Shocking facts about everything. The most interesting facts

23.08.2024

In the long history of mankind, there are many such events that did not fit into any ideas, and therefore were remembered by people for a long time. Many people know the Guinness Book of Records, which records the most diverse human achievements, but even in it it was impossible to collect the most incredible facts in the world.

1. About our planet

Every schoolchild knows that the highest peak in the world is Chomolungma or Everest. But there is a much higher mountain on the planet. This is the Hawaiian volcano Mauna Kea, which rises above sea level by only 4205 meters, but from its base on the ocean floor it has perched 10203 meters.
Between Russian Chukotka and American Alaska are the Diomede Islands, which are also divided between these countries. They are located only 4 km from each other, and the line dividing them also runs along the date line. Therefore, the time difference between them is 24 hours.
The purest water can be found in Finland, but the most dangerous is in Italian Sicily, where 2 sources of fairly strong sulfuric acid flow from a volcanic lake. But in Azerbaijan there is a source of “flammable water” - as soon as you bring a lit match to it, the “water” breaks out with a blue flame.
In fact, there are so many diamonds on the planet that every inhabitant would have a full cup of this form of carbon.

2. About the plant world

The Cardiocrinum plant is so strange and rare that it is almost never described. It blooms once in a lifetime with large flowers, which consume all the plant’s energy. As a result, the plant dies immediately.
Bamboo can grow 75 centimeters in a day.
The currently tallest tree in the world is the evergreen sequoia, which, like its relatives, has its own name Hyperion. In 700 or 800 years, it managed to grow to 115.6 meters and continues to grow. Scientists deliberately hid the exact location of the record holder to protect him from crowds of tourists.

3. About people

A person who finds himself in an unfamiliar environment will in most cases turn right. This mental property is successfully used by marketers.
Crime reporter and journalist Vlado Taneski from Macedonia was also a serial killer who often described his own crimes. But in the end he made a mistake when he published information that until that moment could not have been known to anyone except the killer.
Australian truck driver Bill Morgan is a real lucky man, and not only because he survived a 14-minute clinical death after a heart attack. Soon after, he won a large sum in the lottery. The TV crew decided to film a story about him and asked him to erase the protective layer from an instant lottery ticket on camera. And guess what - he won $250,000 again!
40% of people do not live to see their first birthday.
Australian Aboriginal culture is as old as the Ice Age, so they remember the location and names of mountains that have been hidden under the waters of the Bass Strait for 8,000 years.

4. About food

In civilized countries, laws apply equally to all citizens, regardless of their status. And the effect of these laws extends...

During the Prohibition period, owners of American vineyards adapted to concentrating grape juice to a semi-solid state - the so-called “wine bars”. They warned buyers not to leave the resulting liquid in the cupboard for three weeks after adding water, otherwise it would turn into forbidden wine. The hint was obvious.
The IOC has banned caffeine, so if an athlete drinks too much coffee or tea before a race, he will be disqualified.
Thailand produces the most expensive coffee in the world, the beans of which have passed through the digestive system of elephants. A kilogram of the Black Tusk drink is estimated at $1,100, and a cup of tea will cost a daredevil who wants to try the rare delicacy $50.
When buying bottled water, you shouldn’t rely too much on it, since 40% of it comes from the tap.

5. About countries

In 1781, among the Articles of the American Confederation, a note appeared that if Canada suddenly wanted to become part of the United States, it would be immediately accepted.
The annual cost of keeping a prisoner in a British prison costs the treasury £45,000. Isn't it easier to send him to study at Eton, which costs 1.5 times less?
Arabs write texts from right to left, but numbers are written in the opposite direction. Therefore, when reading Arabic texts replete with numerical data, you have to move your eyes here and there.
After the division of Korea into two countries, over 23,000 Koreans fled from north to south, and only 2 people in the opposite direction.

6. About the animal world

For the sake of sex, male Australian marsupial mice go to martyrdom - they are ready to mate for 14 hours without a break, completely devoting all their energy and dying from exhaustion. Biologists call this behavior “suicidal mating.”
Have you ever seen baby pigeons? Surely not, but all because they do not leave their nests for the first month, and after that they are already indistinguishable from adults.
In female plant aphids, new females that are already fertilized are born.
Beavers have transparent eyelids, so they swim calmly with their eyes closed underwater.
Rats are known to be very intelligent animals; moreover, they are the only animal other than humans that can laugh.

7. About astronauts

Hardly anyone dreams of being on a plane flying with failed engines, caught in a storm or strong crosswind. But all this and much more...

