Interesting facts from the life of famous people. Interesting stories from the lives of great people that can inspire

1. 26 years old was Napoleon when he captured Italy.

2. The University of Baghdad awarded Uday, the eldest son of Saddam Hussein, a doctorate in political science. Although he did not even have a secondary education. His dissertation was titled "The Decline of American Power by 2016."
3. In 1938, Time magazine named Hitler “Person of the Year”.
4. During his service in the KGB, Vladimir Putin had the nickname "Mol".
5. Hitler was a vegetarian.
6. Egyptian queen Cleopatra tested the effectiveness of her poisons by forcing her slaves to take them.
7. Cleopatra married her own brother - Ptolemy.
8. Cleopatra was not Egyptian. She had Macedonian, Iranian and Greek roots.
9. Lafayette became a general in the US Army at the age of 19. His full name is: Maria Joseph Paul Yves Rocher Gilbert de Mautier, Marquis de Lafayette.
10. The Minister of Culture of the RSFSR in the 50s, Alexei Popov, was a well-known foul language.
11. The Mongol conqueror Timur (1336-1405) played a kind of polo with the skulls of the people he had killed. He created a pyramid of their severed heads 9 meters high.
12. At the time of Lenin's death, his brain was only a quarter of its normal size.
13. Napoleon was born not in France, but on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. His parents were Italian and they had eight children.
14. The national flag of Italy was invented by Napoleon.
15. One of Napoleon's drinking cups was made from the skull of the famous Italian adventurer Cagliostro.
16. The founder of the theory of communism, Karl Marx, has never been to Russia.
17. The first American Chief Justice John Jay bought slaves to free them.
18. The first person in history to be hit by a train was a British MP, William Haskinson.
19. Winston Churchill's maternal ancestors were ... Indians.
20. US President Andrew Jackson believed that the Earth was flat.
21. During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was a tax on men's beards. However, Peter the Great did not like bearded men either.
22. Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar ordered the execution of her subjects if they came to her in dreams without her permission.
23. At the wedding, Queen Victoria was presented with a piece of cheese 3 meters in diameter and weighing 500 kilograms.
24. King Henry VIII of England executed two of his six wives.
25. President of Uganda and one of the most ruthless dictators in the world, Idi Amin, served in the British Army before coming to power.
26. British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston died in 1865 on a pool table, where he made love to his servants.
27. At the court of the King of Spain Alfonso there was a special position - a hymn. The fact is that the king had no ear for music at all, and he himself could not distinguish the hymn from other music. The anthem was supposed to warn the king when the national anthem was played.
28. The Roman emperor Nero married a man - one of his slaves named Skorus.
29. The Roman emperor Nero forced his mentor the philosopher Seneca to commit suicide.
30. The height of Peter the Great was about 213 cm. Despite the fact that in those days medium height men was significantly below the present time.
31. Sir Winston Churchill smoked no more than 15 cigars a day.
32. Tom Cruise at the age of 14 entered seminary to become a priest, but dropped out after a year.
33. The French king Louis XIV had 413 beds.
34. The Israeli king Solomon had about 700 wives and several thousand mistresses.
35. King Louis XIV of France, known as the "Sun King", had over 400 beds.
36. Napoleon had aylurophobia - a fear of cats.
37. Winston Churchill was born in the women's closet of the Blenheim family castle. During the ball, his mother felt unwell and soon gave birth.
38. Physicist and owner Nobel Prize Niels Bohr and his brother, the famous mathematician Harald Bohr, were footballers. At the same time, Harald was a player of the Danish national team and even took second place at the 1905 Olympics.
39. The phrase “The king is dead, long live the king” was pronounced by Catherine de Medici when she learned about the death of her son Charles IX.
40. The Swedish King Charles VII, assassinated in 1167, was the first king of a state named Charles! Charles I, II, III, IV, V and VI never existed, and it is not clear where he got the prefix "seventh" from. And a couple of centuries later, King Charles VIII (1448-1457) appeared in Sweden.
41. Arthur Conan Doyle, author of stories about Sherlock Holmes, was an ophthalmologist by profession.
42. Attila the Barbarian died in 453 on their wedding night immediately after the wedding.
43. Beethoven always made coffee from 64 beans.
44. British Queen Victoria (1819-1901), who ruled Britain for 64 years, spoke English with an accent. She had German roots.
45. In 1357, the dead woman was crowned Queen of Portugal. She was Princess Ines de Castro, second wife of Pedro I. Two years earlier, her father-in-law, Alfonso “Proud”, who hated her for being a commoner, secretly ordered his men to kill her and her children. When Pedro became king, he ordered Ines' body to be removed from the grave and forced the nobility to recognize her as Queen of Portugal.
46. ​​In 1849, Senator David Atchison became President of the United States for only 1 day, and most that day he ... slept.
47. The Grand Vizier of Persia Abdul Qassim Ismail (who lived in the 10th century) never parted with his library. If he went somewhere, the library “followed” him. 117 thousand book volumes were transported by 400 camels. Moreover, the books (along with the camels) were arranged in alphabetical order.
48. The great Genghis Khan died while having sex.
49. Hannibal died in 183 BC. NS. taking poison when he learned that the Romans had come to kill him.
50. Hans-Christian Andersen could not write almost a single word without mistakes.
51. Henry IV often flogged his son, the future Louis XIII.
52. The Danish king Frederick IV was a bigamist. He married twice while his wife Queen Louise was alive. His first lover died in childbirth, his second lover was queen only 19 days after the death of Queen Louise. All children from both of his mistresses either died at birth or in infancy, as he believed for his sinful life. He later became extremely religious.
53. Jack the Ripper, the most famous killer of the 19th century, always committed his crimes on weekends.
54. Dr. Alice Chase, who wrote the book “ Healthy eating”And many books on proper nutrition, died of malnutrition.
55. Once the merchant Krasnobryukhov turned to Alexander I with a request to change his surname, and he allowed him to be called ... Sinebryukhov. After that, the merchant, out of grief, left for Finland and founded the famous Koff brewing company there.
56. When the Russian Queen Elizabeth I died in 1762, more than 15,000 dresses were found in her wardrobes.
57. Mozart began composing music at the age of 3.
58. There is not a single living descendant of William Shakespeare left on Earth.
