National Geographic's new children's book features a lot of fun facts which 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 mind in a company or start some dispute or conversation, these Interesting Facts can help you. We replenish our stock of erudite.
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1. In 1889, Queen Margherita 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 the bobcat is rarely seen in the wild, it is the most common type of wild cat in North America.
5. The tail of a cat contains almost 10% of all the bones in her body.
6. On the paws of the gecko, there are millions of tiny hairs that stick to surfaces with the help of a special chemical bond, which allows these reptiles to climb walls and hang, holding on to only one finger.
7. The word "astronaut" comes from Greek words that mean "star" and "sailor."
8. Calcium in our bones and 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, a toothache would go away.
14. Scientists claim that the best time to take a nap - between 13:00 and 14:30, because that's when the drop in temperature in our body makes us sleepy.
15. Due to the change in the speed of rotation of the Earth over time in the era of dinosaurs, the day consisted of only 23 hours.
16. Hummingbird wings can beat 200 times per second.
17. On the territory North America over 1200 water parks.
18. A seahorse can move its eyes in the opposite direction - to find food in the water and spot predators in time.
19. To cook scrambled eggs on the sidewalk, the sidewalk needs to be heated to 70°C.
20. A group of jellyfish is not called a flock, not a school or a herd. It's called relish.
21. The mass of the Sun is 99.8% of the total mass solar system, and the diameter is 109 times the diameter of the Earth - the Sun can accommodate 1 million Earth planets.
22. There is no ice on only 1% of Antarctica.
23. Most a big wave, which has ever been paddled on a surfboard, was the height of a 10-story building.
24. A team of beagle dogs, which are used at 21 airports in the United States, help customs officers find and prevent the entry into the country of about 75,000 illegal items a year.
25. Some apples can weigh almost the same as 2 liters of milk.
26. Corn is grown on every continent except Antarctica.
27. Unlike most fish, seahorses are covered in bony plates, not scales.
28. Every day you lose 50 to 100 hairs.
29. The second name of the armadillo - "armadillo" - means "armored baby" in Spanish.
30. The smallest fruit in the world - an achene - is the size of a tiny ant.
31. New Jersey has the most malls.
32. Komodo dragons can eat 2 kg of meat in less than a minute. The 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 under an ice crust.
34. Some Viking leaders were buried with their ships.
35. Clouds constantly cover about 60% of the Earth.
36. All monkeys laugh when tickled.
37. Spotted hyenas can digest skin and bones.
38. The length of the needle of African porcupines is 3 pencils.
An article about 25 unusual facts about Russia for foreigners was published on the English-language site Slavorum. Many of these facts can surprise not only foreigners who are not so familiar with Russia, but also Russian people.
For example, did you know that bears have an addiction? Do you know what made Moscow McDonalds stand out among all the McDucks in the world? So we didn’t know, so we present to your attention the translation of this article:
So, you've heard about Russia, you've seen countless action movies that portray Russians as villains and as good guys. You've seen funny pictures from Russia spread like a virus on the Internet, and you kind of love this country.
25 facts about Russia that you did not know. And we didn't know
However, what we can ask ourselves is what do we really know about Russia? Who are the Russians really, What do they do, love, eat? How do they live?
Why are they even so famous? To help you a little, we have made this really cool list of facts about Russia that will probably inspire you to explore Russia further. You may even want to rent a house in Russia.
Do not forget to write in the comments what facts you already knew about and what you have never heard of before. You can even leave a comment if you know something interesting about Russia that should be included in the list. So here are some interesting fun facts About Russia.
Fact #1. Price of Alaska
The US purchased Alaska from Russia for just $7.2 million in 1867.
Fact #2. Russian beards
In Russia during the time of Peter the Great, there was a "beard tax", which was paid by everyone who wore a beard.
Fact #3. Beer is for everyone!
In Russia, beer was not considered alcoholic drink until 2013.
Fact #4. Size matters
Russia (17 million square kilometers) is bigger than Pluto (16.6 million square kilometers)
Fact #5. Quantity matters
Russia has more than 8,400 nuclear warheads, more than any other country.
Fact #6. Foxes as pets
In Russia, foxes have been domesticated, just like dogs, since 1959.
Fact #7. Gold reserves
20 the richest people Russia owns $227 million, more than Pakistan's GDP.
Fact number 8. Expanses of Siberia
70% of Russia is Siberia.
Fact number 9. Russo-Japanese War
Russia and Japan have not yet signed a peace agreement ending the Second world war, due to the dispute over the Kuril Islands.
Fact number 10. Lake Baikal
20% of the world not frozen drinking water– in one lake: in the Russian lake Baikal
Fact #11. Huge subway
9 million people use the Moscow metro every day. That's more than London and New York combined.