In zero gravity, the astronauts' spine straightens, as a result of which, immediately after landing, they find themselves several centimeters higher than themselves before takeoff.
A person stops snoring in zero gravity, because weightlessness relieves the pressure on his airways. We snore because the soft tissues of the throat and tongue fall inward during sleep, especially when lying on the back. During breathing, the sunken parts of the body produce unpleasant snoring. One can only envy the astronauts, at least during sleep!

8. About diseases

At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, on the 21st birthday, it was fashionable to remove all the teeth of the birthday boy and insert artificial ones.
Residents of the Kazakh village of Kalachi experience a strange sleeping sickness - they periodically fall into deep sleep, in which they remain for up to 6 days. Recently, this disease has been linked to exposure to abandoned uranium mines.
Having made an official visit to Australia in 1875, the king of Fiji contracted measles, which he brought back to his homeland, due to which he lost a quarter of his population.
At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, they tried to treat coughs with heroin.

9. About society

On average, American children have seen 200,000 murders on television by the age of 18.
Homeless people in Japan and Hong Kong have learned to take advantage of 24-hour McDonald's and live in these public catering establishments, for which they are nicknamed "Macrefugees."
British galleries and museums receive 7 times more visitors per year than Premier League football matches.
If vampires existed and drank the blood of one person every day, then after 13 days the entire population of the planet would turn into vampires.
The whole world has learned the name of the most brutal Colombian drug lord of the last century, Pablo Escobar. But he was also a loving father - his daughter recalled that when they had to hide from the police and were freezing at night, Escobar lit a fire of banknotes to warm his daughter. A night of such “heating” cost him more than 2 million dollars.

10. About sports

By the very nature of their activities, smugglers must have rich imagination and ingenuity, which are clearly not aimed at good deeds. With...

Objects resembling primitive skittles were found in an Egyptian tomb - does this mean bowling was played in the land of the pharaohs 5,200 years ago?
In 1958, the winner of the Jamaican table tennis championship was Jay Foster, who was only 8 years old at that time.
One Detroit newspaper was able to establish that 68% of professional hockey players lost at least one tooth during their careers.
The 1920 Olympic Games in Sweden went down in history by giving the world its oldest Olympic champion, 72-year-old shooter Oscar Swan.

They make an attentive observer think about it, be surprised by the diversity of life, or have a good laugh.

But in the bustle of everyday chores, we sometimes do not notice these things. Want to expand your horizons?

We offer you interesting facts from life, which will definitely lift your spirits and teach you to look at the world around you in a new way.