59. Before composing music, Beethoven poured a bucket of cold water on his head, believing that it stimulates the brain.
60. While developing an electric light bulb, Thomas Edison covered 40 thousand pages.
61. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Felix Mendelssohn wrote at 17 summer age... This became his most famous work.
62. Beria suffered from syphilis.
63. More than 100 descendants of Johann Sebastian Bach became organists.
64. In the ZZ Top group, only one member has no beard. And his name is Beard, which translated from English means ... "beard".
65.Since 1932, only Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush have not been elected to a second term in the United States.
66. Ilf and Petrov discarded ideas that came to both of them at once - to avoid clichés.
67. When Beethoven wrote his famous Ninth Symphony, he was completely deaf.
68. Composer Franz Liszt was the father-in-law of the German composer Richard Wagner.
69. Paul McCartney's mother was a midwife.
70. Writer Rudyard Kipling could not write with ink if it was not black.
71. The writer Charles Dickens worked with his face to the north. He also always slept with his head to the north.
72. The Roman emperor Commodus gathered dwarfs, cripples and freaks from all over the Roman Empire to arrange battles between them in the Colosseum.
73. The Roman emperor Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath on his head to hide his growing bald spot.
74. The Russian composer Alexander Borodin was also a well-known chemist in St. Petersburg.
75. The smallest of the American presidents is James Madison (1.62 m), and Abraham Lincoln is the tallest (1.93 m).
76. The shortest British monarch is Charles I. His height was 4 feet 9 inches (about 140 cm). After his head was cut off, his height became even less.
77. The body of Voltaire, who died in 1778, was stolen from the grave and was never found. The loss was discovered in 1864.
78. Balzac has a whole book dedicated to ... a tie.
79. The British Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) had about 3,000 outfits.
80. American Pete Ruff knocks an apple off his own head with a boomerang.
81. American industrial tycoon and billionaire John Rockefeller donated over $ 550 million. to various funds and institutions.
82. American President Benjamin Franklin advocated that the turkey should be America's national bird.
83. In 1856, the English chemist William Perkin, while trying to obtain quinine from aniline, invented the first artificial colorant, moveine.
84. In the village of Lobovskoe, Saratov region. there is a beekeeper who is able to withstand 40 hours in a hive with bees completely naked.
85. In the period from 1952 - 1966 in the family of Ralph and Carolyn Cummins 5 children were born and all of them have a birthday on February 20.
86. Galileo Galilei was the first person to propose the use of a pendulum to measure time.
87. Hannibal died in 183 BC after taking poison when he learned that the Romans had come to kill him.
88. Grover Cleveland was the only US president to get married within the walls of the White House.
89. James Madison was the smallest of the American presidents (1.62 m), and Abraham Lincoln was the tallest (1.93 m).
90. Dr. Alice Chase, who wrote the book Healthy Eating and many books on good nutrition, died of malnutrition.
91. For 35 years, Mozart has created over 600 works. But after his death, the widow did not have money for a separate place in the cemetery.
92. The famous bull fighter of the 19th century. Lagarijo (née Rafael Molina) killed 4,867 bulls.
93. When the German physicist A. Einstein died, his last words left with him. The nurse nearby did not understand German.
94. The maximum number of crosswords was Andrian Bell. From January 1930 to 1980, he sent 4,520 crossword puzzles to the Times.
95. Robert Lincoln, son of President Lincoln, was rescued in an accident by a certain Edwin Booth. As it turns out, Edwin is the brother of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. The father tried to kill the father, and their children saved each other
96. The first American president to use a telephone was James Garfield.
97. The concept of a negative number was first introduced by the Italian merchant Pisano in 1202, denoting his debts and losses.
98. The world's largest private collection of meteorites belongs to the American Robert Haag - from the age of 12 he collected 2 tons of celestial stones.
99. Thomas Edison had a collection of 5000 birds.
100. Frenchmen Jeanne Louise and Guy Bruti made a crossword puzzle on a sheet of paper 5 m long and 3 m wide, of 18 thousand words and 50 thousand cells.
101. Shakespeare mentioned roses more than 50 times in his poems.
102. Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States, was the only president to make his own clothes.
103. Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day - February 12, 1809. The scientist lived almost 20 years longer than the politician.
104. During his presidency, Bill Clinton has sent as many as two emails, one of which was a test one to check that everything was working properly. I wonder who the second letter was to? Maybe Monica?
105. In 1759, Arthur Guinness rented St Gate's brewery for 9000 years at a rent of £ 45 a year. The famous Guinness beer was brewed there.
106. In 1981, Deborah Ann Fontan, Miss New York, was disqualified for excessive use of cotton padding in a swimsuit competition
107. George Washington did not shake hands when meeting - he preferred to bow
108. The only president of the United States who is also the chairman of any union is Ronald Reagan, who heads the Screen Actors Guild
109. If you remember a little the school physics course, then you know that there is a Richter temperature scale. So this very Charles Richter was a malicious nudist, which is why his wife left him
110. If you read the works of the writer Stephen King, you should notice that most of his stories take place in Maine. Paradoxically, this state has the lowest crime rate in the United States.
111. The founder of psychoanalysis has many oddities. Freud was terrified of the number 62. He refused to book a hotel room with more than 62 rooms for fear of inadvertently getting a room with number 62. He used cocaine, like many of his contemporaries.
112. The famous entrepreneur Henry Ford preferred to hire people with physical disabilities - among the workers of his factories in 1919, there was one disabled person for every four healthy people.
113. Louis Pasteur's research was sponsored by a brewery. They also paid for his ticket to the international congress. When Pasteur was given the floor at the congress, the first thing he did was to hang advertising posters with beer on the stage. And he began his speech with the words that this beer is the best. And only then he got down to business.
114. Madonna and Celine Dion are cousins ​​of Prince Charles' wife, Camilla
115. The father of the famous comedian Leslie Nielsen ("The Naked Gun" and others) served in Canada as a police officer, and his brother worked in the Canadian Parliament
116. The father of tennis player Andre Agassi represented Iran at Olympic Games 1948 and 1952. He was ... a boxer