Fact #12. Love for beer
Every Russian consumes 18 liters of beer a year.
Fact #13. The number of women compared to the number of men
There are 9 million more women in Russia than men.
Fact #14. Really long pipeline
Russian pipeline can be stretched around the earth six times.
Fact #15. Space conquest
The world's first satellite, named Sputnik, was launched Soviet Union in 1957.
Fact #16. Life expectancy
The average life expectancy in Russia is 59 years for men and 73 years for women.
Fact #17. Stalin was an immigrant
Stalin did not know Russian until the age of 8. His native language- Georgian.
Fact #18. Time for tea
Russians drink six times more tea than Americans.
Here, it would seem, we are adults, we graduated from school and have seen a lot in life. But life is still such an amazing thing that, despite our age and seeming wisdom, we do not know everything. And this is wonderful, because what is the interest in going further if you don’t learn anything new?
Your attention - 26 simple facts from Everyday life, knowing which you will definitely be surprised. Surely you did not even suspect about such elementary things.
1. If you fold a piece of paper 42 times, it will reach the moon.
2. Try to breathe and swallow at the same time. You can't.
3. It's also impossible to snort if your nose is pinched.
4. Coconuts are killed every year more people than sharks. The same with cows.
5. This is what poppy seeds look like under a microscope (photo above).
6. North Korea and Finland are separated by only one country.
7. New York is actually located south of Rome.
8. And Scotland is north of Alaska.
9. The probability that you drink water that contains a water molecule that has been in the body of a dinosaur is almost 100%.
10. There are more tigers in Texas than in the whole world.
11. There are fewer atoms on Earth than there are ways to shuffle a deck of cards.
12. There is a butt load unit (butt translates as "barrel"), equal to almost 500 liters.
13. There is enough iron in our body to make a 7.5 cm nail.
14. When did the first movie come out? star wars”, in France they still executed people on the guillotine.
15. Anne Frank and Martin Luther King were born in the same year.
16. Shakespeare and Pocahontas lived at the same time.
17. And Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day, month and year.
18. The English have a name for the pile that accumulates at the bottom of your pockets - gnurr ("gnё").
19. Cambridge university older than the Aztec empire.
20. Beethoven and George Washington lived at the same time. Moreover, Beethoven was born when Washington was 38 years old.
21. Monsters, Inc. was released closer to the fall of the Berlin Wall than it was in 2016.
22. A million seconds is 11 days. A billion seconds is 33 years.
23. Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than to the construction of the pyramid of Cheops.
24. Every two minutes we take more pictures than all of humanity in the entire 19th century.
25. Diamond rains on Saturn and Jupiter.
26. The DNA of humans is 50% the same as the DNA of bananas.
You may change your attitude to familiar things.
How many insects do we eat without knowing it? Why does your mattress become twice as heavy in 10 years? What's dirtier than a toilet?
Here are a few facts that are probably best not to know.
Unusual facts
1. The Romans used crushed mouse brain as toothpaste.
2. When Eskimo babies have a cold, they mothers suck mucus right out of their noses.
3. It is known that butterflies drink blood.
4. On your desk, kitchen sink, shopping cart, mobile phone, menu in restaurant and ATM more bacteria than a toilet.
5. 20 percent of office coffee mugs contain fecal matter.
6. Koalas eat their mother's poo.
7. Fecal matter can pass through 10 layers depending on the species toilet paper which you are using.
8. The average person eats about 500 grams of insects per year, mostly along with other food.
9. Your feet will exude about 20 liters of sweat in year.
10. If you sniff something, the molecules of that object attach themselves to the inside of your nose.
11. Your chances of dying on the way to buying lottery tickets higher than your chances of winning the lottery.
13. Most of what we know about hypothermia(hypothermia), we got thanks to Nazi experiments on humans.
14. Male chickens are most often thrown into the crusher, as roosters are not as tasty as chickens.
15. Around 2500 lefties die every year because they use equipment designed for right-handers.
16. Most ice cube storage machines are not washable. They even have a system to prevent the growth of mucus and other microbes.
Amazing Facts
17. Medium a mattress doubles in weight in 10 years due to the accumulation of dust mites and their excrement.
18. If a male lion takes over the pride, he kills all the offspring of the previous head of the pack.
19. About 15 percent of the air we breathe in a metro station is human skin.
About countries and peoples
1. The flag of Alaska was created by a 13-year-old boy.
2. Military honor in no country is given with the left hand.
3. International telephone code Antarctica - 672.
4. Captain Cook was the first person to set foot on all the continents of the Earth except Antarctica.
5. The Matami tribe of West Africa plays football with a human skull.
6. In Australia, the fifty cent coin originally contained two dollars worth of silver.
7. Most often in English libraries the Guinness Book of Records is stolen.
8. The National Band of Monaco is bigger than its army.
9. In the Sahara desert once - February 18, 1979 - it was snowing.
10. Canada is larger in area than China, and China is larger than the United States.
11. The only country where no births were registered in 1983 is the Vatican.
12. The Nile froze twice - in the 9th and 11th centuries.
13. In Siena, Italy, you can't be a prostitute if your name is Maria.
14. In ancient Rome, a man taking an oath or taking an oath put his hand on the scrotum.
15. Tickling was forbidden by law in some ancient countries of the East, as it was considered a sinful exciting activity.