According to statistics, chronic alcoholics live 15 years longer than those people who work without vacation. Rest more, gentlemen, but do not abuse alcohol!
25% of our compatriots think about sex while stuck in a traffic jam. Oddly enough, only 6% think about work.
Blue-eyed people are less likely to suffer from visual impairments than brown-eyed and gray-eyed people.
Brown-eyed people are more adapted to everyday difficulties.
An interesting life fact: the more often a man makes love, the lower his risk of a heart attack. Consider these instructions for action! This, unfortunately, does not apply to women.
In the morning we are about 1 centimeter higher. During the day, the joints shrink, which makes us a little shorter in the evening.
No person in the world can sneeze with their eyes open. Want to check? Please! Just don't do this while driving a car. According to statistics, 2% of all accidents occur because the driver sneezed and lost vigilance for a couple of seconds.
Women speak 13 thousand more words per day than men. All men will agree with this fact, but women may be indignant!
Interestingly, nightmares are more likely to occur in a cold bedroom.
Foul language can temporarily dull the pain. Probably, Russian builders feel this on an intuitive level!
The more often you overeat, the worse your hearing.
Cats' taste buds are not sensitive to sweets. By the way, read in a separate article.
Men's are tougher and thicker than women's. However, there is twice as much hair on a woman's head!
If a woman periodically listens to an audio recording of a child crying, her breasts can increase by 2 centimeters in a week.
There is a small pocket on men's that designers came up with in order to hide a condom there. It's actually designed for a watch. Recommended reading.
The best cleaner for kettles, bathtubs, toilets and ovens is regular Coca-Cola!
Uncolored Coca-Cola is green.
Flavored cigarettes contain urea.
The timbre of the voices of women who work in a male team is significantly lower than that of women who work side by side with other women.
Regular sex relieves headaches. Interestingly, not all women use this fact in their lives. But men can use it as an argument!
Left-handed people find it easier to chew food with the left side of their jaws.
You can stop yawning by touching your tongue with your finger.
When talking to a person we like, our pupils involuntarily dilate.
When there are many, it is a herd. A set of horses is called a herd. A large group - a flock. But when there are a lot of frogs, it’s... an army! At least that's what zoologists call them.
A 4-5 year old child asks about 400 questions a day.
Fear of Friday the 13th is considered a disease and is successfully treated by psychotherapists.
A clear fact of life: the average person eats 35 tons of food in their lifetime.
know how to breathe through the anus.
OK (okay) is the most commonly used word in most languages of the world.
95% of emails sent are spam.
A champagne cork can jump to a height of up to 12 meters.
Interestingly, throughout the history of the Earth, no two identical snowflakes have existed. However, like people. Even twins have slight differences.
In 2 years, a couple is capable of producing more than a million cubs. For comparison, a domestic cat gives birth to no more than 100 kittens in her entire life.
The first President George Washington, in his free time, loved to admire the lush hemp bushes that grew in his garden.
Do not microwave grapes or they will explode!
The cow is unable to go down the stairs.
Incredible but true: the largest eyes on Earth belong to the giant (colossal) squid. They are approximately the size of a soccer ball.
Humpback whales scream the loudest of all animals on Earth. The cry of these mammals is louder than the roar of an airplane and can be heard in the open ocean for more than 500 kilometers.
You won't believe it, but a caterpillar has more than a person.
People in white swimsuits and swimming trunks are more likely to become victims of sharks on beaches.
The nostrils are the organ of smell, but not of breathing. Sharks breathe through gills.
Babies have more bones than adults.
The lighter the beard, the faster it grows.
An interesting fact from life: the smartest woman (according to the results of an IQ test) was... a housewife.
More than 1,000 people die every year from lightning strikes.
Cologne was originally used to treat the plague.
sleep 22 hours a day. Eh!..
The peak of household injuries and heart attacks occurs on Monday.
Every day, 13 new varieties of children's toys appear in the world.
The most common tree in the world is the Siberian larch.
And this is a terrible fact, despite the fact that it is about life. Some sharks eat their brothers and sisters while still in the womb. Truly, survival of the fittest!
Contrary to popular belief, anteaters do not eat ants. Their main food is
At the end of the 19th century, cocaine was used to treat insomnia and colds.
If you chew gum while peeling onions, it is impossible to cry.
Ticks can go 10 years without food.
Until the end of the 19th century in Russia, you could only buy vodka in a 12-liter bucket. People once knew when to stop! By the way, we recommend reading where we have collected a very interesting selection.
More men are colorblind than women.
This fact of life may surprise you. The fact is that some men are terrified of virgins. Psychologists call this phenomenon parthenophobia.
The hibernation period of snails can last 3 years.
Vinegar can dissolve pearls.
99% of living things that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct.
Every day on Earth, 3 people undergo gender reassignment surgery.

Well, friends, we hope that you liked the interesting facts from life. Of course, we do not call them either the most important or the most interesting. It’s just that selections like these help keep your brain in good shape and exercise your memory.

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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 puts on so much lipstick on 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.

14. King Henry VIII carried a giant ax with him at night.

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 every 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 from coconuts every year.

Thank you for reading our news, if you have any weird and wonderful facts, please leave them in the comments!

Our world is full of mysteries, but over time, everything secret becomes clear. The selection below contains interesting and surprising facts from around the world.

In the second half of 1948, the Reserve Bank of India issued a preliminary version of the Pakistani rupee with an overprint of the Government of Pakistan (until July 1948, the Indian rupee was used as the currency in Pakistan).

In 2011, a woman named Aimee Davison purchased an “invisible” painting called “Fresh Air” for $10,000. In return, Aimee was promised to name an entire wing of the museum in her honor.

In 2006, a passenger lit a match to mask a bad smell, forcing an emergency landing. According to the woman, she suffered from a disease, one of the symptoms of which was flatulence.

Saddam Hussein wrote the novel Zabiba and the King, which was published anonymously in Iraq in 2000.

There is a restaurant in Taiwan where food is served in miniature toilets.

Prince Charles and Prince William always travel on separate planes to ensure one of them survives in the event of an accident.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos. This is done so that casino customers spend more time in the establishment.

Every day, 20 banks become victims of robbery. The average amount of money stolen is INR 1,72,100.

Cockroaches appeared 120 million years before the era of dinosaurs.

As a child, Adolf Hitler wanted to be a priest.

He also suffered from ailurophobia - the fear of cats. The same phobia was observed among Napoleon Bonaparte and Benito Mussolini.

Global warming has helped end a 30-year territorial conflict between India and Bangladesh. In 2010, the subject of the dispute, New Moor Island, sank due to rising sea levels.

Butterflies were originally called “flutterflies”.