A person's daily life is not as boring as it seems to many. make an attentive observer think about it, wonder at the diversity of life or laugh properly.

But in the hustle and bustle of everyday chores, we sometimes do not notice these things. Do you want to broaden your horizons?

We are offering to you interesting facts from life, which will definitely cheer you up and teach you to look at the world around you in a new way.

1. According to statistics, chronic alcoholics live 15 years longer than those who work without a vacation. Rest more, gentlemen, but do not abuse alcohol!
2. 25% of our compatriots think about sex while in traffic. Oddly enough, only 6% think about work.
3. Blue-eyed people are less likely to suffer from visual impairment than brown-eyed and gray-eyed people.
4. Brown-eyed people are more adapted to everyday difficulties.
5. An interesting fact of life: the more often a man makes love, the lower his risk of heart attack. Consider this a guide to action! This, alas, does not apply to women.
6. In the morning we are about 1 centimeter taller. During the day, the joints are compressed, which makes us a little lower in the evening.
7. No person in the world can sneeze with open eyes. Want to check it out? Please! Just don't do this while driving. According to statistics, 2% of all accidents occur due to the fact that the driver sneezed and lost his vigilance for a couple of seconds.
8. Women pronounce 13 thousand more words per day than men. All men will agree with this fact, but women may be indignant!
9. Interestingly, nightmares are more common in a cold bedroom.
10. Obscene language can dull the pain for a while. Probably, Russian builders feel it on an intuitive level!
11. The more often you overeat, the worse your hearing becomes.
12. A cat's taste buds are not sensitive to sweets. By the way, read in a separate article.
13. Men's hair is stiffer and thicker than women's. However, there is twice as much hair on a woman's head!
14. If a woman periodically listens to an audio recording of a baby crying, her breasts can increase by 2 centimeters in a week.
15. There is that a small pocket on men's jeans designers came up with in order to hide a condom there. In fact, it is meant for watches. Recommended for reading.
16. The best cleaner for kettles, bathtubs, toilets and ovens is regular Coca-Cola!
17. Unpainted Coca-Cola is green.
    
18. Flavored cigarettes contain urea.
19. The timbre of the voice of women who work in a male team is much lower than that of women who work side by side with other women.
20. Regular sex relieves headaches. Interestingly, this fact is not used by all women in their lives. But men can take it on board as an argument!
21. It is more convenient for left-handed people to chew food with the left side of their jaws.
22. You can stop yawning by touching your tongue with your finger.
23. When talking with a person we like, our pupils involuntarily dilate.
24. When there are many cows, it is a herd. Many horses are called herds. A large group of sheep is a flock. But when there are many frogs - this is ... an army! At least that's what zoologists call them.
25. A 4-5 year old child asks about 400 questions per day.
26. Fear of Friday the 13th is considered a disease and is successfully treated by psychotherapists.
27. An obvious fact from life: the average person eats 35 tons of food in his entire life.
28. Turtles can breathe with their anus.
29. OK (okay) is the most commonly used word in most of the world's languages.
30. 95% of emails sent by email are spam.
31. The champagne cork can jump to a height of 12 meters.
32. Interestingly, in the entire history of the Earth, no two identical snowflakes have existed. However, as well as people. Even twins have slight differences.
    
33. In 2 years, a pair of rats is capable of giving birth to more than a million cubs. For comparison, a domestic cat gives birth to no more than 100 kittens in a lifetime.
34. The first President of the United States, George Washington free time he loved to admire the lush hemp bushes that grew in his garden.
35. Do not microwave grapes or they will explode!
36. The cow is unable to climb down the stairs.
37. Incredible but true: the largest eyes on Earth belong to a giant (colossal) squid. They are about the size of a soccer ball.
38. Humpback whales are the loudest animals on Earth. The cry of these mammals is louder than the roar of an aircraft and is heard in the open ocean for more than 500 kilometers.
39. Believe it or not, a caterpillar has more muscles than a human.
40. People in white bathing suits and swimming trunks are more likely to fall prey to sharks on the beaches.
41. The shark's nostrils are the organ of smell, but not respiration. Sharks breathe with gills.
42. Babies have more bones than adults.
43. The lighter the beard, the faster it grows.
44. An interesting fact from life: the smartest woman (according to the results of the IQ test) was ... a housewife.
45. More than 1000 people die every year from lightning strikes.
46. Initially, the plague was treated with cologne.
47. Koalas sleep 22 hours a day. Eh! ..
    
48. Household injuries and heart attacks peak on Monday.
49. 13 new varieties of children's toys appear in the world every day.
50. The most common tree in the world is Siberian larch.
51. And this is a terrible fact, despite the fact that it is about life. Some sharks eat their siblings while still in the womb. Truly, the fittest survives!
52. Contrary to popular belief, anteaters do not eat ants. Their main food is termites.
53. The Maya and Aztecs used cocoa beans instead of money.
54. A quarter of our skeleton is made up of leg bones.
55. Dogs are able to guess the intentions of their owners. Pay attention to .
56. The heart of a shrimp is located in the head, in the back of the head. The genitals are nearby.
57. The giraffe's tongue reaches a length of up to half a meter.
58. The blue whale can not breathe for 2 hours.
59. Surprisingly, but true: the female nightingale cannot sing.
60. A postage stamp contains one tenth of a calorie.
61. Tongue prints, like fingerprints, are unique and unrepeatable.
62. In Turkey, purple robes are worn as a sign of mourning. In all other Muslim countries, white is considered mourning.
63. In the late 19th century, cocaine was used to treat insomnia and colds.
64. If you chew gum while peeling onions, it is impossible to cry.
65. Ticks can go without food for 10 years.
66. Until the end of the 19th century, vodka could only be bought in Russia in a 12-liter bucket. People once knew the measure! By the way, we recommend reading where we have collected a very interesting selection.
67. Men are more color blind than women.
68. This fact from life may surprise you. The fact is that some men are terrified of virgins. Psychologists call this phenomenon parthenophobia.
69. The hibernation period in snails can last 3 years.
70. Vinegar can dissolve pearls.
71. 99% of living things that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct.
72. Every day on Earth, 3 people undergo gender reassignment surgery.

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Interesting stories from life famous of people .

the site believes that each of us can become a famous person, the main thing is to always believe in yourself and move forward. We have collected stories and facts from the lives of famous people around the world.

The Roman Emperor Julius Caesar always wore a laurel wreath on his head to hide his progressive baldness.

In the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, Genghis Khan died while having sex.

And the second stories about Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, was an ophthalmologist by profession.

With the creator of Mickey Mouse, the famous Walt Disney?, He was afraid of mice all his life.

The famous Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent Van Gogh sold only one of his works during his lifetime - Red Vineyard at Arles.

And the Vstrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began composing music at the age of 3. For 35 years, Mozart has created over 600 works. But after his death, his widow did not have money even for a separate place in the cemetery.

Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein did not say a word until he was 3 years old, but at the age of 12 he understood Euclidean geometry.

