouted into the crowd: “Drink Van Hutten’s cocoa!” in exchange for a substantial sum from the cocoa producer for the heirs. This phrase hit all the newspapers, and sales increased sharply.
45. South African law allows for any degree of self-defense when it comes to a threat to a person’s life or property. To protect cars from theft, traps, stun guns and even flamethrowers are popular here.
46. According to popular belief, kangaroos and emus cannot walk backwards. That is why these animals are depicted on the coat of arms of Australia as a symbol of forward movement and progress.
47. Max Factor, a world-famous cosmetics company, was founded by Maximilian Faktorovich, who was born in 1877 in Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire. He opened his first store in the city of Ryazan, gradually achieved the status of supplier to the royal family, and in 1904 emigrated to the USA.



48. The Lord of the Rings trilogy generated a lot of income in New Zealand, where filming took place. The New Zealand government even created the position of Minister for The Lord of the Rings Affairs, who was supposed to resolve all emerging economic issues.
49. The American extravagant writer Timothy Dexter wrote a book in 1802 with very peculiar language and the absence of any punctuation. In response to reader outcry, in the second edition of the book he added a special page with punctuation marks, asking readers to arrange them in the text to their liking.
50. An ordinary book of a standard format of 500 pages cannot be crushed, even if you put 15 cars loaded with coal on it.
51. Pushkin was a master of sarcastic impromptu. When he was still a chamberlain, Pushkin once appeared before a high-ranking official who was lying on the sofa and yawning from boredom. When the young poet appeared, the high-ranking official did not even think about changing his position. Pushkin gave the owner of the house everything he needed and wanted to leave, but was ordered to speak impromptu. Pushkin squeezed out through his teeth: “Children on the floor - smart people on the sofa.” The person was disappointed with the impromptu: “Well, what’s so witty here - children on the floor, smart guy on the sofa? I can’t understand... I expected more from you.” Pushkin was silent, and the high-ranking official, repeating the phrase and moving the syllables, finally came to the following result: “The half-smart kid is on the couch.” After the meaning of the impromptu came to the owner, Pushkin was immediately and indignantly thrown out the door.





52. Apples help you wake up in the morning better than coffee.
53. During migration, storks can periodically fall asleep without falling to the ground for up to ten minutes. A tired stork moves to the center of the school, closes its eyes and dozes off, and its heightened hearing helps it maintain the direction and altitude of its flight at this time.
54. Khrushchev’s famous phrase “I’ll show you Kuzka’s mother!” At the UN Assembly it was translated literally - “Kuzma’s mother”. The meaning of the phrase was completely incomprehensible and this made the threat take on a completely ominous character. Subsequently, the expression “Kuzka’s mother” was also used to refer to the atomic bombs of the USSR.
55. The Cuban poet Julian del Casal, whose poems were distinguished by deep pessimism, died of laughter. He was having dinner with friends, one of whom told a joke. The poet began to have an attack of uncontrollable laughter, which caused aortic dissection, bleeding and sudden death.
56. When developing the Pobeda car, it was planned that the name of the car would be “Motherland”. Having learned about this, Stalin ironically asked: “Well, how much will we have a Motherland?” Therefore, the name was changed to “Victory”.
57. Tsetse flies attack any moving warm object, even a car. The exception is the zebra, which the fly perceives as just a flickering of black and white stripes.
58. If the body of an adult sponge is pressed through the mesh tissue, then all the cells will separate from each other. If you then place them in water and mix them, completely destroying all the connections between them, then after some time they begin to gradually come closer together and reunite, forming a whole sponge, similar to the previous one.
59. The French writer and humorist Alphonse Allais, a quarter of a century before Kazimir Malevich, painted a black square - a painting called “The Battle of Negroes in a Cave in the Dead of Night.” He also anticipated John Cage's minimalist musical piece of only silence "4'33" by almost seventy years with his similar work "Funeral March for the Funeral of the Great Deaf Man."
60. Panther is not a separate animal, but the name of a biological genus, which includes four species: lions, tigers, leopards and jaguars. The term “panther” is often used to refer to large black cats - this is a genetic variant of the coloration of leopards or jaguars, a manifestation of melanism.