Carrots were originally purple. Thanks to crossbreeding, a previously unseen orange carrot appeared in Europe at the end of the 16th century.

On Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, millions of crabs come ashore to breed. There are 43.2 million crabs on the island.

About 35 km off the coast of the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, lies a rocky island with an area of about 430,000 sq. m. Its official name is Queimada Grande, but it is better known as “Snake Island”. The territory is inhabited by 4 thousand snakes, that is, from one to six poisonous individuals per square kilometer. Some of the most dangerous species of snakes are found here, including the island bothrops, whose venom causes tissue death.

According to statistics, women worldwide earn $18 trillion and spend $28 trillion.

Charles Darwin ate almost every animal he discovered.

Russia is territorially larger than Pluto. Pluto's surface area is 16,650,000 square meters. km, and Russia - 17,098,242 sq. km.

However, the population of the Russian Federation is significantly smaller than that of Bangladesh.

At the age of 19, Isaac Newton threatened to burn his parents alive.

Two actors who play Judas Iscariot in biblical plays accidentally hanged themselves during the character's suicide scene.

There are 1.6 million ants for every person.

The weight of all the ants will be almost comparable to the weight of all people combined.

The largest family in the world lives in India. The head of the family, Zion Chana, has 39 wives, 94 offspring, 14 daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren. An Indian man and his family live in a 4-story, 100-room house in the state of Mizoram.

Amazon holds the patent for one-click payments. Since 2000, Apple has paid licensing fees to use the tool.

A selection of interesting facts from different areas that will be very interesting and educational for many of us.

In 1988, Arnold Schwarzenegger refused to star in the sequel to the film Commando. The script was reworked for a new main character and called “Die Hard.” Thus began the rise of Bruce Willis's career.

The world's population has almost stopped growing. The female fertility rate is currently 2.36. And for simple population reproduction, a female fertility rate of 2.33 is required.

When he was young, George Clooney lived with a lazy roommate who had a cat. Once he had to wash the cat's litter box for four days in a row. On the fifth day, Clooney got tired of it and shit in the tray himself. The neighbor was afraid that the cat was suffering from constipation and dragged the animal to the veterinarian.

In 1600, after a volcanic eruption in Peru, about two million people died... in Russia. The fact is that the accumulation of ash in the Earth’s atmosphere caused the “Little Ice Age,” which became the cause of a terrible crop failure, and then the “Great Famine” that occurred during the reign of Boris Godunov.

France is the only European country capable of providing itself with basic food products.

If you see a cloud from an atomic explosion, extend your arm towards it and bend your thumb so that it obscures the “mushroom”. If the cloud is larger than your finger, then you are in the radiation zone and you need to evacuate urgently.

In the American city of Anthem (Arizona) there is a monument that functions only once a year, on Veterans Day - November 11. On this day, the sun's rays hit the monument at such an angle that they pass through all the rings in the five concrete structures, symbolizing the five branches of the US military, and illuminate the mosaic in the form of the Great Seal.

One man tried to commit suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco), but survived. He later admitted that this “flight” completely changed his entire understanding of life. “I suddenly realized that there was absolutely nothing in my life that couldn’t be fixed. Except for one thing - this very jump that I just decided to take.”

The first visitor to Disneyland was a college student named Dave McPherson. But that time he didn’t have time to ride a single ride, because he was in a hurry to get to class. But later he had a chance to more than make up for lost time - he was awarded a lifetime pass to all Disneylands on the planet.

Japan imports rice from the US - but only to meet World Trade Organization requirements. The Japanese almost never eat this rice. Most of it is sent to North Korea as humanitarian aid, the rest is fed to pigs or rots in warehouses.

The ancestors of the first whales were medium-sized land-dwelling mammals.

Before Hitler came to Paris during World War II, the French cut all the cables of the Eiffel Tower. If the Fuhrer wanted to look at the city from above, he would have to climb the steps to the top, which he did not do. Therefore, Parisians proudly say that although Hitler captured France, the Eiffel Tower was too much for him.

In 2006, Claudia Mejia, a resident of the American city of Orlando, went to give birth at a local hospital. When she woke up after giving birth, it turned out that she had neither arms nor legs. To all attempts to find out why the woman had all her limbs amputated, the hospital responds that they cannot voice the reason, since in this way the rights of other patients would be violated. Allegedly, she contracted some kind of disease already in the hospital from other patients and the hospital has no right to disclose this information. As a result, Claudia was never able to find out why she was left without arms and legs.