The German poet, statesman, thinker and naturalist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once tasted Franconian wine from Bavaria, and was so impressed that since then he demanded to send him 900 Franconian liters a year.

Many of Remarque's characters, like himself, prefer the Norman apple brandy - Calvados from alcoholic beverage.

M akedonian king from the Argead dynasty, commander Alexander the Great? knew by sight the 30,000 soldiers of his army.

On May 24, 2000, the Clay Mathematical Institute (Cambridge, USA) offers a million dollars for the solution of each of the seven mathematical "Millennium Problems", including the Poincaré hypothesis formulated in 1904. On November 1, 2002, the Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman publishes the first of three articles on the website of the mathematical archive, according to the results of which he will be recognized as a scientist who defeated one of the most difficult problems of topology. In March 2010, the Clay Institute awards Perelman a million dollar prize. On July 1, 2010, Perelman refuses the award, as he had previously rejected the "mathematical Nobel Prize" - the Fields Medal. The refusal is explained by ethical reasons: Perelman believes that he owes his success to the mathematician Hamilton, on whose work he relied.

Literary success came to I. Goncharov only at the age of 40.

And the English physicist, mathematician, mechanic and astronomer Isaac Newton wrote the foreword to his works when he was 72 years old.

In the Serossian empress from 1762 to 1796, Catherine the Great (Catherine II) loved beer. It was for her that the British brewed a particularly strong beer so that it would not spoil on the way. This beer is called "Russian stout". It is not pasteurized, but matures in barrels for 2 months, after which it is aged in bottles for a whole year.

The German historian Theodor Mommsen once rummaged in all his pockets to find glasses. The little girl next to him handed them to him. “Thank you, baby,” Mommsen said. “What's your name? “Anna Mommsen, dad,” the girl replied.

Tupak Shakur is an American rapper, film actor and public figure.
Hit the Guinness Book of Records as the most successful hip-hop artist, selling a total of over 75 million copies of his albums.

Tupac Shakur is the first member of the hip-hop world to receive a monument. The bronze seven-foot statue of a black American hero was unveiled on September 13, 2005 at the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center in Stone Mountain, Georgia.

One day young Thomas Edison returned home from school and gave his mother a letter from the teacher.
Mom read a letter to her son aloud, with tears in her eyes: “Your son is a genius. This and the school is too small, and there are no teachers here who can teach him something. Please teach it yourself. "
Many years after the death of his mother (Edison by that time was already one of the greatest inventors of the century), he once revised the old family archives and came across this letter.
He opened it and read:
“Your son is mentally retarded. We can no longer teach him at school with everyone else. Therefore, we recommend that you teach it yourself at home. ”
Edison sobbed for several hours. Then he wrote in his diary: “Thomas Alva Edison was a mentally retarded child.
Thanks to his heroic mother, he became one of the greatest geniuses of his age. "

From the culptor, Lina Po, completely devoid of sight, has created more than a hundred wonderful works by touch.

An influential statesman and philosopher of the 16th century, Francis Bacon died after stuffing a gutted chicken with snow (it occurred to him that snow could be used instead of salt to preserve meat, and he tried to test his theory). As a result of the experiment, the chicken did not freeze, but Bacon himself froze.

King Solomon had about 700 wives in Israel, as well as hundreds of mistresses.

Justin Timberlake is afraid of spiders.

In 1972, a young Indian wrote to John Lennon that he had a dream to travel around the world, but no money, and asked to send the necessary amount. Lennon replied: "Practice meditation and you can see the whole world in your imagination." In 1995, a Hindu sold Lennon's letter at an auction and traveled around the world.

Einstein loved Charlie Chaplin's films and had great sympathy for both him and his touching characters. Once he sent a telegram to Chaplin:
“Your film“ Gold Rush ”is understood by everyone in the world, and I am sure that you will become a great person. Einstein ".
Chaplin replied:
“I admire you even more. Nobody in the world understands your theory of relativity, but you still became a great person.
Chaplin ".

Charles Dickens always slept with his head to the north. He thought it would improve his writing skills.

The house where Jefferson wrote the US Declaration of Independence now sells hamburgers.

A used bra by Marilyn Monroe was auctioned for $ 14,000.

During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was a tax on the beard of men.

The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.

Tesla did not have his own house or apartment - only a laboratory and land. The great inventor usually spent the night right in the laboratory or in hotels in New York. Tesla has never been married. According to him, the secluded lifestyle helped to develop his scientific abilities.

The myth that Marilyn Monroe has six toes on her left foot came from one shot. Photographer Joseph Jagura filmed young Norma Jeane in 1946, on Zuma Beach. In one photo, due to the accumulation of sand that has stuck to her leg, the actress appears to have six toes.

The father of Russian aviation, Zhukovsky, one day, having talked the whole evening with friends in his own living room, suddenly got up, looking for his hat, and began hastily to say goodbye, muttering: However, I stayed too long with you, it's time to go home!

Facts fill our lives, they are everywhere! How more facts they open up to us, the more educated and erudite we become. And this is also a fact! This article contains several interesting and amazing moments in the life of famous people that not many people know about.

Actor Woody Harrelson's father was a hit man

Famous people often have famous parents, but not all of them are famous for good deeds. The father of Hollywood actor Woody Harrelson was the notorious criminal Charles W. Harrelson, who was sentenced to 2 life sentences on charges of the murder of federal judge Jonathan Wood.


Subsequently, the son often visited Charles in prison, and, according to him, he was a well-read and educated person. Woody even tried to challenge the court's decision, but he failed.
Interesting fact: Charles Harrelson for some reason claimed that he was involved in the assassination of Kennedy, but later retracted his words. Conspiracy theorists still consider Charles Harrelson to be one of the suspicious vagrants discovered near the scene of the murder, but this is nothing more than speculation.

Duchess Margarita Multash was not at all "the ugliest woman in the world"



The 14th century Countess of Tyrol and Duchess of Bavaria, Margarete Maultasch, is widely believed to be "the ugliest woman in history." The portrait that you now see in front of you and the very nickname of Margarita are often used as "proof" of this statement. It is just one letter different from German word Maultasche - "dumpling", or literally "mouth-wallet".
However, some researchers believe that the word "maultash" did not mean the ugly appearance of the duchess, but came from the name of her castle in South Tyrol. As for the portrait, it was painted by the Flemish painter Quentin Masseys in the 16th century and is a caricature.
If we look at other images of Margarita, including the lifetime on her personal seal, we will see, albeit not a written beauty, but quite an attractive woman with a good figure.