61. A person cannot laugh by tickling himself. This is prevented by the cerebellum, which is responsible for the sensations caused by one’s own movements and sends commands to other parts of the brain to ignore these sensations. An exception to this rule may be tickling the palate with the tongue.
62. You can distinguish herbivorous animals from predators by the location of their eyes. Predators have eyes on the front of their snout, allowing them to precisely focus on their prey while tracking and chasing. In herbivores, the eyes are usually located on different sides of the muzzle, which increases the radius of vision for early detection of danger from a predator. Exceptions include monkeys, which have binocular vision and are not predators.
63. French writer Guy de Maupassant was one of those who was irritated by the Eiffel Tower. Nevertheless, he dined at her restaurant every day, explaining that this was the only place in Paris from which the tower could not be seen.
64. Sofya Kovalevskaya became acquainted with mathematics in early childhood, when there was not enough wallpaper for her room, instead of which sheets of Ostrogradsky’s lectures on differential and integral calculus were pasted.
65. The driest place on Earth is not the Sahara or any other known desert, but an area in Antarctica called the Dry Valleys. These valleys are almost completely free of ice and snow, as moisture evaporates under the influence of powerful winds reaching speeds of 320 km/h. In some areas of this area there has been no rain for two million years.



66. It has long been believed that ancient Greek white marble sculptures were originally colorless. However, recent research by scientists has confirmed the hypothesis that the statues were painted in a wide range of colors, which eventually disappeared under prolonged exposure to light and air.
67. When Pablo Picasso was born, the midwife considered him stillborn. The child was saved by his uncle, who was smoking cigars and, seeing the baby lying on the table, blew smoke in his face, after which Pablo began to roar. Thus, we can say that smoking saved Picasso's life.
68. Previously, an alternative name for the constellation Ursa Major together with the Polar Star was widespread in Rus' - the Frozen Horse (meaning a grazing horse tied with a rope to a peg). And the Polar Star, accordingly, was called the Funny Star.
69. Scientists have not yet figured out what the physiological reason for the yawning process is. There are several theories: for example, that when yawning a person receives a large portion of oxygen when there is a lack of oxygen in the body, or that in this way the overheated brain “resets” its temperature, but not a single theory has yet been convincingly proven. However, it has been proven that yawning is contagious. A person is more likely to yawn when he sees another person yawning, or when someone on the phone yawns. Contagious yawning has also been identified in chimpanzees.
70. According to the ancient Jewish rite, on the day of remission of sins, the high priest placed his hands on the head of the goat and thereby laid the sins of the entire people on it. The goat was then taken into the Judean desert and released. This is where the expression “scapegoat” comes from.
71. Initially, on Gogol’s grave in the monastery cemetery there was a stone nicknamed Golgotha ​​because of its resemblance to Mount Jerusalem. When they decided to destroy the cemetery, during reburial in another place they decided to install a bust of Gogol on the grave. And that same stone was subsequently placed on Bulgakov’s grave by his wife. In this regard, Bulgakov’s phrase, which he repeatedly addressed to Gogol during his lifetime, is noteworthy: “Teacher, cover me with your overcoat.”
72. Spiral staircases in the towers of medieval castles were built in such a way that they were climbed clockwise. This was done so that in the event of a siege of the castle, the defenders of the tower would have an advantage during hand-to-hand combat, since the most powerful blow with the right hand can only be delivered from right to left, which was inaccessible to the attackers. There is only one castle with a reverse twist - the fortress of the Counts Wallenstein, since most of the men of this kind were left-handed.
73. If powerful lightning strikes the surface of the earth, it can leave its mark - a hollow glass tube called fulgurite. Such a tube consists of silica (or sand) melted by an electric current from lightning. Fulgurites can go several meters deep into the earth, although due to their fragility it is very difficult to dig them out completely.