16. Las Vegas casinos don't have clocks.
17. In the Eskimo language, there are more than 20 words for the name of snow.
18. There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.
19. In France, the law prohibits the sale of dolls with a non-human face, such as "aliens".
20. Canada has been declared the best country to live in by the UN 4 times in the last 5 years.
21. In Ancient Rome if the patient died during the operation, the doctor's hands were cut off. About culture
22. As the x-ray showed, under the “Mona Lisa” known to us, there are three more of its original versions.
23. John Lennon was inspired to create the song "I'm a Walrus" by the sounds of a police siren.
24. The most frequently performed song in the world is “ happy birthday to you" is under copyright protection.
25. There is only one Western directed by a woman.
26. George Harrison's toilet seat sang "Lusy in the sky with diamonds."
27. During the Second World War, in order to save metal, Oscar statuettes were made of wood.
28. The original title of Gone with the Wind is Be-Be, Black Sheep.
29. In Cameroon's film Titanic, the most frequently spoken word is "Rose".
About little brothers
30. A cat that falls from the 12th floor is more likely to survive than a cat that falls from the 7th.
31. When the Europeans first saw the giraffe, they called it the "camelopard", deciding that it was a hybrid of a camel and a leopard.
32. The animal with the largest brain in relation to the body is an ant.
33. About 70 percent of the living things on Earth are bacteria.
34. In their youth, the Black Sea perches are mostly girls, but by the age of 5 they radically change their sex!
35. The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
36. The zoo in Tokyo closes for 2 months every year so that the animals can take a break from the visitors.
37. Anteaters prefer not to eat ants, but termites.
38. When a giraffe gives birth, her cub falls from a height of one and a half meters.
39. Despite the hump, the camel's spine is straight.
40. Female dogs bite more often than dogs.
41. Every year more people die from bee stings than from snake bites.
42. Sharks are immune to cancer.
43. Gorillas are affected by birth control pills.
44. A pig orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
45. Starfish can turn your stomach inside out.
46. The animal that can not drink the longest is a rat.
47. The only animals that suffer from leprosy, except for humans, are armadillos.
48. Hippos are born underwater.
49. Orangutans warn of aggression with a loud burp.
50. A mole can dig a tunnel 76 meters long in one night.
51. A snail has about 25,000 teeth.
52. A black spider can eat up to 20 spiders a day.
53. With a lack of food, a tapeworm can eat up to 95 percent of its body weight - and nothing!
54. Crocodiles are responsible for more than 1,000 deaths on the banks of the Nile a year.
55. The ancient Egyptians taught baboons to serve them at the table.
56. The St. Bernards, famous climber rescuers, don't wear brandy flasks around their necks at all.
57. It takes 4 hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
58. Inside the lion pride, 9/10 of the prey to the "family" is supplied by lionesses.
59. Sloths spend 75% of their lives sleeping.
60. Hummingbirds can't walk.
61. A moth has no stomach.
62. Europeans, having arrived in Australia, asked the natives: “What are these strange jumping animals here?” The natives answered: “Kangaroo,” which meant: “We don’t understand!”
63. The easiest way to distinguish a vegetarian animal from a predator: predators have eyes located on the front of the muzzle to see the prey. Vegetarians - on both sides of the head to see the enemy.
64. Bat is the only mammal that can fly.
65. 99% of the living beings that lived on Earth became extinct.
66. To make a kilogram of honey, a bee must fly around 2 million flowers.
67. Grasshopper Blood white color, lobster - blue.
68. The only animals that have sex for pleasure are humans and dolphins.
69. Over the past 4000 years, not a single new animal has been domesticated.
70. Penguins can jump up to a height of more than one and a half meters.
71. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
72. Chimpanzees are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
73. The word "orangutan" means in some African languages "man from the jungle"
74. Emu in Portuguese means "ostrich".
75. Elephants and humans are the only mammals that can stand on their heads.
76. Crocodiles swallow rocks to dive deeper.
77. Polar bears can run at a speed of 40 km/h.
78. Dogs have elbows.
About the great
79. "The Thinker" by Rodin - a portrait of the Italian poet Dante.