So where did the myth of "the ugliest woman in history" come from? The fact is that Margarita dared to an unheard-of insolence for that time: she kicked out her disgusted husband, to whom she was married at the age of 11, and became the wife of a loved one.


Margarita Multash simply did not let her first husband Johann Heinrich (he is on the left) go home to the castle when he returned from hunting. Apparently, the spouse did not use great love not only with his wife, but also with the citizens of Tyrol, since they all refused to give him shelter.
Frustrated, Johann found support from the Patriarch of Aquileia, as a result of which Margaret and her new husband Ludwig of Bavaria (in the picture he is on the right) were excommunicated for a long time, and ridiculous rumors began to circulate about the duchess.

Marie Antoinette ordered to build a village for herself in which she could lead the life of a "commoner"



The brilliant atmosphere of Versailles and the need to observe court etiquette acted depressingly on the queen, therefore, as an outlet, she ordered to build for herself not far from the Les Trianon palace a tiny village with a mill, a farm, a dovecote, a pond and a cottage, which was much more comfortable than the palace chambers. All this reminded Marie Antoinette of her childhood, which was spent in the gardens of the Viennese palace, where she played with relatives, governesses and dogs.


In her private village, the queen dressed up as an ordinary shepherdess or milkmaid and walked with her children and closest friends, and it seems that it was there that she was truly happy. After the Great French Revolution, the village of Marie Antoinette was abandoned, but now it is restored and open to the public.

Abraham Lincoln gave such an impressive speech that no journalist could record it.



On May 29, 1856, in Bloomington, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that is traditionally considered lost, since all the reporters present at this event were literally hypnotized by the words of the future president (Lincoln became him in 1861) and simply forgot to record from it at least one word. We have no doubts about the oratorical talent of "Uncle Abe", but, you must admit, it still sounds incredible.


There is another version, according to which the text was lost deliberately, since Lincoln's speech was filled with a passionate condemnation of slavery, for the abolition of which at that time, alas, not everyone advocated. Nevertheless, the “lost speech” made a huge impression on the listeners, and a memorial plaque was subsequently erected in honor of this event, which still exists today.

Queen Victoria's best friend was the groom John Brown



Queen Victoria of Britain is a rare exception among monarchs (at least in the old days) for the reason that she married for love and continued to adore her husband, Prince Albert, all her life. Do I need to explain that his early death was the hardest blow for her?
And who knows how she would have survived this event, if not for the support best friend queen. It was the Scottish groom, John Brown, who, like his relatives, served the queen faithfully at Balmoral Castle. Walks and conversations with John helped Victoria recover from the loss, although she did not take off her mourning for Albert until the end of her life.
Of course, evil tongues immediately ridiculed the relationship, which, according to Queen Victoria herself, was a warm and loving friendship. There were sarcastic cartoons like the one you see now, and the Queen began to be called "Mrs. Brown" behind her back.


Be that as it may, Victoria was strongly attached to John Brown and highly esteemed him, because after his death she ordered to install a statue in his honor, which was done. It is believed that before her death, the queen bequeathed her to be buried along with a portrait of her beloved husband Albert in one hand and a portrait of John's best friend in the other.
The story of Victoria and John Brown was filmed in 1997, and 10 years later another film called Victoria and Abdul was released. It tells about the relationship of the queen with another "favorite", whose name was Abdul Karim.
As expected, this friendship was also condemned, although it is known for certain that the queen signed her letters to the young handsome man only as "your loving mother."

Composer Arnold Schoenberg was so afraid of the number 13 that he called it "12a". He died on July 13 13 minutes before midnight



The founder of the new Viennese school, composer Arnold Schoenberg (pictured with his wife Gertrude and daughter Nuria) had a rare phobia - the fear of the number 13, or triskaidekaphobia. Schoenberg was born on the 13th and all his life considered this figure a bad omen.
As we have already mentioned, the composer renamed 13 to 12a, and the same fate affected his last opera, which Schoenberg called Moses und Aron instead of Moses und Aaron just for so that the number of letters in the title is not 13.
And yet the last day of Arnold Schoenberg's life was precisely the fateful number. On July 13, 1951, he lay in bed all day, feeling the approaching death. The wife tried to persuade the composer to "stop these nonsense" and get up, but he refused, and at 11:47 pm he actually died, having uttered the word "harmony" before that.

Winston Churchill loved animals, and one of his pets was a lion



The British Prime Minister was a big animal lover. V different time Churchill had cats Nelson and Jock, the poodle Rufus, the bulldog Dodo, as well as cows, pigs, fish, butterflies, swans and other pets.
But, perhaps, the most unusual of the pets was a lion named Rota, who was presented to the premiere as a gift as a kitten, and after a while he wisely assigned the growing king of animals to the London Zoo. Rota grew up and became the father of 4 lion cubs, and Churchill visited him at the zoo and fed him with his own meat.

Pablo Escobar was photographed against the background of the White House in the USA



Drug lord Escobar was not always on the run. In 1981, he completely legally visited the United States and even took pictures with his son Juan Pablo in front of the White House in Washington. This photograph was taken by Pablo's wife Maria Victoria, and was first shown in the film "The Sins of My Father", based on the book by Juan Pablo Escobar, who officially changed his name to Sebastian Marroquin and now lives in Argentina.

Steve Jobs rarely took a shower, as he believed that his diet suppressed bodily odors. He was wrong



Every person has their own oddities, and great people are no exception. Colleagues who worked with Steve Jobs at Atari recalled that he believed that his plant-based diet prevented the smell of sweat, and, accordingly, taking a shower every day was no longer necessary. But Jobs was wrong. And so much so that the company quickly transferred him to night shift where there was especially no one to complain about the unpleasant smell.

Princess Diana stopped wearing Chanel after her divorce from Prince Charles for a very personal reason

According to designer Jayson Brunsdon, after her divorce from Charles, Lady Dee refused to put on shoes and, possibly, other things from Chanel, due to the fact that the logo of this brand reminded Diana of her unfaithful husband and rival Camilla Parker-Bowles (you see her in the photo next to Diana).


The letters on the CC logo - the initials of Coco Chanel - became "Camilla & Charles" for Diana. It is not known whether she subsequently changed her mind, but Brunsdon assures that Lady Dee had nothing against the brand itself, she simply could not see these ill-fated letters CC.