74. In the 17th and 18th centuries in England there was a position of royal uncorker of ocean bottles with letters. Anyone else who opened the bottles on their own faced the death penalty.
75. Not only does a tiger have striped fur, but it also has striped skin underneath.
76. During the rapid development of dentistry in the 17th to 19th centuries, one of the most popular sources for artificial teeth were the teeth of those killed on the battlefield. The brand “Waterloo Teeth” went down in history for the special quality of the material, because many young soldiers with healthy teeth died in that battle.
77. The expressiveness of Elizabeth Taylor's gaze was explained not only by her natural charm, but also by a rare genetic mutation - the actress had a double row of eyelashes.
78. In one of the first editions of Ozhegov’s explanatory dictionary, they decided not to include the names of city residents, so as not to once again increase its size. An exception was made only for the word “Leningrader,” but not as a sign of special respect to the residents of Leningrad. It was simply necessary to separate the words “lazy” and “Leninist”, which stood side by side, so as not to discredit the image of young Leninists.
79. The artist Vladislav Koval sent letters to his family while studying in Moscow. At the same time, he did not stick stamps on the envelopes, but drew them, and all the letters arrived in this form. When the Ministry of Press announced a competition for sketches of new stamps, student Koval brought a pack of envelopes to the organizers and became the winner.
80. It is generally accepted that Napoleon was very short - 157 cm. This figure is obtained if we convert the value of 5 feet 2 inches to the metric system. However, at that time the feet were not only English; in almost every country the feet were different. Converted from French feet, Napoleon's height is 169 cm and is average for his era.
81. The Bengal ficus tree is distinguished by a special life form called banyan. On large horizontal branches of an adult tree, aerial roots are formed that grow downward. Growing to the ground, they take root in it and become new trunks. In this way, a banyan tree can grow over an area of ​​several hectares.



82. When giving birth, a giraffe falls to the ground from almost two meters in height.
83. Tyutelka is a diminutive of the dialect tyutya (“blow, hit”), the name for an accurate hit with an ax in the same place during carpentry work. Today, to denote high accuracy, the expression “tail to neck” is used.
84. There is a widespread legend that the idea of ​​the periodic table of chemical elements came to Mendeleev in a dream. One day he was asked if this was true, to which the scientist replied: “I’ve been thinking about it for maybe twenty years, but you think: I sat there and suddenly... it’s ready.”
85. Humans and animals need ears not only for hearing. The inner ear also contains an organ that is responsible for the balance of the body.
86. Stevens Island in New Zealand was home to a population of flightless birds - New Zealand wrens - back in the 19th century. In 1894, the lighthouse keeper's cat on this island completely exterminated all representatives of this species. When the caretaker provided the bird carcasses to scientists, they compiled the first scientific description of the species, and immediately declared it extinct.
87. Giordano Bruno was burned by the Catholic Church not for scientific (namely support of the Copernican heliocentric theory), but for anti-Christian and anti-church views (for example, the statement that Christ performed imaginary miracles and was a magician).
88. During World War II, Oscar statuettes were made from plaster.
89. John Rockefeller Jr. was the only son of the famous billionaire, surrounded by four sisters. The children were brought up in austerity and economy, and John wore his sisters’ dresses until he was eight years old. Later, he did not hide this fact, but, on the contrary, was proud of it, considering this approach an important component of the family’s prosperity.
90. After the completion of the Winter Palace, the entire area was littered with construction debris. Emperor Peter III decided to get rid of it in an original way - he ordered it to be announced to the people that anyone could take anything they wanted from the square, for free. After a few hours, all the debris was cleared.