In Vilnius (Lithuania) there is a small district of Užupis, which declared itself an independent republic. This republic has its own flag, its own currency, president, cabinet of ministers and even an army of 11 people

Once the Indian Maharaja Jai Singh visited the Rolls-Royce pavilion in London. One of the workers, not understanding who was in front of him, allowed himself a caustic remark that, “You obviously can’t afford our product.” Singh bought ten cars, brought them to India and ordered them to be used for transporting garbage.

In 1998, during the Australian Open, sisters Serena and Venus Williams recklessly declared that they could easily beat any man ranked below 200 in the tennis rankings. German tennis player Karsten Braasch, the 203rd racket in the world, responded to the challenge. He showed up for the match, refueled with beer and, without much effort, beat first Serena and then Venus with a score of 6:1 and 6:2, respectively.

Due to confusion with similar names, representatives of the Slovak and Slovenian embassies have to meet regularly (once a month) to exchange mail delivered by mistake.

The very first version of Cinderella was written in China.

No one knows the name of the inventor of the fire hydrant because the patent for this invention was burned in a fire.

The inventor of Vaseline, Robert Chesbrough, ate a spoonful of his invention a day and assured that he felt enormous benefits from it for his body. He lived to be 96 years old.

President John F. Kennedy's daughter received a puppy from the first dog in space. The gift was made in order to improve relations between Kennedy and Khrushchev. This puppy managed to bite the entire Kennedy family.

There is no such thing as pink. The fact that we see it is a great scientific mystery. This color is a combination of red and violet - two opposite spectrums of the rainbow, and such a mixture is impossible in nature. In fact, certain wavelengths, when reflected, are converted into pink in our brain.

Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito and Freud all lived in Vienna, Austria at the same time in 1913.

While a person eats a pineapple, the pineapple eats a person in return. This is the only plant that contains bromelain, an enzyme that effectively breaks down protein. And since the human body is made of protein, the pineapple tries to “digest” it. This is what explains the ulcers on the tongue of those who overdo it with eating these fruits.

During the 9/11 rescue mission, dogs were so rarely able to locate survivors that they experienced extreme stress as they felt guilty and unable to cope. Therefore, rescuers had to regularly hide in the ruins themselves to allow the dogs to detect them and, thereby, maintain their “fighting spirit.”

Billionaire cocaine smuggler Sal Magluta won the US National Speedboat Race three times and appeared frequently on television despite being a fugitive. Nobody noticed anything for 6 years.

The chemical name of titin consists of 189,819 characters. It will take at least three hours to pronounce it completely.

It turns out that it's even better to store eggs dirty because they have a protective layer that washes off with water. In many countries, eggs are washed before sale to give them a more “marketable appearance,” thereby opening pores in the shell through which harmful bacteria can enter during storage.

16% of Lithuanians are immune against HIV.

There is a legend that Orson Welles's radio play "War of the Worlds", broadcast on CBS on October 30, 1938, was taken at face value, causing more than a million residents of the northeastern United States to allegedly believe in a Martian attack and panic. It was said that entire families barricaded themselves with weapons in the basements of their houses, or hastily packed their things to leave the country. In reality, the effect was not that strong, it was just that the CBS station's competitors were trying to discredit it as a news source.

In China, there is an organization called the “Mistresses Association”, which unites women who live at the expense of married wealthy men. On their website, these women not only share their impressions and experiences, but also help each other collect dirt on their patrons in case they decide to “cut off funding.”

In 2004, humanity produced more transistors than grains of rice, and by 2010, 125 thousand transistors could already be bought for the price of a grain of rice. An electronic device with 16 GB of memory contains more transistors than neurons in the human head.

Biotechnology company Pembient has learned how to 3D print “rhino horns” that are genetically identical to natural ones. The company plans to release this product on the Chinese market at a price 8 times cheaper than real horns, thus hoping to combat poaching.

In 2009, an expert on anti-kidnapping in Mexico was kidnapped in Mexico just after finishing a lecture entitled “How to Avoid Getting Kidnapped in Mexico.”

Abstract algebraic principles are typically only taught in college. Meanwhile, mathematicians have proven that even a five-year-old child - that is, almost any member of society - is quite capable of comprehending them.

75% of the world's food comes from just 12 plant species and 5 animal species.

Jerky movements like tapping your fingers on a table or beating a rhythm with your feet can burn up to 350 calories a day. It is easy to notice that such habits are characteristic mainly of slender people.

One day, a 2.5-year-old girl named Michelle Funk fell into the river and was under water for 66 minutes. When rescuers brought her to the surface, the baby had neither a pulse nor breathing. After more than 3 hours, her blood suddenly became warmer. When the temperature reached 25 degrees Celsius, the girl returned to life and lives to this day.