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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. The international dialing code of Antarctica is 672.
• 4. Captain Cook was the first person whose foot set foot on all continents of the Earth except Antarctica.
• 5. West African tribe mats plays football with a human skull.
• 6. In Australia, a fifty-cent coin originally contained two dollars worth of silver.
• 7. Most often in English libraries they steal the Guinness Book of Records.
• 8. The National Orchestra of Monaco is bigger than its army.
• 9. In the Sahara Desert one day - February 18, 1979 - it snowed.
• 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 cannot 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 prohibited by law in some ancient countries of the East, as it was considered a sinful stimulating activity.
• 16. There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
• 17. In the language of the Eskimos for the name of snow, there are more than 20 words.
• 18. In Italy there are more Barbie dolls than 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 for life by the UN 4 times over the past 5 years.
• 21. In Ancient rome if the patient died during the operation, the doctor's hands were cut off.
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• 22. As shown by X-ray, under the known to us "Mona Lisa" there are three more of its original versions.
• 23. The sound of a police siren was inspired by John Lennon's song “I’m a Walrus”.
• 24. The most frequently performed song in the world - "Happy birthday to you" - is protected by copyright.
• 25. There is only one western directed by a woman.
• 26. George Harrison's toilet seat sang "Lusy in the sky with diamonds".
• 27. During World War II, in order to save metal, Oscars were made of wood.
• 28. The original name of "Gone with the Wind" is "Be-be, black sheep."
• 29. In Cameroon's film "Titanic", the most frequently spoken word is "Rose."

ABOUT THE SMALLER 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 “camel-bird”, thinking 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 living things on Earth are bacteria.
• 34. In their youth, 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 Tokyo Zoo closes for 2 months each year to give the animals a break from visitors.
• 37. Anteaters prefer to eat not ants, but termites.
• 38. When a giraffe gives birth, its 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. Contraceptive pills work on gorillas.
• 44. Pig orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
• 45. Starfish can turn your stomach inside out.
• 46. ​​The animal that can not drink the longest is the rat.
• 47. The only animals with leprosy other than humans are armadillos.
• 48. Hippos are born underwater.
• 49. Orangutans warn of aggression by belching loudly.
• 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, tapeworms can eat up to 95 percent of their body weight - and nothing!
• 54. Crocodiles are responsible for over 1000 deaths on the banks of the Nile per year.
• 55. The ancient Egyptians taught baboons to serve them at the table.
• 56. The St. Bernards, famous climber rescuers, do not wear brandy flasks around their necks.
• 57. It takes 4 hours to boil a hard-boiled ostrich egg.
• 58. Inside the lion's pride, lionesses supply 9/10 prey to the “family”.
• 59. Sloths spend 75% of their lives sleeping.
• 60. Hummingbirds cannot walk.
• 61. A moth has no stomach.
• 62. The Europeans, having arrived in Australia, asked the aborigines: "What are these strange jumping animals here?" The natives answered: "Kangaroo" - which meant: "We do not 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. For vegetarians - on both sides of the head to see the enemy.
• 64. Bat is the only mammal that can fly.
• 65. 99% of living things that lived on Earth are extinct.
• 66. To make a kilogram of honey, a bee must fly around 2 million flowers.
• 67. Grasshopper Blood white, lobster - blue.
• 68. The only animals that have sex for pleasure are humans and dolphins.
• 69. No new animal has been domesticated in the last 4000 years.
• 70. Penguins can jump more than one and a half meters in height.
• 71. The only pet that is not mentioned in the Bible is a cat.
• 72. Chimpanzees are the only animals that can recognize themselves in the mirror.
• 73. The word "orangutan" means 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 stones to dive deeper.
• 77. Polar bears can run at a speed of 40 km / h.
• 78. Dogs have elbows.

ABOUT THE GREAT

• 79. Rodin's The Thinker is 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. Eng. writer Virginia Woolf wrote most of her books while standing.
• 83. Sarah Bernhardt played 13-year-old Juliet at 70.
• 84. When Walt Disney was a child, he tortured an owl. Since then, he has decided to bring animals to life in cartoons.
• 85. Beethoven was once arrested for vagrancy.
• 86. Buzz Aldrin, one of the astronomers who visited the Moon, has the 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 the incipient bald spot.
• 89. D. Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
• 90. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his mom and wife: they were both deaf.
• 91. Saint Patrick, the patron saint of the Irish, was not Irish.
• 92. Leonardo da Vinci invented the alarm clock, which rubbed the sleeping feet.
• 93. Napoleon suffered from ailurophobia - a 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 space from all the atoms of the human body, then what remains will be able to flow into eye of a needle.
• 98. In the Middle Ages, in the dark spots of the moon, people saw the figure of Cain carrying an armful of brushwood.
• 99. Sperm is the smallest single cell in the body. The ovum is the largest.
• 100. If a real woman had the proportions of a Barbie doll, she would only be able to move on 4 limbs.
• 101. Blond beards grow faster than dark beards.
• 102. In Russian and English there is no word for the name of the back of the knee.
• 103. In the 15th century, it was believed that the color red heals. The patients wore red and surrounded themselves with red things.
• 104. Imprints of language 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 man has less muscles than a caterpillar.
• 109. At the time of his death, Lenin's brain was a quarter of its normal size.
• 110. The world's highest IQ scores on standardized tests are held by two women.
• 111. Most people lose 50% taste sensations by the age of 60.
• 112. Household dust is 70% discarded skin.
• 113. A tooth is the only part of a person 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 there are people on Earth.
• 116. One hair can support 3 kg.
• 117. The average human head weighs 3.6 kg.
• 118. Throughout his life, a person produces so much saliva that it would be enough for 2 large pools.