91. The expression “after the rain on Thursday” arose from distrust of Perun, the Slavic god of thunder and lightning, whose day was Thursday. Prayers to him often did not achieve their goal, so they began to talk about the impossible, that this would happen after the rain on Thursday.
92. For a long time, the value of coins was equivalent to the amount of metal they contained. In this regard, there was a problem - scammers cut small pieces of metal from the edges to make new coins from them. A solution to the problem was proposed by Isaac Newton, who was also an employee of the British Royal Mint. His idea was very simple - to cut small lines into the edges of the coin, because of which the hewed edges would be immediately noticeable. This part of the coins is designed in this way to this day and is called the edge.
93. Whales, dolphins and other cetaceans are also called secondary aquatic: their ancestors, in the process of evolution, first left the water and then returned there again.
94. In public libraries in medieval Europe, books were chained to the shelves. Such chains were long enough to remove a book from the shelf and read, but did not allow the book to be taken out of the library. This practice was widespread until the 18th century, due to the great value of each copy of the book.
95. Female great red kangaroos can mate at any time of the year and are usually constantly pregnant. However, they have the ability to delay the birth of a baby while another newborn is still growing in the pouch and cannot leave it. They usually resort to such freezing of embryo development under unfavorable external conditions, such as drought. Also, females of this species of kangaroo can simultaneously produce milk of different fat contents for cubs of different ages.
96. The myth of a hedgehog storing apples and mushrooms was invented by Pliny the Elder. According to him, the hedgehog can “deliberately” grab grapes, and in some cases, apples. In reality, a hedgehog is physically incapable of riding on its back while piercing fruits.



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We present to your attention quick facts about everything in the world. Such collections are interesting because you don’t have to read a long and tedious text. You can stop at any moment without losing the main idea. After all, brief facts, as a rule, take one or two sentences, no more.

In general, they are very helpful in broadening their horizons, especially for those who, due to certain circumstances, should know a little more than the average educated citizen.

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Did you know that every minute, the world's mobile operators earn more than 800 thousand dollars from sending SMS messages alone?

In 60 seconds, it emits as much energy into space as our planet cannot expend even in a year.

An interesting fact is that over the past 20 years, thermal records have been constantly recorded on Earth. This means that the planet's average temperature is rising rapidly.

Quick Facts: If a million dollars were exchanged for $1 bills, they would weigh 1 ton. Imagine that - a ton of money!

Everyone knows that India has a unique culture. So this practice is quite common there: a man marries the daughter of his older sister, that is, his niece.

About 10% of criminals commit almost 70% of the world's crimes.

Acid rain was first recorded in 1872. This happened in England.

The largest shopping and entertainment center is located in Dubai. Just think, its total area is more than 1.2 million m², and its retail area is 350,244 m².

We wrote a separate article about this, but given that we have brief facts before us, let’s just say that it is also located in Dubai. Its height is 828 meters.

Do you know where chess was invented? Of course, in India.

About 10% of the world's population are left-handed.

During the fourth week of pregnancy, the fetus's heart begins to beat. After that it never stops, until death.

Surely interesting ones will surprise you very much. But again, given that this is an article with brief facts, we will say briefly and only one thing: the list of gifts given in honor of his 70th birthday was published in newspapers starting in 1949 until the leader’s death in 1953.

It sounds funny, but the thickness of the average book page is approximately half a million atoms.

One version of the origin of the word “ruble” comes down to the fact that in ancient times a silver ingot was cut into four parts, each of which was called a ruble, from the word “to chop.”

Quick and interesting fact: every month whose first day falls on a Sunday will definitely have a Friday on the 13th.

It's funny, but penguins can't walk straight without shaking their heads.

In some English-speaking countries there is: on February 29, a woman can propose to any man, and he has no right to refuse her. It’s good that there is no legal liability for refusal yet.

Most Americans regularly use the word “fuck” in their vocabulary.

What do you think is the most common color on national flags? That's right, it's red.

Many young mothers worry that their newborn baby may accidentally choke. However, the human body is designed in such a way that after birth and up to 7-9 months, a child can swallow and breathe at the same time. So there is no reason to worry.

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