80. Singer Nick Cave was born with a ponytail.
81. Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day - April 23, 1616.
82. English. Virginia Woolf wrote most of her books standing up.
83. Sarah Bernhardt played 13-year-old Juliet at 70.
84. When Walt Disney was a child, he tortured an owl. Since then, he decided to bring animals to life in cartoons.
85. Beethoven was once arrested for vagrancy.
86. Buzz Aldrin, one of the astronauts who visited the Moon, has his mother's maiden name Moon (Moon).
87. When Einstein died, his last words died with him: the nurse did not understand German.
88. Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath to hide his beginning baldness.
89. D. Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
90. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his mother and wife: they were both deaf.
91. Saint Patrick, the patron saint of the Irish, was not Irish.
92. Leonardo da Vinci invented an alarm clock that rubbed the sleeping legs.
93. Napoleon suffered from ailurophobia - the fear of cats.
About people
94. The nose grows throughout a person's life.
95. Only one child in 20 is born on the day prescribed by the doctor.
96. The ancient Greeks believed that boys grow on the right side of the abdomen, and girls - on the left.
97. If you remove the space from all the atoms of the human body, then what remains can slip through the eye of a needle.
98. In the Middle Ages in dark spots Moon people saw the figure of Cain, carrying an armful of brushwood.
99. Spermatozoon is the smallest single cell in the body. The egg is the largest.
100. If a real woman had the proportions of a Barbie doll, she could only walk on 4 limbs.
101. Blond beards grow faster than dark ones.
102. In Russian and English there is no word for the back of the knee.
103. In the 15th century, it was believed that the red color heals. Patients wore red and surrounded themselves with red things.
104. The imprints of the tongue are individual for all people.
105. When you blush, your stomach turns red too.
106. The human body has enough body fat for 7 bars of soap.
107. 80% of the heat of the human body leaves the head.
108. A person has less muscles than a caterpillar.
109. At the time of death, Lenin's brain was a quarter of its normal size.
110. The world's highest IQs on standardized tests belong to two women.
111. Most people lose 50% of their sense of taste by age 60.
112. house dust 70% consists of shed skin.
113. A tooth is the only part of a person that is deprived of the ability to self-repair.
114. The brain is 80% water.
115. More living organisms live on the body of one person than people on Earth.
116. One hair can support a weight of 3 kg.
117. Medium human head weighs 3.6 kg.
118. In his entire life, a person produces so much saliva that it would be enough for 2 large pools.
And a bit more…
119. Repellents don't keep mosquitoes away - they hide you. Substances contained in repellents block the receptors by which mosquitoes find their prey.
120. Dentists recommend keeping toothbrush at a distance of at least two meters from the toilet.
121. No sheet of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
123. Donkeys kill more people on earth every year than die in plane crashes.
124. You burn more calories while you sleep than when you watch TV.
125. The first barcoded product was Wrigleys chewing gum.
126. The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is greater than the distance of the first flight of the Wright brothers.
127. American Airlines saved $40,000 by removing just one olive from salads served to first class passengers.
128. Venus is the only planet in the solar system that rotates counterclockwise.
129. Apples help to wake up in the morning better than coffee.
130. Plastic things at the ends of the laces are called aiguillettes.
131. Marlboro's original owner died of lung cancer.
132. Michael Jordan received more money from Nike than all the workers in the factories of this firm in Malaysia.
133. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on her feet.
134. All US presidents have worn glasses. Some people just don't like to wear them in public.
135. Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.
136. Pearls dissolve in vinegar.
137. Among people who publish marriage announcements, 35 percent are already married or married.
138. Three most expensive titles trademarks on earth, it's Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
139. You can make a cow go up stairs, but you can't make it go down.
140. Duck croaking does not echo, no one knows why.
141. The reason American fire departments have spiral staircases, refers to the times when pumps and other weights were lifted by horses. The horses crowded below, unable to figure out how to climb the straight-spanned stairs.
142. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president to have all the letters of the word "criminal" in his name.
143. The second was Bill Clinton (William Jefferson Clinton).
144. On average, 100 people die each year from choking on a ballpoint pen.
145. 90 percent of New York taxi drivers are immigrants.
146. An elephant is the only animal that cannot jump.
147. The chance to live to 116 years has one person in two million.
148. Women, on average, blink twice as often as men.
149. It is anatomically impossible for a person to lick his own elbow.
150. The Indiana State University Main Library building sinks one inch every year because the engineers didn't take into account the weight of the books it contained.
151. Snails can sleep up to three years.
152. Crocodiles do not know how to stick out their tongues.
153. The lighter was invented before matches.
154. Every day, US residents eat 18 hectares of pizza.
155. Almost everyone who read this text tried to lick his elbow.