Well, Miscellaneous

• Repellents don't repel mosquitoes - they hide you. The substances contained in repellents block the receptors that mosquitoes use to find their prey.
• Dentists recommend keeping your toothbrush at least two meters away from the toilet.
• No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
• Donkeys kill more people on the ground every year than in plane crashes.
• You burn more calories in your sleep than when you watch TV.
• The first item to be barcoded was Wrigley's gum.
• The Boeing 747 has a wingspan greater than the Wright brothers' first flight distance.
• American Airlines saved $ 40,000 by removing just one olive from salads served to first class passengers.
• Venus is the only planet Solar system rotating counterclockwise.
• Apples help wake up in the morning better than coffee.
• The plastic things at the ends of the laces are called aiguillettes.
• The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
• Michael Jordan received more money from Nike than all the workers in the company's factories in Malaysia.
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes on her feet.
• All US presidents have worn glasses. It was just that some did not like to appear in public in them.
• Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.
• Pearls dissolve in vinegar.
• Among people who publish marriage ads, 35 percent are already married or married.
• The three most expensive titles trade marks on earth, it's Marlboro, Coca-Cola and Budweiser, in that order.
• A cow can be forced to climb a ladder, but it cannot be forced to descend.
• Duck croaking does not echo, no one knows why.
• The reason American fire departments have spiral staircases dates back to the days when pumps and other things were lifted by horses. The horses huddled below, unable to figure out how to climb the straight flight of stairs.
• Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president to have all the letters of the word "criminal" in his name.
• The second was Bill Clinton (William Jefferson Clinton).
• On average, 100 people die each year by choking on a ballpoint pen.
• 90 percent of New York taxi drivers are immigrants.
• The elephant is the only animal that cannot jump.
• One person in two million has a chance to live to be 116 years old.
• Women, on average, blink twice as often as men.
• Licking one's own elbow is anatomically impossible for a person.
• Indiana University's main library building has a one-inch drawdown every year because the engineers did not take into account the weight of the books it contained during construction.
• Snails can sleep for up to three years.
• Crocodiles cannot stick out their tongues.
• The lighter was invented before matches.
• Every day, US residents eat 18 hectares of pizza.
• Almost everyone who read this text tried to lick their elbow.
• Learning that, according to Plato, Man is a biped without feathers, Diogenes plucked the rooster and, bringing it to the Academy, announced: "Here is Plato's man";)
• If you scream for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, the amount of acoustic energy you generate is enough to warm up one cup of coffee.
• If you fart continuously for 6 years and 9 months, then the amount of gas that you release is enough to create an amount of energy equal to the explosion. atomic bomb.
• When pumping blood in the body, the human heart creates pressure sufficient to eject blood 10 meters ahead.
• You will use up 150 calories if you bang your head against the wall for an hour.
• Murave can lift a weight 50 times more than his own, and pull a weight that is 30 times his own. And when the animals are poisoned with chemicals, he always falls on his right side.
• Tarakan is able to live 9 days without a head, after which he will die of hunger.
• A male praying mantis is incapable of scooping when it has a head. Therefore, sexual intercourse in praying mantises begins with the fact that the female rips off the male head.
• Some species of lions can be scooped up to 50 times a day.
• Butterflies will eat with their feet.
• Elephants are the only animals that are unable to jump.
• Cat urine glows under ultraviolet light.
• A stray's eye is larger than his brain.
• The sea star has no brain.
• All polar bears are left-handed.
• Humans and dolphins are the only animal species that have sex for fun.
• Cockroaches have existed on Earth for 250 million years and have not undergone any evolutionary changes since then.
• Crocodiles have never lived in the Australian Alligator River.
• Drinking glasses began to clink glasses in ancient times. It was believed that in this way they drive away evil spirits.
• Thanks to gravity, a person weighs a little less when the moon is at its zenith.
• Polar bears have black skin.
• "Spain" in translation means "land of rabbits".
• For acorns to grow on an oak, it must be at least 50 years old.
• Pacific Tiwi girls are married at birth.
• In the 1970s, the issue of a sex tax was seriously discussed in the United States. The tax was supposed to be $ 2.
• Bees have five eyes.
• Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.
• The first cologne in history appeared as a means of preventing the plague.
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
• Every second 1% of the world's population is dead drunk.
• The beard consists of 7-15 thousand hairs. And it grows at a rate of 14 centimeters per year.
• The ant has the largest brain of all living things. In relation to the body, of course.
• To commit suicide with coffee, you need to drink 100 cups in a row.
• Hans Christian Andersen could hardly write a single word competently.
• On Mondays, there are 25% more back injuries and 33% more heart attacks.
• Every day, an average of 33 new products appear around the world. 13 of them are toys.
• Middle man spends two weeks in his entire life waiting for the change of the traffic light.
• A person gets used to tea faster than heroin.
• Toilet paper was invented in 1857.
• Every day, Americans throw 20,000 televisions, 150,000 tons of packaging materials and 43,000 tons of food into the trash.
• Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day is like drinking a coffee cup of nicotine every year.
• The ancient Egyptians used eye shadow to ward off conjunctivitis and trachoma.
• The body of a sleeping person is half a centimeter longer than that of a waking one.
• Mosquitoes are attracted to the smell of people who have recently eaten bananas.
• A hockey puck can reach a speed of 160 kilometers per hour.
• The Neanderthal's brain was larger than yours and mine.
• In some public toilets Karaoke video consoles installed in Singapore.
• The yaks have pink milk.
• The shortest river in the world - Saginau in American state Michigan.
• The average ATM makes a $ 250 mistake in a year - and not in their favor.
• Christopher Columbus was blond.
• The penguin can jump three meters in height.
• If 111.111.111 is multiplied by 111.111.111, you get 12345678987654321.
• In 1863, Jules Verne wrote Paris in the 20th Century, detailing the automobile, fax machine and electric chair. The publisher returned the manuscript to him, calling him an idiot.
• Gasoline accounts for the largest turnover in the world. In second place is coffee.
• V South Korea marriages between namesakes are prohibited.
• The English nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" is dedicated to King Richard III, who actually fell from the wall during the battle of 1485.
• In a year, human ribs make 5 million movements.
• Praying Mantis - single insect that can turn its head.
• Michael Jordan receives more money from Nike every year than all the workers in its factories in Malaysia combined.
• In the world, only 1 theft out of 7 is revealed.
• The 3 smartest dog breeds are the Border Collie, Poodle and German Shepherd, the dumbest are the Afghan Hound, Bulldog and Chow Chow.
• Some types of toothpaste contain antifreeze.
• Most of all Coca-Cola is drunk by Icelanders, least of all - by Scots, preferring "airn-bru" to it.
• If you put a person on soap, 7 pieces will turn out from him.
• No other language in the world has a word for the back of the knee.
• Only 55% of Americans know that the Sun is a star.
