They will surprise you.
We are confident that our studied across the world and there was nothing that would have struck or forced to exclaim: “Oh wow!” But it is not.
We have collected for you 30 quick facts, reading them, you will realize that our world still has something to surprise you. At least a little.
To distinguish a diamond from a fake, we need it to breathe in: fake stone will fog up, and the real will remain transparent.
A cockroach without a head can live for several weeks and eventually die from starvation.
Middle finger of Galileo Galilei is kept in the Museum of science in Florence.
iPhone, books about Harry Potter and the Rubik’s cube — 3 of best-selling product in the history of mankind.
“Mona Lisa” hung in the bedroom of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Bombay phenomenon is a phenomenon in which the blood lacks agglutinogens A and B, giving various combinations of different blood groups. This blood is found only 0,0004 % of the inhabitants of the Earth. There is even a private Bank “Bombay blood” because its owners can receive only the same blood, but the unique blood will suit absolutely anyone.
In addition to all the known senses such as smell, touch and other, man has a feeling as proprioception — the sense of the situation parts of your own body relative to each other.
In the state of Rio Grande is home to only 5% of the Brazilian population, however, is born there 70% of the Brazilian models.
Bananas have a curved shape because the growth process are drawn to the sun.
Mayday is a word that is used instead of SOS voice.
Pokemon Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan was named after Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan respectively.
Spanish word esposas means both “handcuffs” and “wives”.
The Twitter logo, a blue bird, has its own name — Larry. The creators of the social network named her in honor of basketball player Larry bird.
In the high mountain forests of Nepal is inhabited by giant bees, the body length of which is about 3 cm, These bees make a special honey, which can cause hallucinations. Collecting the hallucinogenic honey from the people of Gurung people living in this part of the Himalayas.
When you lose weight or recover, fat cells don’t disappear, they just change their size.
Some traffic lights in Japan instead of green use blue color because historically both of these colors are designated by the same word.
99 % of germs living inside a person, unknown to science.
The last words of albert Einstein unknown, because he said them in German, which was unfamiliar to the nurse, who was beside the deathbed of the great physicist.
Paper cuts more severely than others, because in such cases, practically no blood and the nerve endings on the edges of the wound remain open to irritation air. By the way, this is a separate article in Wikipedia.
The British Royal family is related to Vlad Tepes — the prototype of the famous count Dracula.
Taking a hot bath, you can burn as many calories as during a half-hour walk.
In 2011, North Korea has transferred $ 500 thousand to Japan for the earthquake-affected.
Salvador Dalí’s mustache, exhumed in June 2017, has remained in the same position as in the artist’s life.
Salvador Dali in 1972.
To burn just 1 calorie, you need 10 million times mouse clicks.
In 1939, Earl wild, American composer and pianist, gave the first in the history of world television concert live. 58 years later, his speech became the world’s first online concert on the Internet.
If you make ice cubes from the raw water, they will be white, as if boiled — transparent.
The names Wang, Lee and Zhang are a total of more than 21 % of all residents of China.
Animals avoid power lines because afraid of intermittent ultraviolet flashes that are invisible to the human eye. Incidentally, of all the mammals in the world, only humans and apes are immune to UV color.
When charging the smartphone consumes so little power that its cost for the year does not exceed $ 1.
Charles Darwin was the first person guessed to attach to legs of your Desk chair casters to move quickly around the room.
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