• When a gorilla is angry, she sticks out her tongue.
• The largest number of Rolls-Royces per capita is in Hong Kong.
• Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors.
• The area of ​​a person's alveoli is equal to a tennis court.
• Over the past 4 thousand years, man has not tamed a single new species of animals.
• The Speaker of the English House of Lords is prohibited from speaking during meetings.
• A bee has two stomachs - one for honey, the other for food.
• Every minute there are 2 earthquakes in the world.
• To fall asleep to a normal person it takes an average of 7 minutes.
• The word "doctor" comes from the word "lie". In Russia, healers often healed with conspiracies, spells. Mumbling, chatter up to the beginning of the 19th century was called a lie.
• There are about 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
• Most lipsticks contain fish scales. And every woman in her life eats an average of about 4 kilograms of this cosmetic product.
• Watching color TV is less harmful than black and white: bright colors stimulate the color-receiving apparatus of the eye, relieving some of the load from the accommodative muscles.
• All swans in England are the property of the Queen.
• On average, a person drinks 60,560 liters of liquid during his life.
• Until the eighteenth century, people did not use soap.
• The elephant is the only mammal that cannot jump.
• Humans and dolphins are the only animals that can have sex for pleasure.
• The smallest army in the world (12 people) has the Republic of San Marino.
• Drinking vodka (and other spirits ...) is much more harmful than having a snack.
• Las Vegas is visible from space as the brightest place on Earth.
• Astronaut Neil Armstrong made his famous "small step of one man - and a huge step of all mankind" to the moon with his left foot.
• Cholera bacilli die in beer in a few hours and the disease does not develop. The discoverer of cholera pathogens, Professor Koch, recommended beer as a medicine.
• The mass of the human brain is 1/46 of the total body mass, the mass of the elephant's brain is only 1/560 of the body mass.
• More than 150 million hot dogs are eaten every year on July 4 in the United States.
• About 100 lightning strikes on Earth every second.
• The human eye is capable of distinguishing 130-250 pure color tones and 5-10 million mixed shades.
• The owl can turn its head 270 degrees.
• Tooth enamel is the hardest tissue produced by the human body.
• Full adaptation of the eye to darkness takes 60-80 minutes.
• On his deathbed, Salieri repented of all his sins, but his confession was considered the delirium of a dying man.
• There are twice as many kangaroos living in Australia as there are people.
• The surface pattern of a cat's nose is as unique as a human fingerprint.
• A man swallows an average of 21 milliliters of liquid in one gulp, while a woman swallows 14 milliliters.
• March 8 - International Day for Women's Rights and International Peace.
• If someone wanted to count all the stars in the Galaxy - and began to count them at a speed of one star per second - it would take the "astrologer" about 3000 years.
• If you scream for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will produce enough acoustic energy to boil a glass of water.
• An ant poisoned with chemicals always falls on its right side.
• The polar bear is left-handed.
• The crocodile cannot stick out his tongue.
• The word "mouse" comes from the ancient Sanskrit word "mus", that is, "thief".
• If someone annoys you and you twist your face, 42 muscles are involved.
• You only need to use 4 muscles to hit someone on the head.
• When you bang your head against the wall, you burn 150 calories per hour.
• A flea can jump 350 times its body length. It is like a person jumping over a football field.
• Catfish have over 27,000 taste buds.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue!
• In one of the issues of "Moscow Provincial Gazette" for 1848 you can read the following: "Bourgeois Nikifor Nikitin for seditious speeches about the flight to the moon to be exiled to the remote settlement of Baikonur"
• In ancient Greece, women counted their age not from the day they were born, but from the day they were married. By this they showed that only marriage life has meaning for them.
• Over the past 200 years, 150 species of the animal world have become extinct. The next 600 species of the animal world are on the verge of extinction.
• To fill a half-liter suck with honey, bees are forced to collect nectar from nearly 2,000,000 flowers.
• Boiling water extinguishes fire faster than cold water, since it immediately takes away the heat of vaporization from the flame and surrounds the fire with a layer of steam, which impedes the access of air.
• Today, a person weighs on average 5 kg more than in 1960.
• The Russian word "bath" goes back to the Latin "valneum" (bathing, ablution), which has another meaning - "expulsion of sadness".
• The Kwaktul Indians living in British Columbia have a funny custom: if someone borrows money, they leave their name as collateral. Until the debt is repaid, the person remains nameless. At this time, other Indians beckon him with a movement of his hand or inarticulate screams.
• In the movie Pulp Fiction, the word "fuck" is used 257 times (plus or minus a couple for a gagged Marcellus).
• Tickling was prohibited by law in some ancient countries of the East, as it was considered a sinful arousal.
• In the Eskimo language, there are more than 20 words for snow.
• There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.
• In France, the law prohibits the sale of dolls with an inhuman face, such as "aliens".
• Canada has been declared the best country for life by the UN 4 times over the past 5 years.
• In ancient Rome, if a patient died during an operation, the doctor's hands were cut off.
• King Louis XIX ruled France for a total of 15 minutes.
• Nebraska has more cows than people.
• In the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" by S. Kubrick, astronauts used the enraged supercomputer HAL, if in word H-A-L change each letter to the next alphabetically, we get I-B-M.
• Bulls do not distinguish between colors, red is used for brightness, beauty and blood is less noticeable on it.
• Web is stronger than steel
• The most durable of all that nature has created are shark teeth.
• A shark has about 1000 constantly changing teeth.
• The largest shark ever lived in the mouth could fit a full-length human. (something struck me on sharks)
• Cats sometimes lay out killed mice in a strict semicircle with their tails outward / inward, and put another one in the center.
• at dusk, red appears redder.
• Some people are able to live long in icy water.
• Unconscious in water, a person does not breathe.
• A person falls asleep from lack of air.
• A person is immune to mad cow disease, which means that even Europeans, no matter how they boast of good decency, hunted cannibalism.
• Herbivores do not spread rabies.
• Red cockroaches are not Russians (Prussians).
• Animals have dreams.
• Wasps kill more people than cars kill (old fact, could have changed)
• The plastic is almost non-degradable.
• The spider is the only insect with eight legs.
• In a spider-horse, intelligence is comparable to that of a small rodent, due to the "scanning" gaze.
• The ruff has purple eyes.
• Some frogs can change sex.
• It is impossible to die from hydrocyanic acid in an apartment with an open window.
• The first condoms appeared under Tutankhamun.
• Crabs and lobsters lack a central nervous system.
• Gogol suffered from manic-depressive psychosis.
• A martyr in the ancient concept is a great martyr and should not at all be own death kill another crowd of innocent people.
• octopus has 10 legs
• the goat and octopus have rectangular pupils.
• From the bite of vampire mice, more blood flows out than she drinks.
• A vampire is anatomically uncomfortable to drink blood with fangs - they are designed to hold the victim, and for that they have hands. In order to drink blood, they need sharp incisors, not fangs (like bats)
• there is only one kind of crocodile that can run on land.
• Crocodiles cannot chew.
• The yew grows out of itself.